Freelance Project Manager Job Description
Freelance project manager
provides assistance with a variety of marketing projects including events, print advertising, multi-media advertising, branded merchandise and other projects as assigned.
Freelance Project Manager Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Works with client team any and all members of assigned project team to estimate costs and timing for tasks such as project strategy, functional design, visual design, technology requirements, , utilizing established estimating process and tools
Responsible for defining scope of work for the production of web sites, online campaigns and e-mail programs by providing time and cost estimates, with assumptions clearly stated
The primary responsibility of the Associate Project Manager is to coordinate and manage production staff for creation of online campaign and e-mail creative under the guidance of the Project Manager
Gracefully coordinate team members to deliver high quality work under tight deadlines in a continually evolving environment
You'll produce projects across multiple platforms by keeping the team and all deliverables on schedule
Drive project-related communication to team and stakeholders
Allocate internal, external, and global resources to maximize productivity
Actively assess workflows to improve efficiency and effectiveness
Successful experience within a high-volume integrated creative workflow, including digital, video, print, and experiential
Excellent written, verbal, listening, and non-verbal communication skills
Freelance Project Manager Qualifications
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Licensing or Certifications for Freelance Project Manager
List any licenses or certifications required by the position: PMP, PMI, PSM, CSM
Education for Freelance Project Manager
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the freelance project manager job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Master's Degree in Marketing, Advertising, Business/Administration, Project Management, Communications, Medicine, Science, Computer Science, Journalism, Public Relations
Skills for Freelance Project Manager
Desired skills for freelance project manager include:
Contract interpretation and negotiation
Digital strategy projects
Media and advertising projects
Web development processes and the delivery of solutions with creative and engineering components
Web technologies
Internal process flow
Integrated media and digital execution
Site CMS platforms
Integrated advertising/marketing campaigns
JIRA and Microsoft Office
Desired experience for freelance project manager includes:
Documents the project team's approach, deliverables, schedule and tools to deliver the project within established constraints
Documents the project team's estimated costs and timing for tasks such as project strategy, functional design, visual design, technology requirements, , utilizing established estimating process and tools
May help coordinate client signoff documents at key points during project
Understand the risk and challenges of projects but be able to respond to and proactively manage solutions as well
Define the scope of projects (goals, deliverables, schedule, and budget) based on Scope Outlines or Assignment Briefs provided by Account Management
Manage interdisciplinary teams of art directors, copywriters, designers and strategists helping to evolve creative concepts into clear sets of deliverables in a way that balances client requirements with team growth and morale
Freelance Project Manager Examples
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Freelance Project Manager Job Description
Job Description Example
Our company is growing rapidly and is searching for experienced candidates for the position of freelance project manager. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for freelance project manager
- Attend and participate in internal status (led by Account) and internal review meetings with in-house and vendor teams
- Upon creative approval or another mutually agreed point in time, the producer assumes responsibility for project management tasks, deliverables, schedules and coordination
- Organize agency team members and external partners, to facilitate and achieve effective workflow and delivery
- Prepare comprehensive project scopes (deliverables, schedules, budgets)
- Develop critical issues documents
- Executional ownership for mid-sized branded content programs ($200k and below level), including but not limited to sponsored content, custom content, video, events and social
- Ability to manage and provide executional ownership for a volume of mid-scale programs at once (10-15) while simultaneously supporting PMs and Senior PMs on large-scale programming
- Effectively plan for and manage workflow and resources for both immediate and long term projects
- Define project scope and generate time of staff estimates across multiple disciplines
- Request costs from Finance for LOE estimates
Qualifications for freelance project manager
- At least 5 years working experience in the area of quality management and safety
- Excellent understanding or internal and/or external auditing
- Management experience and customer focussed
- Minimum of 1 year of digital advertising production experience (banner/display, rich-media, and online video advertising)
- Minimum of 1 year working at either a creative or media agency
- Must have Social Media experience
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Our company is hiring for a freelance project manager. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for freelance project manager
- Set up and lead internal meetings on assigned projects (Project Kick-off/Internal Review/ Creative Review/Pre-Production Kick-off/Status Meetings)
- Communicates scope/schedule variances to team and provides solutions for addressing change
- Assign creative team(s) with account specific Creative Director
- Work with other departments to ensure jobs are sent to the next phase with proper information
- Communicate internal and client changes to the team at all levels
- Consult regularly with account management to ensure jobs are prioritized accordingly
- Schedule and lead internal status meetings
- Route all materials to secure internal approvals
- Partners with studio, creative, art buyer and print production in managing digital assets and providing production specs
- Possess strong knowledge of integrated media (TV/Print/Radio) and digital execution
Qualifications for freelance project manager
- Strong understanding of digital media and analytics
- Knowledge of digital campaign creative production processes and timelines
- Exceptional diplomacy skills
- Ability to thrive, multitask, and prioritize in a fast-paced environment
- Knowledge of rich-media platforms
- Ability to converse effectively about digital advertising technical issues
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Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a freelance project manager. Thank you in advance for taking a look at the list of responsibilities and qualifications. We look forward to reviewing your resume.
