Senior Strategic Communications Project Manager

Job Title: Sr. Strategic Communications Project Manager

Location: McLean, VA (On-Site)

Company: BLN
24

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24 is an award-winning Management Consulting Firm that supports the U.S. Federal Government in successfully achieving their mission and goals. Our service andsolutionsdelivery start with understanding each client’s end-state, and then seamlessly integrating within each Agency’s organization to improve and enhance strategic and technical operations and deployments.

Position Overview: The Senior Project Manager provides overall leadership and management for a complex portfolio of research communications, publications, and digital communications projects supporting transportation research and technology initiatives. Serving as the primary point of contact between the Contractor and Government stakeholders, this individual leads multidisciplinary teams, coordinates with Contracting Officers, Contracting Officer's Representatives, Task Managers, researchers, and other stakeholders, and ensures the successful delivery of high-quality communications products.

The Senior Project Manager is responsible for driving program performance, managing project execution, and ensuring deliverables are completed on schedule, within budget, and in accordance with contractual requirements while maintaining transparent project status reporting and exceptional customer service.

• Serve as the primary liaison with the Contracting Officer (CO), Contracting Officer's Representative (COR), Task Managers, and Government stakeholders.
• Lead the planning, execution, and delivery of all contract activities, ensuring compliance with contractual requirements, quality standards, schedules, budgets, and performance objectives.
• Manage multidisciplinary teams supporting technical writing, editorial services, publications, digital communications, multimedia production, strategic communications, stakeholder outreach, events, and communications analytics.
• Develop andmaintainintegrated project schedules, staffing plans, workload forecasts, risk registers, and performance metrics across multiple concurrent projects.
• Manage a portfolio of concurrent tasks and projects within a fast-paced research communications and publishing environment, balancing priorities, resources, schedules, and customer expectations across multiple work streams.
• Oversee resource allocation and prioritize work to support high-volume production of technical reports, research publications, digital communications, and outreach materials.
• Monitor contract performance,identify and mitigate risks, resolve issues, and implement corrective actions tomaintainproject performance.
• Ensure assigned staff consistently update the submission and project trackingsystemso customers have timely,accurate visibility into project status, milestones, review cycles, and deliverables.
• Coordinate technical reviews, editorial workflows, approvals, and stakeholder engagement throughout the communications and publication lifecycle.
• Supervise the development and production of technical reports, research publications, presentations, websites, multimedia products, videos, graphics, social media content, and other communications materials.
• Lead continuous process improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency, collaboration, quality, and customer satisfaction.
• Prepare executive status reports, performance metrics, dashboards, and briefings for Government leadership.

• Master’s degree in Business, Marketing, Communications, Project Management, or a related technical discipline; or a bachelor’s degree in one of these fields withadditionalrelevant professional experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing complex communications, publishing, marketing, technical communications, or research dissemination programs.
• Demonstrated experience supervising technical information products from concept through final delivery, ranging from one-page flyers and outreach materials to technical reports exceeding 300 pages, as well as presentations, videos, online tours, social media content, and other communications collateral.
• Proven experience managing the development and publication of technical information from concept through final production, including technical reports, engineering publications, brochures, presentations, videos, websites, digital communications, social media, and other communications products.
• Experience managing project schedules, budgets, staffing, quality assurance, performance metrics, and risk management across multiple work streams.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate effectively with executive leadership, technical subject matter experts, researchers, engineers, scientists, and Government stakeholders.
• Experience implementing project management methodologies, resource planning, and project tracking systems.
• Excellent leadership, organizational, written, verbal,…