The Geospatial Project Manager will play the lead role in planning, executing, monitoring, controlling, and closing geospatial projects that align with our client's goals. You will serve as the primary client facing point of contact for all project execution and operations related activities contributing to the overall client experience. This is a remote position within the U.S. Up to 15% travel may be required.

High-level Responsibilities

• Develop: Develop and manage a project schedule and work plan for geospatial projects. Maximize team effectiveness by coordinating cross-functional teams and delegating tasks and timelines best suited to complete them.
• Support and Guide: Provide input, guidance, and advice to identify and resolve project issues in real-time as well as identify and mitigate project risk ahead of time to carry projects into timely completion.
• Track: Schedule and conduct project checkpoint evaluations and cross-functional team reviews at strategic points in the project lifecycle to assess project status, risk, and quality.
  
  

Responsibilities

• Project Initiation:
• Develop a project charter, identify stakeholders, and secure approvals.
• Project Planning:
• Assist in the definition of project scope and objectives, involving all relevant stakeholders and ensuring technical feasibility.
• Develop a project management plan.
• Estimate costs and determine the budget in coordination with the Sales team.
• Plan, define, and develop schedules, activities, estimating resources and activity durations.
• Identify quality requirements and ensure compliance.
• Delegate tasks on the project to team members best positioned to complete them.
• Identify potential risks, perform qualitative and quantitative risk analysis, and plan risk mitigation strategies.
• Plan for and identify required procurements.
• Project Execution:
• Direct and manage all project tasks according to the timelines identified in the project plan.
• Ensure quality control is performed on the project throughout development to adhere with the expected standards and goals.
• Delegate project tasks based on the project team members' individual domain expertise, strengths, skill sets, and experience levels.
• Serve as the first point of contact for project team members and customers.
• Leads overall communication with clients and stakeholders.
• Acts as internal liaison for sales team/Account Executives.
• Monitoring and Controlling:
• Track project performance, specifically to analyze the successful completion of short and long-term goals.
• Create and present status reports to stakeholders.
• Manage changes to the project when necessary.
• Validate and control the project scope, costs, quality, procurement, and communications.
• Perform risk management to minimize project risks.
• Act as Customer Liaison and foster customer relationship.
• Manage Forecasting/Billing.
• Business Development Support:
• Participate in the development of new relationships and new opportunities as needed to include proposal development, Level of Effort (LOE) development, presentation development, and other duties as needed.
  
  

Qualifications

• Competencies and Skills:
• Ability to work on multiple projects simultaneously
• Ability to work in fast paced environment
• Excellent organization skills and time management
• Excellent communication skills, verbal and written
• Self-motivated and proactive
• Strong team skills and ability to work independently
• Demonstrated ability to work productively with wide range of people
• Ability to effectively work with geographically dispersed teams and clients across multiple time zones using collaborative communication tools (i.e. Microsoft Teams)
• Must have reliable high speed internet connectivity
  
  

Requirements

• BA/BS degree in Business, GIS, Engineering or related*
• 3+ years of experience or equivalent and a demonstrated ability in Geospatial Project Management using Agile Methodology
• Demonstrated capability implementing project plans and using tools to develop project schedules, work breakdown structures, and milestone driven Gantt charts
• Proficient in MS Office 365 suite
• You understand what the project manager role entails and how to be successful in it
• You have a strong familiarity with project management software tools, methodologies, and best practices
• Additional experience can be substituted for education
  
  

Preferred (in Addition To Requirements)

• Knowledge or experience in geospatial or related industry
• PMP Certification