Senior Federal Communications & Events Lead

ICF; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 98,000 - 167,000; Full time

Job summary

ICF’s Digital Modernization Division seeks a Senior Communications/Events Project Manager to coordinate support for multiple communication campaigns and client events with on-site work in Vienna, VA and Washington, DC.

This role partners with customer POCs and FinCEN stakeholders to deliver high-quality events and campaigns, while guiding cross-functional teams through planning, requirements, and execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years of management experience.
• 5+ years of experience with communication campaigns and event coordination projects.
• 5+ years of experience supporting federal clients on projects.
• 3+ years of experience in leading multiple teams.
• Bachelor's degree in technology related field or business.
• Experience with project management tools (e.g., Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, SharePoint).
• US Citizenship is required (required by the federal government for this position).
• Must be able to obtain Secret clearance.
• Ability to report to Federal office in regular weekly frequency in Vienna, Virginia and Washington DC per client request.

Responsibilities

• Lead project manager for activities supporting event delivery for communication and event projects, coordinating concurrent activities across planning, requirements, event scheduling, communication campaigns, event coordination and facilitation support.
• Direct project planning and execution activities, maintaining alignment on scope, priorities, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, deliverables, action items, and stakeholder expectations.
• Serve as a key point of contact between government stakeholders and project and subcontract team, ensuring that stakeholder needs, project priorities, delivery considerations, and outcomes are clearly communicated and addressed.
• Lead stakeholder meetings, including requirements discussions, planning sessions, feedback reviews, issue resolution, regular contract reporting and operational touchpoints.
• Independently elicit, clarify, analyze, document, and validate business and end-user requirements, translating identified needs into actionable functional requirements, technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution recommendations.
• Facilitate collaboration and decision-making among business stakeholders, end users, developers, testers, architects, and other project participants to establish priorities, evaluate solution approaches, resolve questions, and drive work forward.
• Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot functional and technical issues, coordinating across the appropriate resources to determine root causes, evaluate impacts, implement resolutions, and validate outcomes.
• Design, build, and maintain program dashboards, reports, metrics, and analytics that provide operational visibility, respond to stakeholder information needs, and inform project and business discussions.
• Coordinate project activities, deliverables, decisions, and follow-up across cross-functional teams, proactively identifying dependencies, downstream impacts, delivery concerns, and unresolved actions requiring attention.
• Provide senior-level project leadership while remaining directly engaged in communication material development, event planning, quality assurance, reporting, and end-user solution delivery.
• Periodic travel required to support events on-site in domestic locations and up to 1 international event per year.

Skills

Management experience

Campaign & events

Federal clients

Team leadership

Bachelor's degree

PM tools (Jira/Confluence/MS Project/​

US Citizenship

Secret clearance

On-site reporting

Education

Bachelor's degree in technology or business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

SharePoint

Job description

ICF’s Digital Modernization Division seeks a Senior Communications/Events Project Manager to coordinate support for multiple communication campaigns and client events with on-site work in Vienna, VA and Washington, DC.

This role partners with customer POCs and FinCEN stakeholders to deliver high-quality events and campaigns, while guiding cross-functional teams through planning, requirements, and execution.