Project Manager (Permitting, Finance & Legal)

The Project Manager – Business The Project Manager – Business is responsible for leading the planning, coordination, and day‑to‑day execution support for the permitting, finance, and legal workstreams within the LIT project. This role helps integrate activities essential to project readiness, compliance, funding, contracting, and decision support, ensuring these workstreams are aligned with overall program priorities and timelines. This role serves as the central coordinator for workstream plans, status tracking, issue management, meeting facilitation, and follow‑up across internal leaders, subject matter experts, and external advisors. The Project Manager must be able to manage multiple complex processes at once, maintain strong attention to detail, and translate workstream developments into concise updates, clear action items, and timely escalations. Core Competencies Cross-Functional Project Leadership: Coordinates complex workstreams involving regulatory, financial, legal, and operational stakeholders. Planning & Organization: Maintains strong control over timelines, milestones, follow-up items, and interdependencies. Regulatory & Governance Orientation: Understands the importance of compliance, approvals, documentation, and disciplined decision processes. Communication: Presents information clearly and concisely to both technical and executive audiences. Risk & Issue Management: Anticipates roadblocks, identifies concerns early, and drives resolution. Execution & Follow-Through: Keeps work moving and ensures commitments are completed on time. Stakeholder Coordination: Works effectively across internal leaders, external advisors, and partner organizations. Judgment: Exercises sound judgment in handling sensitive issues, competing priorities, and escalation decisions. Attention to Detail: Maintains accuracy in logs, documentation, status reporting, and process tracking. Adaptability: Responds effectively to changing requirements, approvals, and project conditions. Commercial Understanding: Exhibits core competency in sound business principles and an ability to advance the comprehensive project business case, including CAPEX and OPEX considerations, commercial drivers, opportunities for efficiencies, and development of realistic forecasts on revenues, volumes, expenses, etc. Financials: Understands basics of project cash needs and timing, can work with financial team in establishing cost breakdowns and timing, then manage ongoing updates for project cash flow forecasting based upon changes in scope and/or timing. Education & Experience Bachelor’s degree in business, public administration, finance, legal studies, project management, or a related field required. Minimum of 5–8 years of project management, program coordination, or complex initiative management experience required. Experience supporting permitting, regulatory, finance, legal, infrastructure, public sector, or capital project environments preferred. Demonstrated experience managing multiple workstreams, deadlines, and stakeholder groups simultaneously. Strong understanding of project management disciplines, including schedule management, risk tracking, issue management, and escalation practices. Experience preparing executive-level updates, action logs, and meeting materials preferred. PMP certification or equivalent project management training preferred. Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to synthesize detailed workstream activity into practical updates and recommendations. Experience creating and updating complex project schedules in project management software (e.g., Microsoft Project, P6 Primavera, etc.), understanding interdependencies and critical path management, as well as change management ownership and reporting. Responsibilities Lead planning and coordination for permitting, finance, and legal workstreams, ensuring alignment across all activities. Develop and maintain detailed workstream plans, milestones, action trackers, and status updates. Coordinate activities across internal teams, legal counsel, consultants, regulators, and other external stakeholders. Track permitting milestones, application progress, review cycles, and required follow‑up actions. Support finance and legal workstreams, including funding milestones, analyses, agreements, reviews, negotiations, and approvals. Identify, monitor, and manage risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies across all assigned workstreams. Prepare meeting agendas, facilitate recurring meetings, document decisions, and ensure timely follow‑up on action items. Provide reporting and support to program leadership, including progress updates, escalation of critical issues, and assistance with governance materials and special projects. Benefits Port NOLA offers competitive benefits that prioritize safety, health, and wellness for our employees. Employees have access to the following benefits: Medical / Dental / Vision Insurance Health Savings Account (HSA) Medical and/or Dependent Care Flexible Spending Account (FSA) Life Insurance options Long Term Disability Plan State of Louisiana LASERS state pension program Deferred Compensation Plan (457 plan) with employer match Paid Louisiana State Holidays; and paid Annual and Sick Leave Wellness Center located in the Port Administration Building Ship Shape Wellness Program Position-Specific Details Appointment Type: Unclassified Louisiana is a State As a Model Employer (SAME) that supports the recruitment, hiring, and retention of individuals with disabilities. #J-18808-Ljbffr State of Louisiana