Project Manager, Project Orion, GISI Consulting Group

Palladium; Arlington, Northern (VA, KY); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 98,000; Full time

Job summary

Palladium in Arlington, VA, is seeking a Project Manager for Project Orion within GISI Consulting Group on a corporate fixed-term 12-month program.

The role provides management support to the project’s activities, monitors implementation, and ensures timely completion. The PM reports to the SVP, IT Operations and collaborates with workstream leaders and stakeholders. This position is hybrid, requiring occasional in-office attendance within commuting distance of Arlington.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor compliance with Project Orion’s consolidated workplan, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery gates
• Ensure alignment between activities of the active workstreams
• Coordinate activities between project leadership and workstreams,facilitating meetings, planning sessions, workshops, and execution reviews
• Maintain decision logs, action logs, and approval records
• Resolve scheduling conflicts and resource constraints between workstreams
• Support decision gate activities, ensuring operational, technical, communications, and change management requirements are met
• Maintain the project’s risk register and track mitigation actions
• Monitor readiness gaps that could impact timeline, costs, or operational continuity
• Track resource utilization across workstreams and budget compliance
• Provide weekly and monthly status reports and any other as needed
• Report milestone progress, resourcing status, risks, decisions, and budget impacts
• Support executive reviews and governance meetings with fact-based reporting
• Sign

Job description

Project Manager, Project Orion, GISI Consulting Group

ProjectManager, Project Orion, GISI Consulting Group

About GISIConsulting Group and Palladium

GISI ConsultingGroup (GISI CG) is a top 10 global provider of program and project managementand engineering consulting services delivering outcomes and solutions for someof the most complex challenges. Wedeliver services ininfrastructure & mobility, earth& water, and government & societysegments across more than 100countries. With over 5,000 projectsannually and a global team of over 11,000 professionals, our advisory,consulting, design and program management capabilities enable us to create a saferand more sustainable world. Learn more about GISI CG at https://gisiconsulting.com/.

Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positiveimpact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden accessto health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, andtransformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges;and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have aworkforce of 2,100 talented, motivated, and diverse staff around the world. Thisrole will be hired through Palladium, an operational platform for GISI CG.

This Opportunity

Project Orion is GISI Consulting Group’sstrategic technology transformation program focused on creating a single,standardized IT operating environment across its operating companies throughgovernance alignment, technology standardization, service consolidation, cybersecurityintegration, and migration to a centralized Microsoft 365 tenant. Theinitiative is designed to improve business and IT alignment, simplifytechnology operations, establish common architectures and service models, andenable a future global IT-as-a-Service organization.

GISI CG is seeking a Project Manager, ProjectOrion to support their efforts to standardize, simplify and unify itsoperating company’s IT infrastructure into a single, centralized environment. Therole will provide management support to the project’s activities, including allactive workstreams. The PM will monitor and control the project’simplementation, ensuring the activities are completed on time.

Please note this is a corporate fixed-term 12-monthrole with the potential for extension.

Location

The position is based in GISI's Arlington, VA office. Candidates must have current work authorization inthe US as we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time. This is a hybrid position, with most work undertaken remotely. Thesuccessful candidate will be expected to attend the office from time to time,including on short notice, so applicants must live within commuting distance ofthe office.

Compensation

The full-timeannual base salary for this position is expected to range from $90,000 to $98,000.Please be advised that a final salary offer will be based on various factors,including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience,skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium’s business or organizationalneeds.

Reporting Lines

• The Project Manager reports to the SVP, IT Operations
• This role will work closely with workstream leaders, key project stakeholders, and is part of GISI CG’s Project Orion’s implementation team

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Maintain andmonitor compliance with Project Orion’s consolidated workplan, trackingmilestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery gates
• Ensure alignmentbetween activities of the active workstreams
• Coordinateactivities between the project’s leadership and the different workstreams,facilitating the logistics for meetings, planning sessions, workshops, andexecution reviews
• Maintain decisionlogs, action logs, and approval records
• Resolve schedulingconflicts and resource constraints between workstreams
• Support decisiongate activities, ensuring all operational, technical, communications, andchange management requirements have been met
• Maintain theproject’s risk register, including tracking mitigation actions andresolution plans
• Monitor readinessgaps that could impact timeline, costs, or operational continuity
• Track resourceutilization across workstreams and budget compliance
• Provide weekly andmonthly status reports and any other as needed
• Report milestoneprogress, resourcing status, risks, decisions, and budget impacts
• Support executivereviews and governance meetings with fact-based reporting
• Sign