Lead Project Manager (VA ESOM - PMCoE)

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Lead Project Manager (VA ESOM - PMCoE) based in United States.

This role provides senior-level project management leadership across IT modernization and new-capability initiatives supporting a large federal portfolio.
You will oversee the full project lifecycle, from initiation and planning through execution, monitoring, and closeout.
As the operational lead for a Project Management Center of Excellence, you will coordinate and guide a team of 22 Project Managers and a SharePoint/Web Developer.
The position combines hands-on project delivery with team leadership, stakeholder coordination, risk management, and performance oversight.
You will work closely with program managers, customers, project sponsors, senior leadership, and technical teams to maintain scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.
The role offers the opportunity to apply established project management standards while contributing to complex technology initiatives in a federal environment.
This is a fully remote position within the United States, with working hours aligned to Eastern Time.

Accountabilities:
- Lead all phases of IT project management, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closeout, in accordance with PMP standards and applicable federal project management procedures.

- Serve as the operational team lead for the PMCoE, providing day-to-day coordination, guidance, and oversight to 22 Project Managers and one SharePoint/Web Developer.

- Develop formal project charters and establish clear project objectives, roles, responsibilities, and expectations.

- Create and maintain detailed project plans, Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), and deliverables-based schedules that accurately reflect project scope and activities.

- Facilitate project kickoffs, status meetings, reviews, and closeout sessions with project teams, customers, program managers, sponsors, and senior stakeholders.

- Monitor milestones, critical dates, dependencies, and deliverables while identifying potential schedule risks and developing appropriate corrective actions.

- Identify, assess, document, track, and mitigate cost, resource, schedule, technical, and delivery risks throughout the project lifecycle.

- Analyze variances from approved plans and implement changes to keep projects aligned with scope, schedule, cost, and quality objectives.

- Develop project effort, cost, and resource estimates and track actual performance against approved plans.

- Maintain effective communication and collaboration across customers, internal teams, external stakeholders, and project leadership.

- Conduct periodic project performance reviews and provide clear status updates, measurements, and insights to senior management and program leadership.

- Ensure project documentation, schedules, risk information, and other work products remain accurate, accessible, and ready for review and approval.

- Apply project management tools and performance measurements to support effective planning, tracking, oversight, and continuous improvement across the portfolio.

Requirements:

- Bachelor’s degree in Engineering, Computer Science, Systems, Business, or a related scientific or technical discipline.

- 10+ years of program or project management experience, including substantial experience managing IT-related projects.

- PMP certification or an equivalent recognized project management certification.

- Demonstrated experience leading and coordinating large project management teams in complex IT environments.

- Strong knowledge of project and lifecycle management methodologies, standards, and best practices.

- Proven experience tracking project cost, schedule, resources, deliverables, and performance.

- Demonstrated ability to identify, assess, communicate, and mitigate project risks.

- Strong organizational and analytical skills, with the ability