Project Manager, Project Orion, GISI Consulting Group

About GISI Consulting Group and Palladium

GISI Consulting Group (GISI CG) is a top 10 global provider of program and project management and engineering consulting services delivering outcomes and solutions for some of the most complex challenges. We deliver services in infrastructure & mobility, earth & water, and government & society segments across more than 100 countries. With over 5,000 projects annually and a global team of over 11,000 professionals, our advisory, consulting, design and program management capabilities enable us to create a safer and more sustainable world. Palladium, a GISI company, works to design, develop and deliver positive impact on the lives and livelihoods of people around the globe; broaden access to health, water, power, and infrastructure; build enduring, sustainable, and transformative institutions and market systems to address global challenges; and conserve the natural world. We operate in over 90 countries and have a workforce of 2,100 talented, motivated, and diverse staff around the world. This role will be hired through Palladium, an operational platform for GISI CG.

This Opportunity

Project Orion is GISI Consulting Group's strategic technology transformation program focused on creating a single, standardized IT operating environment across its operating companies through governance alignment, technology standardization, service consolidation, cybersecurity integration, and migration to a centralized Microsoft 365 tenant. The initiative is designed to improve business and IT alignment, simplify technology operations, establish common architectures and service models, and enable a future global IT-as-a-Service organization. GISI CG is seeking a Project Manager, Project Orion to support their efforts to standardize, simplify and unify its operating company's IT infrastructure into a single, centralized environment. The role will provide management support to the project's activities, including all active workstreams. The PM will monitor and control the project's implementation, ensuring the activities are completed on time. This is a corporate fixed-term 12-month role with the potential for extension.

Location

The position is based in GISI's Arlington, VA office. Candidates must have current work authorization in the US as we are unable to provide sponsorship at this time. This is a hybrid position, with most work undertaken remotely. The successful candidate will be expected to attend the office from time to time, including on short notice, so applicants must live within commuting distance of the office.

Compensation

The full-time annual base salary for this position is expected to range from $90,000 to $98,000. A final salary offer will be based on various factors, including but not limited to your qualifications, education, experience, skills, seniority, performance, and Palladium's business or organizational needs.

Reporting Lines

The Project Manager reports to the SVP, IT Operations. This role will work closely with workstream leaders, key project stakeholders, and is part of GISI CG's Project Orion's implementation team.

Primary Roles and Responsibilities

• Maintain and monitor compliance with Project Orion's consolidated workplan, tracking milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and delivery gates
• Ensure alignment between activities of the active workstreams
• Coordinate activities between the project's leadership and the different workstreams, facilitating the logistics for meetings, planning sessions, workshops, and execution reviews
• Maintain decision logs, action logs, and approval records
• Resolve scheduling conflicts and resource constraints between workstreams
• Support decision gate activities, ensuring all operational, technical, communications, and change management requirements have been met
• Maintain the project's risk register, including tracking mitigation actions and resolution plans
• Monitor readiness gaps that could impact timeline, costs, or operational continuity
• Track resource utilization across workstreams and budget compliance
• Provide weekly and monthly status reports and any other as needed
• Report milestone progress, resourcing status, risks, decisions, and budget impacts
• Support executive reviews and governance meetings with fact-based reporting

Essential Criteria

• Significant PMO experience in managing projects, preferably in the IT sector
• Demonstrated experience applying methods and tools within defined project management approaches (PMBOK, Prince 2, etc.)
• Experience supporting and managing formal project governance processes, including scheduling, documenting, and reporting
• Strong analytical and problem-solving capabilities with the ability to translate technical risks into business impact
• Ability to manage multiple initiatives and priorities across different operating companies
• Excellent communication, presentation, stakeholder management, and relationship-building skills
• High level of attention to detail and accuracy and strong organizational and planning skills
• Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively within a global team environment

Desirable Criteria

• Experience working across a global business