Information Technology Project Manager

Cybersecurity Project Manager

Position Type: Contract

Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid onsite Tuesday and Wednesday)

The Project Manager plans and manages medium-to-large sized projects of moderate-to-high complexity, or portfolio of medium-to-small projects, and ensures project results contribute positive business value and meet agreed on scope, cost, schedule, and quality objectives. The Project Manager will be accountable for the project team’s day-to-day execution and compliance with the prescribed methodology process, including project charter development, project initiation and facilitation, project plan development, risk and issues management, quality planning, and communications planning.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Defines project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business goals in collaboration with senior management and stakeholders

• Develops and manages cross-functional IT projects, application implementation, and infrastructure initiatives

• Works with business groups to create and manage project priorities and clearly communicate these priorities to technology partners.

• Ability to create and manage a two-year technology project roadmap with high-level delivery milestones to manage stakeholder expectations.

• Works with technology partners to ensure projects are delivered on time Proactively manages changes in project scope, identifies issues, and devises contingency plans

• Identifies and resolves issues and conflicts within the project team

• Ensures that work is carried out to a high standard and complies with the PMO guidelines

• Identifies and manages project dependencies and critical path

• Estimates, Plans, schedules, and tracks project timelines, milestones, financials, and deliverables using appropriate tools

• Develops clear and concise documentation to identify processes, problems, and action plans as well as design attractive and simple sketches, charts, diagrams, and other illustrative material to facilitate communication of complicated topics

• Provides frequent on-site monitoring and enforcement of schedules, milestones, and vendor accountability

• Facilitates collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels and serves as a role model for teamwork

• Maximizes availability of all IT equipment and infrastructure through continuous improvement and continuously looks to improve efficiencies and cost reductions accordingly

• Liaises and negotiates with contractors and external suppliers to clearly communicate technical issues, and seeks economies of scale

• Improves quality results by implementing unit, system, and integration testing cycles

• Proactively identifies and communicates risks to project development and schedule

• Monitors and drives resolution of issues

• Adheres to Governance, PM methods, and tools/templates as appropriate.

Ensuring that all cybersecurity measures comply with relevant regulations and industry standards. Preparing for and responding to audits. Identifying potential cybersecurity risks and developing strategies to mitigate them

Required Qualifications for Position

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Management Information Systems, or a related field

• Extensive knowledge and expertise in the use of project management and SDLC methodologies and tools

• Agile process experience for application implementation

• Experience with Cybersecurity Projects is required

• 3 years of project management experience

• 7 years of overall work experience

• Strong project management skills, including the ability to prioritize work and meet deadlines

• Strong planning, organizational, and leadership skills

• Strong verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to make effective presentations and communicate technical concepts to non-technical clients

• Extensive knowledge of project management processes, systems development methods, organizational change management concepts, and business process improvement methods

• In-depth knowledge of project planning techniques and automated project planning tools required

• Ability to work in a team environment

• Ability to build strong relationships with technology partners

• Excellent problem-solving and critical-thinking skills

• Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning

• Experience with business process development and change management

Preferred Qualifications for Position

• Experience in the utilities industry

• Cloud-based, SaaS, and on-premise application implementation and integration experience

• PMP certification

• Agile certification such as PSM (Professional Scrum Master) and Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO) a plus

•ITIL v3 or v4 a plus other members of a team

•Familiarity with the Energy Industry is a plus.