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Job overview
The PMP- Senior Certified Project Manager will support DHS priority initiatives through enterprise-level delivery and organizational change. The role translates departmental strategy into initiatives, leads project management across technical and non-technical work, and oversees project governance and change-management workstreams. The position is hybrid in Madison, Wisconsin, with onsite presence at least once per quarter; candidates must be Wisconsin residents, and relocation is not allowed.
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Full job description
Our client is seeking a PMP- Senior Certified Project Manager to join their team. As a PMP- Senior Certified Project Manager, you will be part of the DHS priority initiatives supporting enterprise-level delivery and organizational change. The ideal candidate will have strong stakeholder communication, disciplined project governance, and the ability to lead multiple concurrent workstreams which will align successfully in the organization.
Job Title: PMP- Senior Certified Project Manager
Location: Hybrid (Madison, WI) — 201 E Washington Ave, Madison, WI. Onsite at least once per quarter. Special arrangements may be available to work at another Wisconsin facility. Candidate must be a Wisconsin resident; no relocation allowed.
Payrate: $74/hr On W2
What's the Job?
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Help executive leadership develop departmental strategy and translate it into strategic initiatives aligned to DHS priority initiatives.
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Lead business-focused project management activities across technical and non-technical challenges, applying predictive, adaptive, or hybrid methodologies and tools.
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Manage and coordinate project milestones, working teams, and resources to meet customer needs while tracking measurable success against KPIs defined at project outset.
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Oversee both technical and organizational change management workstreams to support smooth transition to operational delivery units.
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Advise divisional leadership and DHS leaders on department-wide priorities, facilitating professional decision-making discussions with business groups.
What's Needed?
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Minimum 8 years of project management experience with increasing accountability and complexity, including the ability to manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams.
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Demonstrated success delivering projects using adaptive, hybrid, and predictive project management methodologies, including stage gate governance.
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Proven ability to manage projects with measurable outcomes against KPIs, ensuring projects meet or surpass desired results.
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Experience leading at least two (2) large projects ($1M budget with duration of 18 months or longer) through the full project life cycle (initiation through closeout).
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Ability to facilitate business group discussions professionally in a decision-making environment and assemble/manage business-focused working teams.
What's in it for me?
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Opportunity to lead senior, enterprise-impact initiatives tied to DHS priority initiatives and measurable outcomes.
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Role that blends project governance, stakeholder leadership, and organizational change management to drive successful transitions to operations.
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Structured interview process with a phone screen followed by a virtual Microsoft Teams interview (camera on required).
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Clear expectations for hybrid work cadence with onsite presence at least once per quarter in Wisconsin.
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Professional environment focused on accountability, communication, and delivering results against KPIs.
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About ManpowerGroup, Parent Company of: Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells.
ManpowerGroup® (NYSE: MAN), the leading global workforce solutions company, helps organizations transform in a fast-changing world of work by sourcing, assessing, developing, and managing the talent that enables them to win. We develop innovative solutions for hundreds of thousands of organizations every year, providing them with skilled talent while finding meaningful, sustainable employment for millions of people across a wide range of industries and skills. Our expert family of brands – Manpower, Experis, Talent Solutions, and Jefferson Wells – creates substantial value for candidates and clients across more than 75 countries and territories and has done so for over 70 years. We are recognized consistently for our diversity - as a best place to work for Women, Inclusion, Equality and Disability and in 2023 ManpowerGroup was named one of the World's Most Ethical Companies for the 14th year - all confirming our position as the brand of choice for in-demand talent.
ManpowerGroup is committed to providing equal employment opportunities in a professional, high quality work environment. It is the policy of ManpowerGroup and all of its subsidiaries to recruit, train, promote, transfer, pay and take all employment actions without regard to an employee's race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information, religion, age, disability, protected veteran status, or any other basis protected by applicable law.
How this job compares
Set against the 23,111 open Project Manager jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$74/hr
- US median$45–60/hr928 hourly ranges
This rate, $74/hr, is 41% above the US median midpoint ($53/hr) — in the top quarter of Project Manager hourly ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 585 open Project Manager jobs in Wisconsin and 23,111 across the US. 4% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 8 years of experience; Project Manager postings that state a minimum ask for 6 years at the median (19,831 postings).
- Education
- 12,363 of the 23,111 open Project Manager jobs (53%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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