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Xentity

Senior Project Manager

Roanoke, Virginia · Senior · Contract

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 31 days ago
Project ManagementStakeholder ManagementCadenceSensorsGISLeadershipCommunication

About the role

  • 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.

Responsibilities

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Develop, establish, and facilitate internal coordination meetings, external partner meetings, status briefings, and leadership updates needed to manage planned work.
  • Develop a systematic tracking mechanism to ensure project workflows account for critical regulatory, environmental planning, agreement, and partner-dependency timelines.
  • Support the coordination of project planning inputs across program areas, including natural resources, engineering, recreation, transportation, hydrology, fuels, timber, wildlife, botany, heritage, and other affected disciplines.
  • Work alongside a dedicated team of data management professionals to support accomplishment reporting.
  • 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.
  • Client Coordination, Partnership Support & Leadership Engagement
  • 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.

Requirements

  • Geographic Proximity & Availability: Must reside within commuting distance of the designated project office and possess the ability to attend in-person meetings one to two days per week, or more frequently as required.
  • Senior Client Management Experience: Demonstrated ability to serve as a senior client-facing project or program manager in a complex government, public-sector, or multi-stakeholder environment.
  • Portfolio and Schedule Discipline: Ability to track multiple concurrent projects, dependencies, timelines, deliverables, risks, and action items across a complex operating environment.

Nice to have

  • Ability to track multiple concurrent projects, dependencies, timelines, deliverables, risks, and action items across a complex operating environment.
  • Project Management Professional certification is preferred.
  • Professional background or strong familiarity with natural resources, resource management, and federal or state land management activities, ideally with a federal or state public lands agency.
  • General familiarity or comfort speaking the language of GIS professionals, data managers, LiDAR specialists, engineers, environmental planners, or resource specialists is a plus.
  • Familiarity with geospatial data, GIS concepts, field data collection, mobile data collection tools, and spatial reporting workflows is preferred.
  • Technical Context: General familiarity or comfort speaking the language of GIS professionals, data managers, LiDAR specialists, engineers, environmental planners, or resource specialists is a plus.

Skills

  • Highly Desired / Preferred Qualifications
  • PMP Certification: Project Management Professional certification is preferred.

Compensation

  • 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.
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