Certified Project Manager IV

Job Title: Certified Project Manager IV

Location: 90% remote within Wisconsin

Contract length: 7 months

Schedule: 40 hrs; 8a to 5p

Pay: $70/hr to $76/hr, DOE

Key Responsibilities:

• Strategic Planning and Modernization Leadership
• Coordinate with the Strategic Consultant to develop and maintain an overall modernization roadmap and implementation strategy.
• Assess current-state business needs, technology systems, organizational readiness, and modernization needs.
• Identify risks, dependencies, and critical decision points requiring executive engagement.
• Recommend phased approaches for implementation, organizational change management, and business transformation.
• Procurement and Vendor Management
• Collaborate in the development of procurement strategies and supporting documentation.
• Draft and coordinate Requests for Information (RFIs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), Statements of Work (SOWs), and related procurement materials.
• Evaluate vendor proposals and support contract negotiations.
• Advise agency leadership on vendor selection, contracting approaches, and governance structures.
• Establish performance expectations and accountability measures for future vendors and implementation partners.
• Partner Coordination and Governance
• Coordinate activities across business, policy, finance, procurement, and technology teams.
• Facilitate executive decision-making and ensure alignment among partners and stakeholders.
• Develop governance structures, decision frameworks, reporting processes, and escalation protocols.
• Prepare executive briefings, status reports, and strategic recommendations.
• Program Development and Readiness
• Identify resource needs and recommend future staffing and contractor support models.
• Develop foundational project artifacts, including charters, workplans, risk registers, issue logs, and implementation frameworks.
• Support development of business requirements, process improvement opportunities, and future-state operating models.
• Establish structures necessary for transition from planning into implementation.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Significant experience leading large-scale technology modernization or digital transformation initiatives with a SaaS vendor
• Demonstrated experience developing and managing complex technology procurements
• Experience with vendor selection, contract negotiation, and multi-vendor environments
• Strong knowledge of project management, organizational change management, and systems implementation methodologies
• Experience facilitating executive-level decision-making and stakeholder engagement
• Exceptional written and verbal communication skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• Experience with government program systems
• Experience modernizing legacy systems to a SaaS platform
• Solid understanding of cloud-based platforms, modular procurement strategies, and agile delivery approaches
• Experience coordinating between internal teams and SaaS vendors
• Experience establishing governance structures for large-scale modernization initiatives