Personnel Security Project Manager (Remote)

NEW Solutions • Beltsville, MD

24d • Remote

About The Position

The Personnel Security Project Manager supports the Personnel Security Branch Chief with project management for planning, coordinating, and executing the branch’s weekly operational requirements and priority initiatives. The role establishes project management controls to monitor assessments, deadlines, workload levels, and processing milestones across the branch. It tracks pending, delayed, and backlogged actions; identifies risks and barriers affecting timely completion; and works with branch leadership and staff to develop corrective strategies. Through tracking, reporting, and follow-up, the position promotes accountability, workload transparency, timely service delivery, and continuous improvement.

The position is part of the Experienced Worker Program administered by NEW Solutions through a cooperative agreement with the USDA Agricultural Research Service. Enrollees are program participants, not federal or NEW Solutions employees, and must not perform specified federal employee functions, including signing federal documents, authorizing federal funds, conducting federally funded research, representing the Government, making federal research policy decisions, or supervising Government employees. The position has the option to work remotely. Agency training will be provided as necessary. Physical requirements are listed as none.

Requirements

• At least 10 years of experience in project management work, or a BA/BS degree.
• Training in leadership in Human Resources.
• Experience with Windows, MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint.
• Legally eligible to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

• Plan, organize, and coordinate the branch’s weekly work requirements, assignments, deliverables, and priority projects.
• Develop work plans, schedules, milestones, and accountability measures to clarify assignments and deadlines.
• Facilitate regular workload reviews, follow up on open actions, and coordinate with branch staff and stakeholders to keep work progressing.
• Maintain centralized trackers and dashboards for pending, overdue, delayed, and backlogged personnel security actions.
• Analyze workload data, including the age, volume, and priority of actions, bottlenecks, and workload imbalances.
• Coordinate recovery plans, monitor corrective actions, and elevate significant risks or unresolved barriers to branch leadership.
• Prepare weekly status reports, performance metrics, and leadership briefings on productivity, timeliness, backlog reduction, and project progress.
• Evaluate operational trends and recurring delays to identify process improvement opportunities.
• Recommend practical solutions, standardized procedures, and workflow adjustments to improve accountability, efficiency, and timely completion of personnel security actions.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Part-time
• Career Level: Senior