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Senior Project Manager/Project Manager

1 week ago

Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States THE WATER INSTITUTE of THE GULF Full time
The Water Institute is a not-for-profit, independent applied research and technical services institute headquartered in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The Institute's mission is to help coastal and deltaic communities thoughtfully prepare for an uncertain future in Louisiana, along the Gulf Coast, and around the world. Through an integrated and interdisciplinary approach, the Institute's work helps create more resilient communities, thriving economies, and a healthy environment.

The Water Institute research spans a variety of specialties from applied engineering to numerical modeling to human dimensions to ecology to geology to policy to planning. We partner with local, state, and federal government agencies, universities, NGOs, and other researchers to provide independent, creative applied science solutions to tackle the most difficult problems that communities and ecosystems face. More information about the Water Institute can be found at

Recently, The Water Institute founded the Community Resilience Center to increase climate resilience by addressing systemic barriers and making available more capacity and expertise to support a broader array of Gulf Coast communities. The Center works with communities to move beyond the assessment and study of risk towards the exploration, co-development, and implementation of community-focused strategies to increase resilience at every level: from individual to household, block to neighborhood, and state to federal. The Center focuses on resilience to our changing climate and the resulting cascading and compounding impacts, with an explicit emphasis on addressing systemic barriers and processes that reinforce disparate impacts.

Position Description

The Water Institute is looking for an experienced Senior Project Manager/Project Manager to manage key Institute projects, including projects within the Community Resilience Center at the Institute. Project specific tasks include the overall management of select, high profile or complex projects to assure that projects conform to the commitments the Institute has made to our partners and clients.

Roles and Responsibilities:
  • Serves as Project Manager for projects selected in coordination with the Director of Project Management and Research [BR3] Directors.
  • Manages a program of linked projects to achieve the overall objective of the program and the individual projects, while finding efficiencies and synergies between the individual projects.
  • Conducts meetings and issues correspondence to ensure project work proceeds in accordance with the relevant agreement/contract and required scope.
  • Leads management and development of the work breakdown structure.
  • Makes the required subconsultant/subrecipient selections, supports the Director of Grants and Contracts to execute contracts and monitors subconsultant/ subrecipient work. Recommends and/or coordinates changes with clients and partnersas required.
  • Performs overall quality control by reviewing for scope, schedule and project team coordination.
  • Monitors client and partner satisfaction.
  • Takes a collaborative approach to advancing the project by routinely soliciting feedback from the team and fostering internal discussion and prioritizing team decisions over individual decisions.
  • Regularly reviews project costs and trajectory to identify cost variances, elevates any variances to leadership, and participates in regular project review meetings to discuss variances.
  • Has a clear understanding of invoicing requirements, promptly completes monitoring reports and invoices, following up with clients as necessary to ensure prompt payment.
  • Achieves full acceptance of deliverables by ensuring project deliverables and work meet the requirements.
  • Collaborates with the Director of Project Management to update project management protocols, practices, and tools Institute wide.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in the social sciences, natural sciences, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 5+ years of project management experience
  • Knowledge of Gulf stakeholders related to coastal climate resilience, environmental justice, or other relevant sectors
  • Self-motivated, engaged, and team-oriented with demonstrated leadership skills
  • Extensive knowledge of contracts, budgeting, and forecasting
  • Able to execute multiple tasks under tight deadlines and prioritize responsibilities
  • Excellent analytical skills, organizational skills, and attention to detail
  • Excellent oral and written communication skills including ability to discern and clearly communicate the client's goals
  • Able to supervise technical work
  • Energetic, flexible, confident, and forward thinking
Desired Qualifications:
  • Master's Degree or PhD in the social sciences, natural sciences, or related field or equivalent experience
  • 10+ years of project management experience with demonstrated management of large, complex projects
  • 5+ years experience managing government contracts and grants, with knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations, grant reporting, and grant budgeting
  • Project Management Professional Certification or ability to obtain within 1 year
We are headquartered in Baton Rouge and the position will be located in Louisiana at our main office in Baton Rouge. This position may be hired into the Project Management Office or the Community Resilience Center depending on the successful candidate's skills and education. The hiring pay for the position starts at $95,000 and a final determination is based on the skills, education, and/or experience of the successful candidate. We believe in the importance of pay equity and consider the internal equity of our current staff as part of any final offer. We also offer a generous benefits package for full-time exempt positions.

Unique Benefits of a Water Institute Career
  • Growth opportunity: We are always learning and developing new research methodologies and working with partners to solve problems. You will have the opportunity to engage in growing and leading research with ample opportunities to take ownership and grow.
  • Flexibility: We understand that our team members have different needs and do our best to work with their schedules while getting the job done.
  • Inclusive environment: We are committed to building an inclusive environment where all teammates feel comfortable and supported.
  • Fun We love to keep things fun, both within our work and at company-wide events.
  • Work life balance: We are respectful of people's boundaries and support that through Institute values as well as our Flexible Leave Policy so that our team has time to recharge and do their best work within the mission of the organization.
  • The Water Institute Values: Scientific Integrity, Excellence, Transdisciplinary Collaboration, Accountability, Diversity, Work/Life Balance, Respect, Impact