Project Manager - Junior IT

Location: Columbus, OH 43215 | Duration: 12 months (Contract to hire) | Hybrid schedule: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday on-site

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in IT project management, leading projects across IT and business functions
• Experience managing large, complex projects with internal/external and labor/non-labor cost components
• Extensive knowledge of project management best practices, including waterfall, agile, and SDLC methodologies and tools
• Proven leadership skills with ability to coach, develop, and lead diverse project teams
• Ability to engage and develop relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders
• Experience with project cost management and resource capacity planning
• Strong business process analysis and mapping skills
• Experience implementing change management approaches to support projects
• Indirect management experience, including assisting in development, training, and assignment of work
• Familiarity with the Energy Industry is a plus
• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or related field (or equivalent work experience demonstrating technical project management and leadership)
• 4 hours of PMM training prior to assuming role
• 20 hours of ongoing professional training per year
• Project management certification (PMP) preferred
• Agile certification (e.g., PSM, PSPO) is a plus
• ITIL v3 or v4 certification is a plus

Responsibilities

• Guide cross-functional cybersecurity teams using Agile and waterfall methodologies to achieve cybersecurity objectives
• Lead project planning, stakeholder communication, and risk mitigation efforts with a strong understanding of cybersecurity principles
• Foster collaboration and align project goals with security requirements while delivering secure solutions on time and within budget
• Manage full project lifecycles using Agile, Waterfall, or Iterative methods
• Produce deliverables including Project Charters, Solution Design Documents (SDDs), Technical Documentation, Agile readiness checklists, UAT approvals, and deployment plans
• Create change management artifacts such as stakeholder assessments and adoption strategies
• Contribute to project management processes, including statement of work development and vendor progress management
• Manage core project activities: risk, issue, decision, dependency, status reporting, demand, budgeting, forecasting, variance explanations, and capacity management
• Handle financials, including capital vs. O&M spend forecasting, budgeting, and accruals
• Facilitate collaboration across multiple functions, departments, and levels
• Demonstrate interpersonal skills, including effective project presentations and communication of technical concepts to non-technical clients
• Basic knowledge of project management and SDLC tools (ServiceNow, PowerBI, Jira)
• Experience with Archer tool, policy and standard management, compliance and risk assessments, or issue and exception tracking is a plus