Senior Program Manager - Public Transit Compliance (Hybrid)

The Rehancement Group, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

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 role oversees contract personnel and performance across program management, recipient procurement compliance, special assignments, technical assistance, and recipient training. Location is hybrid, with activities at recipient sites, regional offices, and headquarters as assigned.

Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited institution of higher learning.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in executive leadership in the public transit industry.
• 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.

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.

Skills

Executive leadership

Public transit

Communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

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 role oversees contract personnel and performance across program management, recipient procurement compliance, special assignments, technical assistance, and recipient training. Location is hybrid, with activities at recipient sites, regional offices, and headquarters as assigned.