Job ID: 11696
Location: Wichita, Kansas
Category: IT
Employment Type: Individual Consulting
Date Added: 06/18/2026
Job Type: Contract
Job Location: Remote
Overview
The Project Manager (PM) is responsible for the day-to-day planning, execution, tracking, and coordination of program activities across workstreams. The PM ensures delivery remains on schedule, risks and dependencies are actively managed, and leadership has clear, timely visibility into progress, issues, and decisions.
The Project Manager ensures delivery rigor: plans are integrated, dependencies are managed, risks are surfaced, and leadership has clear, timely visibility. The PM does not own delivery outcomes or solution decisions and does not prioritize scope.
Responsibilities:
• Develop and maintain the integrated project plan, aligning milestones, dependencies, and timelines across data engineering, governance, testing, change and adoption, and cutover workstreams
• Maintain detailed plans aligned to PI, testing, and cutover timelines
• Track milestones, critical paths, and inter-workstream dependencies
• Ensure plan updates reflect approved scope, sequencing, and delivery changes
• Drive disciplined execution of the project plan by monitoring progress against scope, schedule, and key deliverables
• Track workstream status and delivery commitments
• Identify schedule variances and drive corrective actions
• Ensure deliverables meet agreed acceptance criteria and timelines
• Own the active management of project-level risks, issues, and dependencies to minimize delivery disruption
• Maintain and regularly update RAID logs
• Proactively surface cross-workstream dependencies and bottlenecks
• Drive mitigation plans and escalate risks requiring leadership intervention
• Establish and run project-level governance routines to ensure transparency and timely decision-making
• Prepare and deliver weekly project status reports and dashboards
• Support steering, CAB, and leadership forums with clear status, risks, and decisions needed
• Ensure alignment between project-level reporting and program-level governance
• Act as the central coordination point across workstreams and stakeholders
• Coordinate activities across engineering, testing, change, cutover, and business teams
• Ensure handoffs between phases (build – test – UAT – cutover) are planned and executed
• Support alignment between Product Owners, Delivery Leads, and Program Leadership
• Support disciplined scope and change management across the project lifecycle
• Track scope changes and ensure impacts to schedule, cost, and resources are understood
• Facilitate change intake and approval workflows
• Ensure approved changes are reflected in plans, reporting, and delivery commitments
• Provide project management support through cutover and stabilization phases
• Coordinate readiness activities across testing, change, and cutover leads
• Track go-live action items, issues, and stabilization milestones
• Support post-go-live reporting and closure activities
• Ensure project documentation is maintained to enterprise and program standards
• Maintain project artifacts including plans, RAID logs, decision logs, and status reports
• Support audit, compliance, and leadership review needs
• Ensure documentation reflects final delivery outcomes
Requirements:
• Minimum of four years of related work experience
• Minimum requirement of 4 years of relevant work experience
• Typically reflects 5 years or more of relevant experience
• Eastern or Central time zone preferred
• Ability to support a schedule aligned to Monday through Friday business hours, with some flexibility depending on global meetings
The projected hourly range for this position is $75 to $90.
On-Demand Group (ODG) provides employee benefits which includes healthcare, dental, and vision insurance. ODG is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.