DEVLINHAIR Productions, Inc. (DH) is seeking an experienced project-management leader to join our Learning & Development department as Project Manager, Training. This individual will oversee day-to-day delivery across learning and training engagements, guiding project teams and coordinating the resources needed to meet client objectives.
Reporting to the Executive Project Manager, Training, the Project Manager supervises project managers, project coordinators, and assigned contractors or temporary team members.
Role Overview
The Project Manager, Training directs day-to-day project delivery for DH’s Learning & Development engagements and develops a high-performing project-management team. The role translates portfolio priorities into project plans, staffing assignments, delivery controls, and client communications.
Key Responsibilities
- Manage a portfolio of learning, training, content-development, virtual, hybrid, and live-program projects.
- Assign project managers and coordinators based on scope, capability, availability, and development needs.
- Review and approve project plans, schedules, budgets, status reports, risk logs, and change requests.
- Coach project teams on scope control, stakeholder management, documentation, forecasting, and issue resolution.
- Lead project kickoffs, governance meetings, portfolio reviews, and delivery-readiness assessments.
- Monitor milestones, dependencies, quality, staffing, financial performance, and client satisfaction.
- Escalate material delivery, budget, staffing, technical, or client risks with recommended solutions.
- Coordinate with instructional design, facilitation, creative, production, technology, finance, and sales teams.
- Maintain accurate project data in project-management, financial, timekeeping, and collaboration systems.
- Support scoping, estimating, proposal development, staffing plans, and transition from sales to delivery.
- Ensure project documentation is complete, organized, secure, and retained in accordance with agency practices.
- Facilitate post-project reviews and implement improvements based on lessons learned.
- Participate in recruiting, onboarding, performance reviews, development planning, and workload management.
- Develop reusable templates, dashboards, checklists, and standard operating procedures.
- Serve as a senior client contact and resolve delivery concerns professionally and promptly.
- Perform additional duties as assigned to support the overall success of the team.
Qualifications
Required Skills & Abilities
- Strong project, program, budget, and resource-management skills.
- Ability to supervise, coach, and evaluate project-management professionals.
- Excellent client communication, facilitation, negotiation, and issue-resolution skills.
- Advanced organization, prioritization, documentation, and attention to detail.
- Proficiency with project-management, financial-tracking, timekeeping, and collaboration systems.
- Ability to manage multiple high-visibility projects in a deadline-driven environment.
- Ability to work independently as well as collaborate as part of a team.
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience in learning, training, meetings, events, production, or agency services.
- PMP, CAPM, Agile, Scrum, or comparable certification.
- Experience managing instructional design, digital learning, or live program projects.
- Experience with portfolio dashboards, utilization planning, and project financials.
- Experience supporting enterprise or global clients.
Education & Experience
- Bachelor’s degree in project management, business, communications, education, operations, or a related field.
- Seven or more years of progressively responsible project management experience.
- Three or more years of direct people management or team-lead experience.
- Equivalent combinations of education, professional certification, and relevant experience may be considered.
Compensation
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $125,000–$150,000 annually. Final base salary will be determined based on the selected candidate’s experience, qualifications, and the scope of responsibilities assigned to the role.
Physical Requirements
- Prolonged periods of sitting and computer use, with the ability to change position as needed.
- Ability to participate in frequent virtual and in-person meetings, with or without reasonable accommodation.
- Ability to travel occasionally to client sites, training programs, and events.
- Occasional ability to move materials weighing up to 20 pounds, with reasonable accommodation available.
- Ability to work in office, remote, hotel, conference, classroom, studio, and event environments.
- Occasional early-morning, evening, or weekend work may be required to support program delivery.
Equal Opportunity Employer
DH is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, gender identity, and sexual orientation), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment based on job-related qualifications and merit.