Proposal: Contingent Upon Contract Award
Title: Project Manager/Regulatory Lead
Client: Federal Agency
Location: Remote
Clearance: Public Trust
Security Clearance Statement: This position requires a government security clearance; the applicant must be a U.S. Citizen for consideration.
Number of Position(s): 1
Work Schedule: 8 am - 5 pm
Position SummaryAalis Management Consulting is seeking an experienced Project Manager / Regulatory Lead to lead federal regulatory and public-comment projects supporting a federal customer. This position will serve as a key point of contact for project execution and will be responsible for coordinating regulatory activities, managing schedules and deliverables, monitoring risks, and ensuring high-quality work products.
The ideal candidate has direct experience supporting Federal notice-and-comment rulemaking, public-comment analysis, regulatory writing, and policy analysis.
Key Responsibilities- Lead day-to-day execution of federal regulatory and public-comment projects.
- Manage project schedules, milestones, deliverables, priorities, and multiple concurrent deadlines.
- Coordinate with Government stakeholders, subject matter experts, analysts, and project team members.
- Support Federal regulatory and notice-and-comment rulemaking activities from planning through final deliverables.
- Develop, review, and edit regulatory, policy, analytical, and project documentation.
- Coordinate the collection, organization, review, and analysis of public comments.
- Establish project workflows, review processes, and quality-control procedures.
- Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule impacts and develop mitigation strategies.
- Ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, consistent, and submitted on schedule.
- Lead project meetings, track action items, and communicate project status to Government stakeholders and leadership.
- Review team products and ensure work aligns with Government requirements and established methodologies.
- Coordinate across regulatory, policy, legal, analytical, and technical workstreams.
- Prepare status reports, briefings, dashboards, and other customer-ready materials.
- Identify process improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and quality of regulatory and public-comment activities.
- Provide leadership and direction to supporting Comment Analysts and Data Support personnel.
Required Qualifications- Bachelor's degree in public policy, political science, government, regulatory affairs, business, communications, legal studies, or related field.
- 7+ years of relevant Federal regulatory, policy, program management, or analytical experience.
- Demonstrated experience managing complex Federal projects with multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
- Experience supporting Federal regulatory or public-comment activities.
- Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
- Experience developing and reviewing professional, Government-facing written deliverables.
- Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently in a remote environment.
Preferred Qualifications- Direct notice-and-comment rulemaking experience.
- Federal regulatory writing or policy analysis experience.
- USDA or other Federal agency experience.
- Experience managing public-comment projects.
- Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
- PMP or comparable project management certification.
- Experience with Regulations.gov, FDMS, or Federal rulemaking systems.
