Project Schedulers

Primary Responsibilities

• Develop, baseline, and maintain comprehensive project schedules using MS Project, ensuring all tasks, dependencies, milestones, and resource assignments are accurately captured and kept current throughout the program lifecycle.
• Integrate individual project schedules into the program-level Integrated Master Schedule (IMS), coordinating with workstream leads and PMO staff to maintain schedule integrity, identify critical path activities, and flag potential conflicts or delays.
• Support Agile development cadences by translating sprint planning, backlog grooming, testing cycles, and release events into schedule artifacts that align with both Agile ceremonies and formal IMS reporting requirements.
• Cook up with project stakeholders, technical leads, and government counterparts to identify, capture, and sequence tasks, ensuring that resource dependencies and inter-team handoffs are fully reflected in the schedule baseline.
• Conduct schedule health analysis including variance analysis, schedule performance index (SPI) reporting, and critical path monitoring; prepare and present schedule status reports and briefings to program leadership and VA government stakeholders.
• Support risk and issue management activities by identifying schedule-related risks, developing mitigation scenarios and what-if analyses within MS Project, and maintaining schedule change logs in accordance with VA and federal program management standards.

Minimum Qualifications

• Minimum 3 years of experience in project scheduling for large-scale IT or healthcare programs, with demonstrated ability to manage complex, multi-workstream schedules.
• Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Healthcare Administration, or a closely related field required.
• Prior experience supporting VA, federal healthcare, or other federal agency programs, including familiarity with federal program scheduling standards, IMS development, and government reporting requirements.
• Ability to obtain and maintain a VA Position of Public Trust (PIV credentialing) and pass applicable VA background investigation requirements; must be eligible for VA system access.
• Demonstrated expertise in MS Project for schedule development, maintenance, and integration, including experience building and managing schedules with resource loading, critical path analysis, and baseline comparisons.