Interior Designer/Occupancy Planner

Job Title: Interior Designer/Occupancy Planner
Department: Corporate Real Estate
Job Location: Saint Petersburg, FL-33716
Job Duration: 6 months contract
Hybrid role- Onsite 3x per week St. Petersburg, FL
Opportunity for extension or conversion based on attendance, performance and availability of an FTE opening
Laptop provided
Education:
Interior Design Degree
NCIDQ certification

Skills:
Proficient in Microsoft Excel, Office, Adobe, Bluebeam, Autocad, and Revit

Duties:
Accountable for one or more medium projects that are relatively low to medium complexity with a small- to medium-sized team. Focuses on the creation of the project vision and planning documents and manages the implementation, reporting, and performance of the overall project with the expectation of delivering on time, within budget, and to scope.
Responsibilities:

• Produce workstream or project plans, ensuring that all activities are identified, are appropriately organized to deliver project objectives, and comply with the organization's project management framework.
• Manage the delivery of research, workshops, and other activities to support the specification and agreement of project deliverables.
• Plan and deliver stakeholder engagement activities to develop effective working relationships for projects and to ensure that stakeholder needs and concerns are identified and met.
• Coordinate the identification and elicitation of requirements; conduct analysis of those requirements for completion and alignment; document and manage requirements throughout the life of the project; and coordinate the verification of the end deliverable. Generally done at the level of project phases.
• Identify and evaluate risks, issues, dependencies, and constraints associated with the project, escalating matters where appropriate. Where necessary, develop, agree on, and implement solutions to overcome these concerns.
• Draft project review reports and presentations, including key information, commentary, and recommendations, to support the review process and enable stakeholders to evaluate progress and agree on change.
• Lead a small project team; communicate the necessary outcomes and the direction required to achieve them; coordinate team actions on project tasks; request additional team member support when needed; and identify areas of improvement to build the capability of the team through training, coaching, and mentoring.
• Contribute to reviewing existing operations in own area of work, and generate new ideas to assist in identifying continuous improvements.
• Manage the deployment of project resources, proactively managing project costs, providing forecasts, and presenting variances with narrative at appropriate review points to ensure effective utilization.
• Assign short-term work schedules to a team of subordinates in order to achieve expectations while following established timelines.
• Prepare moderately complex documents using a variety of applications for technology devices, such as standard office software. Also responsible for gathering and summarizing data for reports.
• Draft elements of product documentation and user training to support handover to business as usual. Contribute to post-project reviews and identification of lessons learned.
• Conduct assurance reviews within the project, facilitate the delivery of assurance reviews by independent third parties, and take appropriate action to resolve any issues identified, so that senior stakeholders have confidence that the project can deliver according to time, budget, and quality.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities as well as formal and informal training and coaching; gain or maintain external professional accreditation, where relevant, to improve performance and fulfill personal potential. Maintain an understanding of relevant technology, external regulation, and industry best practices through ongoing education, attending conferences, and reading specialist media.

• Works with full competence to prioritize components of a project, program, or portfolio work in context with risks, activities, stakeholders, etc. across the life of the project or program.
• Works with full competence to ensure timely and appropriate planning, collection, creation, distribution, storage, retrieval, management, control, archiving, and disposition of project information.

• Works without supervision while providing technical guidance when required on managing projects and/or programs within desired cost, time and quality parameters.
• Uses clear and effective verbal communications skills without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on expressing ideas, requesting actions and formulating plans or policies.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on analyzing data trends for use in reports to help guide decision making.
• Negotiates without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on how to help the organization by obtaining consensus between two or more internal or external parties who may have different interests.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on developing, monitoring, interpreting and understanding policies and procedures, while making sure they match organizational strategies and objectives.
• Works without supervision and provides technical guidance as required on identifying, managing and controlling project-related changes.
• Works with full competence to manage the work that determines the quality policies, procedures, and responsibilities so the work satisfies the needs for which it was undertaken. Works with full competence to identify, acquire, and manage the resources (physical and human) for the project. Works without supervision and provides technical guidance when required on identifying, assessing, prioritizing and managing project-related risks.
• Works with full competence to manage the documentation, archiving, traceability, changes, and approvals of requirements throughout the project life cycle. Works with full competence to create the rules for requirements and design quality, perform verification activities, and maintain quality control. Works with full competence to estimate and manage the effort and finances to complete the work within budget.