Project Manager - Security Advisory Services

Position Summary

The Advisory Project Manager is a client-facing delivery professional responsible for coordinating and managing consulting engagements from initiation through closeout. The Project Manager translates engagement objectives and statements of work into practical plans, coordinates delivery activities across client and Coalfire teams, and maintains clear visibility into progress, risks, decisions, and commitments.

Working across Coalfire’s Cloud, Compliance Advisory, Cloud Maintenance & Operations, and related consulting practices, the Project Manager supports successful delivery by managing scope, schedule, budget, resources, dependencies, documentation, and client communications. The role works in partnership with engagement leaders, delivery teams, and practice leadership, escalating material risks and decisions with clear context and recommended next steps.

What You’ll Do

• Client and engagement coordination
• Project planning and delivery controls
• Governance, risk and quality
• Financial and resource management
• Stakeholder communication and team collaboration
• Continous improvement 

What You'll Bring

• 3+ years of progressive project management experience, including client-facing delivery in consulting, professional services, technology, cybersecurity, compliance, advisory, or a related environment.
• Experience coordinating projects with multiple stakeholders, workstreams, deliverables, dependencies, and competing priorities.
• Working experience tracking scope, schedule, budget, resources, risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, quality, and change requests.
• Experience supporting project governance, RAID management, status reporting, and issue escalation.
• Experience collaborating with client stakeholders and cross-functional, matrixed delivery teams.
• Familiarity with project financial tracking, forecasts, resource plans, utilization, or commercial impacts.
• Working knowledge of Waterfall, Agile, and hybrid project management approaches, with the ability to apply an approach suited to the engagement.
• Strong written, verbal, presentation, facilitation, organization, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Demonstrated commitment to client service, delivery quality, professional integrity, and dependable follow-through.
• Experience in cybersecurity, compliance, cloud, technology advisory, or related consulting services is preferred.
• PMP, CAPM, CSM, PMI-ACP, or a related project management certification is preferred.
• Experience with project management tools such as Smartsheet, Jira, OpenAir, Microsoft Project, or similar platforms.
• Ability to prepare clear status reports, dashboards, financial summaries, meeting materials, and decision logs.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to organize complex information and surface actionable next steps.
• Ability to establish structure in changing environments and manage assigned work with appropriate independence.
• Foundational understanding of compliance frameworks such as FedRAMP, DoD, CMMC, ISO, SOC, or HITRUST is preferred.
• Availability to support U.S.-based delivery teams.
• Bachelor’s degree preferred, or associate degree plus equivalent experience in project management, business administration, consulting, technology, or a related field.