GIS Project Manager

Position Title: Project Manager (GIS)

Location: Atlanta, GA

Position Type: Hybrid ( Contract)

Interview Process: Video Or In Person

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with other project managers, clients, vendors, and engineering teams on various projects, presentations, and meetings.
• Understand Agile practices and use them in a hybrid organization to facilitate project tracking in a traditional project schedule and use Kanban and Scrum practices with development and engineering teams.
• 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., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.
• Maintain, update, and archive project 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.
• Collaborate with other project managers, clients, vendors, and engineering teams on various projects, presentations, and meetings.
• Understand Agile practices and use them in a hybrid organization to facilitate project tracking in a traditional project schedule and use Kanban and Scrum practices with development and engineering teams.
• 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., SharePoint Project Template, Jira, Confluence, ServiceNow, Project Online, etc.
• Maintain, update, and archive project 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.

Job Type: Contract

Pay: $70.00 - $80.00 per hour

Expected hours: 40 per week

Schedule:

• 8 hour shift
• Monday to Friday

Education:

• Bachelor's (Required)

Experience:

• GIS: 3 years (Required)
• Project management: 5 years (Required)

Work Location: On the road