Principal Program Manager

Position Overview

• The Rehancement Group, Inc. (TRG) is seeking a Principal / Program Manager to lead anticipated U.S. Department of Transportation, Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Procurement System Review (PSR) support.
• This position manages contract personnel and performance across program management, recipient procurement compliance, special assignments, technical assistance, and recipient training.
• Location: Hybrid; recipient, regional, and headquarters activities as assigned.
• Travel: As needed for FTA meetings, oversight activities, conferences, summits, and workshops. Opportunity: Anticipated contract support for FTA PSR BPA; employment contingent on contract award and assignment.
• Key Personnel: Yes

Key Responsibilities

Lead the contractor team, delegate assignments, coordinate staffing and schedules, control quality, and resolve performance or personnel issues; serve as primary liaison to FTA.

Prepare and manage work plans, assignment budgets, priorities, risks, timelines, and costs; ensure required approvals precede task execution and changes to authorized scope or not-to-exceed budgets.

Submit monthly invoices, performance reports and issue logs; coordinate action-item closure, records, technical memoranda, and timely, accurate deliverables.

Attend FTA and regional coordination calls, annual review-cycle kickoff meetings, biweekly check-ins, oversight conferences, and contractor summits; prepare requested briefing materials and summaries.

Oversee risk-based procurement system reviews, including recipient information requests, pre-scoping research, desk and site reviews, findings, draft/final reports, corrective actions, and review closeout.

Direct special assignments, corrective-action support, and targeted technical assistance for FTA and recipients, including approved plans, budgets, analyses, and required technical memoranda.

Guide development of PSR manuals, program materials, oversight analyses and policy-related content; coordinate with FTA regional and headquarters offices and maintain consistent review methods.

Oversee recipient oversight workshops, regional training, webinars, and accessible training modules; develop FTA-aligned content and present at workshops when assigned.

Availability Requirement

Be available and ready to perform upon award and issuance of the first task order; provide proposed annual work-hour availability for the Phase II staffing plan.

Participate in required meetings and assigned on-site or virtual oversight and training activities; schedules and locations depend on FTA assignments.

Required Qualifications

• Minimum bachelor's degree or equivalent from an accredited institution of higher learning is required.
• Minimum 10 years of professional experience in executive leadership in the public transit industry is required; leading a consulting team on public transit-related projects qualifies.
• Demonstrated successful leadership and management of complex programs of increasing size and difficulty.
• Demonstrated success communicating orally and in writing with senior executives about challenging public transit management, operational, and technical issues.
• Demonstrated ability to complete projects on time and within budget.

Preferred Qualifications

• No additional preferred qualifications are specified by FTA.
• The Rehancement Group, Inc. provides competitive salaries commensurate with education and experience with full options for advancement and a robust benefits program.
• If you are an individual with a disability and would like to request a reasonable accommodation as part of the employment selection process, please contact Dawn Newton, HR and Talent Acquisition Manager at [email protected].