Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced

Novalink Solutions LLC; West Columbia (TX); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions LLC in West Columbia, South Carolina, seeks an Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced for a 1-year, full-time engagement to lead complex IT initiatives.

You will combine project management with business analysis, coordinating cross-functional teams, vendors, and stakeholders to deliver on time, within scope, and within budget. Daily reporting and governance compliance are essential.

Qualifications

• Minimum 7 years project management experience with moderate to high complexity.
• Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.
• Minimum 5 years experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery across scope, schedule, budget, risk, and quality.
• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, reports, and executive updates.
• Manage cross-functional teams: internal IT, vendors, SMEs, and partners.
• Facilitate scope validation sessions with sponsors and stakeholders.
• Identify risks and issues; implement mitigation strategies.
• Support procurement via RFPs, SOWs, and vendor oversight.
• Ensure governance, security, records management compliance.

Skills

Project management

Business analysis

Regulatory compliance

Vendor coordination

Data dashboards

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Power BI

MS Project

RFP/SOW drafting

Job description

• Actual Job Title Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced


• Job Type FT Contract


• Contract duration 1 year


• Date Opened 11/02/2026


• Target Date 11/06/2026


• City West Columbia


• State/Province South Carolina


• Country United States


• Number of Positions 1

Job Description

Project Overview

The South Carolina Department of Administration requires professional services to support the successful delivery of strategic and tactical IT initiatives. The Contractor will provide a Project Manager with strong business analysis capabilities to lead and support complex, multi-stakeholder technology projects from initiation through closure. The role will ensure clear requirements, well-defined scope, effective communication, and disciplined project execution.

Scope of the project

The primary objectives of this engagement are:

• Deliver project outcomes on time, within scope, and within budget.


• Provide expert-level project management to guide planning, scheduling, execution, risk mitigation, and reporting.


• Provide business analysis expertise to define and document requirements, assess impacts, and ensure solutions meet business needs.


• Improve project transparency through accurate documentation, dashboards, and communication to leadership and stakeholders.

The Contractor will report to the Director of Admin IT or designated project executive. Regular updates will be required through established reporting mechanisms and recurring meetings.

Daily Duties / Responsibilities

Project Management Responsibilities

• Lead end-to-end project delivery, including scope, schedule, budget, risk, quality, communication, and resource coordination


• Develop and maintain project plans, RAID logs, communication plans, status reports, and executive updates


• Manage cross-functional teams including internal IT, vendors, SMEs, and agency partners.


• Facilitate work sessions to validate scope, requirements, and deliverables; maintain alignment with sponsors and stakeholders


• Identify risks and issues; recommend and implement mitigation strategies


• Support procurement processes as needed (RFPs, SOWs, vendor oversight) consistent with state and Admin procurement standard


• Ensure compliance with agency policies, security requirements, records management standards, and project governance frameworks

Business Analysis Responsibilities

• Lead structured requirements elicitation including interviews, workshops, journey mapping, process modeling, and data analysis


• Document clear, testable requirements: business, functional, nonfunctional, user stories, and acceptance criteria.


• Define current-state and future-state processes, workflows, and data flows; quantify KPIs and business value.


• Translate requirements into solution designs in collaboration with architecture, security, data, and infrastructure teams.


• Evaluate build-vs-buy options and support creation of diagrams, models, and integration patterns when required.

Change Management & Adoption

• Develop change management and communication plans.


• Coordinate UAT, cutover activities, readiness planning, and post-launch support.


• Support adoption using metrics, user feedback, and continuous improvement loops

Deliverables may include but are not limited to:

• Requirements Documents / User Stories

Required skills

• Minimum 7 years project management experience with moderate to high complexity.


• Demonstrated experience in business analysis and process redesign.


• Minimum 5 years experience managing IT, regulatory, compliance, or enterprise-level initiatives.

Preferred Skills (Rank in order of Importance)

• Simultaneously manage multiple work efforts


• Strong schedule management and resource planning skills


• Ability to identify, map, and re-engineer business processes.


• Integrated Master Schedule skills


• PowerBI and/or data dashboard skills

Required Education

• Bachelor’s degree required

Required Certifications

• PMP, PMI-ACP, or comparable certification preferred.

Requirements