As a Project Manager at Milepost, you will develop and deliver project strategies that strengthen teams, programs, and businesses and support the transition to a clean energy future.
This position is responsible for managing client relationships, project implementation, and new project sales. Everyday tasks include project visioning, planning, coordination and communications, and management of workplans, budgets, timelines and tasks, and project teams. You will manage projects and contribute at the task level through activities such as meeting strategy and facilitation, writing, and final quality reviews. Yours will be the last set of eyes on anything deemed client ready, ensuring everything sent is representative of the value and high-quality work Milepost provides.
On the resource management side, you are expected to gain a holistic understanding of Mileposts internal environment, proactively anticipate current and future resourcing needs, and work at the organizational level to facilitate project resourcing for Mileposts Creative Team. This position is responsible for monitoring projects from planning to completion, ensuring resource needs are fulfilled, workloads are equitably distributed, and staff expertise and experience are matched with project requirements. This position is frequently engaged to help solve problems related to creative project planning and capacity. Maintaining positive, proactive, and professional communication with coworkers is critical to the successful performance of this position.
The ideal candidate will be:
- Entrepreneurial, innovative, and unafraid to bring fresh ideas to the table.
- A relationship-builder and creative problem solver with a collaborative, service-oriented mindset.
- Able to navigate a vague idea, ask the right questions, and conceptualize the steps it will take to bring the project to life and make it a reality.
- Naturally curious, proactive, and resourceful.
- Solution-oriented, with strong documentation, coordination, and project management skills.
- A systems thinker who finds joy and professional fulfillment in solving and completing complex challenges.
- Able to collect and organize data in a way that provides actionable insights for leadership, managers, and clients.