Everforth ECS is seeking a Project Manager to work remotely.
Everforth ECS is seeking an experienced Project Manager to support a rapidly growing data analytics and business intelligence platform focused on providing data solutions that empower our federal customers. The Project Manager will coordinate recurring operational tasks, reporting, onboarding and offboarding activities and support risk management, team communications, contract management, scrum activities, and project management processes.
As part of this role, you will work closely with senior federal leadership, CORs, and a combination of ECS teams (program management and application development).
This role requires strong organization, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple deadlines across teams and stakeholders. The ideal candidate is a critical thinker, strong communicator, self-motivated, action-oriented, highly detail-oriented, and comfortable balancing multiple high-priority responsibilities while collaborating with stakeholders across varied technical and business areas.
Job responsibilities include:
- Prepare, update, review, and distribute weekly status reports.
- Maintain daily and weekly Scrum of Scrums templates, links, reminders, and updates.
- Conduct and support scrum activities, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, daily stand-ups, sprint reviews, retrospectives, and scrum board maintenance.
- Submit monthly resource allocation deliverables by required deadlines.
- Coordinate onboarding and offboarding activities.
- Support monthly risk reviews, including agenda preparation, risk tracking, and follow-up coordination.
- Prepare program management review (PMR) templates and send updates to designated project manager channels.
- Prepare and support monthly team sync meetings, including slide decks, demo tracking, and facilitation.
- Provide monthly allocation guidance on planned hours.
- Support data reminders, roadmap planning, and contract justification activities.
- Track out-of-office updates and reflect paid time off in planning tools.
- Send reminders and announcements to team members and stakeholder groups.
- Monitor Privacy Agreement updates and coordinate quarterly reviews with Team Leads and PMs.
- Support brown bag sessions, tools inventory reviews, test management oversight, and vendor POC tracking.
- Provide workstream project management support as needed, including 508 testing coordination and weekly updates.
- Support internal initiatives, contract-related tasks, interviews, and job requisition creation.
- Overseeing and mentoring junior project team members as needed.
Salary: $120,000 - $125,000
General Description of Benefits
Preferred Qualifications
- Must be a U.S. Citizen.
- Must be able to obtain a Public Trust clearance.
- Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
- 5+ years of related experience managing IT projects and supporting operational tasks.
- Proficiency in project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or similar approaches.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Excellent leadership, team management, and presentation skills.
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle, SDLC.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
- Experience with the Atlassian Suite (Jira/Confluence).
- Experience supporting federal agencies (DHS preferred).
- As needed, kickoff new projects and lead the project by managing the risks, budget, resourcing, and stakeholder engagement
Skills Required
- U.S. citizenship
- Ability to obtain a Public Trust clearance
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant field
- 5+ years of related experience managing IT projects and supporting operational tasks
- Proficiency in project management methodologies, including Agile, Scrum, Waterfall, or similar approaches
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Excellent leadership, team management, and presentation skills
- Understanding of the Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
- Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
- Experience with the Atlassian Suite, including Jira and Confluence
- Experience supporting federal agencies, preferably DHS
- Ability to initiate projects and manage risks, budget, resourcing, and stakeholder engagement as needed
ECS Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about ECS and has not been reviewed or approved by ECS.
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Healthcare Strength — ECS advertises multiple national-network medical plan options with HSA eligibility alongside dental and vision coverage. Coverage generally begins quickly and is paired with company-paid short- and long-term disability, adding stability to the health package.
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Retirement Support — A 401(k) with Safe Harbor and immediate vesting on employer contributions is emphasized, with an employer match available. Access to an employee stock purchase plan via the parent company provides an additional savings avenue.
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Parental & Family Support — Paid parental leave up to 30 days, adoption assistance, and other family-oriented leaves are highlighted. Feedback suggests these offerings add meaningful value beyond base pay for many roles.
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What We Do
ECS, a segment of ASGN (NYSE: ASGN), delivers advanced solutions and services in cloud, cybersecurity, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), application and IT modernization, and science and engineering. The company solves critical, complex challenges for customers across the U.S. public sector, defense, intelligence and commercial industries. ECS maintains partnerships with leading cloud, cybersecurity, and AI/ML providers and holds specialized certifications in their technologies. Headquartered in Fairfax, Virginia, ECS has more than 3,400 employees throughout the U.S. and has been recognized as a Top Workplace by The Washington Post for the last five years.
