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Excelraise, LLC is seeking a Program Manager for our client in Atlanta, GA. 

GDOL seeks a Senior level Program Manager to lead day-to-day program coordination and delivery oversight for the UI Inspire initiative. The Program Manager will work closely with GDOL leadership, the Georgia Technology Authority (GTA), vendor teams, and business stakeholders to ensure timely delivery of modernization milestones, federal readiness compliance, and successful go-live of the new UI platform targeted for September 2026. This role will also ensure a successful transition of the platform to maintenance and operations in the following months.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead planning, execution, and monitoring of the UI Inspire modernization project, ensuring alignment with GDOL strategic modernization goals. Solve complex problems and drive action across the organization.
• Coordinate activities across Benefits, Tax, and Appeals modernization workstreams and associated vendor delivery teams.
• Develop and maintain integrated program schedules, milestone tracking, and risk mitigation strategies aligned with the planned September 2026 go-live timeline.
• Track delivery of critical implementation milestones including system testing, user acceptance testing, data migration validation, security testing, and production readiness.
• Manage dependencies between vendor deliverables, agency readiness activities, and federal certification requirements.
• Track and report on project budget.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in information systems, public administration, business administration, computer science, or related field.
• 10+ years of experience managing large-scale IT modernization or enterprise system implementation projects.
• Demonstrated experience managing government technology modernization initiatives, preferably in unemployment insurance, workforce systems, or human services.
• Experience working with multi-vendor delivery environments and state technology governance frameworks.
• Strong knowledge of Agile, hybrid, or iterative software delivery methodologies.
• Experience coordinating development, system testing, data migration, and implementation readiness activities.
• Experience supporting state unemployment insurance system modernization programs.
• Familiarity with federal certification processes and readiness expectations for UI systems.
• Experience managing cloud-based or enterprise platform implementations.
• Experience working with public sector program governance and executive oversight structures.
• PMP, PMI-ACP, or similar project management certification.
• PgMP certification.