Senior Project Manager

Xentity Corporation

Senior Project Manager overseeing a PMO for a client in Virginia. Focused on project management for natural resources and infrastructure initiatives within a hybrid working environment.

Posted 6/14/2026contractRoanoke • Virginia • 🇺🇸 United StatesSenior💰 $115,000 - $134,000 per yearWebsite

About the role

Key responsibilities & impact

Establish the PMO Framework: Stand up, implement, and maintain a comprehensive, enterprise-level PMO structure tailored to support a high volume of concurrent projects.
Develop Governance Tools: Define and formulate the operational framework, PMO charter, reporting workflows, decision logs, escalation paths, and resource tracking plans.
Build and Maintain the Master Schedule: Develop and manage the master program schedule, deliverable calendar, action register, briefing cadence, and milestone tracker needed to monitor PMO progress, partner dependencies, regulatory timelines, and leadership decision points.
Portfolio Oversight: Direct and monitor the health, timelines, dependencies, and sequencing of a diverse portfolio of projects spanning infrastructure, roads, bridges, trails, facilities, recreation, fuels, timber, hydrology, watersheds, wildlife, and other natural resource management areas.
Risk & Issue Management: Establish formal issue-resolution paths, risk registers, change management processes, and escalation protocols to help keep the portfolio on schedule and support timely leadership decisions.
Executive Dashboard Coordination: Establish and maintain a centralized PMO dashboard that provides executive visibility into project status, milestone health, key performance indicators, resource needs, risks, issues, and spatial representation of program activities.
Serve as Primary Liaison: Act as a primary face of the contract to federal agency leadership, maintaining strong alignment between contractor deliverables, agency expectations, and evolving program priorities through regular in-person and digital engagement.
Facilitate Interagency Partnerships: Coordinate and operationalize a common operating framework for multi-agency and partner-led initiatives involving federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders.

Requirements

What you’ll need

Must reside within commuting distance of the designated project office and possess the ability to attend in-person meetings one to two days per week, or more frequently as required.
Extensive experience standing up a PMO from scratch, which include the creation of charters, governance structures, master schedules, portfolio tracking systems, reporting processes, risk registers, and executive dashboards for large-scale operations.
Demonstrated ability to serve as a senior client-facing project or program manager in a complex government, public-sector, or multi-stakeholder environment.
Proven track record of managing complex client relationships and facilitating coordination among diverse federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private partners.
Strong foundational federal environmental compliance, specifically how planning timelines affect project execution, scheduling, decision-making, and implementation readiness.
Clear understanding of public agency organizational structures, leadership dynamics, decision-making workflows, documentation needs, and meeting discipline.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to prepare leadership briefings, meeting summaries, status reports, action registers, and decision-support materials.
Ability to track multiple concurrent projects, dependencies, timelines, deliverables, risks, and action items across a complex operating environment.

Benefits

Comp & perks

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Establish the PMO Framework: Stand up, implement, and maintain a comprehensive, enterprise-level PMO structure tailored to support a high volume of concurrent projects.
Develop Governance Tools: Define and formulate the operational framework, PMO charter, reporting workflows, decision logs, escalation paths, and resource tracking plans.
Build and Maintain the Master Schedule: Develop and manage the master program schedule, deliverable calendar, action register, briefing cadence, and milestone tracker needed to monitor PMO progress, partner dependencies, regulatory timelines, and leadership decision points.
Portfolio Oversight: Direct and monitor the health, timelines, dependencies, and sequencing of a diverse portfolio of projects spanning infrastructure, roads, bridges, trails, facilities, recreation, fuels, timber, hydrology, watersheds, wildlife, and other natural resource management areas.
Risk & Issue Management: Establish formal issue-resolution paths, risk registers, change management processes, and escalation protocols to help keep the portfolio on schedule and support timely leadership decisions.
Executive Dashboard Coordination: Establish and maintain a centralized PMO dashboard that provides executive visibility into project status, milestone health, key performance indicators, resource needs, risks, issues, and spatial representation of program activities.
Serve as Primary Liaison: Act as a primary face of the contract to federal agency leadership, maintaining strong alignment between contractor deliverables, agency expectations, and evolving program priorities through regular in-person and digital engagement.
Facilitate Interagency Partnerships: Coordinate and operationalize a common operating framework for multi-agency and partner-led initiatives involving federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private-sector stakeholders. 🎯 Requirements
Must reside within commuting distance of the designated project office and possess the ability to attend in-person meetings one to two days per week, or more frequently as required.
Extensive experience standing up a PMO from scratch, which include the creation of charters, governance structures, master schedules, portfolio tracking systems, reporting processes, risk registers, and executive dashboards for large-scale operations.
Demonstrated ability to serve as a senior client-facing project or program manager in a complex government, public-sector, or multi-stakeholder environment.
Proven track record of managing complex client relationships and facilitating coordination among diverse federal, state, local, nonprofit, and private partners.
Strong foundational federal environmental compliance, specifically how planning timelines affect project execution, scheduling, decision-making, and implementation readiness.
Clear understanding of public agency organizational structures, leadership dynamics, decision-making workflows, documentation needs, and meeting discipline.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated ability to prepare leadership briefings, meeting summaries, status reports, action registers, and decision-support materials.
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Hard Skills & Tools

PMO frameworkgovernance toolsmaster schedule managementportfolio oversightrisk managementissue managementexecutive dashboard creationcharter developmentreporting processesresource tracking

Soft Skills

client-facing project managementrelationship managementcoordination facilitationcommunication skillsmeeting disciplineorganizational understandingleadership dynamicsdecision-making workflowsproblem-solvingstakeholder engagement