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Ascension is seeking a Federal Project Manager / Management Consultant to support enterprise-level operations, strategic implementation, reporting coordination, compliance tracking, performance management, and stakeholder engagement for a federal health agency environment. This position is ideal for a detail-oriented project manager who understands federal consulting, can manage multiple workstreams, and can help translate broad client priorities into actionable plans, schedules, deliverables, meeting rhythms, risk logs, and executive-ready products.

The selected candidate will play an important role in helping the client improve coordination across offices, track progress against strategic priorities, support implementation of policies and mandates, manage project documentation, and ensure deliverables are completed on time, within scope, and aligned with client expectations. The role is well suited for a hands-on project manager who can operate in a fast-moving federal environment, support senior stakeholders, anticipate risks, and keep teams organized without requiring heavy oversight.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Federal Project Manager / Management Consultant will support planning, coordination, execution, tracking, and reporting for CMS enterprise operations initiatives. The role will support task areas such as strategic development and implementation, policy implementation, continuous improvement, program integrity and compliance coordination, mission essential planning, leadership briefings, reporting alignment, and performance/data management.

The ideal candidate is organized, responsive, self-driven, and comfortable working in an environment where requirements may evolve. The candidate should be able to create structure around ambiguous needs, facilitate meetings, manage action items, maintain project trackers, support risk and issue management, develop status reports, coordinate inputs from multiple stakeholders, and help convert client discussions into clear next steps and deliverables.

The candidate should be comfortable using Microsoft 365 tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and preferably Power BI or similar reporting tools. Familiarity with federal project management practices, PMBOK, Agile concepts, risk registers, integrated master schedules, SOPs, briefing development, and deliverable review cycles is strongly preferred.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage project schedules, milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and action items.
• Coordinate meetings with client stakeholders, consultants, analysts, and subject matter experts.
• Facilitate working sessions, status meetings, and project check-ins.
• Capture meeting notes, decisions, action items, owners, and due dates.
• Develop and maintain project trackers, work plans, dashboards, and status reports.
• Monitor deliverable progress to ensure timely completion and quality review.
• Support implementation planning for strategic initiatives, policies, mandates, and operational improvements.
• Identify project risks, schedule concerns, stakeholder dependencies, and potential blockers.
• Recommend practical mitigation strategies and corrective actions.
• Prepare briefing materials, executive summaries, PowerPoint decks, and project updates.
• Coordinate inputs for leadership briefings, reporting packages, and compliance-related submissions.
• Support development of SOPs, governance documents, process maps, and implementation frameworks.
• Track reporting requirements, deadlines, review cycles, and approval status.
• Support continuous improvement activities by documenting current processes and identifying improvement opportunities.
• Maintain organized project documentation in SharePoint, Teams, or other approved repositories.
• Collaborate with data, business intelligence, compliance, and operations staff to support integrated project execution.
• Ensure project activities align with federal requirements, client direction, and Ascension quality standards.