Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced

Novalink Solutions LLC • West Columbia, SC

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About The Position

The South Carolina Department of Administration seeks a project manager with strong business analysis capabilities to support strategic and tactical IT initiatives. The role leads complex, multi-stakeholder technology projects from initiation through closure, ensuring clear requirements, well-defined scope, effective communication, and disciplined execution. The engagement aims to deliver outcomes on time, within scope and budget; provide expert project planning, scheduling, execution, risk mitigation, and reporting; define and document requirements and assess impacts; and improve transparency through accurate documentation, dashboards, and stakeholder communications.

The Contractor reports to the Director of Admin IT or a designated project executive. Regular updates are provided through established reporting mechanisms and recurring meetings. Responsibilities span end-to-end project management, business analysis, change management, adoption, and production of project documentation and deliverables.

Requirements

• Minimum 7 years of project management experience with moderate- to high-complexity projects.
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.
• Minimum 5 years of experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.
• Bachelor’s degree required.

Nice To Haves

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification.
• Ability to manage multiple work efforts simultaneously.
• Strong schedule management and resource planning skills.
• Ability to identify, map, and re-engineer business processes.
• Integrated Master Schedule skills.
• Power BI and/or data dashboard skills.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communication, and resource coordination.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, communication plans, status reports, and executive updates.
• Manage cross-functional teams, including internal IT, vendors, subject matter experts, and agency partners.
• Facilitate work sessions to validate scope, requirements, and deliverables and maintain alignment with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues and recommend and implement mitigation strategies.
• Support procurement processes as needed, including RFPs, statements of work, and vendor oversight, consistent with state and Admin procurement standards.
• Ensure compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records management standards, and project governance frameworks.
• Lead structured requirements elicitation through interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis.
• Document business, functional, and nonfunctional requirements, user stories, and acceptance criteria.
• Define current- and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows; quantify KPIs and business value.
• Translate requirements into solution designs with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams.
• Evaluate build-versus-buy options and support diagrams, models, and integration patterns when required.
• Develop change management and communication plans.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing, cutover activities, readiness planning, and post-launch support.
• Support adoption through metrics, user feedback, and continuous improvement.
• Produce deliverables that may include project charters, requirements documents and user stories, process diagrams and data flows, project schedules and work breakdown structures, RAID and decision logs, status reports and dashboards, communication plans, and procurement-related documentation as applicable.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Senior