Senior Project Manager w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

Senior Project Manager w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager to manage daily operations, deliverable execution, stakeholder coordination, quality control, and reporting cadence for a federal mission-support engagement. If you'd enjoy serving as the team's operational lead, ensuring day-to-day activities remain aligned with client priorities, reporting needs, quality expectations, and delivery timelines, this role is for you! In this role you will:

• Manage the daily and weekly operating rhythm for the delivery team.
• Maintain the deliverable tracker, action tracker, decision log, risk tracker, meeting cadence, reporting calendar, and client review schedule.
• Convert client priorities and leadership direction into executable tasks, owners, due dates, dependencies, and deliverable milestones.
• Coordinate with team members to collect, validate, organize, and package inputs for client-facing deliverables.
• Run deliverable quality reviews before submission, including checks for accuracy, traceability, completeness, formatting, readability, and executive readiness.
• Track client comments, maintain comment disposition, coordinate revisions, and ensure deliverables move through review to acceptance.
• Support transition-in and transition-out planning, artifact inventory, repository setup, knowledge-transfer activities, and continuity planning.
• Prepare meeting materials, minutes, status updates, executive-ready summaries, management reports, and follow-up actions.
• Coordinate with schedule, dashboard, risk, resource, and reporting analysts to keep all products aligned and current.
• Ensure recurring reports, dashboards, action trackers, and decision logs reflect the latest approved information.
• Identify delivery risks, quality issues, resource constraints, and schedule impacts early, and recommend corrective actions to the Program Manager.
• Maintain repository discipline, naming conventions, version control, and artifact traceability for submitted and working products.
• Support performance reporting and quality-management activities, including preparation for client reviews, corrective actions, and deliverable resubmissions.
• Help enforce non-personal services boundaries by ensuring recommendations and analysis are clearly distinguished from client decisions.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
• 7+ years of federal project management, PMO, delivery management, or operations coordination experience.
• PMP, SAFe Agilist, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent program/agile experience or certification preferred.
• Experience managing CDRLs, status reporting, action logs, decision logs, quality reviews, and comment resolution.
• Experience supporting transition, knowledge transfer, artifact inventories, repository setup, and continuity planning.
• Strong writing, organization, facilitation, stakeholder-management, and follow-up skills.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate across technical, analytical, reporting, and management functions.
• Ability to manage competing priorities, short suspense timelines, and multiple deliverables without losing quality discipline.
• Experience preparing executive summaries, meeting minutes, status reports, governance materials, and leadership-facing deliverables.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar project and collaboration tools.

Security Clearance:

• Active Secret clearance or higher required.

Location:

• Remote (DC Metro Area)

Salary Range:

• The salary range of this position is $145,000 - $170,000 commensurate with experience and achievement.

Benefit Information:A3 Consulting offers a robust benefits package to include but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, group life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, paid time off, 401k match, paid parental leave, professional development.

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