GDOT Project Manager

We are seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to lead software development and enterprise IT application projects for the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). The ideal candidate will have 5 years of experience managing IT projects throughout the full project lifecycle and be proficient in both Waterfall and Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodologies.

This role requires excellent communication stakeholder management project planning risk management and documentation skills. Candidates should have experience managing project schedules facilitating project meetings maintaining project documentation and coordinating with cross-functional technical teams.

• Communication: Collaborate often and follow-up with and support engineering management
• Attention to Detail: Review incoming emails timelines resources and process alignment
• Organization: Plan and organize daily project elements garnered in meetings
• Flexibility: Adapt to changing program demands
• Data Visualization: Create and analyze dashboards and data to help understand team velocity and/or milestone progress
• Structured Project Execution: Build and maintain detailed project schedules using MS Project or Project Online manage dependencies and hold teams accountable to baseline plans
• Contract and Compliance Awareness: Read and extract scope deliverables milestones and obligations from contractual documentation and translate those requirements into actionable project plans

• Collaborate with other project managers clients vendors and engineering teams on various projects presentations and meetings ensuring follow-up and adequate communication for continuous alignment on multiple projects (small and large in parallel).
• Manage project tracking and reporting through a structured Waterfall framework to ensure full compliance visibility and no gaps in milestone or deliverable accountability while supporting development and engineering teams who execute work using Agile practices such as Kanban and Scrum.
• Review and interpret contractual documentation to extract project scope deliverable requirements compliance obligations and key milestones ensuring project plans and team activities remain aligned with contract terms.
• Provide attention to detail to internal and external email communications to analyze in order to produce relevant and valuable responses to maintain organizational relationships and project visibility.
• Identify relevant audiences for meetings ensuring thorough meeting preparation and creating project charter and kick-off presentations that provide information such as business driver targeted audience communications plan scope project phases and next steps for planning project schedule activities with technical teams.
• Conduct meeting analysis that results in facilitation of routine meetings/ceremonies to track projects and maintain project boards and dashboards using Jira and ServiceNow.
• Understand when and how to escalate to other groups when necessary.
• Consistently maintain project status update project roadmaps and adhere to defined project structure standards with the integrated tool stack provided.
• Ability to draft process and how to documentation.
• Assist with identifying project constraints risks inefficiencies and areas where processes can be improved and/or reinforced.
• Reinforce agreed upon priorities policies and team best practices.
• Utilize project management software i.e. MS Project/Project Online SharePoint Project Template Jira Confluence ServiceNow etc.
• Maintain update and archive project notes follow-ups and documentation.
• Familiar with all functions of Outlook including alert functions and the ability to schedule meetings utilizing the Scheduling Assistant.
• Generate and archive notes from project meetings that add value to management decision-making.
• Ensure communication channels are made available for all projects to enable adequate communication and escalation process among project team members.

• 5 years of project management experience specifically with software development or IT applications.
• Experience with both Waterfall and Agile (Scrum/Kanban) methodologies in a hybrid delivery environment.
• Proficiency with MS Project or Project Online for schedule development and management.
• Highly proficient in writing editing and follow-through
• Experience reading contractual documentation and extracting project scope deliverables and compliance obligations
• Some relevant college experience or applicable certifications (preferred) or college degree (preferred)

• PMP CAPM or equivalent certification preferred
• College Degree in Business Administration Information Technology Engineering or Computer Science