Project Manager

SBS Creatix, LLC; St. Louis (MO); Remote; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Part time

Job summary

SBS Creatix is seeking a Project Manager for External Communications and PR. This remote, 1-year contract role involves shaping in-house processes for planning, tracking and delivering communications programs.

You’ll spend half your time collaborating with the department lead and the rest with cross-functional teams across the organization. You’ll plan, track and deliver projects within time and budget constraints, coordinate with vendors, manage scope changes, and report progress to senior

Qualifications

• Proven project management experience across external comms or PR
• Strong written and verbal communication
• Ability to manage stakeholders and cross-functional teams
• Experience tracking scope, budget and schedule

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage PR and external communications projects from start to finish
• Define scope, objectives and deliverables with stakeholders
• Build detailed project plans and share with teams
• Coordinate internal teams and outside vendors to run projects smoothly
• Set deadlines and assign responsibilities to keep work moving
• Ensure resources are available when needed and manage changes to scope
• Prepare status reports and progress summaries for leadership
• Document needs and workflows with diagrams and process maps

Skills

Project management

Communications background

Stakeholder management

Budgeting

Education

Bachelor's degree in Communications or related field

PMP certification

Tools

Microsoft Project

Excel

Job description

Project Manager – External Communications & PR

Location: Remote (Central Time hours, 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM CST)

Type: Contract, 1 year, with possible conversion for the right fit

Start Date: ASAP

About the Role

Our client is hiring its first-ever Project Manager for its External Communications and PR department. This is a brand-new role. The department wants to bring work in house that has been going to an outside agency, and this person will help build how that work gets planned, tracked and delivered.

About half your time will be spent working directly with the department leader. The rest will be spent working with other teams across the department. If you're a project manager with a communications background, or a communications professional who's been running projects end to end, this role could be a great fit.

What You'll Do

• Plan and manage communications and PR projects from start to finish, keeping them on time, on budget and in scope
• Work with stakeholders to define project scope, objectives and deliverables
• Build detailed project plans and share them with stakeholders and team members
• Coordinate internal teams and outside vendors so projects run smoothly
• Set deadlines, assign responsibilities and keep work moving
• Make sure the right people and resources are available when they're needed
• Manage changes to scope, schedule and cost as priorities shift
• Meet with internal partners to take detailed project briefs and clarify requirements
• Track progress and performance against short- and long-term goals
• Spot risks early and plan how to handle them
• Keep an eye on budgets and adjust plans based on financial constraints
• Prepare status reports and progress summaries for senior leadership
• Build spreadsheets, diagrams and process maps to document needs and workflows

What You Bring

• Proven project management experience
• A communications background (external communications, PR, corporate communications or similar)
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Confidence working with leadership and building relationships with stakeholders across teams
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail and the ability to juggle multiple projects
• Comfortable working remotely on a Central Time schedule

Nice to Have

• Bachelor's degree in Business Management, Communications or a related field
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Experience moving agency work in house or building project processes from scratch

About SBS Creatix

SBS Creatix is a professional consulting and staffing firm that has been headquartered in St. Louis since 2003. We match talented professionals with organizations nationwide in IT, project and program management, marketing and communications, finance, HR and more. We don't fill quotas. We focus on finding the right fit for you and for our clients, and we stay in your corner once you're placed.