Project Manager

About this role

In a world of possibilities, pursue one with endless opportunities. Imagine Next!   At Parsons, you can imagine a career where you thrive, work with exceptional people, and be yourself. Guided by our leadership vision of valuing people, embracing agility, and fostering growth, we cultivate an innovative culture that empowers you to achieve your full potential. Unleash your talent and redefine what’s possible.   Job Description: Parsons is looking for an amazingly talented Project Manager / task lead to join our fast growing team! In this role you will get to lead a high performing team supporting DoW Cyber Policy located in Arlington and Alexandria .

What You'll Be Doing: • Manage and track the implementation of approximately nine strategic initiatives and 34 lines of effort supporting the DoW Cyber Strategy and Action Plan. • Serve as a SETA project management advisor to Cyber Policy staff and senior leadership, providing program coordination, execution support, and performance oversight. • Identify, engage, and coordinate stakeholders across the cyber enterprise to align priorities, resolve issues, and drive progress toward strategic objectives. • Lead and mentor a high-performing project team while coordinating activities with senior leadership, program managers, technical teams, and other key stakeholders. • Develop, maintain, and facilitate integrated action plans, project schedules, and milestone trackers aligned to program dependencies, deliverables, and organizational priorities. • Monitor task execution, suspense dates, risks, issues, and dependencies to ensure commitments and timelines are achieved. • Coordinate across organizational boundaries to facilitate communication, remove execution barriers, and support timely decision-making. • Establish and maintain strong relationships with senior client leadership and provide clear, accurate, and transparent reporting on program status, risks, issues, and opportunities. • Develop executive-level briefings, status reports, dashboards, and decision-support materials to communicate progress and support leadership reviews. • Generate and maintain Gantt charts and other project management tools to track milestones, task completion, resource requirements, and critical path activities. • Support continuous improvement of project management processes, governance practices, and performance reporting across the cyber enterprise.

What Required Skills You'll Bring: • Bachelors degree with 15 years relevant work experience, minimum 5 years in program management or project management that include process management and developing implementation and action plans for strategic defense initiatives. • Ability to interface with senior level customer management with the highest decorum. • Certification as a Project Management Professional. • Demonstrated excellent verbal, interpersonal and written communication skills. • Demonstrated ability to provide technical support and advice. • Demonstrated expert Microsoft Project experience required. • Active Top Secret with SCI eligibility.

Security Clearance Requirement: An active Top Secret security clearance is required to apply, however, the selected candidate must be able to obtain a Top Secret SCI clearance prior to the start date.

This position is part of our Federal Solutions team.

The Federal Solutions segment delivers resources to our US government customers that ensure the success of missions around the globe. Our intelligent employees drive the state of the art as they provide services and solutions in the areas of defense, security, intelligence, infrastructure, and environmental. We promote a culture of excellence and close-knit teams that take pride in delivering, protecting, and sustaining our nation's most critical assets, from Earth to cyberspace. Throughout the company, our people are anticipating what’s next to deliver the solutions our customers need now.

Salary Range: $148,300.00 - $266,900.00

We value our employees and want our employees to take care of their overall wellbeing, which is why we offer best-in-class benefits such as medical, dental, vision, paid time off, 401(k), life insurance, flexible work schedules, and holidays to fit your busy lifestyle!

Parsons is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other protected status.

We truly invest and care about our employee’s wellbeing and provide endless growth opportunities as the sky is the limit, so aim for the stars! Imagine next and join the Parsons quest—APPLY TODAY! Parsons is aware of fraudulent recruitment practices. To learn more about recruitment fraud and how to report it, please refer to   https://www.parsons.com/fraudulent-recruitment/ .

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