GIS Project Manager

This is a fully remote position. Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. Employment visas will not be sponsored for this position. Our client is a global technology company specializing in spatial intelligence, digital modernization, and engineering support services for government and private industry. They offer comprehensive geospatial solutions from needs analysis to implementation to maintenance. Job description: Our client seeks to add a Project Manager to our team of IT professionals. The successful candidate should have a minimum of five years of project management experience for utility and/or government/private sector clients, preferably in the field of GIS or engineering. The successful candidate will have primary responsibility for the execution of client projects. Duties & Responsibilities The successful candidate will be responsible for collecting and analyzing information from customers to identify, recommend, and direct implementation of solutions to improve a client’s processes, services, and efficiency. Superior verbal and written communication skills are required along with a high level of attention to detail.

• Support clients, GIS operations, and applications.
• Review, analyze, and evaluate business systems and user needs.
• Document business and user requirements, defining scope and objectives.
• Confer with, advise on, and document recommendations to client management on procedures, policies, problems, priorities, and methods.
• Collaborate with the client and project team using a variety of communication strategies.
• Support technical staff in ensuring compliance with and completion of tasks required for project success.
• Identify and establish scope and parameters of requirements analysis on a project-by-project basis to define project impact, outcome criteria, and metrics.
• Implement PMI and PMBOK standards in project management activities.
• Update and maintain project schedules while analyzing progress in support of technical staff to ensure milestones and deliverables are achieved to client satisfaction.
• Create process models, specifications, diagrams, and charts to provide direction to developers and/or the project team.
• Prepare project operational documentation and methods.
• Coordinate with contractors and subcontractors.
• Assist customers with data modeling and system planning.
• Prepare status reports as required by customer or other mandates.
• Support business development activities through the sales and proposal response processes.

Education - Experience & Skills Required

• Bachelor’s degree in related field. Master’s degree preferred.
• A minimum of five years of consulting or project management.
• Advanced knowledge of GIS software and geospatial applications (e.g., Esri, Smallworld, etc.).
• Understanding of data modeling.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Certification preferred (e.g., PMP, GISP, etc.).

Experience:

• Consulting or project management: Five years (Required)
• GIS software (e.g., Esri, Smallworld, etc.): Five years (Required)
• Understanding of data modeling: Five years (Required)