Project Manager/Regulatory Lead (Federal Agency) at Aalis Management Consulting in Washington, DC, USA

Job description

• Aalis Management Consulting is seeking an experienced Project Manager / Regulatory Lead to lead federal regulatory and public-comment projects supporting a federal customer. This position will serve as a key point of contact for project execution and will be responsible for coordinating regulatory activities, managing schedules and deliverables, monitoring risks, and ensuring high-quality work products.
• The ideal candidate has direct experience supporting Federal notice-and-comment rulemaking, public-comment analysis, regulatory writing, and policy analysis.

Responsibilities

• Lead day-to-day execution of federal regulatory and public-comment projects.
• Manage project schedules, milestones, deliverables, priorities, and multiple concurrent deadlines.
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders, subject matter experts, analysts, and project team members.
• Support Federal regulatory and notice-and-comment rulemaking activities from planning through final deliverables.
• Develop, review, and edit regulatory, policy, analytical, and project documentation.
• Coordinate the collection, organization, review, and analysis of public comments.
• Establish project workflows, review processes, and quality-control procedures.
• Monitor project risks, issues, dependencies, and schedule impacts and develop mitigation strategies.
• Ensure deliverables are accurate, complete, consistent, and submitted on schedule.
• Lead project meetings, track action items, and communicate project status to Government stakeholders and leadership.
• Review team products and ensure work aligns with Government requirements and established methodologies.
• Coordinate across regulatory, policy, legal, analytical, and technical workstreams.
• Prepare status reports, briefings, dashboards, and other customer-ready materials.
• Identify process improvements that increase efficiency, consistency, and quality of regulatory and public-comment activities.
• Provide leadership and direction to supporting Comment Analysts and Data Support personnel.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in public policy, political science, government, regulatory affairs, business, communications, legal studies, or related field.
• 7+ years of relevant Federal regulatory, policy, program management, or analytical experience.
• Demonstrated experience managing complex Federal projects with multiple deadlines and stakeholders.
• Experience supporting Federal regulatory or public-comment activities.
• Strong project management, organizational, and communication skills.
• Experience developing and reviewing professional, Government-facing written deliverables.
• Ability to manage competing priorities and work independently in a remote environment.
• Direct notice-and-comment rulemaking experience.
• Federal regulatory writing or policy analysis experience.
• USDA or other Federal agency experience.
• Experience managing public-comment projects.
• Experience coordinating multidisciplinary teams.
• PMP or comparable project management certification.
• Experience with Regulations.gov, FDMS, or Federal rulemaking systems.

Skills

Required

• Project management
• Organizational skills
• Communication skills
• Regulatory and policy analysis
• Federal project management
• Written communication
• Remote work
• Time management

Preferred

• Notice-and-comment rulemaking
• Federal regulatory writing
• Policy analysis
• USDA or other Federal agency experience
• Public-comment project management
• Multidisciplinary team coordination
• PMP or comparable certification