Senior Program Manager

Location: Remote, United States

Work Model: Fully Remote

Trissential is seeking an accomplished Senior Program Manager to join our client's team. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a complex, high-visibility program where strong financial management, resource planning, governance, and executive communication will be central to your success.

If you have significant senior-level program leadership experience and a background in corrections, criminal justice, or public safety
, this role offers the opportunity to lead across multiple teams, vendors, stakeholders, and interconnected work streams in a fully remote environment.

What's in It for You?

• High-Impact Leadership - Lead a large-scale, multimillion-dollar program with significant organizational visibility and multiple stakeholders.
• Strategic Ownership - Drive program financials, resource allocation, forecasting, governance, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Complex Program Environment - Coordinate multiple teams, vendors, resources, dependencies, and work streams while maintaining alignment with program objectives.
• Executive Visibility - Partner with senior stakeholders and provide clear, actionable reporting on program health, financial performance, risks, resources, and delivery.
• Fully Remote Opportunity - Work remotely from anywhere within the United States.

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of a large-scale, multimillion-dollar program.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans that align multiple projects, work streams, resources, vendors, milestones, and dependencies.
• Own program financial management, including budgets, actuals, forecasts, variance analysis, and multiyear financial planning.
• Direct resource management activities, including capacity planning, demand forecasting, allocation, and identification of resource constraints.
• Establish and maintain effective program governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and escalation paths.
• Prepare and present executive-level program status reporting covering delivery, financials, resources, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Identify, assess, communicate, and actively manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate internal teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders to maintain accountability and achieve program objectives.
• Oversee vendor performance and support successful delivery of COTS and/or third-party technology solutions where applicable.
• Build productive relationships with government, public-sector, technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Support knowledge transfer and transition activities with the existing Program Manager as needed.

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

To be successful in this role, you should bring:

• 10+ years of senior-level program and/or project management experience
  , including responsibility for complex initiatives.
• At least 2 years of professional experience specifically within corrections, criminal justice, or public safety. This is a required qualification.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, multimillion-dollar programs.
• Strong program financial management capabilities, including budgeting, actuals, forecasting, variance management, and multiyear financial planning.
• Proven resource management experience, including capacity planning and resource allocation across multiple teams and work streams.
• Experience managing multiple projects, vendors, teams, resources, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong executive-level communication and reporting capabilities.
• Demonstrated program governance, risk, issue, dependency, and escalation management experience.
• Ability to bring structure and direction…