Strategic Program Manager, DOT Executive Coaching

Navanti Group; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Navanti Group is seeking an experienced Program Manager to support an anticipated USDOT executive coaching program for senior leaders across DOT’s Operating Administrations. The role focuses on program implementation, scheduling, staffing, quality control, and performance reporting with limited direct coaching.

Hybrid work in the Washington, DC metro area is expected; some in-person activities may be required.

Qualifications

• Minimum five years of experience working in the federal government.
• Experience in program, project, operations, human-capital, workforce-development, leadership-development, or organizational-development roles.
• Experience coordinating multiple stakeholders, schedules, resources, deliverables, and priorities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Experience preparing implementation plans, status reports, trackers, and management briefings.
• Ability to work with senior leaders and handle confidential information.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Teams, Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, and related collaboration tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary point of contact for the DOT CO/R, DOT Program Manager, coaches, subcontractors, and other stakeholders.
• Lead the program kickoff meeting and support development of the implementation approach.
• Coordinate coaching requests, participant intake, coach-client matching, scheduling, reassignment, and engagement tracking.
• Monitor coach availability, workload, capacity, and surge coverage across DOT’s 11 Operating Administrations.
• Maintain program schedules, staffing trackers, action-item logs, risk and issue logs, quality-control records, and other program documentation.
• Coordinate individual coaching, team coaching, leadership assessments, and participant-development activities.
• Monitor engagement status, coaching hours, completion, and contractual performance while protecting confidential information.
• Prepare program status reports, implementation materials, meeting documentation, performance summaries, and executive briefings.
• Identify scheduling, staffing, service-quality, confidentiality, or performance concerns and coordinate corrective action.
• Maintain timely communication with DOT and Navanti leadership.
• Support coach onboarding, staffing continuity, succession planning, and surge-capacity management.
• Ensure activities comply with contract requirements, privacy requirements, and coaching standards.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder coordination

Communication

Documentation

Scheduling

Tools

Microsoft Teams

Outlook

Word

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Job description

Navanti Group is seeking an experienced Program Manager to support an anticipated USDOT executive coaching program for senior leaders across DOT’s Operating Administrations. The role focuses on program implementation, scheduling, staffing, quality control, and performance reporting with limited direct coaching.

Hybrid work in the Washington, DC metro area is expected; some in-person activities may be required.