Full Time: Project Manager

The Project Manager is a key member of our team responsible for leading projects from kickoff to completion. This role will manage timelines and budgets, coordinate tasks and team members, and communicate with clients to ensure high-quality deliverables. A qualified candidate is someone who:

Gets excited about working with communities and organizations to create meaningful, long-term change.
Is familiar with economic and community development concepts and strategies.
Feels confident managing multiple projects simultaneously while keeping timelines and people on track but isn’t afraid to ask for help when needed.
Feels confident taking the lead, even when the path forward isn’t totally clear.
Enjoys public speaking, leading client meetings, and facilitating conversations that move projects forward.
Can translate complex ideas into clear, compelling written narratives and presentations.
Understands how to navigate public and private funding opportunities.
Loves to collaborate but also thrives working independently in a remote setting.
Has a systems mindset and loves organizing workflows, files, and project tools.
Isn’t afraid to ask questions and explore creative solutions.
Brings curiosity, empathy, and creativity to community engagement.
Can balance structure with flexibility and adapt quickly when priorities shift.
Is comfortable making decisions, solving problems, and leading a team through ambiguity.
Wants to contribute to a mission-driven, tight-knit team that values quality, trust, and impact.

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A NOTE ON QUALIFICATIONS & SKILLS

We’re committed to building a team that brings diverse perspectives, experiences, and strengths to our work. We value what you can do over where or how you’ve done it, and we recognize that skills can be developed in many different ways. While no candidate is expected to have every skill listed, the above strengths tend to support success in this role.

Key Responsibilities

The Project Manager role is highly involved, dynamic, and multifaceted. The responsibilities listed below reflect the range of the position’s day-to-day duties, though every project (and community or organization) is unique.

Project Management

Lead multiple strategic planning and/or technical assistance projects from start to finish, developing timelines, delegating tasks, managing budgets, and coordinating deliverables with the support of Project Coordinators.
Serve as clients' primary point of contact throughout project lifecycles, communicating regularly to share updates, collect feedback, and address questions or concerns.
Participate in regular internal meetings.
Use tools like Slack, Asana, and Google Workspace to manage internal communications and project tasks.
Provide project support to other Project Managers when requested.

Business Development

Support business development efforts by monitoring and assessing RFPs, participating in discovery calls, drafting proposal narratives and budgets, and peer reviewing submissions.

Public Engagement

Develop content for public engagement activities such as interviews, focus groups, visioning sessions, and online activities using tools like Social Pinpoint.
Facilitate public engagement activities (in-person and virtual), including visioning sessions, focus groups, and workshops.

Strategic Planning & Research

Use and understand software such as ESRI Business Analyst and JobsEQ to collect secondary data.
Work closely with Project Coordinators to conduct research and analyze project-specific data.
Develop narrative for data-driven project deliverables (e.g., presentations, public input reports, community assessments, market analyses, strategic plans, funding roadmaps, etc.).
Review, revise, and finalize project deliverables.

Funding Strategy & Grant Support

Research and understand local, state, federal, and philanthropic funding opportunities to ensure project alignment.
Draft funding strategies for plans and resource roadmaps.
Provide grant writing support and post-award coordination when necessary.

Location & Travel

While our headquarters is in Washington, DC, our entire team works remotely; this position has no location requirements. This is a 100% remote position with some expectation of travel (approximately 15%). This position requires occasional travel to project locations for site visits and public engagement activities and typically includes overnight stays. Travel is planned and coordinated based on the team’s availability. All travel expenses are covered per our company travel policy.

Compensation & Benefits

This is a full-time position with a starting salary range of $65,000-80,000. In addition, Atlas offers a comprehensive benefits package, including:

Generous holiday time off (includes all federal holidays and company-wide end-of-year PTO)
Responsible and required PTO
100% medical coverage for employees
Vision and dental insurance
Short- and long-term disability insurance
401(k) with up to a 4% match, fully-vested on day one
Paid parental leave
Life insurance
Profit-sharing bonuses
Professional development opportunities
Flexible work schedules
Mission-driven, collaborative team culture

Ready to Apply?

Accepting applications until May 19, 2025 @ 11:59 pm CST. The application process is designed to reduce hiring bias.

Complete the short questionnaire on our website and upload your resume. All personal and identifying information will be redacted by an individual not involved in the hiring process prior to review.
Applications will be scored using a pre-determined rubric, and selected applicants will participate in a 45-minute interview with two team members.
Interviews will be scored using a pre-determined rubric, and selected applicants will have a final interview with our CEO.

We appreciate every applicant’s time and interest in the position, and we will contact each candidate regarding the outcome of their application.

Please note: To ensure a fair and equitable process, we are not conducting individual conversations outside of the formal application process. We will only review applications submitted through the official process outlined in the job posting. Unsolicited emails, messages, or resumes sent outside of this process will not receive a response.

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