Certified Project Manager

Important Notice: Wisconsin residents only. Proof of current residency is required; out-of-state candidates will not be considered.

Responsibilities:

• Manage the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, deployment, operational transition, and closure.
• Develop project charters, define scope and objectives, establish milestones, and identify deliverables and success criteria.
• Create and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, budgets, resource estimates, and dependency tracking.
• Lead software implementation and rollout activities, including testing coordination, readiness assessments, go-live planning, and transition to operations.
• Identify and manage project risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes; develop mitigation plans and escalate critical concerns as needed.
• Establish project governance, delivery controls, reporting procedures, decision-making processes, and performance metrics.
• Coordinate stakeholder communications, change management, training, and user adoption activities.
• Identify opportunities to improve project delivery practices, business processes, systems, data management, reporting, and operational efficiency.

Required Skills and Qualifications:

• 10+ years of relevant experience in each of the following four areas: software implementation and deployment, project planning and controls, stakeholder communication and coordination, and cross-functional project leadership.
• Proven ability to lead complex software implementations from planning through deployment, including testing, implementation readiness, go-live, and transition to operations.
• Strong expertise in integrated project planning, scheduling, budgeting, resource management, dependency tracking, risk mitigation, issue resolution, and scope control.
• Excellent stakeholder management and communication skills, including executive reporting, facilitating meetings, leading discovery sessions, and driving timely decisions.
• Demonstrated ability to lead cross-functional teams, coordinate multiple workstreams, manage vendors and external partners, resolve conflicts, and maintain accountability.
• Experience with organizational change management, communications planning, training coordination, and user adoption.
• Experience managing large-scale public-sector technology implementations or vendor-delivered software projects.
• Familiarity with public-sector governance, procurement, compliance reviews, formal approvals, and multi-agency initiatives.
• Experience in public health, healthcare, government, or other regulated environments.
• Knowledge of data governance, information security, privacy, confidentiality, and regulatory requirements.
• PMP certification or equivalent project management training.