[Remote] Project Manager ($32 per hour on w2 or $38 per hour on c2c

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. KTek Resourcing is recruiting for a Project Manager role supporting National Grid. The role governs and coordinates project delivery across teams, with responsibility for integrated planning, governance, readiness, reporting, and stakeholder coordination.

Responsibilities

• Govern the project wrapper for a defined batch of work
• Provide project governance for clearly defined work, typically requiring coordination across one or two delivery teams
• Ensure the project is governed through the correct channels and with the appropriate level of discipline
• Function as the primary coordination point for business stakeholders throughout the delivery lifecycle
• Create and maintain a unified view of scope, schedule, and cost
• Maintain an integrated view of scope, schedule, cost, assumptions, dependencies, and delivery commitments across participating teams
• Partner with the Portfolio Management Team to track budget and cost for non-labor spend and provide visibility of project-related work flowing through long-lived teams
• Actively manage cost and budget for temporary teams organized around the project scope where required
• Facilitate intake, framing, and routing
• Coordinate project intake and framing through standard governance channels
• Engage Agile Teams, ARTs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, and accountable parties based on how the scope will be delivered
• Do not approve or prioritize intake directly unless explicitly delegated
• Coordinate dependencies, risks, issues, and decisions
• Maintain an integrated view of project dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, owners, due dates, and escalation paths
• Escalate when progress stalls, ownership is unclear, or decisions exceed team authority
• Work effectively with long-lived Agile Teams and ARTs
• Work within existing governance, tooling, and delivery methods
• Respect the governance boundaries of Scrum Masters, RTEs, Platform Owners, Product Owners, System Architects, and delivery teams
• Build project-level views around standing structures rather than replacing them
• Coordinate readiness, milestones, release, and cutover
• Coordinate kickoff meetings, status reviews, milestone, release, cutover, transition, and handoff readiness
• Collaborate with Program Managers on integrated readiness and governance where the project is part of a wider program
• Collaborate with communication teams for deployment communications and stakeholder notifications
• Support incremental and iterative delivery
• Encourage sequencing that enables earlier validation, feedback, and value delivery where practical
• Coordinate staged releases with accountable owners and delivery teams
• Provide reporting and stakeholder visibility
• Communicate integrated status across scope, schedule, cost, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and readiness
• Support steering forums and governance reviews with a clear view of delivery reality and decisions required
• Support lessons learned and process improvement opportunities
• Work across organizational boundaries
• Coordinate across I&O, other National Grid teams, external vendors, and delivery partners
• Ensure external dependencies and contributors are represented in project governance and readiness planning

Skills

• USC/GC only
• Strong experience coordinating work across multiple teams, stakeholders, and delivery methods
• Demonstrated ability to maintain integrated views of scope, schedule, cost, dependencies, risks, and issues
• Experience in environments combining agile, flow-based, operational, and traditional project delivery
• Understanding of how to work with standing Agile Teams and ARTs without disrupting their governance model
• Experience supporting milestone readiness, release readiness, cutover planning, and stakeholder reporting
• Strong written and verbal communication skills for technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work effectively in matrixed environments across internal and external teams
• Practical understanding of staged and incremental delivery approaches
• Project planning and control
• Scope, schedule, cost, risk, issue, and dependency management
• Delivery governance and reporting
• Agile delivery and flow-based work management
• Cross-methodology coordination
• Budget and cost visibility
• Governance forums, escalation paths, and decision management
• Experience supporting enterprise infrastructure, networking, telecommunications or technology organizations
• Experience supporting network infrastructure, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, wireless, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, cloud networking or telecommunications projects
• Experience managing multiple concurrent initiatives and competing priorities
• Experience with Jira, ServiceNow and Microsoft Suite
• Ability to effectively coordinate cross-functional technical teams
• Program & Project Management
• Experience supporting network infrastructure, WAN, LAN, SD-WAN, wireless, DNS, DHCP, IPAM, cloud networking or telecommunications projects preferred

Benefits

• Remote

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