Senior Project Manger

Level:             Senior

Location:       McLean, VA / Washington, DC (onsite and offsite support as authorized by the customer).

Clearance:     No Clearance Required. However the agency will conduct a National Agency Check and Inquiries (with fingerprinting), which consists of searches of records covering specific areas of a person's background during the past five (5) years. Those inquiries are sent to current and past employers, schools attended, references, and local law enforcement authorities.

Education:    Master’s Degree or Bachelor’s Degree

Outcomes:

The successful candidate is expected to accomplish the following outcomes in the first year on the position:

·        Deliver accurate, high-quality, accessible, and timely products and services that meet FHWA requirements and support positive Government performance feedback.

·        Identify and resolve quality, coordination, schedule, or technical issues early enough to prevent customer or mission impact.

Responsibilities:

The Senior Project Manager provides overall management of complex, high-visibility projects, a portfolio of tasks, and projects in a busy research communications and publishing office. Specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

·        Conduct strategic planning, allocate resources, and coordinate with Government Contracting Officers (COs), Technical Representatives (CORs), Task Managers, and Researchers.

·        Ensure all deliverables are met on schedule and within budget while managing risk and performance metrics.

·        Provide end‑to‑end project oversight and tracking for all publications, marketing, and other related tasks.

·        Handle planning, scheduling, and milestone tracking.

·        Provide administrative support and regular status updates to ensure timely delivery of all work.

·        Monitor and document production details across all product phases; due dates; production schedules; and milestones.

·        Proactively follow up with RD&T research staff to keep tasks on track to meet deadlines.

·        Record and maintain all progress and status information in the RD&T product submission and tracking system.

·        Ensure that staff (18 personnel) are updating the submission and project tracking system to enable customers to see the status of their projects.

·        Lead multidisciplinary teams producing technical reports, publications, presentations, videos, social media, web content, online tours, and other communications products.

·        Proactively resolve staffing, schedule, quality, and performance risks.

·        Conduct recurring task-order and project status meetings and provide accurate meeting notes, status summaries, and management reporting.

·        Maintain continuous workforce coverage and coordinate qualified backup support when required to protect uninterrupted performance.

Qualifications:

·        Relevant experience in Business, Marketing/Communications, or a related technical discipline.

·        10+ years of relevant professional experience, including leadership of multidisciplinary teams, managing marketing and communications; and supervising the publication of technical information from concept to final product from one-page flyers to 300+ page technical reports; presentations; videos; online tours; social media; and other communications collateral.

·        Transportation experience, especially in highway and surface transportation is preferred.

·        Experience managing multiple high-visibility projects, schedules, resources, risks, quality, and performance metrics.

·        Experience with quality-control plans, Section 508 workflows, and Federal publication standards.

·        Strong written and oral communication skills and experience coordinating with senior Government stakeholders.

·        Ability to work in a fast-paced research communications environment and maintain accurate project tracking and status visibility.

The following qualifications are desired:

·        Transportation experience, especially highway or surface transportation research.

·        Federal communications, publishing, or research-program management experience.

Travel: Continental U.S. (CONUS) travel may be required to attend customer meetings, program reviews, stakeholder engagements, training events, conferences, production activities, or mission-related activities as directed.