Assistant Project Manager — Contract/Freelance
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Role Overview
Support the Project Manager leading a 12-month consulting engagement.
Help coordinate the team, track progress, and maintain effective client communication.
The role is approximately 10 hours per week and may fit alongside another job or freelance commitments if availability requirements are met.
Key Skills for This Role
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Work Arrangement
- Remote position open to UAE-based candidates.
- Occasional in-person meetings in the UAE are required.
- The role requires some availability each working day for coordination and follow-ups.
About DinarStandard
DinarStandard is a U.S.-based firm with branch offices in Dubai, Medina, and Abuja.
The firm provides growth strategy and execution management services focused on the global halal and ethical economy, government innovation, and social impact.
Role Summary
Support the Project Manager leading a 12-month consulting engagement.
Help coordinate the team, track progress, and maintain effective client communication.
The role is approximately 10 hours per week and may fit alongside another job or freelance commitments if availability requirements are met.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
- Assist the Project Manager with day-to-day project coordination and delivery.
- Follow up with team members on actions, deadlines, and deliverables.
- Maintain project plans and trackers, flagging delays, dependencies, and issues.
- Coordinate meetings and prepare agendas, notes, and concise progress updates.
- Liaise directly with the client PMO in coordination with the Project Manager.
- Track deliverable submissions, client feedback, and approvals.
Qualifications and Skills
- At least 3 years of project management experience, preferably in consulting.
- PMP certification or an equivalent recognized project management qualification.
- Sound understanding of project management principles, including planning, scheduling, scope, risks, and progress reporting.
- Practical experience using workplans, action trackers, risk and issue registers, and status reports.
- Experience coordinating teams, following up on deadlines, and communicating with clients.
- Strong written and spoken English.
- Proficiency in spreadsheets and presentation tools.
- Availability for occasional in-person meetings in the UAE.
Working Characteristics
Organized, proactive, dependable, detail-oriented, and consistent in follow-through.
Comfortable working independently in a remote team and escalating issues promptly.
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