Project Manager (Contract)

Part-Time | 4-Month Contract

Accela is seeking an experienced Project Manager to lead and manage a cross-functional marketing initiative. This contract role will be responsible for organizing, tracking, and driving work from kickoff through completion, ensuring alignment across teams and the timely delivery of high-quality outputs.

The ideal candidate is highly organized, proactive, and comfortable managing complex projects in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

SPECIFIC RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead a cross-functional marketing project from kickoff through completion, partnering closely with creative leads and key stakeholders.
• Audit, organize, and manage updates to a wide range of marketing assets, including the website, sales materials, and social media templates.
• Collaborate with internal teams to define project scope, deliverables, timelines, and success criteria.
• Manage timelines, resources, and workflows.
• Track progress, identify risks, and proactively resolve issues to keep work on schedule.
• Maintain clear, consistent communication and alignment across all stakeholders.
• Work closely with Accela’s website team to ensure consistency across digital and marketing channels.
• Maintain project documentation, reporting, and status updates throughout the project lifecycle.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• 5+ years of project management experience, ideally within marketing, creative services, or related environments.
• Proven ability to manage complex projects with multiple stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong organizational, communication, and problem-solving skills.
• Experience working with creative teams and an understanding of marketing and brand workflows.
• Familiarity with project management tools such as Jira, Asana, Trello, or similar platforms.
• Ability to work independently, take initiative, and drive projects forward with minimal oversight

CONTRACT DETAILS

• Part-time, 4-month contract
• Flexible, remote-friendly work environment
• Opportunity to work on a high-visibility, cross-functional initiative

ABOUT ACCELA
For nearly 20 years, Accela has been an industry leader in designing and delivering government software to improve efficiency, increase citizen engagement and enable the development of thriving communities. Today, citizens are savvy to how services should be delivered, and expect a consistently convenient, openly transparent view into their local government. While government agencies struggle to do more with less, our mission has never been more critical. Accela provides a robust, cloud-based platform of government software solutions that accelerate growth, efficiency, and transparency in communities of all sizes. From planning, to building, to service request management and more, Accela’s SaaS offerings level the playing field for small and medium governments and enable smaller agencies to leverage larger city technologies. Our open and flexible technology helps agencies address specific needs today, while ensuring they are well prepared for the emerging challenges of the future.

OUR COMMITMENT TO DIVERSITY, EQUITY, AND INCLUSION
Accela believes in developing and nurturing a workplace community where our differences are celebrated, and everyone feels a sense of psychological safety and belonging. Accela is committed to putting resources and attention towards evolving our practices, policies, and philosophies to enable diversity to thrive and to support equity in opportunity for everyone.

Accela’s U.S. team members will receive a generous benefits package consisting of options including flexible time off, comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans, family planning benefits, 401(k) retirement savings plan with company match, health savings account with company contributions, flexible spending account, life, accident, and disability coverage, business travel insurance, employee assistance programs, and other well-being benefits.

Accela is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Affirmative Action Employer and will respond to requests for job accommodations.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, sex, color, religion, national origin, protected veteran status, or based on disability, gender identity, and sexual orientation.