Role Name: IT Project Specialist
Location: Columbia, SC
Work Environment: Partial Onsite: Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday, other days as required by project planned deliverables
Contract length: 12 months
Duties:
- Assists the Project Leader and Project Manager in initiating, establishing, guiding, and controlling projects from inception through completion. Assists project leaders with the organization and support of lesser number to moderate number of work efforts simultaneously, and work efforts consisting of combination of small/moderate size lower/complexity work efforts, and /or minimum/average number of system customer impacts. Develops the abilities expected of a project leader by successfully executing project management processes and meeting project deliverables.
- 20% Provides support for project plans, risk management plans, and project documentation from design to post implementation. Assists in ensuring project documentation and deliverables are complete, on budget, within scope, and in accordance with standards.
- 20% Assists project leaders with the development, execution, and maintenance of project communications. Facilitates effective communication between all parties involved in the project and/or work efforts. This will include meetings, correspondence, status reports and other documentation.
- 20% Utilizes available project management tools to monitor and document project status. Responsible for running, pulling, and analysis of daily reports. Prepares agendas for meetings and documents key decisions.
- 20% Assists with the management of project issues throughout the project life cycle. Assists in communicating the implications of changes to the project scope with appropriate parties.
- 20% Responsible for ensuring all work efforts have appropriate documentation for audit purposes utilizing project methodology standards in accordance with the ISSM.
Work environment:
- Fast paced, dynamic environment which may require action and response 24X7 to support the technical business needs of the customer and where one must be flexible to changing priorities.
Team Info/Team name:
- The Project Specialist will report to a Portfolio Manager with a team of 8 - 10 Project Managers. Most project teams will range between 8 - 20 team members.
- My team supports various portfolios including Data Exchange, Telephony, Mobile/Full Site, and AEM.
Job Requirements:
Required Experience:
- 1-year related work experience. Ability to complete the client's Training Program for Project Management or successful completion of recognized college internship may substitute experience.
- Effective communications (verbal and written) skills.
- Ability to participate in a team or project environment.
- Demonstrated problem solving and conflict management/resolution skills.
- Good analytical and organizational skills with attention to detail.
- Ability to understand project management principles and methodologies, information systems, business processes, and the key drivers and measures of success for the business unit and the organization.
- Ability to conduct research into project related information.
- Ability to prepare formal presentations.
- Ability to assist in all phases of work effort from inception to completion.
Required EDU:
- Bachelor's Degree or 4 years of job related work experience or 2 years of job related experience plus an associate's degree in any major.
Preferred Licenses and Certificates:
Required Software and Tools (Hands on experience required):
- Windows applications (Word, Excel, Outlook, SharePoint Online, PowerPoint, Visio, Project, Teams, etc.)
Nice to have/Preferred skills:
- MindView, Jira, Azure Boards
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Spectraforce Technologies
Sep 03, 2025