Junior Project Manager

Manifest Solutions is currently seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager for a hybrid position in Columbus, OH.

• Guiding cross-functional cybersecurity teams using Agile and waterfall methodologies, to achieve cybersecurity objectives.
• Lead project planning, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation efforts while maintaining a strong understanding of cybersecurity principles.
• Foster collaboration, facilitate, and align project goals with security requirements while delivering these secure solutions on time and within budget. •
• Manage full project lifecycles using Agile, Waterfall, or Iterative methods.
• Deliverables include Project Charters, Solution Design Documents (SDDs), and Technical Documentation. Agile readiness checklists, UAT approvals, and deployment plans. Change management artifacts like stakeholder assessments and adoption strategies
• Demonstrates knowledge of and contributes to project management processes to facilitate statement of work development and vendor progress management.
• Demonstrates a moderate understanding of core project management activities for risk, issue, decision management, dependency management, status reporting, demand, budgeting, forecasting, variance explanations and capacity management.
• Experience managing financials, including capital versus O&M spend forecasting, budgeting, and accruals.
• Facilitates collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels and serves as a role model for teamwork.
• Demonstrates moderate interpersonal skills, including the ability to contribute when making effective project presentations and communicates technical concepts to non-technical clients.
• Demonstrates basic knowledge in the use of project management and SDLC methodologies (Waterfall, Iterative and Agile) and tools (ServiceNow, PowerBI and Jira).
• While it is not required understanding Archer tool and/or experience in Policy and standard management. Compliance and risk assessments, issue and exception tracking

Qualifications

• 3+ years experience in similar role
• Experience with project management and leadership across IT and business functions.
• Experience managing large complex projects that consist of a combination of internal/external and labor/non-labor cost components
• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management best practices including knowledge of waterfall, agile and SDLC methodologies and tools
• Must have excellent leadership skills (proven ability to coach, develop, and lead a team) and must be able to work with a diverse project team consisting of resources from all parts of the organization (both IT & Business)
• Proven ability to engage and develop relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders with clarity and precision
• Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning
• Strong Business Process Analysis and Mapping skills
• Experience implementing change management approaches to support projects
• Experience in the indirect management of team members including assisting in the development, training, and assignment of work/projects to other members of a team
• Familiarity with the Energy Industry is a plus
• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience that demonstrates experience with technical project management and project leadership
• 4 hours of PMM training prior to assuming role
• 20 hours of ongoing professional training per year
• Project management certification (PMP)
• Agile certification such as PSM (Professional Scrum Master) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) a plus
• ITIL v3 or v4 a plus