Project Manager; Contracts

Base pay range

$/yr - $/yr

Veteran-Owned Firm Seeking a Project Manager (Contracts) for a Hybrid Assignment in Washington, DC

My name is Stephen Hrutka, and I lead a Veteran‑owned consulting firm in Washington, DC, focused on strategic sourcing, supply chain, and IT staffing.

The ideal candidate is a DMV resident with at least 16 years of project management experience in technical writing or documentation management, with demonstrated writing and editing skills.

HRUCKUS seeks a Project Manager to support the PMO by managing procurement templates, policies, and procedures. The District’s PASS Modernization Project is replacing its on‑premises procurement system with a cloud solution.

The district government’s PASS Modernization Project is replacing the existing on‑premises procurement management system with a new state‑of‑the‑art cloud solution. OCP seeks a Project Manager to support the Project Management Office (PMO) by overseeing the development and updating of procurement templates, policies, and procedures.

• Provide project planning activities, including developing, maintaining, and monitoring project schedules.
• Creating and maintaining project documents.
• Coordinating submissions of workstream weekly status reports.
• Developing PMO status reports and preparing status presentations using Microsoft PowerPoint.
• Reporting status to the PMO, project leadership, and organizational leadership.
• Organizing project artifacts in Microsoft Teams.
• Coordinate and contribute to the development and revision of procurement sourcing, contract, and related templates to reflect current policies, procedures, and legal requirements.
• Coordinate and contribute to the development and revision of procurement process and procedure documentation to ensure clarity and compliance with organizational and legislative policies.
• Collaborate with the PASS Modernization Project PMO, legal staff, OCP leadership, procurement staff, and other subject matter experts to gather information for template, policy, and procedure development.
• Facilitate workshops or meetings to obtain information needed for documentation or to determine documentation requirements.
• Ensure all documents meet legal requirements, regulatory standards, and adhere to OCP style guides and templates.
• Conduct ongoing reviews of existing documentation to identify areas for improvement.
• Produce high‑quality documentation that is clear, consistent, accurate, and meets procurement industry standards.
• Maintain all documents in designated Microsoft Teams folders, ensuring they are organized, up‑to‑date, and easily accessible by procurement staff.
• Develop simple, understandable step‑by‑step job aids to support the implementation of new or revised templates and documents.
• Translate the strategic vision for templates, policies, and procedures into actionable plans, including project plans, resource alignment, training, communications, transformation management, change management, system integration testing, user acceptance testing, go‑live preparations, and post‑go‑live support.
• Balance multiple priorities by coordinating workstream resources and monitoring activities to maintain PMO schedules, updating as necessary, and mitigating impacts to other work streams.
• Leverage prior experience on large projects or significant segments of complex projects to analyze complex delivery dates and create innovative Microsoft Project schedules or Agile Scrum Roadmap time‑box schedules.
• Align schedules with organizations, stakeholder groups, functional work streams, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components to deliver on time and within budget.
• Monitor progress to track milestones and report status.
• Oversee project scope and objectives, including managing RAID (Risks, Actions, Issues, and Decisions), change management, and communications processes.
• Organize and maintain all project artifacts in Microsoft Teams and SharePoint folders for team access.
• Participate in PMO, Steering Committee, and other project meetings, documenting discussions and decisions.
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