MetaPhase is currently supporting the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) through the Strategic HQ Integration and Functional Transformation (SHIFT) initiative, an 18-month effort to assess and optimize FTA Headquarters organizational structures, functions, staffing, governance, and workload models.
In support of this project, MetaPhase is seeking a Senior Human Capital Project Manager with ten or more (10+) years of experience, including demonstrated project lead experience, to manage delivery of the FTA SHIFT transformation initiative. In this role, it is expected that the Project Manager coordinates a cross-functional team spanning human capital, organizational design, business process reengineering, change management, and workforce analytics, and maintains execution discipline across the 18-month Firm-Fixed-Price engagement, managing risks and dependencies, coordinating leadership engagement, and ensuring high-quality and timely delivery of contract milestones and CDRLs.
What You Will Be Doing - Manage day-to-day execution of a complex federal organizational transformation engagement
- Develop and maintain the Project Management Plan and Integrated Master Schedule
- Coordinate organizational design, human capital, BPR, workforce analytics, and dashboard workstreams
- Manage dependencies, milestones, deliverable schedules, and leadership review cycles
- Serve as a primary interface with government stakeholders, including the COR
- Track risks, issues, decisions, action items, and mitigation strategies
- Coordinate executive interviews, workshops, briefings, and feedback sessions
- Ensure work remains aligned with FFP scope, schedule, quality, and acceptance requirements
- Manage preparation and submission of monthly technical progress reporting and meeting documentation
- Oversee quality control across organizational structures, implementation roadmaps, governance frameworks, analytical products, and technical deliverables
- Manage the integration of leadership feedback into deliverables
- Mentor and coordinate consultants and analysts across the project team
What We Need From You (Required) - Minimum of ten or more (10+) years of relevant consulting, human capital, organizational transformation, or program/project management experience
- Demonstrated project lead experience, specifically organizational human capital, and change management transformations
- Experience managing complex federal consulting engagements
- Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, schedules, risks, and client deliverables
- Excellent executive communication and facilitation skills
- Strong understanding of federal consulting delivery and contract requirements
- Ability to manage multiple concurrent workstreams and aggressive deadlines
- Ability to successfully fulfill FTA Public Trust suitability requirements
Nice to Have (Desired)- PMP certification
- Experience supporting DOT or FTA
- Experience managing Firm-Fixed-Price federal engagements
- Organizational change management certification
- Experience with organizational design or workforce transformation programs
Required ClearanceAbility to obtain and successfully fulfill FTA Public Trust/Suitability requirements; U.S. Citizenship preferred
Work Location Hybrid - Washington, DC. Remote work with onsite engagement at FTA Headquarters in Washington, DC as requested.
TravelNone
EducationBachelor's degree in business, organizational development, public administration, project management, or a related discipline.
CompensationCompensation decisions are dependent of the facts and circumstances of each case.
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