LMI is seeking a Project Manager to join our Health & Civilian, Public Health team supporting the Office of Veterans Affairs (VA) Office of Mental Health and Office of Suicide Prevention.  In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring excellent delivery to our clients. This involves leading and developing our team of literature review, program evaluation, policy, communications, operations, development, and data analytics subject matter experts and ensuring customer happiness.

Successful LMI Program Managers demonstrate competency in project execution, financial management, leadership, talent management and career planning, critical thinking, relationship management, and business growth while upholding the highest standard of ethical behavior.

At LMI, we’re reimagining the path from insight to outcome at the new speed of possible. Combining a legacy of over 60 years of federal expertise with our innovation ecosystem, we minimize time to value and accelerate mission success. We energize the brightest minds with emerging technologies to inspire creative solutioning and push the boundaries of capability. LMI advances the pace of progress, enabling our customers to thrive while adapting to evolving mission needs. 

• Foster positive working relationships with team (to include subcontractors), client personnel, and leadership counterparts
• Lead a cross-functional team, and support overall staffing requirements, including recruiting, hiring, onboarding, execution, and retention
• Manage complex projects ensuring that goals, requirements, and outcomes are defined to ensure excellent execution
• Lead development and management of project management plan solution
• Coordinate across task leads and monitor team performance to ensure milestones are met and deliverables are submitted in a timely fashion and are of high quality/accuracy; when appropriate, propose a plan to correct any variances and adapt to an agile environment
• Ensure established project standards are upheld and clearly defined throughout the entire process of each project’s development and execution
• Leverage leadership skills to assist teams to raise their performance, removing blockers team success and when necessary, provide employees with corrective action plans to improve performance
• Identify and create efficiencies and bring innovation in current project to streamline efforts
• Prepare monthly performance and financial reports, briefing charts, schedule meetings, keep records and record minutes, and prepare after-action reports in support of project performance reviews
• Brief VA leadership on project schedule, identified risks and mitigations, and upcoming milestones
• Facilitate other client meetings as needed
• Support business development and bid and proposal efforts for opportunities, bringing together capabilities across LMI to define a solution that meets and exceeds client expectations
• Work with LMI and LMI business partners to pursue new business opportunities

Required

• Bachelor's Degree in relevant business, technical, or professional, or equivalent experience
• 3+ years of experience in supporting cross-functional teams and engaging with leadership at various levels within an organization
• Excellent organizational skills and ability to meet deadlines
• Strong technical writing skills to clearly, logically, and succinctly communicate project-related information to scientists, doctors and other research professionals at the commensurate comprehension and reading level for the audience
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently, and have strong oral and written communication abilities, with strong conceptual and systems-thinking abilities and problem-solving skills
• Demonstrated ability to build future leaders and elevate performance
• Demonstrated ability to optimizing staffing and implementing process improvements
• Must pass National Agency Check Background Screening to support government client

Desired

• Master’s degree
• Experience running projects of a similar size and scope at VA
• Demonstrated knowledge of program evaluation, research, higher education, and/or suicide prevention
• Experience supporting federal government leadership an answering to Congressional tasks
• Organizational change management understanding and/or certifications
• Experience with Human Centered Design principles and methodologies
• Experience managing projects that require 508 compliance
• PMP Certification or other equivalent certifications