Project Management Specialist

Overview

LMI is seeking a proactive and highly organized Project Management Specialist to support a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program focused on suicide prevention and mental health.

This role will provide day-to-day project management, administrative, and operational support across multiple technical and programmatic workstreams. The successful candidate will work closely with Program Managers, Project Managers, technical teams, and client stakeholders to keep work organized, maintain visibility into priorities and commitments, and help ensure teams follow through on key actions and deliverables.

This position is ideal for someone who is comfortable working in the gray, takes initiative without waiting for every task to be assigned, and is eager to learn how complex federal programs are managed. We are looking for a dependable, curious, and resourceful teammate who is willing to jump in where needed, ask thoughtful questions, identify gaps, and continuously take on greater responsibility.

The role will also provide exposure to the technical side of the program, including work involving Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, data and analytics, and program evaluation. The ideal candidate does not need to be a developer or data scientist but should have an interest in understanding how technical solutions are designed, delivered, and managed.

This position offers a strong development path for an individual interested in growing into increasingly complex project and program management responsibilities.

LMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.

Leveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.
Responsibilities

- Support Program Managers and Project Managers across multiple projects and workstreams, providing day-to-day coordination, administrative support, and execution follow-through.

- Maintain project schedules, calendars, trackers, action logs, risk and issue logs, decision records, and other project-management artifacts.

- Coordinate meeting logistics, develop agendas, capture clear and accurate meeting minutes, track action items, and drive follow-up with responsible team members.

- Help maintain visibility into project priorities, milestones, deadlines, dependencies, and outstanding decisions.

- Coordinate inputs for contract deliverables, status reports, program reviews, leadership briefings, and client-facing materials.

- Develop and maintain polished PowerPoint presentations, Excel trackers, dashboards, and other project-management materials.

- Organize and maintain project documentation in SharePoint, including SOPs, templates, trackers, deliverables, meeting records, and other program artifacts.

- Support onboarding and offboarding activities, including coordination of VA access, systems, tools, documentation, and program orientation.

- Assist with Agile delivery activities, including sprint planning, backlog coordination, Scrum or Kanban ceremonies, action tracking, and maintenance of Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar tools.

- Support Project Managers in gathering and documenting requirements, user needs, acceptance criteria, and project decisions.

- Coordinate across technical, analytical, and program teams to ensure information is shared, commitments are understood, and work continues to move forward.

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