Project Manager (Federal)

Job Title: Project Manager (Federal)
Location: Remote but ideally in DMV area or within distance to DC for occasional meetings in DC. 

Position Overview

Looking for a highly qualified, seasoned Federal Project Manager to serve as the Key Personnel lead for an advisory and assistance services (A&AS) contract. The Project Manager will be responsible for managing a virtual workforce, tracking strategic milestones, facilitating executive agendas, and overseeing the seamless optimization of national correspondence workflows and electronic tracking systems (ICCT, ECMM, CoRe).

Key Responsibilities

• Contract & Milestone Management: Direct the full execution of the Project Management Plan (PMP), manage a rolling Work Breakdown Structure (WBS), track critical scheduling milestones, and author Monthly Progress Reports and Annual Summary Reports.
• Workflow Optimization: Oversee advisory and operational support teams maintaining the secure, priority flow of controlled federal correspondence.
• Strategic Advisory Services: Facilitate executive-level leadership meetings, manage strategic program agendas, build internal briefing materials, and support program staff in drafting critical Business Case documents, including Analyses of Alternatives.
• Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs): Lead the technical writing and data quality verification for formal agency SOPs encompassing FOIA/Privacy Act, FACA, Records Management, Forms and Reports, and Information Collections. Review performance measures, identify gaps, and design process improvements
• Quality & Compliance Control: Develop and implement an aggressive Quality Control Plan (QCP) ensuring 100% adherence to manual and automated Section 508 accessibility compliance gates. Draft step-by-step workflows and USFS standard policy guides
• Workforce Accountability: Maintain internal control structures to verify remote worker location security, monitor telework continuous oversight parameters, and manage rapid workforce mitigation/substitution risks.

Minimum Qualifications

• Experience: Minimum of 10 years of experience providing business and project management services directly to Federal organizations.
• System Tracking Background: Minimum of 2 years of direct experience with Federal correspondence management tracking systems.
• Subject Matter Expertise (SME): Demonstrated subject matter expertise in Federal Records Management mandates, including specific operational processing rules for the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) and Federal Advisory Committee Act (FACA).
• Technical Compliance: Expert knowledge of federal Section 508 Regulations and corresponding electronic document accessibility remediation protocols.
• Technical Writing: Proven proficiency in federal technical writing, documentation mapping, and template-building standard operating criteria.

Desired Skills & Qualifications

• Experience performing tasks for Natural Resource Preservation organizations or within a USDA component agency.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted

Benefits:

Paid sick leave, Medical/Dental (optional), 401 (k) Retirement Plan (optional), Employer Paid Life Insurance, Employer Paid Short Term Disability, Optional Life Insurance.

ELYON International, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.