Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced

Novalink Solutions; West Columbia (TX); On-site; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Novalink Solutions is seeking an experienced Enterprise Project Manager - Advanced for a 1-year contract in West Columbia, SC. The role requires leading complex IT initiatives, guiding business analysis, and delivering on time with clear documentation and executive reporting.

You will manage scope, schedule, budget, risks, and stakeholder communication, while coordinating with internal IT, vendors, and agency partners. Strong requirements gathering and process improvement skills are essential.

Qualifications

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

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.

Skills

Project management

Business analysis

Regulatory programs

Multiple projects

Schedule management

Resource planning

Process reengineering

Data dashboards

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

PowerBI

MS Office

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