SharePoint Migration Project Manager

Seeking a SharePoint Migration Project Manager - 1 Year Contract Position
** Full Time Contract Position
** Hybrid - You must be in Minnesota

Description of Project

Empowers Staffing Inc. is seeking an IT Project Manager to lead a Microsoft SharePoint migration project.

At a high level, the contracted resource will assume the role of project manager, leading, overseeing and coordinating the activities essential for the successful completion of a SharePoint migration project for our client's agency that manages a substantial on-premises/legacy SharePoint environment which contains essential agency data, information, and site collections. A dedicated project team will be formed to oversee the tasks of standardizing, preparing, and migrating the existing SharePoint contents to the organization's M365 SharePoint environment. IT and agency stakeholders will collaborate to update, standardize, and ready the current SharePoint data, information, and site collections for migration.

The work is expected to be done as a hybrid approach. The on-site work location is at Saint Paul, MN 55146

Desired Skills

• Five (5) years' experience leading a PMO or Portfolio Management
• Two (2) engagements lasting more than six (6) months successfully managing a project that involves migrating to or enhancing technology in a Microsoft 365 environment.
• Five (5) years' experience performing IT Project Management functions
• Ability to manage and mediate stakeholder requirements and input as they relate to a project scope and objectives.
• Critical thinking skills to analyze project requirements and inputs and make decisions that result in high quality project outputs.
• Hands on experience with Microsoft 365 applications such as SharePoint Online and Teams
• Ability to lead project teams using Agile and traditional project management methods

Sample Tasks

• Define the project scope, objectives, and success criteria.
• Identify key stakeholders, including IT and agency representatives.
• Develop a project charter that outlines roles and responsibilities.
• Coordinate and track the assessment of the current SharePoint environment, including data, information, and site collections.
• Develop a detailed migration plan, including timelines and milestones.
• Establish clear communication channels with IT and agency stakeholders.
• Hold regular meetings to update stakeholders on project progress.
• Collaborate with agency stakeholders to verify the accuracy of critical data.
• Coordinate and track the evaluation of customizations in the current SharePoint environment and assess compatibility with the new environment.
• Coordinate and track the development of a comprehensive testing plan for the migrated SharePoint environment.
• Coordinate and track the thorough testing of data integrity, access controls, and functionality.
• Coordinate and track the creation of ongoing support and documentation to assist users in the transition.
• Schedule, coordinate and track the actual migration of data, information, and site collections.
• Monitor the migration process to ensure data integrity and minimal downtime.
• Evaluate the success of the migration against the defined success criteria.
• Create a final project report summarizing the entire migration process.