- Salary
- $50k – $80k/yr
- Location
- Washington, DC
- Type
- Full-time
- Closing date
- Today
- Source
- ApplyToJob
Description
Contract Specialist
The Position:
Censeo Consulting Group is seeking Project Coordinators at Early Career and Mid-Level experience levels to support the General Services Administration (GSA) Assisted Acquisition Services (AAS) organization through the Contracted Enterprise Support (ACES) program.
Project Coordinators will support the planning, coordination, tracking, and execution of federal acquisition and program activities. In this role, you will work alongside government and contractor teams to keep projects organized, maintain accurate project information, coordinate activities across stakeholders, and help ensure key milestones and deliverables stay on track.
This position is ideal for organized, proactive professionals who enjoy working across teams, managing details, solving problems, and helping project teams successfully deliver complex federal programs.
Key Responsibilities:
- Support the day-to-day coordination and administration of projects, workstreams, and acquisition activities.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, milestone trackers, action-item logs, deliverable trackers, and other project management tools.
- Monitor project deadlines, dependencies, risks, issues, and upcoming activities.
- Coordinate meetings, working sessions, reviews, and other activities involving government and contractor stakeholders.
- Prepare meeting agendas, presentation materials, status reports, and other project documentation.
- Document meeting outcomes, decisions, action items, and responsibilities and track items through completion.
- Coordinate with acquisition, contracting, financial, technical, and program personnel to collect information and maintain project progress.
- Assist with tracking project deliverables and ensuring required documentation is complete, accurate, organized, and current.
- Collect, organize, and summarize project information to support project and portfolio reporting.
- Assist project leadership in identifying schedule conflicts, outstanding actions, and items requiring stakeholder attention.
- Maintain organized project files, documentation, and records.
- Support multiple projects and priorities in a fast-paced federal consulting environment.
At Censeo, we are looking for unique candidates whose passion and enthusiasm will help shape Censeo’s client insights and workplace culture. Our staff have a wide range of backgrounds, areas of expertise, personality types, and favorite breakfast foods. Our client and cultural successes are rooted in our team’s innovation, creative problem solving, and collaboration. The unique perspective that you bring and the way you tackle problems are much more important to us than what’s printed on your diploma. We believe an effective Program Manager will be able to combine strategic thinking, analytical judgment, and strong people skills to identify and implement meaningful, practical changes for federal clients. Qualifications for the role include:
- Bachelor’s degree in business, project management, public administration, management, or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
- Interest in or experience with project coordination, project management, PMO operations, federal programs, acquisition support, or related work.
- Strong organizational and time-management skills with excellent attention to detail.
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines while maintaining high-quality work.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to collaborate effectively with project managers, government clients, technical teams, and other stakeholders.
- Ability to develop clear and professional project documentation, reports, presentations, and tracking materials.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and related business applications.
- Experience supporting a federal government agency or federal contractor is a plus.
- CAPM, PMP, or other relevant project management credentials are a plus but are not required.
Experience Levels:
- Early Career Level: 0–1+ years of experience in project coordination, project management, PMO support, federal program support, acquisition support, or a closely related field. Recent graduates are encouraged to apply, and relevant internships, academic projects, or other applicable experience may be considered.
- Mid-Level: 3+ years of experience in project coordination, project management, PMO support, federal program support, acquisition support, or a closely related field.
Censeo Consulting Group is a top Washington D.C. based management consulting firm dedicated to helping public sector and non-profit clients build operational excellence, deliver better outcomes, and lower cost. We take a personalized approach to strategic consulting to solve our clients’ most complex problems and build operational excellence that transforms their organizations, allowing them to better deliver on their public and social missions.
At Censeo, our award-winning culture means you’ll join a tight-knit community of 75 brilliant and passionate colleagues. We are advocates for a better functioning public sector, and we’re also good friends who know the names of each other’s dogs. Our philosophy is horizontal, not hierarchical, and our open-door policy encourages a culture of entrepreneurship at all levels. We share successes, make decisions together, and foster an environment for those with passion and initiative to lead. Our colleagues bring their own unique personalities to work every day and use them to help shape our growing firm in ways that reach far beyond client projects.
The Location:
Censeo Consulting Group is based in Washington D.C., a fantastic city for working professionals. We work in a hybrid setting with flexibility to work from home and work in our office conveniently located in the heart of downtown, just a few blocks away from the White House. And with many of our clients also based in D.C., we have the luxury of leaving for a meeting and being back in the office in time for post-work happy hours, team dinners, and game nights.
The Fine Print:
- The salary range for this role is $50,000 - $80,000 depending on experience.
- This is an exempt, full-time position.
- This role is subject to a full-time in-person work schedule in Washington, D.C. with the possibility for hybrid if approved by the client.
- Essential Physical Functions
- Sitting: Particularly for sustained periods of time.
- Light Carrying: Physically transporting items weighing less than 15 pounds from one location to another.
Censeo is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination on the basis of race, color, age, gender, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.
Join Our Award-Winning Culture!
Our passion wins awards. But don’t just take it from us…
- 2024 Vault #41 Consulting 50 North America
- 2024 Vault #7 Best Consulting Firm for Hours in the Office
- 2023 Vault #9 Best Consulting Firm for Work/Life Balance
- 2023 Vault #23 Best Consulting Firm for Overall Diversity
- 2023 Management Consulted #3 Best Boutique Firms in Washington DC
- 2022 Vault #41 Best Overall Consulting Firm to Work For
- 2020 Vault #21 Best Boutique Consulting Firm
- 2019 Ivy Exec #7 Best Boutique Consulting Firm
- 2018 Consulting Magazine Best Small Firms to Work For
- 2017 Vault #12 Best Boutique Consulting Firm
- 2016 Forbes Best Management Consulting Firms in America
- 2015 Washington Business Journal’s Philanthropy List
Skills
ExcelComplianceProject ManagementPMP