Cybersecurity Project Manager

Cybersecurity Project Manager

Location: Columbus, OH (Hybrid - Onsite Tuesday through Thursday)

Position Type: Contract

Position Summary

We are seeking a Cybersecurity Project Manager to guide cross-functional security initiatives from planning through implementation. This role combines practical project leadership with a working understanding of cybersecurity, risk, compliance, and enterprise technology delivery. The successful candidate will manage full project lifecycles using Agile, Waterfall, or iterative methods; coordinate technical and business stakeholders; maintain delivery and financial controls; and ensure security objectives are completed on time and within budget. This hybrid role requires local candidates who can work onsite in Columbus on Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Responsibilities

• Plan and manage cybersecurity projects across initiation, design, execution, testing, deployment, adoption, and closeout.
• Create and maintain project charters, plans, schedules, solution design documents, technical documentation, Agile readiness checklists, UAT approvals, and deployment plans.
• Coordinate security, IT, business, vendor, finance, and executive stakeholders across multiple functions and organizational levels.
• Manage risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, demand, capacity, status reporting, budgets, forecasts, accruals, and variance explanations.
• Support statement-of-work development and track vendor commitments, milestones, deliverables, and progress.
• Facilitate clear project presentations and translate technical security concepts for non-technical stakeholders.
• Develop stakeholder assessments, communication plans, adoption strategies, and other change-management artifacts.
• Apply Agile, Waterfall, iterative, SDLC, and project-management best practices using ServiceNow, Power BI, Jira, and related tools.
• Build effective relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders while promoting accountability and teamwork.
• Contribute to policy and standards management, compliance and risk assessments, and issue or exception tracking when needed.

Required Qualifications

• 3+ years of project-management experience across IT and business functions.
• Experience managing complex projects with internal and external resources and both labor and non-labor cost components.
• Working knowledge of Agile, Waterfall, iterative, and SDLC delivery methods and project-management best practices.
• Experience with project cost management, resource-capacity planning, budgeting, forecasting, accruals, and variance explanations.
• Strong business-process analysis and process-mapping skills.
• Experience implementing change-management approaches that support project adoption.
• Ability to lead indirectly, coordinate diverse teams, and develop relationships with executive sponsors and key stakeholders.
• Strong presentation, facilitation, organization, problem-solving, and written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, MIS, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent technical project-management experience.
• Ability to work onsite in Columbus Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Preferred Qualifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Agile certification such as Professional Scrum Master (PSM) or Professional Scrum Product Owner (PSPO).
• ITIL v3 or v4 certification or practical service-management experience.
• Experience delivering cybersecurity, governance, risk, compliance, policy, or standards-management initiatives.
• Hands-on familiarity with ServiceNow, Power BI, Jira, or Archer.
• Energy or utilities industry experience.