Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom · 9 hours ago
IT Project Manager (Security & Compliance Project Manager)
Lake Forest, IL
Contract
Hybrid
Senior Level
$80/hr - $80/hr
5+ years expKelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom is seeking a seasoned Project Manager for overseeing enterprise-mandated security and compliance initiatives. The role involves ensuring that security requirements are understood and tracked by responsible teams, while facilitating coordination across multiple technical and business teams.
Staffing & Recruiting
Hiring Manager
Soma Patanaik
Responsibilities
Oversee and drive progress on enterprise-mandated security and compliance initiatives
Ensure requirements from Security are understood, tracked, and completed on time by the responsible teams
Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple technical and business teams
Act as the single point of coordination between Enterprise Security/Compliance teams and Commercial technology teams
Produce executive-level status reporting, including overall health, key accomplishments, upcoming milestones, risks, issues, and required leadership decisions
Maintain project artifacts and documentation in an organized, auditable manner
Qualification
Required
Minimum 5+ years of project management experience
Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent initiatives in a fast-paced enterprise environment
Strong experience with project governance, including: Schedule and milestone tracking, Dependency management, Risk and issue tracking (RAID), Escalation management
Ability to operate independently and bring structure to ongoing, in-flight projects
Prior experience managing security, compliance, or infrastructure-related initiatives, such as: Risk assessments and remediation tracking, Security vulnerability management, Identity and access management initiatives (e.g., MFA), Security control or audit-driven projects
Strong understanding of enterprise security requirements and how they translate into actionable work across delivery teams
Comfort working with Enterprise Security and Enterprise Compliance stakeholders and understanding their expectations, timelines, and reporting needs
Demonstrated experience coordinating work across multiple technical and business teams
Ability to act as the single point of coordination between: Enterprise Security / Compliance teams (requirement providers), Commercial technology teams (execution owners)
Strong facilitation skills for: Regular status meetings, Project checkpoints, Risk and issue discussions
Proven ability to represent project status clearly to senior leadership
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Ability to produce executive-level status reporting, including: Overall health (RAG status), Key accomplishments and upcoming milestones, Risks, issues, and required leadership decisions
Confidence presenting updates to technical and non-technical audiences
Strong PowerPoint skills for leadership updates and summaries
Smartsheet – mandatory
Experience building and maintaining project plans, dashboards, and trackers
Familiarity with status reporting, dependency tracking, and portfolio views
Experience with standard Project Management tools, such as: MS Project, MS Planner, Jira / Confluence, SharePoint
Ability to maintain project artifacts and documentation in an organized, auditable manner
Preferred
Experience using Power BI or similar reporting tools is preferred but not required
Candidate must be comfortable generating clear, consumable reports using Smartsheet, PowerPoint, and other PM tools as appropriate
Company
Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom
Kelly Science, Engineering, Technology & Telecom specializes in science, engineering, technology, and telecom.
5001-10000 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Linda Stuit
Senior Vice President, Engineering Specialty
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