IT Project Manager

NFF Inc•Washington, DC

2d•$120,000 - $145,000

About The Position

NFF is hiring an IT Project Manager to lead complex enterprise IT and utility initiatives from initiation through planning, execution, monitoring and control, implementation, transition, and closure. The role spans platforms and technologies including IBM Maximo, Esri GIS, Genesys, SAP, Oracle, SharePoint, and AI-enabled technologies. The Project Manager defines measurable outcomes, benefits, KPIs, acceptance criteria, and target dates, and tracks results through post-implementation review. The role develops and maintains integrated project plans covering scope, work breakdown structure, schedule, milestones, dependencies, critical path, resources, budget, procurement, quality, risk, communications, testing, training, deployment, and transition. The role also leads day-to-day execution, coordinates business, IT, vendor, and other partner teams, monitors performance against approved baselines, and initiates corrective or recovery actions when needed. The position establishes project governance and maintains project controls and records, including RAID, decision, action, change, and dependency logs. It prepares weekly and monthly status reports, portfolio dashboards, and executive presentations; maintains realistic forecasts; and provides decision-ready recommendations on scope, schedule, funding, resources, risk, and delivery trade-offs. The Project Manager oversees requirements, solution design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, user acceptance, training, organizational change, cutover, operational readiness, and stabilization. The role also manages vendor performance and ensures compliance with applicable cybersecurity, privacy, records, procurement, architecture, and public-utility regulatory requirements. NFF describes itself as a technology consulting firm serving government and enterprise clients, headquartered in Washington, DC. It provides technology consulting and design-build solutions across areas including AI enablement, data center and cloud, intelligent networks, secure connected IoT, professional and managed services, workforce solutions, and Zero Trust strategies. NFF is ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified and is a Cisco Preferred Partner.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business, Project Management, or a related field.
At least 7 years of project management experience delivering complex enterprise IT or utility initiatives, including plans, schedules, budgets, risks, vendors, and executive reporting.
Demonstrated strength in integrated planning, execution, project controls, critical-path and dependency management, forecasting, and recovery planning.
Proven experience defining business outcomes, KPIs, and benefits-realization measures, beyond activity or deliverable status.
Advanced capability with Microsoft Project and Excel, plus practical experience with Power BI, SharePoint, and/or an enterprise PPM platform.
Experience delivering system implementation, integration, data migration, infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, cloud, application, or digital transformation projects.
Experience applying predictive, Agile, and hybrid delivery methods and managing vendor SOWs, deliverable acceptance, invoices, and contract performance.
Excellent facilitation, written communication, executive presentation, negotiation, problem-solving, and stakeholder-management skills.
PMP, PgMP, PRINCE2, or equivalent recognized project management certification.

Nice To Haves

Public-sector, regulated utility, or water/wastewater project experience.
Experience with enterprise asset management, work management, customer service, billing, permitting, field mobility, data and analytics, or operational technology initiatives.
Experience with infrastructure, cybersecurity, network, or mobile application projects and utility field-data collection.

Responsibilities

Lead IT projects through initiation, planning, execution, monitoring and control, implementation, transition, and closure across platforms including IBM Maximo, Esri GIS, Genesys, SAP, Oracle, SharePoint, and AI-enabled technologies.
Define and control project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, assumptions, constraints, success measures, and acceptance criteria with business and IT stakeholders.
Develop and maintain integrated, logic-linked project plans and schedules, including realistic durations, resource assignments, dependencies, critical path, milestones, baseline dates, and delivery forecasts.
Manage budgets, forecasts, resource plans, capacity needs, procurement activities, and vendor commitments; reconcile actuals and forecasts with approved funding.
Establish project governance, decision rights, meeting cadence, escalation paths, change control, and required PMO artifacts.
Maintain actionable RAID, decision, action, change, and dependency logs with owners, due dates, and timely closure.
Monitor performance against approved baselines and implement corrective or recovery actions when scope, schedule, cost, quality, resource, risk, or benefit targets are threatened.
Define outcome and benefits measures, including KPIs, baselines, targets, data sources, owners, measurement frequency, and post-go-live validation.
Prepare leadership-ready reports and dashboards covering project health, accomplishments, upcoming milestones, outcome progress, schedule and budget trends, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and required actions.
Ensure reporting data is timely, supportable, and consistent with project records; explain variances, forecast impacts, and management recommendations.
Facilitate kickoffs, planning and requirements workshops, design and risk reviews, steering committees, executive decisions, and lessons-learned sessions.
Coordinate IT, operations, business units, architecture, cybersecurity, data, vendors, consultants, and external partners.
Oversee requirements, solution design, configuration, integrations, data conversion, testing, UAT, training, organizational change, cutover, operational readiness, and stabilization.
Manage vendor performance against SOW milestones, deliverables, staffing, service levels, acceptance criteria, invoices, and change requests.
Ensure compliance with applicable cybersecurity, privacy, records, procurement, architecture, and public-utility regulatory requirements.
Provide decision-ready recommendations on scope, schedule, funding, resources, risk acceptance, and delivery trade-offs.
Complete project handoff, financial closeout, documentation, lessons learned, and post-implementation outcome and benefits reviews.