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Project director requirements can be divided into technical requirements and required soft skills. The lists below show the most common requirements included in project director job postings.
Sample project director requirements
- At least 5 years of experience in project management
- Bachelor's degree in a related field
- Proven track record of successful project completion within budget and timeline
- Proficient in project management software and tools
- Excellent communication and presentation skills
Sample required project director soft skills
- Strong leadership and management skills
- Ability to motivate and lead a team
- Effective problem-solving and decision-making abilities
- Adaptable and flexible to changing project requirements
- Excellent interpersonal skills and ability to build relationships with stakeholders
Project director job description example 1
City Colleges of Chicago project director job description
PROJECT DIRECTOR (GRANT FUNDED) FULL TIME - HIGWAY CONSTRUCTION CAREERS TRAINING PROGRAM (HCCTP)
DAWSON TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
KENNEDY-KING COLLEGE
TheProject Director position with Kennedy-King College is located at Dawson Technical College. The Project Director manages aspects of the programming including the budget, day-to-day operations, students, and partnerships. The Highway Construction Careers Training Program (HCCTP) is a scholarship and stipend-based program that supports an average of 15 students per cohort.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Oversee and manage the grant-funded programs, serve as primary contact for grant related activities, public relations opportunities and event planning. Facilitate communications between collaborating institutions through monthly reports and meetings. Oversee, manage and revise annual budget, maintain expense records, make recommendations for budget revisions and prepare reports for submission. Supervise, train and evaluate day-to-day activities of support personnel and student employees. Prepares reports for appropriate officials, organizes/analyzes data, and makes recommendations on ways to support program initiatives. Develops metrics to assess and evaluate the programs' progress and formulate opportunities for growth Collaborate with staff to review, update, develop, and maintain program related items such as: training and public relations materials, surveys, evaluation forms, and questionnaires. Adheres to CCC Customer Service Excellence standards. Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree, Master's preferred, supplemented by 2-4 years related experience with grants and project management, and previous supervisory experience. An equivalent combination of training and experience is required. Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Must be self-directed and innovative, ability to assess current operations in an effort to improve PBI's future goals. Ability to use computers, collect and disseminate data. Proficiency in Microsoft Office. Ability to work well as a team player.
Chicago residency is required for all full-time employees within six months of hire.
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Thank you for your interest in City Colleges of Chicago.
DAWSON TECHNICAL INSTITUTE
KENNEDY-KING COLLEGE
TheProject Director position with Kennedy-King College is located at Dawson Technical College. The Project Director manages aspects of the programming including the budget, day-to-day operations, students, and partnerships. The Highway Construction Careers Training Program (HCCTP) is a scholarship and stipend-based program that supports an average of 15 students per cohort.
DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:
Oversee and manage the grant-funded programs, serve as primary contact for grant related activities, public relations opportunities and event planning. Facilitate communications between collaborating institutions through monthly reports and meetings. Oversee, manage and revise annual budget, maintain expense records, make recommendations for budget revisions and prepare reports for submission. Supervise, train and evaluate day-to-day activities of support personnel and student employees. Prepares reports for appropriate officials, organizes/analyzes data, and makes recommendations on ways to support program initiatives. Develops metrics to assess and evaluate the programs' progress and formulate opportunities for growth Collaborate with staff to review, update, develop, and maintain program related items such as: training and public relations materials, surveys, evaluation forms, and questionnaires. Adheres to CCC Customer Service Excellence standards. Perform other duties as assigned.
QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor's degree, Master's preferred, supplemented by 2-4 years related experience with grants and project management, and previous supervisory experience. An equivalent combination of training and experience is required. Excellent verbal and written communications skills. Must be self-directed and innovative, ability to assess current operations in an effort to improve PBI's future goals. Ability to use computers, collect and disseminate data. Proficiency in Microsoft Office. Ability to work well as a team player.
Chicago residency is required for all full-time employees within six months of hire.
We are an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer.
Thank you for your interest in City Colleges of Chicago.
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Project director job description example 2
Columbia University in the City of New York project director job description
Work type: Full Time
School/Department: Columbia World Projects Grade: Grade 15 Categories: General Administration
Job Type: Officer of Administration Bargaining Unit: Regular/Temporary: Regular End Date if Temporary: Hours Per Week: 35 Salary Range: Commensurate with experience
Position Summary
Columbia World Projects (CWP) is a university-wide initiative that aims to forge closer and more useful connections between Columbia University's vast research capabilities and the needs of the world. CWP leverages and consults with colleagues and faculty to develop projects that we staff and operate with partners (governments, organizations, businesses and communities) in New York City, across the United States and around the world. Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, CWP is dedicated to increasing diversity in its workforce and in all its initiatives in order to achieve continued excellence and align with Columbia's commitment to create a vibrant, diverse, equitable and inclusive university community.
