Senior Project Manager; Contractor

Position: Senior Project Manager (Contractor)
At Starr & Associates (S&A), Senior Project Managers provide program level delivery leadership for large, complex, multi-year initiatives operating in regulated and compliance driven environments. This role oversees emissions and environmental programs spanning data, technology, operations, and compliance, ensuring alignment with regulatory timelines, audit expectations, and enterprise performance objectives.

This role operates within a consulting environment, requiring the ability to serve as a trusted client advisor, manage ambiguity, and translate evolving requirements into structured delivery plans while maintaining accountability for outcomes.

This role operates within a consulting environment, requiring prior experience managing client expectations, navigating ambiguity, and delivering outcomes across multi stakeholder initiatives while representing Starr & Associates (S&A) with credibility and professionalism.

This role partners closely with executive sponsors, business leaders, and technology stakeholders to align strategic intent with execution, proactively manage risk, and ensure delivery outcomes are defensible, auditable, and sustainable over time.

• Decision Enablement: Frame complex issues into clear options and recommendations to support timely executive decision making.
• Strategic Alignment: Ensure program delivery remains aligned to enterprise strategy, regulatory intent, and evolving business priorities.

Senior Project Managers are expected to bring a consultative, hypothesis-driven approach to delivery, leveraging structured problem solving, executive communication, and disciplined governance to help clients navigate complexity and make informed decisions.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Client Advisory: Serve as a trusted advisor to client stakeholders, providing guidance on delivery strategy, sequencing, and risk tradeoffs.
• Delivery Leadership: Lead enterprise scale, multi year emissions and environmental programs aligned to regulatory objectives.
• Governance & Controls: Establish and maintain delivery governance, standards, and escalation frameworks.
• Workstream Oversight: Oversee multiple project managers and workstream leads across parallel initiatives.
• Integrated Planning: Develop and maintain integrated delivery plans covering scope, schedule, resources, and dependencies.
• Risk Management: Identify, assess, and mitigate delivery level risks before they impact outcomes or compliance.
• Executive Reporting: Provide executive level visibility into delivery health, risks, progress, and readiness.
• Firm Representation: Represent Starr & Associates with professionalism and credibility in all client interactions.

Education

• Bachelor’s Degree required
• Preferred fields include Business, Engineering, Information Systems, Environmental Studies, or related disciplines

Required Skills

• 10 plus years of project or program management experience
• Experience leading large, multi year initiatives in regulated or compliance driven environments
• Proven ability to manage multiple project managers and delivery teams
• Strong experience in delivery governance, planning, and execution oversight
• Experience managing initiatives involving data platforms, system integrations, and analytics
• Strong client facing communication skills in consulting environments

Nice-to-Have Skills (Preferred, Not Required)

• Prior experience in management consulting or advisory roles supporting complex client engagements (requirements ambiguity, stakeholder alignment, and delivery governance).
• Experience using industry standard project management and portfolio tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Clarity, or Planview.
• Prior experience in management consulting or advisory roles supporting client engagements
• Experience supporting emissions, environmental, or sustainability programs
• Background in utilities, energy, industrial, or asset intensive industries
• Experience using industry standard project management tools such as Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Jira, Azure Dev Ops, Clarity, or Planview

Required Competencies

• Consulting Mindset: Approaches delivery through an advisory lens focused on client outcomes and long term value.
• Client Influence: Builds trust with senior stakeholders and drives alignment across competing priorities.
• Execution Discipline: Maintains structure, rigor, and accountability across complex delivery efforts.
• Professional Judgment: Exercises sound judgment while representing the firm in high visibility situations.
• Structured Thinking: Applies rigorous, structured approaches to problem solving and delivery management.
• Executive Presence: Demonstrates confidence, clarity, and professionalism when engaging with senior client leaders.

Flexible work from home options available.