[Hiring] Senior Project Manager @AlphaHire

Role Description

We are seeking a Delivery Lead / Senior Project Manager to manage consulting engagements from award and kickoff through final acceptance. You will own project execution: scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, client communication, and delivery coordination. This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build effective delivery processes while managing active client work.

Responsibilities

• Translate proposals and contracts into clear work plans, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
• Manage project budgets, resource allocations, dependencies, risks, and changes in scope.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact and lead progress meetings.
• Assign work to internal staff and engage external experts for defined technical needs.
• Coordinate technical and quality reviews before deliverables reach clients.
• Monitor actual hours, forecast remaining effort, and identify potential budget or schedule problems early.
• Document decisions, client approvals, scope changes, and delivery obligations.
• Coordinate invoicing milestones and supporting documentation with finance.
• Help develop realistic delivery plans and cost estimates for proposals.
• Build reusable project templates, workflows, and lessons learned.
• Develop internal staff so AlphaGov can perform more qualified delivery work in-house.

Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience leading consulting, research, or advisory engagements with multiple contributors.
• Experience managing public-sector clients or engagements with formal contractual deliverables and acceptance requirements.
• Ability to manage project finances, schedules, scope changes, and competing priorities.
• Experience coordinating technical specialists, analysts, and subcontractors.
• Strong client communication, business writing, and meeting facilitation skills.
• Ability to turn complex requirements into clear assignments and accountable work plans.
• Willingness to work directly on delivery details while building a growing practice.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in workforce planning, compensation studies, economic development, program evaluation, or infrastructure advisory.
• Experience managing government contracts and supporting proposal development.
• PMP or a comparable project management credential.
• Experience building delivery processes for a consulting organization.

What Success Looks Like

• Projects have clear ownership, realistic budgets, and documented acceptance criteria.
• Clients receive timely communication and reliable deliverables.
• Scope changes and delivery risks are addressed early.
• Internal staff and external experts work as one accountable team.
• Each engagement strengthens AlphaGov’s delivery capability and government past performance.