Project Manager III (Contract)

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Join Our Team as Project Manager III (6-month Contract)

Company: Coreforce
Location: Atlanta, GA (Hybrid)
Job Type: Full-time
Salary: $50.00–$58.00 per hour, based on experience

Company Overview:
Coreforce is an innovative technology company providing public safety organizations a comprehensive technology suite from dispatch to the courtroom. Coreforce delivers integrated technology designed to support public safety entities, regardless of organizational size. ​Our products - body cameras, in-car videos, mobile routers, and digital evidence systems, help public safety officers and first responders save lives, strengthen community trust, and enhance accountability.

Project Manager III – Build Your Career with Purpose

Join Coreforce and use your project management skills to support innovative technology that strengthens communities.

Responsibilities:

• Manage complex projects for new and existing clients responsible for initiating, planning, executing, monitoring/controlling, and closing the project ensuring all projects are delivered on time, within scope and budget.
• Manage multiple complex projects within the organization’s project portfolio.
• Report incidents to management and escalate as needed.
• Create and utilize established company tools, templates, and standard operating procedures to manage projects.
• Mentor and train team members on standard operating procedures and best practices. Maintain lessons-learned registry with feedback from the team members.
• Monitor, coach, and report team performance to the Manager, Project Management.
• Perform other duties as assigned
• Travel requirements: 25% overnight travel (ground and air)

Initiating/Planning

• Identify and perform stakeholder analysis for the project.
• Review, understand, and interpret client contracts to build a project plan.
• Develop the project schedule within the standards of the department.
• Obtain and coordinate applicable project resources (site survey, uniforms, installation, and training) for project execution.
• Develop scope of work for third-party installers issuing a purchase order for the quoted services.
• Communicate the project timeline to stakeholders; adhering to the departmental deployment standard.
• Identify, manage, and document high-level risks, assumptions, and constraints to include confirmation of client payment and ensuring all equipment/resources are onsite.
• Lead the project kickoff meeting educating the client and providing an overview of the project deliverables and timeline of the project.

Monitoring/Controlling

• Design and control project kick-off process and ensure customer requirements are met within a detailed statement of work.
• Leads an interdepartmental team to set expectations, and address questions, concerns, and/or complaints to ensure the project is on time, to specification, and with accuracy and efficiency.
• Liaise between cross-functional teams, external vendors, and other stakeholders to ensure deliverables, requirements, schedules, cost, and meeting plans are communicated.
• Conduct and document project meetings (kick-off, status, and closeout) with clients and other stakeholders.
• Manage ongoing changes to the project scope, project schedule, and project costs using appropriate verification techniques.
• Research and identify new methods or best practices to resolve unfamiliar issues.
• Meet budgetary objectives and adjust project constraints based on financial analysis regularly.
• Proactively manage the timeline by which a project’s tasks, milestones, or deliverables are met using creative problem-solving skills and negotiations.
• Monitors task completion status to identify at-risk project tasks and develop a mitigation plan as needed to keep the project on track.
• Manage project communications to influence and ensure stakeholder engagement.
• Create and maintain comprehensive project documentation for historical data.
• Update the status of the project (daily) in the project management software.
• Communicate the overall project progress to senior management on an ongoing basis.

Closing

• Obtain final acceptance from the client and measure client satisfaction with the project.
• Conduct a smooth transition to the Client Success team upon project completion.
• Contribute feedback and lessons learned to improve processes and the overall project approach as needed.