The opportunityWe are seeking a Delivery Lead / Senior Project Manager to manage consulting engagements from award and kickoff through final acceptance.
You will own project execution: scope, schedules, budgets, staffing, client communication, and delivery coordination. You will work closely with our technical lead, internal analysts, independent reviewers, and external specialists.
This is a hands-on leadership role for someone who can build effective delivery processes while managing active client work.
Responsibilities- Translate proposals and contracts into clear work plans, deliverables, milestones, and acceptance criteria.
- Manage project budgets, resource allocations, dependencies, risks, and changes in scope.
- Serve as the primary day-to-day client contact and lead progress meetings.
- Assign work to internal staff and engage external experts for defined technical needs.
- Coordinate technical and quality reviews before deliverables reach clients.
- Monitor actual hours, forecast remaining effort, and identify potential budget or schedule problems early.
- Document decisions, client approvals, scope changes, and delivery obligations.
- Coordinate invoicing milestones and supporting documentation with finance.
- Help develop realistic delivery plans and cost estimates for proposals.
- Build reusable project templates, workflows, and lessons learned.
- Develop internal staff so AlphaGov can perform more qualified delivery work in-house.
Requirements- Demonstrated experience leading consulting, research, or advisory engagements with multiple contributors.
- Experience managing public-sector clients or engagements with formal contractual deliverables and acceptance requirements.
- Ability to manage project finances, schedules, scope changes, and competing priorities.
- Experience coordinating technical specialists, analysts, and subcontractors.
- Strong client communication, business writing, and meeting facilitation skills.
- Ability to turn complex requirements into clear assignments and accountable work plans.
- Willingness to work directly on delivery details while building a growing practice.
Preferred qualifications- Experience in workforce planning, compensation studies, economic development, program evaluation, or infrastructure advisory.
- Experience managing government contracts and supporting proposal development.
- PMP or a comparable project management credential.
- Experience building delivery processes for a consulting organization.
BenefitsWhat success looks like- Projects have clear ownership, realistic budgets, and documented acceptance criteria.
- Clients receive timely communication and reliable deliverables.
- Scope changes and delivery risks are addressed early.
- Internal staff and external experts work as one accountable team.
- Each engagement strengthens AlphaGov's delivery capability and government past performance.
