Job Description

Role and responsibilities 

• Project management – carry out project management related tasks such as project planning, risk management, issue management, coordination, manage deliverables and report to hierarchy on the progress made.  
• Stakeholder management – identify and manage different stakeholders either internal or external to Commission when managing the different initiatives carried out by the OSPO  
• Presentation and reporting – capacity to produce presentations, reports and speak in public if needed  
• Service management – implement/define services around some of the initiatives currently being run by 2 the OSPO (code.europa.eu, Open Source Labs, etc.) with the objective of including them in the DIGIT Service Catalogue, and potentially taking ownership of some of them.  
• Process improvement - identify, propose and implement improvement plans for the OSPO in terms of business processes and support  
• KPIs definition – assist in defining and implementing indicators to measure the progress done by the OSPO across the different areas the team is responsible for  
• Requirements definition - capability to formulate in a clear and comprehensive manner functional and non-functional requirements. Occasionally, the Expert Product Owner might also be involved in the following tasks:  
• Community management – handle and manage requests from the different communities  
• Support – provide business/technical support on open-source related matters when appropriate (e.g. business customers, collaboration with other teams, etc), for example on code.europa.eu and/or open source labs  
• Advise - Advising internal projects on the aspects of open source, including helping them on becoming open source. 

Qualifications

• Experience managing large project/services, coupled with experience with large stakeholders’ community groups at EU scale  
• Experience with open source is considered a must 
• Demonstrated experience with project management tool: JIRA and Ms Project  
• Demonstrated experience in project managing project core teams of at least 10 FTEs 
• Certified in Project Management Methodologies: PM2 or PMP or Prince2 or similar  
• Certified in Agile methodology: Agile@EC or Scrum or Kanban or similar 

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