# Senior Program Manager - Cooperative Research Programs

Job Description Summary: ** NOTE A COVER LETTER IS REQUIRED FOR CONSIDERATION **The Transportation Research Board (TRB), a division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, provides leadership in transportation innovation through objective, evidence-based research and convenes experts from government, industry, and academia to address complex transportation challenges. Within TRB, the Cooperative Research Programs (CRP) are applied research programs-including the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP), Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP), and others-that develop practical, implementable solutions to current and emerging transportation issues through stakeholder-driven research and collaboration. The Senior Program Manager provides senior-level program management for a complex and diverse portfolio of cooperative transportation research projects. This role has no direct supervisory responsibilities and combines portfolio-level accountability with hands-on management of complex and high-visibility research projects. Reporting to the Program Director, the Senior Program Manager exercises subst

- **Id**: 3882243
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/nationalacademies-senior-program-manager-cooperative-research-programs>
- **Role**: Management
- **Role family**: Management
- **Seniority**: senior
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-06T18:32:53Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-06
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-09T08:26:53Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 2
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 11171
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- **Benefits**: Education assistance, Life insurance, Vision insurance
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Think Tanks & Policy Research, Research Institutes

## Company

- **Id**: 45339
- **Name**: Nationalacademies
- **Domain**: nationalacademies.org
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/nationalacademies>
- **Size band**: 501-1000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workday

### Truth index

- **Grade**: A
- **Score**: 95
- **Open postings**: 8
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 94
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

## Technologies

- **Asana** — Optional: no
- **Microsoft Teams** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 2

## Requirements

- **Experience years min**: 6
- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-06T18:32:53Z

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 2
- **Expected fill days**: 94
- **Reasons**: conf:8, win:early
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-09T06:03:00Z

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