Project Manager

Project Manager

• Location: Atlanta, GA 30309
• Duration: 3 months, with potential to convert to a permanent position
• Work Arrangement: Hybrid, onsite four days per week
• Compensation: $60–$65 per hour
• Employment Type: W2

Role Overview

Our client is seeking a Project Delivery Manager to coordinate cross-functional initiatives through planning, execution, governance, operational transition, and closeout. This role maintains project plans and documentation, tracks effort and budgets, manages risks and dependencies, and provides clear progress updates to stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate projects involving multiple teams, stakeholders, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Help define project objectives, scope, success criteria, milestones, and measurable outcomes.
• Establish and maintain project routines, documentation, and decision records.
• Align teams when requirements, priorities, assumptions, or dependencies change.
• Coordinate with business, technology, security, legal, compliance, finance, procurement, operations, and external partners.
• Collect and validate estimates, timelines, assumptions, dependencies, risks, and delivery inputs.
• Build and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdown structures, critical paths, and implementation timelines.
• Align teams on deliverables, owners, due dates, and commitments.
• Monitor schedule progress and identify variances, constraints, or dependencies that may affect delivery.
• Track project scope, schedules, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, decisions, and change activities.
• Identify gaps, blockers, overdue actions, and delivery risks; coordinate mitigation and escalate concerns.
• Lead project meetings and track decisions, action items, owners, and target dates.
• Track internal hours and vendor effort against approved estimates and planned allocations.
• Identify and communicate effort variances, capacity constraints, schedule impacts, and dependency risks.
• Prepare project status updates, dashboards, meeting recaps, action summaries, and leadership materials.
• Maintain logs for risks, assumptions, issues, and dependencies.
• Coordinate vendor activities, deliverables, timelines, follow-ups, risks, and dependencies.
• Use AI-enabled tools to support planning, documentation, meeting summaries, action tracking, reporting, analysis, and risk identification.
• Support project outcome tracking, transition, and closeout, including delivery validation, lessons learned, and required documentation.
• Identify opportunities to improve templates, reporting, documentation, and project delivery routines.

Qualifications

• At least three years of project coordination or project management experience supporting cross-functional initiatives.
• Experience supporting projects across multiple teams or functions.
• Experience building and maintaining project plans, schedules, milestones, action logs, risk logs, and status reports.
• Experience tracking actual effort or internal hours against estimates and communicating variances.
• Experience creating project budget estimates and tracking spending against budget.
• Proficiency with project and collaboration tools such as ServiceNow, PowerPoint, Excel, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Planner, Microsoft Teams, and Microsoft Copilot.
• Experience preparing status updates, dashboards, meeting notes, action logs, and presentations for stakeholders.
• Hands-on experience using AI-enabled tools for planning, documentation, analysis, reporting, or communication.
• Familiarity with Agile and Waterfall delivery approaches.
• Experience coordinating vendors or third-party suppliers.
• Strong communication, organization, facilitation, stakeholder coordination, and follow-through skills.
• Ability to identify and communicate risks, issues, blockers, dependencies, and decision needs clearly and early.
• Interest in a permanent position following the contract period.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting technology, cybersecurity, risk, audit, or enterprise transformation initiatives.
• Experience supporting enterprise platform implementations or technology deployments with multiple stakeholders and operational teams.
• Experience working in a highly regulated environment.
• Familiarity with cloud technologies, enterprise applications, security operations, identity and access management, data protection, vulnerability management, or governance projects.
• Exposure to portfolio management, strategic planning, demand management, or investment governance processes.
• CAPM, CSM, SAFe, PMP, PMI-ACP, or equivalent certification or experience.