: IT Project Manager (PM

Title: IT Project Manager
(PM) (Min. 8+ yrs. Exp.) (Certified)

Requirements

Under
broad supervision, manages projects through full life cycle from project
definition through implementation of project deliverables. Creates
collaborative partnership with all internal and external team members to
accomplish the deliverables.

The
GDOT IT Project Manager (PM) will assist in the management of multiple
internal and external end to end technical projects, documentation, and
processes while reinforcing defined infrastructure and software best practices.
The PM will assist with implementing process improvement, documentation
management, organization, and project guidelines to ensure project follow
through, timeliness, and accuracy. Able to run large projects with minimal
oversight. 

LOCAL CANDIDATES ONLY

Hybrid Work Schedule:
2 -3 days onsite  

Core Competencies

• Communication to
collaborate often and follow -up with and support engineering management

• Attention to Detail
to review incoming emails, timelines, resources, and process alignment

• Organization of
daily project elements garnered in meetings that need to be planned and
organized

• Flexibility to adapt
to changing program demands

• Data Visualization
Creation and Analysis that comes in the form of dashboards and data to help
understand team velocity and/or milestone progress

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with
other project managers, clients, vendors, and engineering teams on various
projects, presentations, and meetings ensuring follow -up and adequate
communication for continuous alignment.

• Understand Agile
practices and use them in a hybrid organization to facilitate Waterfall project
tracking in a traditional project schedule and use Kanban and Scrum practices
with development and engineering teams.

• Provide attention to
detail to internal and external email communications to analyze in order to
produce relevant and valuable responses to maintain organizational
relationships and project visibility.

• Identify relevant
audiences for meetings, ensuring thorough meeting preparation and creating
project charter and kick off presentations that provide information such as
business driver, targeted audience, communications plan, scope, project phases,
and next steps for planning project schedule activities with technical teams.

• Conduct meeting
analysis that results in facilitation of routine meetings/ceremonies to track
projects and maintain project boards and dashboards using Jira and ServiceNow.

• Understand when and
how to escalate to other groups when necessary.

• Consistently
maintain project status, update project roadmaps, and adhere to defined project
structure standards with the integrated tool stack provided.

• Ability to draft
process and 'how to' documentation.

• Assist with
identifying project constraints, risks, inefficiencies, and areas where
processes can be improved and/or reinforced.

• Reinforce agreed
upon priorities, policies, and team best practices.

• Utilize project
management software i.e., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence,
ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.

• Maintain, update,
and archive project documentation.

• Familiar with all
functions of Outlook including alert functions and the ability to schedule
meetings utilizing the Scheduling Assistant.

• Generate and archive
notes from project meetings that add value to management decision -making

• Ensure communication
channels are made available for all projects to enable adequate communication
and escalation process among project  team members.

• Hybrid with the
expectation to come onsite to the Atlanta (Midtown) office as needed.

Experience

• 3 to 5 years of project
management in technology

• Some college
experience or applicable certifications (preferred) or college degree
(preferred)

• Highly proficient in
writing and editing

• Experience
extracting scope from contractual documentation

While the intent may be a long -term tenure, this position is subject to annual
budget restrictions. The initial contract is through the end of this fiscal
year and is anticipated to be renewed July 1, 2026.