Senior Project Manager Job Reston area,Virginia USA,Management

Role Overview

Seeking a highly skilled Senior Project or Program Manager to initiate and oversee a Program Management Organization (PMO) for a customer in western Virginia.

This role focuses on high-level PMO setup, client coordination, master scheduling, governance, and involvement with multi stakeholders for a complex portfolio which involves projects for infrastructure and natural resources. The position requires professional project management for land stewardship. Experience in natural resources and resource management is required.

This position will work closely with diverse client stakeholders and partner organizations. This role will establish the structure, cadence, tools, and reporting tools necessary to coordinate activities and work across multiple resource areas for field work and assist with leading partner efforts based on regulatory and planning timelines.

Position Type

Contract position with a base period with potential for extension.

Location & On-Site Requirement

Local presence within commuting distance of the designated project office is required.

On-site availability is a mandatory requirement for this position. This is a hybrid role that requires a consistent physical presence. The selected candidate must be located within commuting distance and able to work and attend meetings in person at the designated project office one to two times per week, or more frequently as required by project needs. Remote-only arrangements for this position are not available.

Core

Responsibilities

PMO Setup, Governance & Portfolio Management

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.

Client Coordination, Partnership Support & Leadership Engagement

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.
Support Senior Leadership Engagement:
Plan, facilitate, and document strategic meetings and briefings for agency leadership and external partners, including clear action items, decisions, risks, next steps, and meeting minutes within required time frames.
Coordinate Annual and Outyear Planning:
Coordinate inputs for annual operating plans and multi-year plans of work with agency leadership, partner organizations, and supporting technical teams to maintain visibility into current-year and outyear priorities.
Maintain Meeting and Reporting Cadence:
Develop, establish, and facilitate internal coordination meetings, external partner meetings, status briefings, and leadership updates needed to manage planned work.
Support Agreement and Funding Visibility:
Track and coordinate information related to contracts, agreements, funding mechanisms, partner commitments, invoicing support, and other financial or administrative instruments without performing inherently governmental functions.

Compliance Tracking, Regulatory Integration & Planning Coordination

Milestone & Regulatory Tracking:
Develop a systematic tracking mechanism to ensure project workflows account for critical regulatory, environmental planning, agreement, and partner-dependency timelines.
Land Management Planning Familiarity:
Track relevant land management plan standards, planning requirements, and resource review dependencies that may affect project sequencing, prioritization, and implementation readiness.
Planning Coordination:
Support the…