Senior Project Manager

Role Description

The Center for Geospatial Solutions (CGS) is seeking a Senior Project Manager to coordinate the successful delivery of geospatial, data, AI, and environmental projects for public, private, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners.

Reporting to the Associate Director of Solutions, the Senior Project Manager will:

• Translate contracts and scopes of work into practical plans.
• Track schedules and budgets.
• Coordinate technical teams.
• Manage client communications.
• Help identify and resolve risks before they affect delivery.

The role will lead project planning, financial and contractual management, client engagement, risk management, and coordination of cross-functional technical teams, often across multiple organizations, disciplines, and workstreams.

The Senior Project Manager will:

• Exercise substantial independent judgment to manage complex project scope, schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, and client expectations.
• Regularly work with senior client stakeholders, technical leads, organizational leadership, subcontractors, and external partners.
• Help strengthen CGS's organization-wide project delivery practices by mentoring staff, developing tools and standards, identifying systemic delivery risks, and improving how CGS manages increasingly larger and more complex client engagements.

Qualifications

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience in project management, business, public administration, environmental science, geography, technology, or related field.
• 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience managing complex consulting, professional-services, technology, research, environmental, or other client-facing projects.
• Demonstrated experience running large, complex, or multidisciplinary projects involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, technical disciplines, or partner organizations.
• Demonstrated ability to manage scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional teams.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• 5 or more years of experience managing geospatial, remote sensing, data science, AI, software, or environmental projects.
• 3 or more years of experience managing large government or federally funded engagements.
• Strong understanding of professional-services project economics.
• Ability to translate technical and contractual information into practical project plans.
• Demonstrated ability with project management platforms, such as Monday.com.
• Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, fully remote environment.
• Passion for collaborative, inclusive, and client-centered project delivery.

Requirements

• PMP, Agile, Scrum, or comparable project management training or certification (nice to have).
• Experience managing federally funded contracts, grants, or subawards (nice to have).
• Experience with resource planning, utilization, earned value, or project financial management (nice to have).
• Familiarity with cloud environments, data platforms, or AI development processes (nice to have).
• Domain expertise in water modeling, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis (nice to have).
• Proficiency with geospatial/geostatistical software (ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, QGIS) (nice to have).
• Programming and automation tools experience a plus (nice to have).

Benefits

• 3x employer contribution towards retirement matching your employee contribution up to 15%.
• Health insurance with no deductible.
• Dental insurance.
• Vision insurance.
• Copay assistance through an employer-funded health reimbursement account.
• Short-term disability coverage.
• Long-term disability coverage.
• Paid parental leave.
• Voluntary insurances such as accident insurance.
• Health care flexible spending.
• Dependent care flexible spending.
• Paid time off for holidays, vacation, personal, sick, bereavement, and jury duty.
• Office closure between December 24 - January 1 each calendar year.
• Flexible schedule and option for a compressed 4-day workweek.
• Tuition and staff development reimbursement.
• Pet insurance.
• Employee Assistance Program.