Associate Project Manager or Project Manager

• Posting Date:
  September 28, 2026

First review of applications:
October 12, 2026

Final date to receive applications:
October 26, 2026 or when 150 applications are received, whichever occurs first

SFEI’s Environmental Informatics & Clean Water Programs are looking to add 1-2 motivated Project Managers to help focus and facilitate the success of our technical teams as we tackle multi-million dollar science and technology projects with regional and national impacts.

The position requires strong collaboration and task management skills. Work will include facilitating a diverse, intellectually stimulating, and impactful set of tasks, with local and national partners, budget management, contract management, project and financial reporting, and coordinating and organizing a diverse team of scientists.

A background or training in science or technology (e.g., bachelor's level) is needed to help track project tasks, strategize during budgeting and timeline development, and draft contract scopes. The ideal candidate possesses strong communication and organizational skills, proactive planning skills, ability to multitask, ability to track and see tasks through to completion, and ability to communicate with different staff and partners/funders on progress and potential issues.

This is a great opportunity for someone who has strong skills to join a larger project management team to help diverse and innovative technical teams accomplish project goals aimed toward making positive environmental change.

• Primary position responsibilities will include:
• Support the development and management of budgets, work plans, and progress reports with the goal of delivering projects on time and on budget
• Coordinate and attend internal team meetings to track project tasks, deadlines, and deliverables
• In coordination with contract staff, develop contracts with external partners and laboratories
• Organize project documentation in shared systems and maintain consistent PM workflows.
• Utilize our primary accounting and labor planning software (Deltek), including developing queries, developing and tracking budgets, and updating labor resource planning to provide information to manage and organize projects
• Use project management tools, including Microsoft Excel and Google Sheets to analyze and summarize budgets, deliverables, and other project items (e.g., pivot tables and graphics)
• Manage a portfolio of projects, simultaneously, and organize project documentation in shared systems to maintain consistent workflows
• Help coordinate review cycles for reports, memos, figures, presentations, and other deliverables.
• Support technical leads on proposal and project logistics, administrative requirements, formatting, review cycles, and possibly content development
• Assist with project start-up and wrap-up, and scheduling meetings at important junctions to keep the team on track

If you are excited about this role, but your past experience doesn’t align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to still apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our other roles.

We seek highly organized and technically-strong candidates with expertise in project management.

Minimum requirements:

Bachelor’s degree in Environmental Science, Ecology, Technology, or other relevant field plus at least 4 years of project management experience or Master’s degree plus at least 2 years of project management experience.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to manage and prioritize a variety of detail-oriented tasks successfully
• Must be a self-starter and able to proactively anticipate next steps
• Strong…