Project Manager

Location: Columbia, SC 29210
Work Mode: Onsite initially; hybrid schedule may be allowed once the consultant is acclimated
Duration: 12 Months
Interview: 1 Round – Virtual/Online

Required Skills

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 7+ years of Project Management experience managing projects of moderate to high complexity
• Demonstrated experience with Business Analysis and process redesign
• 5+ years of experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives

Preferred Skills

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable Project Management certification
• Experience simultaneously managing multiple work efforts
• Strong schedule management and resource planning skills
• Ability to identify, map, and re-engineer business processes
• Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) experience
• Power BI and/or data dashboard experience

Project Management Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery covering scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communications, and resource coordination
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, RAID logs, communication plans, status reports, and executive updates
• Manage cross-functional teams consisting of internal IT teams, vendors, SMEs, and agency partners
• Facilitate project work sessions to validate scope, requirements, deliverables, dependencies, and stakeholder expectations
• Identify project risks and issues and develop and implement appropriate mitigation strategies
• Support procurement activities involving RFPs, SOWs, vendor oversight, and related documentation
• Ensure compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records-management standards, and project governance frameworks
• Maintain alignment between project sponsors, stakeholders, technical teams, and business teams

Business Analysis Responsibilities

• Lead structured requirements elicitation through stakeholder interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis
• Document clear and testable:
• Business requirements
• Functional requirements
• Non-functional requirements
• User stories
• Acceptance criteria
• Define and document current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows
• Identify process gaps and opportunities for business process redesign/re-engineering
• Define KPIs and help quantify business value
• Translate business requirements into solution designs in collaboration with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams
• Evaluate build-vs-buy options
• Support development of diagrams, models, and integration patterns as required

Change Management & Adoption

• Develop change management and communication plans
• Coordinate UAT, cutover activities, implementation readiness, and post-launch support
• Monitor adoption through metrics and user feedback
• Support continuous process and solution improvement

Expected Documentation / Deliverables

• Project Charter
• Requirements Documents / User Stories
• Process Diagrams & Data Flows
• Project Schedule
• Work Breakdown Structure (WBS)
• RAID Logs
• Decision Logs
• Status Reports
• Executive Dashboards
• Communication Plans
• Procurement-related documentation