Cybersecurity Risk & Compliance Project Manager

Parsons is a company that has been shaping the future of defense, intelligence, and critical infrastructure markets for over 80 years. They are seeking a Cybersecurity Risk & Compliance Project Manager to lead planning, coordination, and reporting efforts within their Security & Risk organization, while driving shared services delivery and establishing continuity practices across workstreams.

Responsibilities:

• Lead planning, execution alignment, and capacity optimization for assigned projects
• Facilitate scope, dependency, and risk discussions; prepare leadership-ready summaries/briefs
• Develop project plans, schedules, and resource allocations to ensure timely delivery
• Track cross-initiative dependencies and identify execution risks with mitigation options
• Lead intake and prioritization efforts, implement process enhancements such as workflow and template development/optimization, and facilitate the adoption of program management tools to ensure consistency and scalability
• Establish continuity practices to reduce fragmentation and rework
• Lead Security and Risk organization shared services execution and accountability across assigned service categories
• Define and monitor shared service level expectations and performance
• Manage intake across shared services requests and prioritize workload
• Coordinate forecasts, spend tracking, and budget activities
• Support spend optimization, license rationalization, and procurement coordination
• Coordinate vendor intake, performance tracking, SLAs, and renewal workflows
• Support QBRs and vendor governance activities
• Develop and maintain KPI dashboards and metrics frameworks (Power BI)
• Support program and leadership with recurring reporting cadences (weekly, monthly, quarterly)
• Leverage automation and AI tools to improve reporting efficiency
• Lead or support enterprise task forces, M&A integration, and transformation initiatives
• Serve as cross-functional liaison (HR, IT, Legal, Procurement, Finance)
• Partner with IT Business Relationship Management (BRM) and Business Unit leadership on security-related coordination

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree required
• 4+ years in program/project management, program delivery, business analysis, or enterprise operations management experience
• Strong facilitation, stakeholder influence, and executive communication skills
• Advanced proficiency with project management tools (Jira, Confluence, MS Project, Smartsheet)
• Experience with financial coordination, budget management and vendor management
• Advanced data manipulation, visualization, and dashboard development (Power BI)
• Experience in cybersecurity, risk, compliance, or technology environments
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification
• Data analytics or Business Intelligence certification
• Experience with automation/AI tools for reporting
• Confluence, SharePoint, Power Apps, or similar knowledge management platforms