Project Officer

Large rollouts are routine here, such as imaging 12,000 laptops for a state agency over one summer. Enterprise clients outsource service desk, end-user support and data centre operations to us under multi-year contracts. Tickets live in ConnectWise and everyone logs time to the quarter hour.

Job summary

Woodland Computer Services needs another Project Officer to manage infrastructure and application projects across IT and engineering. Our Delivery team manages around 20 active projects. You'll own four to six of them at a time. The company is based in San Antonio, the US. We are a distributed team spread across a few time zones. You will join as an independent contractor on a long-term agreement. Payment is monthly in USD. You will need at least 4 hours of overlap with US Central time.

Key responsibilities

• Manage project budgets, vendor invoices and change orders.
• Run kickoffs, weekly status meetings and steering committee updates.
• Coordinate work across engineering, infrastructure, security and business teams.
• Track risks, issues, dependencies and decisions in an RAID log.
• Hold vendors and system integrators to deliverables and milestones.
• Facilitate requirements sessions with business stakeholders.

Required qualifications

• 1+ years managing technical projects in IT, software or infrastructure.
• Comfort holding senior stakeholders to their commitments.
• Bachelor's degree in IT, engineering, business or a related field.
• Solid technical grounding in areas like cloud, networking, ERP or software delivery.

Preferred

• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM)
• PMP, PMI-ACP or PRINCE2 certification.

Salary: $3,100 - $3,900 per month

Pay and benefits

• Long-term engagement.
• Paid in USD.

Please submit your CV in English.

We may close the role early, so do not wait too long to apply.

Duration: 3 months. Start: Immediately.

Demo job created on 11jobs for testing and demonstrations. It is not an actual opening at Woodland Computer Services.