Responsibilities for freelance project manager
- Assess project risks and develop risk mitigation plan
- Able to push back appropriately on client fire drills within reason
- Process, assign and track Change Requests throughout the lifecycle of the project
- Supervise change management plans that accurately account for scope revisions
- Delivers instructions in a clear and concise manner, providing proper materials and documentation
- Partners effectively with all capabilities to ensure timely deliverability of tasks
- Responsible for managing the Quality Assurance (QA) of projects to ensure that Change Requests are executed properly
- Perform administrative closure to ensure project is approved and accepted in writing from Client
- Initiate and gather documentation for lessons learned and post mortems
- Thinks clearly and diplomatically when participating in a discussion to field complex or sensitive questions from internal groups
Qualifications for freelance project manager
- Solid personal computer efficiency including MS Office (Excel, Word)
- Experience working w/ any marketing automation platforms (such Unica, Silverpop, Eloqua, Marketo)
- Light HTML familiarity and/or graphic design experience a plus
- Solid understanding of interactive mediums
- Stong presentation skills
- Familiar with interactive mediums
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Our company is looking for a freelance project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for freelance project manager
- Manage client/account budgets through proper scope definition, risk management and change management protocols
- Ensure consistency in project scope, role definition, and performance expectations within individual capabilities and among project teams
- Maintain integrity of campaign across integrated channels such as Digital, Social, Broadcast/Radio and Print
- Develop and manage multiple projects/campaigns across brands from initiation through implementation and deployment
- Communicate project status and adjust resources and priorities accordingly
- 3+ years of project management, production, or product management experience
- Banner/radio/video production experience
- Social experience – both the creative development and production of complex content
- Able to analyze and distill complex information to partner teams
- Able to partner with Business Leadership team members to deliver creative solutions across advertising channels
Qualifications for freelance project manager
- Collaborate with the Senior Account and Creative brand team leaders to develop a Creative/Project Brief in support of the client’s strategic objectives
- Manage communication and collaboration with the internal brand team in support of the client’s strategic objectives
- Work in concert with Account Management, Creative and Finance to ensure all projects remain on budget and within scope
- Work closely with Senior Account and Creative leaders to determine internal resource allocation to assure timely project progression and completion within approved budget
- A technical or software producer
- A line producer for video or photo content
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Our company is growing rapidly and is hiring for a freelance project manager. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for freelance project manager
- Ability to communicate effectively under high-pressure situations
- Drive weekly shortages call and pull Internal shortage reports and match against Amazon`s reports
- Consolidate all POD`s and investigate shortages & monthly cross reference of RMA serial numbers to shortage deductions
- Investigate trends to shortages (FC level, country level)
- Analyses early shortage report for 5 active regions
- Follow up any theft/police cases
- Investigate partial repayments
- Work on process to shorten shortage cycle
- Report on % of REV for shortages – track trends month to month / quarter to quarter
- Carrier checks on booking in / ASN generation
Qualifications for freelance project manager
- A photo editor
- A creative director
- Not a client facing role
- Good knowledge of project management standards and methodologies
- PO count per week
- RMA – case ID creation and ongoing dispute & RMA analyses per month