Sr. IT Project Manager - Everbridge
Employment Type: Contract (12+ months)
Location: Austin, Texas (Hybrid – onsite one day per month)
*Candidate must be based in Texas for consideration
We are looking for a Senior IT Project Manager to lead the rollout of an employee notification system (Everbridge), with additional enterprise-scale projects to follow once that implementation transitions to operations. This is a highly visible role managing overlapping legacy and new systems with real interdependencies, not a single, straightforward software rollout, so candidates need genuine experience leading complex implementations rather than coordinating individual project tasks. The ideal candidate brings strong vendor and contract management skills, executive-facing communication, and delivery discipline, along with public sector experience, ideally in public safety or another mission-critical operational environment. This is a long-term, funded engagement offering stability and the opportunity to take on additional high-impact assignments.
Qualifications/Requirements
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required
• Proven experience leading large, complex IT implementations involving multiple internal and external stakeholders, not limited to task-level project coordination
• Strong vendor and contract management experience, including oversight of deliverables, schedules, issue escalation, and third-party accountability
• Experience managing risk in environments where legacy and new systems must run in parallel, including cutover planning, rollback strategies, and protecting service continuity for mission-critical operations
• Experience developing RFPs and administering vendor contracts and performance
• Public sector experience strongly preferred, particularly federal, state, county, or city government delivery environments
• Experience with public safety agencies or similarly mission-critical, operationally sensitive environments
• Must be able to obtain CJIS clearance; prior experience in CJIS or similar background-standard environments is especially attractive
• Comfortable operating with significant cross-functional coordination and executive-facing communication in a matrixed organization
Responsibilities
• Lead enterprise-scale IT projects from initiation through implementation and transition to operations
• Develop project charters, scope, schedules, resource plans, and communication plans
• Manage project dependencies and critical path across multiple interconnected systems
• Write RFPs and oversee vendor contracts, deliverables, and performance
• Provide executive and stakeholder communication and facilitate project status reviews
• Support business requirements development and coordinate training and transition activities
• Lead through influence across departments and stakeholder groups in a matrixed environment
• Develop transition and training plans to support successful handoff to operations
• Operate with minimal supervision while demonstrating executive presence, strong delivery discipline, and the operational judgment required in this environment.
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