Columbia World Projects seeks a Project Director (PD) for its groundbreaking new Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects. The Center's mission is to identify and advance the most promising and innovative post-2008 developments within economics, and to promote a new political economy with robust philosophical underpinnings, distinctive for our time, with an institutional, cross-disciplinary orientation connecting economics to, among other subjects, history, law, political science, sociology, public health, engineering and data science. At the core of its work, the Center will develop "idea labs" to advance fresh thinking, shape research agendas, affect graduate training and serve as intellectual and policy incubators across distinct themes in political economy.
Working with the Center's faculty Co-Directors, and reporting to Center's Principal Investigator and CWP's Deputy Director of Research and Engagement, the incoming Director will lead the day-to-day operations of the Center and guide its strategic growth. This includes planning, managing, and coordinating implementation of the Center's work plans, activities, and initiatives. The PD is also responsible for the successful establishment and management of key collaborations with partners, stakeholders, and supporters.
Responsibilities
Oversees and provides strategic direction of all center activities ensuring that programmatic directions are sound and consistent with donor and stakeholder priorities. Ensures that Center's objectives and mandates are implemented in a timely fashion and meet donor and stakeholder requirements. Works with faculty co-directors, CWP staff and affiliated faculty to manage and execute the Center's research portfolio to position the Center for rapid growth and deepen the integration of the Center with faculty across Columbia University and those from partner institutions. Designs and operationalizes an annual project planning cycle based on comprehensive, integrated annual project work plans and budgets. Develops and ensures systems for effective monitoring and evaluation of work plans, initiatives and activities by instituting and adapting management strategies and identifying and adopting lessons learned in the context of a dynamic operating environment. Conducts regular reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well as accurate and timely reporting of programmatic and financial deliverables. Oversees the development of technical reports, documents results and impact of the Center for publication in peer-reviewed journals and other outlets, and prepares oral and written documents detailing progress, challenges and opportunities to Center stakeholders, governance bodies, donors and supporters. Cultivates and strengthens positive, productive relationships and serves as the Center's main point of contact to donors, contributors, partners, and counterparts. Organizes Center gatherings and workshops, including a launch event, policy and pedagogy seminars, capstone conferences, public lectures and panel discussions. Administers faculty and graduate student seed research grants and manages the programmatic activity of the Center's postdoctoral fellows. Manages center staff's work planning and professional development. Assists with the recruitment of Center staff and contracting with consultants.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required. Minimum 7 years related experience.
**Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume/CV and a writing sample.**
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree strongly desirable. A commitment to policies and practices that promote a political economy fit for the twenty-first century. Demonstrated entrepreneurial experience, including formulating and executing a strategic plan in support of growing and scaling an organization's staff, budget, activity and impact. Proven experience both exercising strategic thinking and deploying resources for implementation purposes. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The person should possess the executive presence, energy and confidence to foster relationships with diverse constituencies, including faculty; staff; industry, nonprofit and public sector partners; and colleagues across a complex institution. Demonstrated leadership practices that foster diversity, equity and inclusion within an organization, and a history of promoting initiatives and practices that support scholars and practitioners from underrepresented groups.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
Applications open:
Aug 09 2022Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:
School/Department: Columbia World Projects Grade: Grade 15 Categories: General Administration
Job Type: Officer of Administration Bargaining Unit: Regular/Temporary: Regular End Date if Temporary: Hours Per Week: 35 Salary Range: Commensurate with experience
Position Summary
Columbia World Projects (CWP) is a university-wide initiative that aims to forge closer and more useful connections between Columbia University's vast research capabilities and the needs of the world. CWP leverages and consults with colleagues and faculty to develop projects that we staff and operate with partners (governments, organizations, businesses and communities) in New York City, across the United States and around the world. Committed to attracting and retaining a diverse staff, CWP is dedicated to increasing diversity in its workforce and in all its initiatives in order to achieve continued excellence and align with Columbia's commitment to create a vibrant, diverse, equitable and inclusive university community.
Columbia World Projects seeks a Project Director (PD) for its groundbreaking new Center for Political Economy at Columbia World Projects. The Center's mission is to identify and advance the most promising and innovative post-2008 developments within economics, and to promote a new political economy with robust philosophical underpinnings, distinctive for our time, with an institutional, cross-disciplinary orientation connecting economics to, among other subjects, history, law, political science, sociology, public health, engineering and data science. At the core of its work, the Center will develop "idea labs" to advance fresh thinking, shape research agendas, affect graduate training and serve as intellectual and policy incubators across distinct themes in political economy.
