Freelance- Senior, Project Manager

VSA’s purpose is to design for a better human experience. As a strategy and design agency, we blend consumer insights and data with human-centered design to activate meaningful, motivating and measurable experiences in an increasingly noisy world. With offices in Chicago, New York and San Francisco, VSA offers a full range of fully integrated capabilities—branding, advertising, data science and technology—all under one roof. VSA is also a proud member of Meet The People, an international family of unified and independent agencies. For more than 40 years, we have delivered solutions for business and creative leaders at some of the world’s most respected brands and forward-thinking organizations, including Google, Nike and IBM. Summary:The Senior Project Manager is responsible for managing multiple projects and/or supporting senior-level project managers on a given client, potentially across multiple clients. They are charged with the overall health of the projects, including day-to-day project communications, financial management, resources, risk mitigation, and both internal and external relationships. The Senior Project Manager is expected to:● Project Management Oversee and direct multiple projects at a time or support senior-level project managers on a given client/program, or across multiple clients/programs. Ensure projects meet or exceed internal team and client expectations, including being on time and on budget. Interface heavily with senior marketing, technical, and executive management at the client to ensure the solution is understood and addresses the customer’s businessrequirements. Contribute content and presentation of key client deliverables as needed to ensure relevancy, strategy, quality, timeliness, and adherence to SOWs. Manage and control project scope and the change control process to ensure that projects are executed according to agreed-upon scope, schedule, and budget. Supervise and raise awareness of all project issues and risks, working with appropriate team members to develop solutions. Communicate relevant project information to the client, such as status, risk, issues, or deliverables. Contribute to, review, and manage creation of client SOWs, ensuring accuracy and legal and financial compliance. Collaborate with the project team to drive the approach, deliverables, schedule, and tools to deliver the project within established constraints; ensure accurate financialmanagement of projects. Coordinate activities of the project team and ensure project tasks, including scheduling and facilitating project-related team meetings (i.e., kickoffs, status, internal/clientreviews), conveying action steps to the team, and delivering weekly status reports to project team, the client, and management. Work with Accounting to manage project billing schedules, including reviewing invoices and tracking fees and expenses. Develop, maintain, review, and/or ...