Senior Communication Project Manager

ICF•Washington, DC

13d•Onsite

About The Position

ICF’s Digital Modernization Division is seeking a senior communications and events project manager to support federal customers on the Treasury Enterprise Application platform. The Application Development Sustainment Services team supports communications, operations and maintenance, and development and modernization activities that are critical to the Department of the Treasury’s mission. The role coordinates multiple communications campaigns and client event engagements in direct partnership with clients. The project manager serves as a key partner to customer points of contact, stakeholder project managers, event facilities, and FinCEN contributors, advising on operational execution, tracking deliverables, supporting high-quality work, and assisting with team management. The position calls for a resilient, flexible, analytical, business-oriented team player who can learn new technologies, work through ambiguity, and translate client needs into solutions with measurable mission value. The position is based full-time on-site in Vienna, Virginia and Washington, DC, with regular weekly reporting to federal offices as requested by the client and the potential for on-site work up to five days per week during non-travel periods. Periodic domestic travel is required to support events, including up to one international event per year.

Requirements

10+ years of management experience.
5+ years of experience with communications campaigns and event coordination projects.
5+ years of experience supporting federal clients on projects.
3+ years of experience leading multiple teams.
Bachelor’s degree in a technology-related field or business.
Experience with project management tools such as Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or SharePoint.
U.S. citizenship is required for this federal position.
Must be able to obtain a Secret clearance.
Ability to report to federal offices in Vienna, Virginia and Washington, DC on a regular weekly basis as requested by the client.
Must reside in the United States, and work must be performed in the United States.
Ability to perform occasional lifting, carrying, moving, or transporting of objects weighing up to 30 pounds.
Ability to move throughout the worksite for extended periods, occasionally up to 4 to 6 hours during an 8-hour workday.
Ability to perform frequent on-site work at client and company locations in Vienna, Virginia and Washington, DC, potentially up to five days per week during non-travel periods.
All candidates must be authorized to work in the United States; the position is not eligible for new H-1B visa sponsorship by ICF.

Nice To Haves

3+ years of experience managing distributed teams supporting geographically dispersed customers.
Ability to proactively communicate with federal clients and stakeholders in a fast-paced environment with a shifting landscape.
Experience with program standards, leadership, and coordination.
Experience with govDelivery.
Experience leading and facilitating collaboration across business and technical teams.
Experience developing and maintaining operational reporting, performance dashboards, analytics, and business intelligence solutions.
Experience working directly with end users and stakeholders to gather requirements, demonstrate solutions, collect feedback, and validate functionality.
Ability to communicate technical concepts and solution approaches to non-technical stakeholders.
Experience supporting Federal government communications campaigns and events with representation from various industry stakeholders.

Responsibilities

Lead project management activities supporting communications and event delivery, coordinating concurrent planning, requirements, scheduling, campaigns, event coordination, and facilitation support.
Direct project planning and execution, maintaining alignment on scope, priorities, schedules, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, deliverables, action items, and stakeholder expectations.
Serve as a key point of contact between government stakeholders and the project and subcontract teams, ensuring stakeholder needs, priorities, delivery considerations, and outcomes are communicated and addressed.
Lead stakeholder meetings, including requirements discussions, planning sessions, feedback reviews, issue resolution, contract reporting, and operational touchpoints.
Elicit, clarify, analyze, document, and validate business and end-user requirements; translate needs into functional and technical requirements, user stories, acceptance criteria, and solution recommendations.
Facilitate collaboration and decision-making among business stakeholders, end users, developers, testers, architects, and other participants to establish priorities, assess solutions, resolve questions, and advance work.
Identify, analyze, and troubleshoot functional and technical issues; coordinate root-cause analysis, impact evaluation, resolution, and validation.
Design, build, and maintain program dashboards, reports, metrics, and analytics to provide operational visibility and inform project and business discussions.
Coordinate activities, deliverables, decisions, and follow-up across cross-functional teams; identify dependencies, downstream impacts, delivery concerns, and unresolved actions.
Provide senior-level project leadership while contributing directly to communications material development, event planning, quality assurance, reporting, and end-user solution delivery.
Travel periodically to support events at domestic locations and up to one international event per year.