Director of Project Management Office

Come join our team at Jefferson Lab, where great minds matter.

Posting Re-Posted Date: 08/06/2025
Salary Range: $147,600 - $237,300 (SSA)
Work Location Type: Remote

What your job will be like:

Are you looking to join a team of high performing professionals, who are focused, driven and motivated to deliver on projects that are on the cutting edge of scientific discovery? If so, consider joining Jefferson Lab as the Project Management Office Director. Reporting to the Deputy Lab Director for Operations & Chief Operating Officer, you will lead a world class team of project controllers, risk analysts, project managers and project management training professionals to support the lab's projects. You will also partner with leaders and staff from across the lab to ensure projects are successfully executed and present results to both external and internal stakeholders on the status of the project support capabilities.

In this role you will:

• Monitor projects, programs and portfolio to ensure compliance with project policies and standards as well as keeping to schedules, budgets and quality expectations
• Set Project Management Office (PMO) support priorities by partnering with project managers throughout the lab
• Create center of excellence that aligns with DOE Order 413.3B, Project Management Institute (PMI) guidelines, and other best practices
• Develop and maintain training programs, document templates, and guides to ensure all Jefferson Lab projects managers and project team members have ready access to necessary resources and can effectively apply the lab's management policies, procedures, workflows, and tools
• Work with leadership to identify and develop a pipeline of capable project managers and support staff
• Develop and distribute frequent communication to enhance lab wide awareness of project management skills, best practices, and lessons learned
• Develop strategy for PMO growth and continuous improvement that aligns with the Lab Strategy
• Design and maintain a repository of all project artifacts that provides for immediate access by all project team members with rigorous change control
  

Qualifications we require:

Education:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, STEM, or other relevant discipline

Experience

• 15 years relevant experience and 5 or more years Leadership Experience
• Experience executing a project using DOE 413.3B guidelines
• Project controls experience

Experience and Education Exchange

• Additional Education or Work Experience may be substituted
  

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities

• Demonstrated experience establishing a new Project Management Office (PMO)
• Ability to review project management plans, reports, and presentations for compliance with Jefferson Lab standards, assess the realism and risk of project plans, and provide expert and timely guidance on actions to resolve cost, schedule, or capability variances
• Ability to partner with stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization to develop solutions to ensure project success based on the organizational strategy and mission needs that prepares a team for success
  
• Ability to effectively communicate status with both internal and external stakeholders
• Knowledge and highly skilled in the design and application of Earned Value Management techniques (ANSI , ISO 21508, or ANSI EIA-478 or equivalent)
• Knowledge of how to effectively integrate project management services into a project team and recruit project services staff and leaders to support
• Skilled in the implementation and use of Oracle Primavera P6 Enterprise Project Portfolio Management and Critical Path Method scheduling techniques
• Ability to work in a federal prime contract environment governed by the Federal Acquisition Regulations and agency-specified project management requirement
  

Qualifications we prefer:

Education

• Master's degree in Business, Project Management, STEM, or other relevant discipline

Experience

• 10 or more years Project Management, Project Controls, Risk Management, and/or Project Management Training
• Certified Project Management Professional (PMP)

About Jefferson Lab

Join a community with a common purpose of solving the most challenging scientific and engineering problems of our time. The Jefferson Lab campus is located in southeastern Virginia amidst a vibrant and growing technology community. A career at Jefferson Lab is more than a job. You will be part of "big science" and work alongside top scientists and engineers from around the world unlocking the secrets of our visible universe. Managed by Jefferson Science Associates, LLC; Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility is entering an exciting period of mission growth and is seeking new team members ready to apply their skills and passion to have an impact. You could call it work, or you could call it a mission. We call it a challenge. We do things that will change the world.

Total Rewards at Jefferson Lab

At Jefferson Lab, we believe that a comprehensive employee benefits program is an important and meaningful part of the compensation employees receive. Our benefits program includes, but is not limited to:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision Care Plans

• Flexible Spending Accounts

• Paid Time-off and Leave Programs (Paid Parental, vacation, holidays, and sick leave)

• 401(k) Plan – 9% Lab Contribution; 100% vested

• Flexible Work Arrangements (Remote & Alternate Work Schedules available)

• Tuition Assistance, Training and Professional Development Programs

• Live near the waterways of the Chesapeake Bay region with access to nearby beaches, mountains, and all major metropolitan centers on the East Coast

Jefferson Science Associates, LLC (JSA) manages and operates the Thomas Jefferson National Accelerator Facility (Jefferson Lab). JSA is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

JSA is committed to providing reasonable accommodations for persons with disabilities (unless doing so will result in an undue hardship). If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the employment process, please send an e-mail to employment @ or call to provide the nature of your request. Reasonable accommodations are considered on a case-by-case basis.

Employment with JSA is conditional upon DOE approval if at any time during your employment you are participating in a Foreign Government Talent Recruitment Program or Affiliated activity. Generally, such programs/activities include any foreign-state-sponsored attempt to acquire U.S.-funded scientific research through programs run or funded by the government that target scientists, engineers, students, academics, researchers, and entrepreneurs of all nationalities working or educated in the United States. This includes positions or appointments, both domestic and foreign, titled academic, professional, or institutional appointments whether or not remuneration is received and whether full-time, part-time or voluntary.