{"id":1133120,"url":"https://alion.io/job/pinkston-project-manager-full-time-temporary","title":"Project Manager (Full-Time, Temporary)","company":{"id":690745,"name":"Pinkston","domain":"pinkston.co","url":"https://alion.io/company/pinkston","size_band":null,"is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Workable","truth_index":null},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"middle","employment_type":"full_time","work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"structured","locations":["Falls Church, United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":{"min":75000,"max":85000,"currency":"USD","period":"year","gross":null,"usd_annual":85000},"salary_estimate":null,"experience_years_min":3,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"Asana","optional":false},{"name":"Google Workspace","optional":false},{"name":"Monday.com","optional":false},{"name":"Slack","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-09-22T00:00:00Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-09-22","last_verified_at":"2026-09-26T21:05:57Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":5,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":5},"description":"Project Manager (Full-Time, Temporary)\nPosition Summary\nThe 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.\nThis 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.\nA 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.\nThe Project Manager will work at our Falls Church, Virginia office.\nAdditional Details\nStatus: Full-Time, Fixed Term W-2\nTerm: Six month/Project Based, with potential to extend\nWork Location: Falls Church, Virginia\nTravel: Occasional, less than 10%\nSalary: $75K-$85K annually\nRole Responsibilities\nOwn day-to-day project management for a public sector client engagement-planning, sequencing, and tracking work from kickoff through delivery.\nManage a workstream end-to-end: sequence contributors against one schedule, hold scope, and deliver on time.\nCoordinate cross-functional teams and external partners to move deliverables from scope through delivery, holding each milestone to deadline.\nServe 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.\nSupport account leadership in client-facing meetings-preparing agendas and materials, capturing decisions and action items, and driving follow-through between meetings.\nBuild and maintain the project management infrastructure the team relies on: templates, trackers, documentation, and repeatable account processes.\nSkills & Qualifications\nRequired\nUndergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience.\n3-4 years of professional project management experience, preferably in an agency, consultancy, or in-house communications environment for commercial or government clients.\nDemonstrated ability to translate a scope of work into timelines, budgets, resourcing plans, and deliverable trackers.\nAbility to manage multiple concurrent projects and workstreams on tight deadlines.\nExperience coordinating cross-functional teams-writers, designers, video and production staff, digital-and holding outside vendors to schedule and budget.\nAbility to track hours, budget burn, and scope against contract, and to flag risks before they become problems.\nInitiative to self-start, build process, and problem-solve independently in a fast-paced, creative environment.\nStrong verbal and written communication skills, including comfort in client-facing settings.\nWillingness to collaborate across teams and to give and receive direct feedback.\nComfortable collaborating closely with a small team of communications professionals.\nAvailability to begin immediately.\nAlignment with Pinkston’s guiding principles.\nPreferred\nExperience managing complex digital or multimedia projects from planning through launch.\nExperience working on a contract or project basis.\nFamiliarity with research-driven or data-informed content development.\nPMP, CAPM, or comparable project management certification.\nExperience with Slack, Google Workspace, and project management platforms such as Monday.com, Asana, or similar.\nWho We Are\nPinkston is a full-service branding, marketing, and communications agency offering integrated public relations, creative, digital, and research services to transform companies and organizations. As an outcome-driven agency, Pinkston delivers customized, strategic solutions that drive real-world impact.\nBenefits\nPinkston offers a comprehensive benefits package that includes company-sponsored health, dental, and vision plans accompanied by employer-funded life insurance, HRA, and short-term disability plan. Optional long-term disability and additional Life Insurance are also available. Pinkston provides a 401k retirement plan and contributes to each employee’s retirement annually regardless of employee participation.\nAt Pinkston, we believe great things happen when people come together and are committed to building a collaborative in-person work environment. Pinkston is also committed to a healthy work-life balance. We offer flexibility through an innovative hybrid work model that gives team members the opportunity to work 30% of the time remotely. Pinkston provides generous holiday and vacation policies, paid parental leave, and an additional week of paid “volunteer time off” to encourage employees to invest time in a 501C non-profit of their choice.\nEqual Opportunity Employer\nPinkston is an equal opportunity employer that is committed to diversity and inclusion in the workplace. We prohibit discrimination and harassment of any kind based on race, color, sex, religion, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, pregnancy, or any other protected characteristic as outlined by federal, state, or local laws. This policy applies to all employment practices within our organization, including hiring, recruiting, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, leave of absence, compensation, benefits, training, and apprenticeship. Pinkston makes hiring decisions based solely on qualifications, merit, and business needs at the time.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5895,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":3,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":["401k plan","Hybrid work","Life insurance","Parental leave","Retirement plans"],"hiring_locations":[{"name":"United States","iso":"US","kind":"country"}],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Design & Creative","Media & Entertainment","Search Engine Optimization (SEO)"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-23T04:40:56Z"}],"liveness":{"score":80,"band":"hot","label":"Hiring now","p_open":1,"p_active":0.796,"p_room":1,"age_days":4,"expected_fill_days":21,"reasons":["conf:6","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-09-26T05:45:00Z"},"pay":{"stated_usd_annual":85000,"is_top_pay":false},"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/pinkston-project-manager-full-time-temporary","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/pinkston-project-manager-full-time-temporary.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-27T00:47:16Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":704,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4296,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-28T00:00:00Z"}}}