Senior Human Resources Project Manager

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. To learn more about our exciting organization, please visit us at www.unissant.com.

We are seeking a Senior Human Resources Project Manager to join our team in Herndon, VA.

Position Summary

The Senior HR Project Manager is an individual contributor who serves as the primary project leader for strategic and operational initiatives within the Human Resources function. This role partners closely with company leadership and operates as the dedicated project leader for the HR function, ensuring strategic initiatives are delivered consistently and effectively. The role is responsible for planning, executing, and delivering projects that enhance HR processes, systems, and programs while ensuring alignment with federal contracting requirements and employment regulations, reporting to the Chief People Officer.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Project Leadership

• Own end-to-end delivery of HR projects such as HRIS implementations or upgrades, process redesign, policy harmonization, talent initiatives, and compliance projects.
• Define project scope, objectives, deliverables, timelines, resource plans, and success criteria in alignment with HR and organizational strategy.
• Develop and maintain detailed project plans, schedules, risk and issue logs, and communication plans; monitor progress and adjust as needed to keep projects on track.
• Facilitate project meetings, status reviews, and decision-making sessions with HR leadership and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Identify, manage, and mitigate project risks, issues, dependencies, and change requests; escalate critical items with recommended options and solutions.
• Track project budget, benefits, and performance metrics as appropriate, ensuring visibility into cost, timing, and outcomes.
• Ensure project outcomes are documented, measured KPIs, adoption, ROI where applicable, and transitioned successfully into ongoing HR operations.

Stakeholder and Change Management

• Partner with HR Business Partners, Talent Acquisition, IT, Finance, and Compliance to design and implement practical, scalable HR solutions.
• Prepare and deliver stakeholder communications, including executive updates, status reports, dashboards, and change-impact summaries.
• Design and support change management activities such as training, user guides, FAQs, town halls, and targeted communication campaigns to promote adoption of new processes and tools.
• Engage end users and HR to gather requirements, validate designs, run pilots, and incorporate feedback into project deliverables.
• Build strong relationships and influence stakeholders at all levels to drive decisions and adoption.

HR Process, Systems, and Compliance

• Lead process mapping and improvement efforts across HR areas such as onboarding, performance management, learning, benefits, and employee data management.
• Coordinate HR system changes in partnership with IT/HRIS teams, including requirements definition, configuration support, testing, and deployment activities.
• Draft or refine HR procedures and supporting documentation as part of project deliverables, ensuring alignment with existing policies and legal requirements.
• Ensure HR projects incorporate and clearly document applicable government contracting and regulatory requirements.
• Develop and maintain project documentation and standard operating procedures that support audit readiness and regulatory expectations.

Vendor and Resource Management

• Coordinate with external vendors and