Project Manager for GIS Project

Project overview

emagine has received a new assignment from a client in the energy sector seeking a Project Manager for a GIS project. The consultant will be responsible for project management and coordination of GIS2Azure with a particular focus on ensuring progress, quality, and management of the project's deliverables.

The assignment includes, among other things:

The consultant is expected to work independently and proactively and must be able to create structure and progress in a complex project with multiple organizational and technical dependencies.

• Planning, coordination, and ongoing follow-up on the project's activities, deliverables, milestones, and dependencies across internal teams and external suppliers.
• Ensuring progress in the project through ongoing follow-up on agreed activities, deadlines, and deliverables, as well as escalating significant deviations and blockages.
• Coordination of internal and external resources and ensuring that the necessary resources are available in relation to the project plan and priorities.
• Follow-up on external consultants' allocation, deliverables, quality, and adherence to agreed scope.
• Ongoing management and follow-up on the project's risks, issues, dependencies, and scope changes.
• Support for financial and resource management, including follow-up on consumption, forecast, and the relationship between resource consumption and deliverables.
• Preparation and maintenance of project plans, status reporting, decision proposals, and other materials for the project steering committee and relevant stakeholders.
• Preparation and facilitation of project and steering committee meetings, as well as follow-up on decisions and actions.
• Ensuring necessary coordination between the project's technical deliverables, migration, testing, commissioning, and other activities.
• Close collaboration with the project's internal professional resources, management, business stakeholders, and external suppliers.

Requirements

It would be an advantage if the consultant has:

• Documented experience with project management of large and complex IT projects with multiple internal and external stakeholders.
• Strong competencies in project planning, progress management, delivery management, and follow-up on milestones and dependencies.
• Experience with managing and coordinating external consultants and suppliers, including follow-up on resource allocation, delivery quality, and scope.
• Experience with risk, issue, and change management in IT projects.
• Experience with financial and resource management and the relationship between budget, forecast, resource consumption, and project deliverables.
• Experience with reporting to and collaborating with steering committees and management levels, including preparing status and decision-making materials.
• Ability to create structure, transparency, and progress in projects with significant technical and organizational dependencies.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills and the ability to clearly communicate complex issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Ability to independently identify problems, drive clarifications, and follow decisions and actions to completion.
• Experience with cloud, platform, or infrastructure projects, preferably related to Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with migration projects or modernization of business-critical IT platforms.
• Experience with projects where stability, high availability, security, and compliance are key requirements.
• Knowledge of GIS or ArcGIS is an advantage, but not a requirement.

Project details

Hybrid, Fredericia

Period: ASAP - September 2027 (Full-time for the first 2 months, then 20 hours per week).

• Start: flexible
• Duration: > 12 months
• Remote: onsite
• Location: Fredericia, Denmark, DK
• Languages: Danish