Job Title: Enterprise Project Manager – Advanced (IT Administration)
Location: Columbia, SC (Local candidates only; initially onsite, with hybrid flexibility after acclimation)
Educational Qualification: Bachelor’s degree required; PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification preferred.
Position Type: Contract – 12 months (Extension possible)
Must Have Skills:
- Minimum 7 years of project management experience handling moderately to highly complex projects.
- Minimum 5 years of experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.
- Strong experience in business analysis, requirements gathering, and business process redesign.
- Proven ability to manage project scope, schedules, budgets, risks, resources, and deliverables.
- Experience managing cross-functional teams, vendors, stakeholders, and agency partners.
- Expertise in developing project plans, RAID logs, status reports, and executive dashboards.
- Experience documenting business, functional, and nonfunctional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Strong knowledge of project governance, compliance, risk mitigation, and stakeholder communication.
- Experience coordinating User Acceptance Testing (UAT), implementation readiness, and change management.
Desired Skills:
- Ability to manage multiple projects and workstreams simultaneously.
- Advanced schedule management and resource planning skills.
- Experience identifying, mapping, analyzing, and re-engineering business processes.
- Proficiency in Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) development and management.
- Experience with Power BI and data visualization dashboards.
- Knowledge of procurement processes, including RFPs, SOWs, and vendor management.
- Experience with process modeling, journey mapping, data flow diagrams, and solution evaluation.
- Familiarity with state government IT policies, security standards, and records management.
- PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent project management certification.
Job Responsibilities:
- Lead end-to-end delivery of complex enterprise IT projects, ensuring completion within scope, schedule, and budget.
- Develop and maintain project charters, schedules, work breakdown structures, RAID logs, decision logs, and communication plans.
- Coordinate internal IT teams, vendors, subject matter experts, and agency stakeholders to achieve project objectives.
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and requirements-gathering sessions to define business needs.
- Document functional and nonfunctional requirements, business processes, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
- Analyze current-state and future-state workflows, identify process improvement opportunities, and recommend solutions.
- Collaborate with architecture, security, infrastructure, and data teams to translate business requirements into technical solutions.
- Identify project risks, dependencies, and issues and implement appropriate mitigation strategies.
- Prepare project status reports, dashboards, and executive presentations to ensure transparency and stakeholder alignment.
- Support procurement activities, including RFP development, statements of work, and vendor oversight.
- Ensure project compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records management standards, and governance frameworks.
- Develop and execute change management, stakeholder communication, and user adoption strategies.
- Coordinate UAT, deployment readiness, cutover planning, and post-implementation support.
- Evaluate build-versus-buy alternatives and assist with solution design, integration planning, and process documentation.
- Track project performance, business value, KPIs, and user feedback to support continuous improvement.
- Provide regular project updates to the Director of Administration IT and designated project executives.