Senior Federal Program Manager - Remote

H2 Performance Consulting; Washington (District of Columbia); Remote; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Vision/dental insurance

Paid time off

Holiday pay

401K

Job summary

H2 Performance Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex Federal projects and transformation initiatives for a U.S. government client. This fully remote role requires U.S.

citizenship and an active Public Trust clearance. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, and risk across multiple workstreams and teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Responsibilities include aligning requirements with agency missions, developing integrated project plans, and coordinating government and

Qualifications

• 10+ years of progressively responsible project, program, operations, or management-consulting experience.
• 10+ years supporting Federal civilian, defense, intelligence, military, or comparable public-sector organizations.
• 10+ years leading complex projects, major workstreams, multidisciplinary teams, or transformation initiatives.
• Demonstrated experience managing scope, schedule, cost, risk, quality, staffing, stakeholders, and contract deliverables.
• Demonstrated ability to advise senior Government leaders and convert complex information into decisions and executable actions.
• Documented results improving mission effectiveness, timeliness, quality, cost, compliance, customer experience, or workforce performance.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Public Trust clearance required at the time of application.

Responsibilities

• Plan and lead complex projects or programs involving multiple workstreams, offices, bureaus, commands, contractors, or stakeholder organizations.
• Establish the project management approach, integrated schedule, work breakdown structure, governance cadence, performance baseline, quality controls, and reporting processes.
• Manage scope, schedule, cost, staffing, dependencies, risks, issues, assumptions, decisions, changes, deliverables, acceptance, and closeout.
• Translate contract, statutory, policy, program, technical, and stakeholder requirements into executable plans, milestones, backlogs, and assignments.
• Lead multidisciplinary Government and contractor teams and coordinate the work of functional, technical, data, cybersecurity, acquisition, financial, and operational specialists.
• Facilitate program reviews, integrated project teams, governance forums, risk reviews, sprint reviews, and executive decision sessions.
• Develop forecasts, corrective action plans, alternatives, decision papers, executive briefings, and Government-ready status reports.
• Maintain requirements and deliverable traceability and ensure work products are accurate, timely, defensible, and contractually compliant.
• Support implementation, organizational change, communications, training, transition, adoption, benefits realization, and sustainment planning.
• Align project objectives, outcomes, and acceptance criteria with agency mission, policy, acquisition strategy, funding, and operational priorities.
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, schedules, resource forecasts, risk and issue registers, action logs, decision logs, and performance dashboards.
• Monitor progress using tools like GitHub or Jira with appropriate predictive, adaptive, Agile, or hybrid delivery methods and recommend timely management action when performance varies from the baseline.
• Coordinate dependencies among policy, business processes, workforce, data, technology, security, privacy, accessibility, procurement, and deployment activities.
• Manage communications with Government leads, contracting personnel, executives, end users, vendors, and partner organizations.
• Protect procurement-sensitive, proprietary, personally identifiable, controlled, unclassified, and other sensitive information in accordance with applicable requirements.
• Promote practical continuous improvement while maintaining accountability for scope, decisions, approvals, and outcomes.

Skills

Leadership

Stakeholder management

Agile / hybrid delivery

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in related field

Master's degree preferred

Tools

GitHub

Jira

Job description

H2 Performance Consulting is seeking a Senior Project Manager to lead complex Federal projects and transformation initiatives for a U.S. government client. This fully remote role requires U.S.

citizenship and an active Public Trust clearance. You will manage scope, schedule, cost, and risk across multiple workstreams and teams to deliver measurable outcomes. Responsibilities include aligning requirements with agency missions, developing integrated project plans, and coordinating government and