Project Manager - Business Implementation (Remote, Contract)

Responsibilities

Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, and action items while coordinating business stakeholders, technical teams, and vendors. Facilitate communication and decision-making, track risks and changes, coordinate UAT and training, and support cutover and transition to ongoing support.

Requirements

Requires experience managing business or system implementation projects and coordinating cross-functional teams, along with strong organization, communication, documentation, and follow-through. Candidates should be comfortable managing priorities, risks, issues, and dependencies remotely, with experience coordinating UAT, training, or go-live activities; data-related implementation experience is preferred.

Skills

• Project Management
• Business Implementation
• Cross-Functional Coordination
• Project Planning
• Scheduling
• Stakeholder Communication
• Vendor Coordination
• Meeting Facilitation
• Status Reporting
• Risk and Issue Management
• Scope and Change Management
• User Acceptance Testing
• Training Coordination
• Implementation Readiness
• Cutover Coordination
• Data Implementation

About this role

Stafford Gray is seeking a Project Manager for a remote contract engagement supporting Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF). This role will work on the business side of a data-related implementation, coordinating business stakeholders with the technical team and/or vendor to keep the project organized and moving forward.
The focus is practical project management: planning, scheduling, communication, follow-through, and implementation readiness. Data project experience is helpful, but hands-on data engineering or development is not required.
Responsibilities
• Develop and maintain the project plan, schedule, milestones, and action items.
• Coordinate business stakeholders, technical resources, and vendors; clarify ownership and follow up on deliverables.
• Facilitate project meetings, document decisions, and communicate status, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Track scope and changes, escalate blockers, and support timely decisions.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), issue tracking, and business sign-off.
• Help organize training, stakeholder communications, and implementation readiness.
• Coordinate cutover activities and the transition to ongoing support.
Requirements
• Experience managing business or system implementation projects and coordinating cross-functional teams.
• Strong organization, scheduling, documentation, and follow-through skills.
• Clear written and verbal communication, including concise status reporting and meeting facilitation.
• Ability to manage action items, risks, issues, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Comfort working with business stakeholders and technical teams or external vendors in a remote environment.
• Experience coordinating UAT, training, or go-live activities.
Preferred
• Exposure to data-related implementations, reporting, data migration, or similar business initiatives.
• Experience supporting a nonprofit or professional services organization.

About Stafford Gray

Information Technology & Services · 11-50 employees · headquartered in Lansing, Michigan