Technical Project Manager

Location: Hybrid in Aurora, CO - onsite 1-2 days per week

Duration: 6 month contract with extensions throughout the project (18 month long project)

Pay Range: $55-65+/hr

Required Skills & Experience

• Experience leading large-scale technology or software implementations
• Strong project management experience including timelines, status updates, action items, risks, and vendor coordination
• Experience working across business stakeholders, technical teams, and third-party vendors
• Experience supporting data integrations and/or legacy system migrations
• Change management and communication planning experience
• Strong organizational skills and ability to independently drive a complex project
• Must be local to Colorado and comfortable coming on-site approximately once per week

Nice to Have Skills & Experience

• Higher Education, healthcare, or academic medicine experience
• Experience with data governance initiatives
• Experience implementing HR, faculty management, or similar enterprise platforms

Job Description

A Higher Education client of Insight Global is seeking a Project Manager to lead the implementation of a new faculty management platform. This initiative will consolidate faculty information currently spread across multiple legacy systems into one centralized platform supporting areas such as promotions, evaluations, tenure, publications, and faculty data. This individual will manage the day-to-day implementation, including building and maintaining the project timeline, facilitating weekly meetings, tracking action items and deliverables, providing status updates, coordinating schedules, and managing risks and dependencies. They will serve as a key point of contact between the Office of Faculty, the software companies implementation team, and internal technical teams supporting data integrations, reporting, and security. The Project Manager will also help coordinate department stakeholders and SMEs, keep the different workstreams moving forward, and provide guidance around change management, communications, and data governance throughout the implementation.

We are looking for a detail-oriented, proactive, self-starter Project Manager who can take ownership of the project and provide structure and recommendations to the team. This is a 6-month contract with strong potential to extend throughout the 18-month implementation. Candidates must be local to Colorado and comfortable being on-site approximately once per week. This position can pay between $55-65/hour with medical benefits and 401k options offered on contract. If interested, please apply!