Working with the Center's faculty Co-Directors, and reporting to Center's Principal Investigator and CWP's Deputy Director of Research and Engagement, the incoming Director will lead the day-to-day operations of the Center and guide its strategic growth. This includes planning, managing, and coordinating implementation of the Center's work plans, activities, and initiatives. The PD is also responsible for the successful establishment and management of key collaborations with partners, stakeholders, and supporters.
Responsibilities
Oversees and provides strategic direction of all center activities ensuring that programmatic directions are sound and consistent with donor and stakeholder priorities. Ensures that Center's objectives and mandates are implemented in a timely fashion and meet donor and stakeholder requirements. Works with faculty co-directors, CWP staff and affiliated faculty to manage and execute the Center's research portfolio to position the Center for rapid growth and deepen the integration of the Center with faculty across Columbia University and those from partner institutions. Designs and operationalizes an annual project planning cycle based on comprehensive, integrated annual project work plans and budgets. Develops and ensures systems for effective monitoring and evaluation of work plans, initiatives and activities by instituting and adapting management strategies and identifying and adopting lessons learned in the context of a dynamic operating environment. Conducts regular reviews to ensure accountability of all project activities as well as accurate and timely reporting of programmatic and financial deliverables. Oversees the development of technical reports, documents results and impact of the Center for publication in peer-reviewed journals and other outlets, and prepares oral and written documents detailing progress, challenges and opportunities to Center stakeholders, governance bodies, donors and supporters. Cultivates and strengthens positive, productive relationships and serves as the Center's main point of contact to donors, contributors, partners, and counterparts. Organizes Center gatherings and workshops, including a launch event, policy and pedagogy seminars, capstone conferences, public lectures and panel discussions. Administers faculty and graduate student seed research grants and manages the programmatic activity of the Center's postdoctoral fellows. Manages center staff's work planning and professional development. Assists with the recruitment of Center staff and contracting with consultants.
Minimum Qualifications
Bachelor's degree required. Minimum 7 years related experience.
**Applicants must submit a cover letter, resume/CV and a writing sample.**
Preferred Qualifications
Advanced degree strongly desirable. A commitment to policies and practices that promote a political economy fit for the twenty-first century. Demonstrated entrepreneurial experience, including formulating and executing a strategic plan in support of growing and scaling an organization's staff, budget, activity and impact. Proven experience both exercising strategic thinking and deploying resources for implementation purposes. Excellent interpersonal and communication skills. The person should possess the executive presence, energy and confidence to foster relationships with diverse constituencies, including faculty; staff; industry, nonprofit and public sector partners; and colleagues across a complex institution. Demonstrated leadership practices that foster diversity, equity and inclusion within an organization, and a history of promoting initiatives and practices that support scholars and practitioners from underrepresented groups.
Equal Opportunity Employer / Disability / Veteran
Columbia University is committed to the hiring of qualified local residents.
Applications open:
Aug 09 2022Eastern Daylight Time
Applications close:
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Project director job description example 3
Albemarle project director job description
Are you inspired by “what's next”? So are we.
When you join the Albemarle team, you contribute to a better tomorrow. You will play a role in powering many of the world's largest and most critical industries, from energy and communications to transportation and electronics. We are putting innovation to work to improve people's lives and we want YOU to be a part of it.
Job Description
Albemarle Corporation is seeking a Project Director to oversee a wide variety of large/complex projects for the Bromine Global Business, which has manufacturing sites in Amman, Jordan and Magnolia, Arkansas. The Project Director reports to the Capital Projects Vice President for the Bromine and Catalyst Global Businesses.
The Project Director is accountable for project results that achieve business objectives and is responsible for translating those business objectives into the capital project objectives. The Project Director is directly accountable to the Business Unit Steering Team and is the leader of the Project Leadership Team.
