Job Title: IT Project Manager
Duration: 12 months (Contract to Hire)
Location: Columbia, SC (Partial Onsite:Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, other days as required by project planned deliverables.)
Hours: 8am-5pm - Any OT must be approved by management
Interviews: In-Person
Duties:
- Responsible for overall coordination, status reporting, and stability of project-oriented work efforts. Responsible for lesser number of work efforts simultaneously and work efforts consisting of smaller size, low complexity and minimum system and customer impacts. Adheres to project management processes and methodologies to ensure projects are delivered on time, within budgeted hours, adheres to high quality standards, and meets ISSM expectations. Monitors project plans, assignments and work efforts on a daily basis. Ensures resource needs are assigned appropriately and escalates functional, quality, timeline issues. Tracks key project milestones and adjusts project plans to meet the needs of work effort. Responsible for leading the project from inception to final business acceptance and implementation.
- 25% Develops and monitors project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from scope to post implementation. Ensures project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.
- 20% Identifies items that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort. Monitors resource requirements based on project specifications. Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.
- 20% Responsible for the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications. Facilitates effective communications between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts. This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.
- 20% Identifies the impact of issues arising from the work efforts and/or resource requirements. Manages the project issues throughout the project life cycle. Communicates the implications of changes to the project scope with appropriate parties.
- 15% Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.
Required Skills and Abilities:
- Strong communications (verbal and written) skills with assertive yet customer-focused style.
- Demonstrated leadership skills in a team or project environment.
- Demonstrated problem solving and conflict management/resolution skills.
- Strong analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Understanding of project management principles and methodologies, information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization.
- Demonstrated competency in management of resources to meet goals and multiple projects.
- Basic ability to lead one or more multidiscipline, high-performance work teams throughout project life cycle.
- Ability to negotiate terms and scope of work documents.
- Ability to prepare and present formal presentations.
- Ability to manage all phases of work effort from inception to completion. Demonstrated competency in strategic thinking.
Day to Day:
- Lead several projects (one to five) in a strong matrix environment executing Software Development Lifecycle methodologies.
- Developing and monitoring project plans, communication plans, risk management plans, and project artifacts from project initiation to post implementation/closure.
- Ensures project deliverables are complete on time, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with client's standards:
- Responsible daily for the development, execution, and maintenance of project plans and project communications:
- facilitating effective communications between all parties involved in the project, including meetings, correspondence/recaps, status reports and other project artifacts per client standards.
- Monitors resource requirements and assigned deliverables based on project specifications. Ensures resources are assigned to meet project objectives while managing project hours budgeted.
- Identifies and manages tasks and issues that impact the scope, budget, risk, and resources of the work effort to ensure delivery as planned.
- Provides both written and verbal project status updates upon request.
Team:
- VDS (Commercial PMO) - Reporting to Dion Lemon - The IT Project Manager will report to a Portfolio Manager with a team of 8 - 10 Project Managers. Most project teams will range between 8 - 20 team members.
- My team supports various portfolios including Telephony, client Association, and Med Advantage.
Required Education:
- Bachelor Degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in any major.
Required Work Experience:
- 3 years IT experience in a leadership capacity on one or more project teams. Completion of the client's Training Program for Project Management may substitute for one year of work experience.
Required Technologies:
- Windows applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint Online, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Teams, etc.)
- The candidate should be familiar with IT SDLC as this is a mid-level position.
Nice To Have:
Soft Skills:
- Demonstrated organizational skills.
- Demonstrated IT project management experience.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Dependability
- Accountable for results.
- Adaptable
- Presentation skills
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Spectraforce Technologies
May 07, 2026