Project Manager

About the Role Avocette Technologies is looking for an experienced Project Manager to lead client-facing technology projects from initiation through completion. This role is ideal for someone who is organized, proactive, client-focused, and comfortable managing scope, budget, timelines, risks, and stakeholder expectations. The successful candidate will work closely with clients, internal delivery teams, and leadership to ensure projects are well planned, clearly communicated, and delivered in a controlled and professional manner.

We are looking for someone who can bring structure to complex situations, keep projects moving forward, and communicate clearly when priorities, risks, or expectations need to be managed. This is a full-time role with a salary range of $90,000 – $110,000 annually, based on experience and qualifications. The role also includes benefits after the probation period and 3 weeks of vacation to start.

Key Responsibilities Manage client-facing technology projects from initiation through to completion. Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, status reports, action logs, risk logs, issue logs, and decision records. Monitor project scope, timelines, budget, hours, deliverables, and overall progress.

Coordinate internal project teams, including business analysts, developers, technical resources, QA, and subject matter experts. Act as the primary point of contact for clients on assigned projects. Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, status updates, and follow-up actions.

Identify risks, issues, delays, and budget concerns early and recommend practical solutions. Ensure project work is clearly documented, tracked, and communicated. Manage scope changes and ensure additional work is properly reviewed, estimated, approved, and documented.

Review project hours and progress to ensure work effort aligns with deliverables and approved scope. Prepare clear updates for clients and leadership, including project status, risks, next steps, and decisions required. Support accurate invoicing by confirming project work and hours are properly tracked.

Build strong working relationships with clients, internal teams, and leadership. Qualifications 8+ years of project management experience, ideally in IT, software implementation, consulting, professional services, or public sector environments. Candidates with slightly less experience may be considered if they have strong client-facing project delivery experience.

Experience managing client-facing projects with multiple stakeholders. Strong understanding of project scope, budget, schedule, risk, issue, and change management. Experience tracking project hours, budgets, timelines, and deliverables.

Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to prepare clear project status reports, meeting notes, action plans, and executive updates. Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.

Ability to manage competing priorities and bring structure to unclear or complex situations. Comfortable raising risks and issues early, along with practical recommendations. Experience using project management or collaboration tools such as Jira, Azure DevOps, MS Project, Smartsheet, Excel, SharePoint, or similar tools.

Nice to Have PMP, PRINCE2, Scrum Master, Agile, or other project management certification. Experience working with public sector clients. Experience with software implementation, system integration, data conversion, or application support projects.

Experience working in a consulting or professional services environment. Familiarity with Statements of Work, contracts, change requests, and project governance. Experience working in both waterfall and agile/hybrid delivery environments.

What Success Looks Like In this role, success means keeping projects organized, visible, and under control. The successful candidate will be able to identify risks early, manage client expectations, track project hours and budgets, prevent scope creep, and ensure both clients and internal teams have a clear understanding of project status and next steps. About You You are proactive, structured, and accountable.

You do not wait until issues become urgent before raising them. You communicate clearly, follow through on commitments, and can work with clients and internal teams in a calm, professional, and solution-focused manner.