IT - SCDHHS - Project Manager - Consultant

Position Summary

Join our team as an experienced Project Schedule Manager supporting the PMO in Columbia, SC. Focus on project scheduling, planning, reporting, governance, and vendor oversight. Take on significant responsibility for monitoring and managing vendor-delivered project work. Collaborate with stakeholders, project managers, team leads, vendors, and technical teams to ensure successful project delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Create, maintain, and manage the project schedule and PMO artifacts.
• Collect schedule updates and apply changes to the master project schedule.
• Develop and maintain Work Breakdown Structures (WBS).
• Manage schedule development and maintenance for internal projects.
• Oversee vendor schedule activities and ensure adherence to approved processes.
• Ensure vendor follows schedule management best practices.
• Maintain schedule development and monitoring for internal projects.
• Monitor project critical path and key "tasks to watch."
• Produce weekly schedule variance and earned value reports.
• Create and maintain project metrics, reports, risks, issues, and action items.
• Prepare and facilitate project schedule meetings.
• Provide weekly/monthly project reporting and resource forecasts.
• Assist project leads with estimating, scheduling, and resource planning.
• Support project governance, scope management, change control, and configuration management.

Required Skills

• 3-5 years of PMO experience:
• Project governance and processes
• Schedule and scope baseline management
• Change management
• Risk and issue management
• 2-3 years of project planning, scheduling, reporting, metrics, and resource management.
• 2-3 years of SDLC (Software Development Lifecycle) planning experience.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills:
• SharePoint
• Excel
• Word
• Visio
• PowerPoint

Preferred Skills

• 3-5 years of Microsoft Project Server / Project Web App (PWA) experience.
• 3-5 years of Agile software development experience.
• Earned Value Management (EVM) reporting experience.

Education & Certifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, IT, or related field.
• Associate degree acceptable with 10 years of Project Management experience.
• PMP or other Project Management certification preferred.

Soft Skills

• Strong leadership abilities.
• Excellent organizational skills.
• Effective stakeholder management.
• Strong analytical and reporting skills.
• Ability to work with cross-functional teams and vendors.