Principal Program Manager - U.S. Department of Transportation

Winston Center; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

The Rehancement Group, Inc. is seeking a Principal / Program Manager to lead U.S. DOT FTA PSR support.

The role manages contract personnel and performance across program management, procurement compliance, training, and technical assistance. Location is Hybrid with duties across regional and headquarters activities. Key responsibilities include leading the contractor team, managing work plans and budgets, submitting reports and invoices, and coordinating with FTA for reviews and trainings.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited institution.
• Minimum 10 years of professional executive leadership in the public transit industry.
• Proven ability to lead large, complex programs on time and within budget.
• Strong written and oral communication with senior executives.
• Experience supervising consulting teams on transit-related projects.

Responsibilities

• Lead contractor team, delegate work, manage staffing, and liaise with FTA.
• Develop work plans, budgets, priorities, risks, timelines, and approvals.
• Submit invoices, performance reports, and issue logs; ensure deliverables.
• Attend coordination calls, meetings, and briefings; prepare materials.
• Oversee PSR reviews, findings, corrective actions, and reports.
• Direct special assignments and technical assistance for FTA and recipients.
• Guide PSR manuals and training content; coordinate with regional HQ offices.
• Oversee regional training workshops and webinars; present as needed.

Skills

Executive leadership

Program management

Communication

Budget management

Public transit knowledge

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Position Overview The Rehancement Group, Inc.

Position Overview The Rehancement Group, Inc. (TRG) is seeking a Principal / Program Manager to lead anticipated U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Procurement System Review (PSR) support.

This position manages contract personnel and performance across program management, recipient procurement compliance, special assignments, technical assistance, and recipient training.

Location: Hybrid; recipient, regional, and headquarters activities as assigned.

Travel: As needed for FTA meetings, oversight activities, conferences, summits, and workshops. Opportunity: Anticipated contract support for FTA PSR BPA; employment contingent on contract award and assignment.

Key Personnel: Yes

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the contractor team, delegate assignments, coordinate staffing and schedules, control quality, and resolve performance or personnel issues; serve as primary liaison to FTA.
• Prepare and manage work plans, assignment budgets, priorities, risks, timelines, and costs; ensure required approvals precede task execution and changes to authorized scope or not-to-exceed budgets.
• Submit monthly invoices, performance reports and issue logs; coordinate action-item closure, records, technical memoranda, and timely, accurate deliverables.
• Attend FTA and regional coordination calls, annual review-cycle kickoff meetings, biweekly check-ins, oversight conferences, and contractor summits; prepare requested briefing materials and summaries.
• Oversee risk-based procurement system reviews, including recipient information requests, pre-scoping research, desk and site reviews, findings, draft/final reports, corrective actions, and review closeout.
• Direct special assignments, corrective-action support, and targeted technical assistance for FTA and recipients, including approved plans, budgets, analyses, and required technical memoranda.
• Guide development of PSR manuals, program materials, oversight analyses and policy-related content; coordinate with FTA regional and headquarters offices and maintain consistent review methods.
• Oversee recipient oversight workshops, regional training, webinars, and accessible training modules; develop FTA-aligned content and present at workshops when assigned.

Availability Requirement

• Be available and ready to perform upon award and issuance of the first task order; provide proposed annual work-hour availability for the Phase II staffing plan.
• Participate in required meetings and assigned on-site or virtual oversight and training activities; schedules and locations depend on FTA assignments.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited institution of higher learning is required.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in executive leadership in the public transit industry is required; leading a consulting team on public transit-related projects qualifies.
• Demonstrated successful leadership and management of complex programs of increasing size and difficulty.
• Demonstrated success communicating orally and in writing with senior executives about challenging public transit management, operational, and technical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and within budget.

Preferred Qualifications

• No additional preferred qualifications are specified by FTA.

If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dawn Newton, HR and Talent Acquisition Manager at [e-mail].

• The Rehancement Group, Inc. provides competitive salaries commensurate with education and experience with full options for advancement and a robust benefits program.

Salary: $130000 - $160000 per year