Project Manager

Project Manager (Full-Time, Temporary)

Position Summary

The Project Manager role requires an organized, proactive individual who thrives on keeping complex, multi-workstream engagements moving on time and on scope. The Project Manager will work alongside account leads, strategists, writers, designers, and production partners to plan, coordinate, and primarily deliver an integrated communications program for a public sector client.

This is a six-month project-based employment position, expected to conclude upon the completion of the project and/or the six-month time frame. Pinkston may consider extending or converting this full-time temporary position to an extended role based on performance and business need.

A successful Project Manager will be detail-oriented, comfortable building processes, adept at managing competing priorities, confident coordinating internal teams and outside vendors, and willing to hold colleagues and partners accountable to deadlines. This role suits someone who enjoys being the person who makes the trains run on time—and who is equally comfortable rolling up their sleeves on the work itself.

The Project Manager will work at our Falls Church, Virginia office.

Additional Details

• Status: Full-Time, Fixed Term W-2
• Term: Six month/Project Based, with potential to extend
• Work Location: Falls Church, Virginia
• Travel: Occasional, less than 10%
• Salary: $75K–$85K annually

Role Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day project management for a public sector client engagement—planning, sequencing, and tracking work from kickoff through delivery.
• Manage a workstream end-to-end: sequence contributors against one schedule, hold scope, and deliver on time.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams and external partners to move deliverables from scope through delivery, holding each milestone to deadline.
• Serve as the accountability layer on the project: make sure the right people are in the right conversations, deadlines are met, and risks surface early rather than being discovered late.
• Support account leadership in client-facing meetings—preparing agendas and materials, capturing decisions and action items, and driving follow-through between meetings.
• Build and maintain the project management infrastructure the team relies on: templates, trackers, documentation, and repeatable account processes.

Skills & Qualifications

Required

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience.
• 3-4 years of professional project management experience, preferably in an agency, consultancy, or in-house communications environment for commercial or government clients.
• Demonstrated ability to translate a scope of work into timelines, budgets, resourcing plans, and deliverable trackers.