Senior Project Manager

Senior Project Manager Integrated Communications Agency

Fenton is the social change agency taking on the world’s toughest challenges in human rights, social and economic justice, environment, education, and public health. Primed with deep issue expertise and powered by the creativity and passion of 80 professionals working across the country, we create strategies for clients to help build a more just, equitable, and sustainable world. A fast-growing and award-winning agency, #1 PR Firm for Nonprofits - O’Dwyer’s, 2026 - we lead the industry in diverse representation as 61% of our entire staff and 69% of our leadership team are people of color.

We are women-led, as 74% of our staff are women.

With a culture steeped in social change and activism, we offer a collaborative work environment, excellent benefits, and a strong sense of purpose and community across the agency. We are also a remote-forward agency, where employees have the flexibility to work from their homes or meet with teams in co-working spaces. The majority of our employees reside within 35 miles of New York City, Washington, DC, Los Angeles, and the SF/Bay Area to facilitate in-person work opportunities, team-building events, and retreats.

We are a fully- integrated communications agency, with expertise in public relations, digital communications, advertising, creative services, and a centralized project management department to ensure that processes are standardized to bring efficiency to the organization at scale.

We are currently seeking a Senior Project Manager to oversee the planning, execution, and delivery of work on a variety of accounts whose missions are to promote progressive social change.

• Serve as the lead project operational counsel on a select number of complex projects, building staff plans and budgets for proposals, developing audits, and resetting plans.
• Support the Account Lead and senior leadership team to define project scope, goals, and deliverables that support business objectives
• Establish effective and appropriate project governance for a project: work across practices and with the operations team to staff projects and set up the project infrastructure (e.g., Kantata, team calls, Slack, email alias)
• Help lead project hours needed from staff assigned to accounts via staff plans and charts, working with other senior staff to distribute billable hours among junior staff as necessary, and with Operations to account for this time in Kantata
• Identify project targets against scopes, build detailed work plans in Kantata aligned with targets, and assign dates and deadlines to staff.
• Provide weekly, monthly, and quarterly oversight of multiple large accounts, including strategic counsel, quality control checks, and evaluation of account progress and client satisfaction in support of Account Leads
• Support the ads team with project management of complex buying campaigns, across multiple media channels, relationship with vendors, and collecting invoices for the finance team.
• Manage day-to-day deliverable traffic via PM tools, assigning, reassigning, and following up with staff as needed to ensure teams meet deadlines
• Conduct project reporting and track issues and risks for the Account Lead, implementing corrective actions and decisions by the Account Lead to improve project profitability, product quality, staffing/performance, capacity/labor, and client satisfaction.
• Support the Account Lead’s project renewal and growth efforts by providing KPI reporting
• Work closely to train and oversee a dedicated Project Manager or other account staff in the PM role while providing account management counsel to the AVP/VP on the project.

• Minimum of 5+ years of prior…