IT Project Manager

Benefits:

• Accrued PTO

About the Role:
Diamond Technology is a Technical Services company. We have a client who is a large local public organization with an opening for the following position:
JOB TITLE:  IT Project Manager
NUMBER OF OPENINGS: 1
DESIRED START DATE: Late Dec 2026
LOCATION: HYBRID - On Site Mondays & Tuesdays
DURATION: 1 years 40 hours a week.
HOURLY RATE: $85ph to $95ph


MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (PASS/FAIL)

• MQ1: A bachelor’s degree in CS/IT or a related field plus 2 years managing integrated information systems projects, OR 6+ years of that experience. 
• MQ2: Within the last 5 years, you were lead PM on at least 2 integrated IT systems or infrastructure projects, with direct responsibility for scope, the integrated schedule, the budget, and risk/issue management. We’ll need a specific example of each.
• MQ3: You’re authorized to work in the U.S., you consent to being submitted and interviewed, you can start within 30 days of Notice to Proceed, you can work Monday–Friday, 8–5 Pacific, and any remote work will be within the U.S.

Top Skills

• Lead IT project management with direct ownership of scope, integrated schedule, budget, and risk/issue management
• Building project charters, RACI matrices, communication plans, risk/issue/change plans, and baseline schedules with critical path
• Bottom-up budgeting, securing funding from client departments, and preparing procurement requests and RFPs
• Stakeholder, vendor, and executive communication, governance reporting, and escalation management
• Delivering infrastructure, network/voice, cloud, or cybersecurity modernization projects through UAT, cutover, and handoff to operations

Nice to have: PMP, CAPM, Agile/Scrum, or ITIL certification; public-sector or government IT experience.

BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
“The IT Project Manager will perform duties including, but not limited to:”

1. Project Leadership

• Lead complex, multi-year IT modernization projects from planning through implementation and operational transition.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, budgets, resource plans, and success metrics.
• Develop and maintain project charters, work plans, risk registers, communication plans, and executive reporting.
• Ensure projects are delivered on schedule, within budget, and aligned with organizational priorities.

1. Stakeholder Engagement & Collaboration

• Serve as the primary liaison between IT leadership, business departments, vendors, and external partners.
• Build consensus among diverse stakeholder groups and facilitate effective decision-making.
• Lead cross-functional teams in a matrixed environment and foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and transparency.
• Communicate project status, risks, recommendations, and business impacts to executive leadership and governance bodies.
• Prepare performance reports, dashboards, and progress summaries.
• Translate complex technical concepts into clear business-focused communications.

1. Technical & Operational Execution

• Oversee implementation activities including system integration, testing, deployment, user acceptance testing (UAT), and production readiness.
• Ensure compliance with organizational security, architecture, and governance standards.

1. Risk, Change, and Vendor Management

• Identify project risks, dependencies, and issues; develop and execute mitigation strategies.
• Lead organizational change management efforts, including communication, training, and user adoption activities.
• Manage vendor relationships, procurement activities, contract execution, and third-party consulting engagements.
• Monitor vendor performance and ensure contractual deliverables are achieved.

1. Governance and Continuous Improvement

• Support enterprise project governance, portfolio management processes, and project management best practices.
• Develop and present project performance metrics, dashboards, and recommendations to leadership.
• Promote continuous improvement and adoption of industry best practices in project delivery and service management.

SCOPE OF WORK
Task 1: Develop Project Charter; clarifying what is in scope vs. out of scope.

• Identify and document key project deliverables
• Identify and document stakeholder roles and responsibilities, build RACI
• Build and document Communication Plan
• Build Risk, Issue and Change management Plan

Task 2: Develop Integrated Project Schedule with input from project team, client stakeholders and vendors.

• Document project dependencies and critical path
• Document project tasks and task owners, duration and effort
• Document project milestones and baseline schedule

Task 3: Develop project budget based on input from team, secure funding from client department and submit procurement asks if needed for project.

• Develop bottoms up budget estimate with input from cross functional project team
• Secure client funding through Interdepartmental agreements
• Develop and submit procurement requests, RFPs, etc. where needed for project

Flexible work from home options available.