Job Description
Job Description
Duration: 12-month contract, with potential for up to 2 years of extensions
Location: Primarily remote, based in Salt Lake City, UT
Must-Haves:
- Strong understanding of project management best practices
- Proficiency with project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Asana, and Smartsheet
- Experience managing technical projects from initiation through delivery
- Ability to define project scope, delivery strategies, milestones, and schedules
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Strong leadership skills and patience when working across project teams
- Excellent organization and time-management skills
- Ability to quickly identify and resolve project issues
- Ability to gather requirements from end users and translate them into technical specifications
- PMP or other relevant project management certification
Plusses:
- Experience serving as a liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Experience reporting project status, risks, budgets, and delivery concerns to leadership
- Experience coordinating cross-functional technical project teams
Day-to-Day:
- Establish project teams and provide overall direction for technical projects
- Manage projects from initiation through final delivery
- Define project scope, delivery strategies, milestones, and schedules
- Maintain and report project status while monitoring team progress
- Gather requirements and data from end users
- Translate business objectives and requirements into technical specifications
- Coordinate communication between technical and non-technical teams
- Ensure project targets and requirements are met
- Identify and resolve project issues and delivery risks
- Keep leadership informed of issues that could impact timelines, budgets, or project outcomes
- Independently manage increasingly complex project assignments
Job Description:
Insight Global is seeking a Technical Project Manager for a top higher education client. This individual will lead technical projects from initiation through delivery, establishing project teams, defining scope and delivery strategies, creating milestones, and driving schedules to completion. The Technical PM will gather requirements from end users, translate business needs into technical specifications, and act as a key liaison between technical and non-technical stakeholders. The ideal candidate will be a strong communicator and organized project leader with experience using tools such as Jira, Asana, or Smartsheet and a PMP or comparable certification. This is a primarily remote, long-term contract opportunity based in the Salt Lake City area.