Project Task Manager

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Qinetiq US is looking for a Project Task Manager. This is an opportunity to lead and influence IT modernization at the Federal Highway Administration's (FHWA) Office of Information Technology Services (OITS). As a Project Task Manager, you will plan, coordinate, and report on IT projects across FHWA's application development, operations and maintenance (O&M), and development, modernization, and enhancement (DME) portfolio.

You will support FHWA's IT governance structures, seeking to strengthen program management practices through standardized processes, SOPs, and executive reporting. Agile experience is highly valued.

• Plan, coordinate, and monitor assigned IT projects across the software development life cycle (SDLC), including O&M and DME efforts. Manage scope, schedule, cost, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Develop and maintain integrated project schedules, risk and issue logs, action item trackers, and decision logs.
• Prepare executive-ready status reports, quad charts, dashboards, and briefings for FHWA IT leadership.
• Support development of Program/Project Management Plans covering scope, schedule, financial, quality, resource, communications, risk, and change management.
• Develop, update, and maintain SOPs, SDLC documentation, templates, and other governance artifacts. Coordinate stakeholder review and signature routing.
• Plan and facilitate status meetings, working sessions, governance reviews, and Agile ceremonies (sprint planning, backlog grooming, daily scrums). Capture minutes, decisions, and action items and drive them to closure.
• Coordinate user acceptance testing (UAT), cutover, knowledge transfer, and transition activities for system migrations and platform changes.
• Maintain project inventories and support project intake, prioritization, and portfolio-level reporting.
• Prepare materials and analysis for the Technology Review Board, Investment Review Board, and Architecture Review Board.
• Evaluate, recommend, and support implementation of program and project management tools for resource, cost, risk, and work tracking.
• Monitor performance, analyze trends and issues, and advise on corrective actions to keep cost, schedule, and scope within allotted funding. Conduct performance assessments and…