Remote IT Project Manager — Government IT Delivery

GovCIO; Hartford (CT); Remote; USD 94,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver technology projects across the organization in a fully remote role. You will drive projects from initiation through closure, ensuring on-time delivery, scope alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction.

The role requires strong PM skills, cross-functional collaboration with IT teams and vendors, and clear executive reporting. A bachelor's degree and 5–8 years of IT project management experience are expected.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree with 5–8 years IT project management experience or commensurate experience.

Responsibilities

• Lead IT projects from initiation, planning, and execution through implementation and project closeout.
• Define project scope, objectives, requirements, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, milestones, and resource requirements.
• Coordinate activities across infrastructure, networking, cybersecurity, cloud, application, database, and business teams.
• Manage multiple projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Facilitate project kickoff meetings, status meetings, technical discussions, and stakeholder reviews.
• Track project progress and proactively identify schedule, budget, resource, and technical risks.
• Maintain project risk, issue, action, and decision logs and ensure appropriate follow-up.
• Identify project dependencies and coordinate activities across internal teams and external vendors.
• Provide regular project status reports, dashboards, and executive-level updates.
• Escalate project risks, issues, and decisions requiring leadership attention.
• Ensure project documentation is complete, organized, and maintained throughout the project lifecycle.
• Coordinate testing, implementation, migration, cutover, and go-live activities (as needed).
• Conduct project closeout activities, including lessons learned and confirmation that project objectives have been achieved.
• Support continuous improvement of IT project management processes, standards, templates, and governance

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Cross-functional coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an experienced IT Project Manager to plan, coordinate, and deliver technology projects across the organization in a fully remote role. You will drive projects from initiation through closure, ensuring on-time delivery, scope alignment, and stakeholder satisfaction.

The role requires strong PM skills, cross-functional collaboration with IT teams and vendors, and clear executive reporting. A bachelor's degree and 5–8 years of IT project management experience are expected.