Project Team Member Job Description
A project team member is someone who works in a support role for a company's programs and overall mission. Project team members work in a wide range of industries, such as education, technical or sales. They perform a variety of duties and work on all phases of a project, from beginning stages to completion. Mostly, project team members must have a complete understanding of the goals of a project and their company's guidelines.
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Basics
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Project team members work under managers who employ strategies to help a company grow and increase profits. The officer will perform clerical duties, make suggestions and follow instructions in relation to the project. Oftentimes, project team members are responsible for assisting in selling, promoting or delivering a project. In other words, team members play an important role in seeing a project through.
Skills
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A project team member must possess sound verbal and written communication abilities. She should be organized, motivated and work well independently or with a group. She also needs to understand how to follow directions, as project team members answer to management and, occasionally, customers. In most industries, project team members also need to possess basic computer and clerical skills.
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Background
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Depending on the size and scope of the industry in which a project team member is employed, he likely needs at least a high school diploma or equivalent. Occasionally, he will need a four-year college degree, with an emphasis on courses in marketing, sales, administration, communications and finance. But, as is the case in any industry, proven knowledge of how to complete projects is the best experience. A project team member who works in the information technology field, for instance, would typically need to display previous skills related to repairing computers.
Prospects
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While there is no firm data on the overall outlook for project team members, their positions are likely to increase along with the industry in which they work. According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the wholesale and manufacturing sales industries are likely to see an employment increase of 7 percent during the 2008-18 decade, while jobs in computer technology are expected to increase by 17 percent during that same span.
Earnings
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Just like job prospects, how much money a project team member can earn varies greatly by industry, project and responsibilities. For example, a project officer in information technology earned a salary in the range of $46,000 to more than $120,000 per year in March 2010, according to PayScale.com.
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