Project Manager, Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention Derivatives, CrowdDoing

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The Volunteer Project Manager will work with the CrowdDoing Catastrophic Wildfire Prevention consortium to help improve wildfire prevention efforts in California. This will involve collaborating with both public sector stakeholders and private sector stakeholders, including insurers, to identify, evaluate, and implement innovative solutions to reduce wildfire risk.

As a project manager, you will be the "conductor" of this complex interdisciplinary "symphony," working with subject matter experts to "orchestrate" the various elements and ensure that all stakeholders are "in sync" and aligned in their efforts to transform risk prevention. You will be responsible for "navigating" the complexity of this effort and "taming" it through effective project management practices, helping to ensure that the consortium's goals are achieved in a coordinated and efficient manner.

Specific responsibilities may include:

• Researching and evaluating the efficacy of potential interventions and innovation categories for wildfire prevention, including the impact potential of combinations of interventions
• Assessing the interdependencies and synergies of different interventions and gathering data to support their effectiveness
• Fostering innovation due diligence sharing and collaboration to identify and test new interventions
• Evaluating the impact of different combinations of interventions on community resilience, regeneration, and economic and health benefits, including the alignment of stakeholder interests with financial markets and financial products
• Engaging a wide range of stakeholders in wildfire prevention efforts, including health insurers, property insurers, crop yield insurers, and multi-hazard peril insurers
• Coordinating with other agencies and organizations to scale successful interventions across California
• Developing strategies for sustainable funding and implementation of interventions

The Volunteer Project Manager will work with the consortium to identify opportunities for collaboration and to develop and execute a plan to achieve the consortium's goals. This may involve coordinating with subject-matter experts, social entrepreneurs, and other volunteers, as well as developing and managing project timelines and budgets.

This is a volunteer role that will require a commitment of at least 5 hours per week, with the potential for additional hours as needed. The Volunteer Project Manager will have the opportunity to work with a dynamic and dedicated team and make a meaningful contribution to wildfire prevention efforts in California.

CrowdDoing is a joint initiative of Reframe It Inc. and Match4Action Foundation that is focused on helping address the UN Sustainable Development Goals and beyond through micro-leadership, massively multi-disciplinary collaboration, and service-learning to support social innovation and social enterprise to achieve systemic change.

CrowdDoing works in sustainability, anti-poverty, public health, education, and research. We approach each collective challenge through the lens of operating leverage for systems change via social innovation. This allows us to identify different under-utilized capacities that could make addressing problems in our society more feasible in the future. At CrowdDoing, each of us adopts a dimension of a larger challenge.

We include broad participation by micro-leaders in systemic change through specific social innovations that we can build together.

You can see a 35-minute video on prevention derivatives here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btdpHKlZj2c&feature=youtu.be

We are looking for an experienced Project Manager to drive the success of every key project or program that the organization seeks to accomplish. Day to day, they align projects with business goals, construct detailed work plans, manage teams, achieve milestones, and communicate the result across a stakeholder audience.

The goal is to ensure that all programs deliver the desirable outcome to our organization.

Responsibilities

• Understanding of Social Innovation
• Manage the project plans
• Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected projects
• Help teams to get projects done
• Coordinate cross-project activities
• To coordinate internal and external resources, ensuring projects remain within scope, schedule, and defined budgets, in collaboration with project staff from various functional departments
• Analyze project progress and, when necessary, adapt scope, timelines, and costs to ensure that the project team adheres to project requirements
• Provide operational support
• Monitor and assign resources appropriately to streamline project efficiency and maximize deliverable outputs
• Report project outcomes and/or risks to the appropriate management channels as needed

Requirements and skills

• Proven experience as a Project Manager or other managerial position for 2 years
• Professional certification-including PMP/PRINCE II or any relevant baseline training.
• Proven stakeholder management skills.
• System thinking mindset
• Project planning skill set
• Experience in handling project management software.
• Experience coaching and educating project teams to strengthen team members’ capabilities and skill sets.
• Competency in Microsoft applications including Word, Excel, and Outlook.
• Should be able to contribute a minimum 5hr Per week
• Should have a commitment of 6 months.

If you have any questions about processes for joining Crowddoing as a volunteer please write to Minakshi.mandal@crowddoing.world

See this brief video aboutMicro-leadership at CrowdDoing (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mhdB2YJ8Ocs&app=desktop). Micro-leadership means that each person adopts a dimension of responsibility for a collective problem in our society by creatively collaborating on that area and together through social innovation.

You are also welcome to see more background on CrowdDoing at our Youtube Channel (https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCVoL7fai7oa95fBo44FC0gA?sub_confirmation=1).

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You can see a CrowdDoing Volunteering FAQ here.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1zCkbEQX8PHh8k85BS0iIhsJJxADqdH3Kpn1PDbI1Uno/edit?usp=sharing