The Project Director must understand the roles, responsibilities, and contribution of functional members of the Project Leadership Team and empower them to do their jobs. The Project Director is the primary link between the Project Leadership Team and the Business Unit Steering Team.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Lead and organize the Project Leadership Team.Accountable to the business for project success.Responsible through the Project Leadership Team members for acquiring and releasing project resources as needed during the life of the project.Establish effective communications within the Integrated Project Team to ensure alignment among business objectives, project objectives, and the Design Basis.Lead the development of the roles and responsibilities definitions for the project and ensure each functional team member understands their role and deliverables.Manage overall project expenditures and schedule to meet business expectations.Clearly set overall Project Leadership Team direction and expectations.Manage the “management of change” procedure.Accountable for the overall integrated project schedule.Accountable for total project cost and investment.Provide primary interface between the Project Leadership Team and the Business Unit Steering Team.Drive capital project work processes and practices.Lead all gatekeeping reviews and ensure all front-end development deliverables are met.Ensure commissioning and turnover plans are prepared.Ensure operations and maintenance procedures are prepared.Accountable for integrated engineering design and procurement schedule.Manage changes in the project scope and control associated cost within the approved budget amounts per the accepted project “no-change” policy (Change Management Process).Manage engineering noncapital costs, capital investment, and engineering resources within budget.Drive capital project work processes and practices.Participate in all gatekeeping reviews.Prepare or assist in preparing all project-funding.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Strong leadership skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks; willing to delegate.Good understanding of the business, the technology, and manufacturing process.Excellent oral and written communication skills.Understanding and appreciation for the various functions and disciplines involved in capital projects and capability to build the strong engineering team necessary for project success.Experience and expertise in project processes from project concept through checkout and start-up.Results oriented and disciplined to follow project processes and best practices.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, or other equivalent engineering discipline.Minimum twenty (20) years direct experience in the specialty chemicals, petrochemical, or chemical industry with at least 10 years of direct project management experience (international experience a plus).Previous experience managing (start to finish) Brownfield and/or Greenfield projects (>$300MM USD).A leader in safety, including setting expectations and being visible in the field.
Choose to unlock your full POTENTIAL. Apply today.
When you join the Albemarle team, you contribute to a better tomorrow. You will play a role in powering many of the world's largest and most critical industries, from energy and communications to transportation and electronics. We are putting innovation to work to improve people's lives and we want YOU to be a part of it.
Job Description
Albemarle Corporation is seeking a Project Director to oversee a wide variety of large/complex projects for the Bromine Global Business, which has manufacturing sites in Amman, Jordan and Magnolia, Arkansas. The Project Director reports to the Capital Projects Vice President for the Bromine and Catalyst Global Businesses.
The Project Director is accountable for project results that achieve business objectives and is responsible for translating those business objectives into the capital project objectives. The Project Director is directly accountable to the Business Unit Steering Team and is the leader of the Project Leadership Team.
The Project Director must understand the roles, responsibilities, and contribution of functional members of the Project Leadership Team and empower them to do their jobs. The Project Director is the primary link between the Project Leadership Team and the Business Unit Steering Team.
Key responsibilities include but are not limited to:
Lead and organize the Project Leadership Team.Accountable to the business for project success.Responsible through the Project Leadership Team members for acquiring and releasing project resources as needed during the life of the project.Establish effective communications within the Integrated Project Team to ensure alignment among business objectives, project objectives, and the Design Basis.Lead the development of the roles and responsibilities definitions for the project and ensure each functional team member understands their role and deliverables.Manage overall project expenditures and schedule to meet business expectations.Clearly set overall Project Leadership Team direction and expectations.Manage the “management of change” procedure.Accountable for the overall integrated project schedule.Accountable for total project cost and investment.Provide primary interface between the Project Leadership Team and the Business Unit Steering Team.Drive capital project work processes and practices.Lead all gatekeeping reviews and ensure all front-end development deliverables are met.Ensure commissioning and turnover plans are prepared.Ensure operations and maintenance procedures are prepared.Accountable for integrated engineering design and procurement schedule.Manage changes in the project scope and control associated cost within the approved budget amounts per the accepted project “no-change” policy (Change Management Process).Manage engineering noncapital costs, capital investment, and engineering resources within budget.Drive capital project work processes and practices.Participate in all gatekeeping reviews.Prepare or assist in preparing all project-funding.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
Strong leadership skills and ability to prioritize and manage multiple tasks; willing to delegate.Good understanding of the business, the technology, and manufacturing process.Excellent oral and written communication skills.Understanding and appreciation for the various functions and disciplines involved in capital projects and capability to build the strong engineering team necessary for project success.Experience and expertise in project processes from project concept through checkout and start-up.Results oriented and disciplined to follow project processes and best practices.
Education and Experience:
Bachelor of Science Degree in Mechanical, Civil, Chemical, Electrical, or other equivalent engineering discipline.Minimum twenty (20) years direct experience in the specialty chemicals, petrochemical, or chemical industry with at least 10 years of direct project management experience (international experience a plus).Previous experience managing (start to finish) Brownfield and/or Greenfield projects (>$300MM USD).A leader in safety, including setting expectations and being visible in the field.
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Updated March 14, 2024
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