Senior Project Manager

Role Overview

• Establish the PMO Framework: Stand up, implement, and maintain a comprehensive, enterprise-level PMO structure tailored to support a high volume of concurrent projects.
• Develop Governance Tools: Define and formulate the operational framework, PMO charter, reporting workflows, decision logs, escalation paths, and resource tracking plans.
• Build and Maintain the Master Schedule: Develop and manage the master program schedule, deliverable calendar, action register, briefing cadence, and milestone tracker needed to monitor PMO progress, partner dependencies, regulatory timelines, and leadership decision points.
• Portfolio Oversight: Direct and monitor the health, timelines, dependencies, and sequencing of a diverse portfolio of projects spanning infrastructure, roads, bridges, trails, facilities, recreation, fuels, timber, hydrology, watersheds, wildlife, and other natural resource management areas.
• Risk & Issue Management: Establish formal issue-resolution paths, risk registers, change management processes, and escalation protocols to help keep the portfolio on schedule and support timely leadership decisions.
• Executive Dashboard Coordination: Establish and maintain a centralized PMO dashboard that provides executive visibility into project status, milestone health, key performance indicators, resource needs, risks, issues, and spatial representation of program activities.
• Serve as Primary Liaison: Act as a primary face of the contract to federal agency leadership, maintaining strong alignment between contractor deliverables, agency expectations, and evolving program priorities through regular in-person and digital engagement.
• Facilitate Interagency Partnerships: Coordinate and operationalize a common operating framework for multi-agency and partner-led initiatives involving federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders.

Requirements

• Must reside within commuting distance of the designated project office and possess the ability to attend in-person meetings one to two days per week, or more frequently as required.
• Extensive experience standing up a PMO from scratch, which include the creation of charters, governance structures, master schedules, portfolio tracking systems, reporting processes, risk registers, and executive dashboards for large-scale operations.
• Demonstrated ability to serve as a senior client-facing project or program manager in a complex government, public-sector, or multi-stakeholder environment.
• Proven track record of managing complex client relationships and facilitating coordination among diverse federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private partners.
• Strong foundational federal environmental compliance, specifically how planning timelines affect project execution, scheduling, decision-making, and implementation readiness.
• Clear understanding of public agency organizational structures, leadership dynamics, decision-making workflows, documentation needs, and meeting discipline.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to prepare leadership briefings, meeting summaries, status reports, action registers, and decision-support materials.
• Ability to track multiple concurrent projects, dependencies, timelines, deliverables, risks, and action items across a complex operating environment.