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Freelance Project Manager

About you:

You’re a Project Manager with experience of managing projects that include diverse sets of stakeholders. You have experience managing client and stakeholder relationships and working collaboratively with your team to ensure the timely delivery of projects. You’ll be able to understand and oversee a range of complex projects simultaneously and be capable of delivering to tight deadlines in collaboration with your team.

The role:

We’re looking for a freelancer (around 2 days per week), with the view to joining the team full-time in the future. You’ll predominantly work with the live projects team and will collaborate to ensure smooth delivery of live projects and knowledge sharing across departments within the company.

You’ll have some experience and be willing to learn and develop on the job in the following areas:

  • Client management and communication with the senior client team
  • Team management and task delegation
  • Project operations management (updating project management documents, project plans, community management systems and project management tools such as Click up)
  • Budget management
  • Mobilising new projects

Location:

Flexible, though you would be expected to come to our office in Brixton, London for a minimum of 1 day a week.

How to apply:

Email us with your CV (and any other portfolios or materials you wish to share that demonstrates your experience) and we’ll arrange for a conversation between you and the AKOU team. Hit the button below!

About AKOU:

We’re a social impact consultancy. We make social impact meaningful for individuals, teams, organisations and communities. We have a range of products and services that support people to understand, measure and make sense of their social impact. Our clients include local councils, co-working spaces, cinemas, arts organisations, property developers, social enterprises and change makers.

The output that you create with us can reach a wide audience, via reports, websites, animation, presentations, social media channels and zines.

If you work with us you may find yourself:

  • Working across 3-4 projects at one time, leading research and consultation on each of them
  • Being part of complex community engagement strategies that seek to change the way consultation and regeneration are commonly done
  • Work closely with Project Managers to ensure the timely delivery of projects
  • Feeding research findings from live projects into our R&D department to support the development and implementation of our in-house tech tools

How we work

We’re a small but growing team and get a lot done in a short amount of time and with limited resources. This is only possible because we collaborate, check in with each other, share tasks and value each other’s input. We develop new products and cutting-edge methods and approaches to data, community engagement and impact measurement. We all enjoy learning new things, and being curious about the world around us is a quality we share and value.

If you work with us you may find yourself:

  • Delivering complex community engagement that seeks to change the way consultation and regeneration is commonly done
  • Supporting the development and implementation of our in-house tech tools
  • Collaborating with clients and their teams to gather better data on the impact they create
  • Creating and regularly updating Project Plans to oversee the delivery of 2-3 projects