Senior Project Manager, Residential Hazard Mitigation

Key Responsibilities

• Lead the development, coordination, and operation of various large, complex federally funded programs, focused on residential mitigation and community resilience, from start up through closeout.
• Serve as an expert in FEMA HMA grant programs and advise local government and private non-profit clients on large-scale mitigation projects.
• Manage delivery of project tasks, activities, milestones and resources, developing, maintaining, and managing project requirements, plans, timeline, issues, risks and challenges.
• Direct risk and vulnerability assessments and develop strategies to reduce risk, such as building code updates, retrofitting structures, and community-wide preparedness plans.
• Career Development: Coordinate clients’ resilience priorities, secure grant funding, and successfully implement federally and state-funded programs in compliance with all applicable program policies, requirements, procedures, guidelines.
• Oversee on-going public education and outreach programs, including clearly explaining complex technical concepts to various audiences, including homeowners and community members.
• Lead stakeholder engagement and coordination with local, state, and federal agency representatives, community-based organizations, industry, and non-profits to achieve common mitigation goals.
• Manage a team of professionals including engineers, grant managers, contractors, and emergency managers to implement mitigation projects.
• Maintain program performance status and establish necessary quality control tools to manage and measure programs results.
• Represent the organization as the key project interface with ICF leadership, delivering updates on milestones/challenges, and using data-driven reporting and analysis to inform decisions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 8+ years of experience and demonstrated success managing complex multi-disciplinary teams to achieve high levels of production, meet tight deadlines, and deliver compliant, quality work products.
• 5+ years of FEMA HMA project experience including program start-up through implementation and closeout.

PREFERRED SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Master’s or higher-level degree in a related field.
• Experience securing federal grants of $50 million or greater.
• Familiarity with disaster planning, recovery, and mitigation, and using grants management systems.
• Certification as a Project Management Professional (PMP).

Professional Skills

• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Proven track record of leading a team and accomplishing successful business results.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, emotional intelligence, critical thinking skills, and integrity and ethics.
• Team player with the demonstrated ability to build organizational capability, motivate teaming partners/staff to ensure high levels of engagement, and work in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Project Management Software).