[Remote] Project Management Lead

Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coleridge is hiring a Project Management Lead to support project delivery through portfolio-level oversight, reporting, and consistent project management practices. The role also manages complex, cross-functional projects, monitors budgets and resources, and provides guidance to project managers and contributors.

Responsibilities

• Maintain centralized project tracking and reporting systems to provide visibility into project scope, milestones, deliverables, budgets, and risks
• Maintain a consolidated portfolio view of project progress, dependencies, capacity pressures, and emerging delivery challenges
• Coordinate regular project reviews with division leads, project managers, and project teams
• Support consistent preparation and updating of estimates-to-complete (ETCs) across projects
• Maintain project portfolio dashboards and reports to support leadership decision-making
• Identify cross-project risks and competing priorities, recommending adjustments or tradeoffs to leadership
• Manage assigned projects, including complex and cross-functional engagements, from initiation through completion, ensuring alignment with contractual requirements, scope, timelines, budgets, and deliverables
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, tasks, dependencies, and status updates
• Coordinate project activities across internal teams, including Training, Research, State, DEO, Technology, and other functional areas
• Work closely with designated Project Leads and Account Leads to clarify responsibilities, priorities, and project requirements
• Monitor project deliverables and follow up to ensure commitments and deadlines are met
• Proactively identify and address project risks, issues, and dependencies, recommending solutions and escalating significant concerns to project leadership as appropriate
• Support effective communication with clients and external partners, including coordinating meetings, documenting decisions, and ensuring timely follow-through on commitments
• Consolidate labor forecasts and capacity information across projects to identify resource pressures, gaps, and competing priorities
• Partner with Finance and Project Leads to monitor project spending, labor utilization, and estimates-to-complete
• Use time-tracking and forecasting tools to identify potential resource constraints and recommend adjustments to leadership
• Maintain and promote consistent project management processes, tools, templates, and reporting practices across Coleridge
• Work across divisions and operational teams to clarify project responsibilities and improve coordination and handoffs
• Provide guidance and coaching to project managers and project contributors without formal supervisory authority
• Support onboarding of new project managers and project leads on established project management practices
• Gather feedback and recommend improvements to project management systems and delivery processes

Skills

• 4- 6 years of experience in project management or program delivery within a matrixed or cross-functional environment
• Undergraduate Degree in Business Administration, Nonprofit Management, Public Administration, Communications, Social Sciences, or related technical field
• Proven ability to manage multiple concurrent projects with varying scopes and funding sources (including federal grants and contracts)
• Proactive problem solver, able to anticipate needs of different stakeholders and provide solutions or processes to identify solutions
• Experience using project management, time-tracking, and resource-planning tools to monitor project progress, budgets, and staff utilization
• Strong interpersonal and written communication skills; able to influence without formal authority and ability to work across departments
• Experience with the public sector, federal contracts, or grant-funded programs including non profit
• Familiarity with data governance, research delivery, or technical platforms like Coleridge's Administrative Data Research Facility (ADRF)
• Project Management Professional (PMP), Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or other relevant project management certification

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Employer retirement contributions
• Paid time off
• Paid holidays
• Professional development support
• Remote-based position

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