GDT Client Project Manager

BDO USA provides assurance, tax, and advisory services to clients across the U.S. and around the world. The GDT Client Project Manager leads complex government digital transformation projects across their full lifecycle, managing scope, schedules, budgets, resources, risks, quality, governance, vendors, and stakeholder communications.

Responsibilities:

• Leads projects through the full project lifecycle including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, control, and closure
• Develops and maintains project charters, plans, schedules, budgets, resource plans, and communication plans
• Defines project scope, objectives, deliverables, milestones, and success criteria with stakeholders
• Coordinates project activities and aligns deliverables with organizational goals and strategic initiatives
• Monitors project progress against approved timelines, milestones, budgets, and performance targets
• Facilitates project status meetings, planning sessions, governance meetings, and stakeholder reviews
• Builds and maintains relationships with clients, project sponsors, leadership, team members, vendors, and subject matter experts
• Serves as the primary point of contact for project communications
• Communicates project status, risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and recommendations to stakeholders and leadership
• Facilitates collaboration across business, operational, technical, and client teams
• Identifies, assesses, tracks, and mitigates project risks and issues
• Develops contingency plans, corrective actions, and escalation recommendations
• Escalates critical risks, issues, and decisions through established governance channels
• Documents and communicates project decisions, assumptions, dependencies, and action items
• Coordinates internal staff, contractors, vendors, and subject matter experts
• Monitors project budgets, expenditures, forecasts, and financial performance
• Manages scope changes through established change control and governance processes
• Supports resource forecasting and capacity planning activities
• Ensures compliance with organizational project management standards, methodologies, policies, and procedures
• Supports quality assurance activities, project reviews, and control assessments
• Maintains complete and accurate project documentation and records
• Tracks and reports project performance metrics and key performance indicators
• Applies Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies
• Identifies opportunities to improve project delivery processes, tools, and methodologies
• Participates in project management initiatives, best-practice development, lessons-learned activities, and knowledge-sharing sessions
• Other duties as required

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Project Management, or Public Administration, required
• Five (5) or more years of project management experience, required
• Experience leading complex, cross-functional projects, required
• Experience managing multiple projects simultaneously, required
• Experience supporting government services, healthcare, commercial, or regulated-industry projects, required
• Experience managing technology implementation projects, required
• Experience leading vendor-managed projects, required
• Experience managing project scope, schedule, budget, quality, risks, and stakeholder expectations, required
• Experience applying Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or hybrid project management methodologies, required
• Experience developing executive-level project reporting, required
• Strong project leadership and team facilitation skills
• Excellent written, verbal, and presentation communication skills
• Strong organizational, prioritization, and time management skills
• Effective problem-solving, analytical, critical-thinking, and decision-making skills
• Ability to manage competing priorities and meet established deadlines
• Ability to develop clear executive-level reports and presentations
• Ability to manage project governance, accountability, and stakeholder expectations
• Ability to facilitate collaboration across business, operational, technical, and client teams
• Knowledge of project risk management, issue resolution, change control, and quality assurance practices
• Knowledge of project performance metrics, key performance indicators, and financial tracking
• Strong adaptability, customer focus, collaboration, and results orientation
• Ability to learn and understand project-specific systems, databases, and interfaces to effectively manage resources and  issues
• Experience with change management methodologies, preferred
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, preferred
• Certified ScrumMaster (CSM), PMI Agile Certified Practitioner (PMI-ACP), or comparable Agile certification, preferred
• Experience with project-specific systems, databases, and interfaces, preferred