Senior Program Manager

Overview

Location: Remote, United States

Work Model: Fully Remote

Trissential is seeking an accomplished Senior Program Manager to join our client’s team. This is an opportunity to take ownership of a complex, high-visibility program where strong financial management, resource planning, governance, and executive communication will be central to your success.

 

If you have significant senior-level program leadership experience and a background in corrections, criminal justice, or public safety, this role offers the opportunity to lead across multiple teams, vendors, stakeholders, and interconnected workstreams in a fully remote environment.

 

What’s in It for You?

• High-Impact Leadership – Lead a large-scale, multimillion-dollar program with significant organizational visibility and multiple stakeholders.
• Strategic Ownership – Drive program financials, resource allocation, forecasting, governance, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Complex Program Environment – Coordinate multiple teams, vendors, resources, dependencies, and workstreams while maintaining alignment with program objectives.
• Executive Visibility – Partner with senior stakeholders and provide clear, actionable reporting on program health, financial performance, risks, resources, and delivery.
• Fully Remote Opportunity – Work remotely from anywhere within the United States.

 

Your Role & Responsibilities

• Lead the planning, execution, governance, and delivery of a large-scale, multimillion-dollar program.
• Develop and maintain comprehensive program plans that align multiple projects, workstreams, resources, vendors, milestones, and dependencies.
• Own program financial management, including budgets, actuals, forecasts, variance analysis, and multiyear financial planning.
• Direct resource management activities, including capacity planning, demand forecasting, allocation, and identification of resource constraints.
• Establish and maintain effective program governance, reporting structures, decision-making processes, and escalation paths.
• Prepare and present executive-level program status reporting covering delivery, financials, resources, risks, dependencies, and key decisions.
• Identify, assess, communicate, and actively manage program risks, issues, assumptions, and cross-functional dependencies.
• Coordinate internal teams, external vendors, and business stakeholders to maintain accountability and achieve program objectives.
• Oversee vendor performance and support successful delivery of COTS and/or third-party technology solutions where applicable.
• Build productive relationships with government, public-sector, technical, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Support knowledge transfer and transition activities with the existing Program Manager as needed.

 

Skills & Experience You Should Possess

To be successful in this role, you should bring:

• 10+ years of senior-level program and/or project management experience, including responsibility for complex initiatives.
• At least 2 years of professional experience specifically within corrections, criminal justice, or public safety. This is a required qualification.
• Demonstrated experience managing large-scale, multimillion-dollar programs.
• Strong program financial management capabilities, including budgeting, actuals, forecasting, variance management, and multiyear financial planning.
• Proven resource management experience, including capacity planning and resource allocation across multiple teams and workstreams.
• Experience managing multiple projects, vendors, teams, resources, dependencies, and priorities simultaneously.
• Strong executive-level communication and reporting capabilities.
• Demonstrated program governance, risk, issue, dependency, and escalation management experience.
• Ability to bring structure and direction to complex initiatives involving numerous stakeholders and competing priorities.
• Strong leadership skills with the ability to influence outcomes across teams and organizations.

Important: General government or public-sector experience by itself does not fulfill the domain requirement. Candidates must have a minimum of two years of experience specifically in corrections, criminal justice, or public safety.

 

Bonus Points If You Have

• Public-sector or government program management experience.
• Experience working with state government agencies or similarly complex public-sector organizations.
• COTS implementation experience.
• Extensive third-party vendor and contract management experience.
• Experience leading large technology modernization or transformation programs.
• Experience transitioning ownership of an established program from another Program Manager.

 

Education & Certifications You Need

• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification is required.
• Relevant bachelor's degree is valuable; however, no specific degree requirement was provided for this opportunity.

 

What We Offer

At Trissential, you’ll have the opportunity to bring your expertise to our client’s team while tackling a complex, high-impact program. We value experienced professionals who can combine strategic leadership with the financial and operational discipline needed to move challenging programs forward.

• Competitive Compensation – You choose the model that works best for you, both with company-sponsored benefits! $156,000–$166,000 annually or $78–$88 per hour, depending on your skills, experience, and location. Final compensation is determined based on skill alignment, years of experience, and fair, market-based rates by geography.
• Comprehensive Benefits for you and your dependents – Medical, dental, vision, free tele-health, HSA with company contribution, life and disability insurance, and 401k with matching.
• Paid Time Off – Both compensation models offer paid time away from work.
• Fully Remote Work – Nationwide opportunity with the flexibility to work remotely within the United States.
• Meaningful Impact – Apply your program management expertise within an environment supporting critical public-sector operations.

This opportunity is available only to candidates who are authorized to work in the United States

 

Ready to lead something complex and meaningful?

If you bring deep program leadership expertise, an active PMP, and the required corrections, criminal justice, or public safety experience, we’d like to hear from you. Apply to join Trissential and help drive this opportunity