Job Description
Job Title: Senior Project Manager - Crisis & Incident Management (Enterprise
Resilience)
Job Type: 6-months
Schedule: 37.5hrs weekly, Hybrid (onsite NYC 3 days a week)
Location: New York City, NY

Job Summary
We are looking for aSenior Project Manager to drive execution of a high-visibility
Enterprise Crisis & Incident Management initiative.This initiative is designing and
implementing enhancements to the organization's crisis management capabilities,
including the build-out of a 24/7 operations center.
The initiative spans multiple working groups and disciplines, covering strategic
development, playbook development, technology workflows,and keycapabilities.
The workis active, milestone-driven,and reported to senior leadership on a
regular basis.
This role is primarilyabout deliveryleadership.You will be responsible for
planning, coordinating,and tracking a multi-workstream program involving crisis
management, communications, technology, security, risk, cyber,and corporate
functions.You will keep actions current, follow up with workstream owners,
ensure deliverables and timelines are clear,and build executive-level project
updates thatallow leadership to make informed decisions quickly.
The ideal candidate brings deep projectand program management experience
within large, complex organizations, preferablyin financial services.Familiarity
with resilience, crisis management, or risk-related initiatives is a plus, but the
primaryfocus of this role is execution and delivery.
Key Responsibilities
Program Execution & Delivery
• Develop and maintain integrated project plans, timelines, milestones,
dependencies,and deliveryroadmaps across all workstreams.
• Coordinate multiple workstream owners and stakeholders to ensure
alignmentand timely execution.
• Keep action logs current, follow up proactively with owners,and surface
blockers early.
• Drive issue resolution, escalation management,and risk mitigation.
• Track progress against milestones and clearlycommunicate status to
leadership on aregular cadence.
Executive Reporting & Governance
• Prepare executive-level status reports, decision-support materials,and
governance updates thatare clear, concise,and action-oriented.
• Facilitate governance forums, working groups,and executive steering
meetings.
• Ensure deliverables, owners,and timelines are explicitand visible across
all workstreams atall times.
• Manage dependencies across business, technology, risk, compliance,and
operational teams.
Required Qualifications
• 7+ years of project or program management experience.
• Proven trackrecord delivering large, cross-functional initiatives in
complex organizations.
• Strong experience developing project plans, managing dependencies,
tracking milestones,and driving execution.
• Demonstrated abilityto influence stakeholders and lead workacross
multiple teams without directauthority.
• Experience preparing executive-level presentations, reporting,and
governance materials.
• Strong communication, facilitation,and organizational skills.
• Experience managing programs involving business, technology, risk,
compliance, or operational stakeholders.
• Proficiency with standard project management methodologies and tools.
Preferred Qualifications
• Experience within financial services, insurance, banking, or other highly
regulated industries strongly preferred.
• Exposure to enterprise resilience, operational resilience, crisis
management,global security, business continuity, risk management, or
governance programs.
• Experience working in global security, intelligence, or fusion center
environments.
• Familiarity with crisis simulation exercises, incident response
coordination, or real-event support.
Key Competencies
• Highly organized and detail-oriented, with a bias toward action.
• Solution-focused: identifies problems and brings options, not just issues.
• Strong stakeholder engagementand facilitation skills.
• Comfortable operating independentlyin fast-moving, high-pressure
environments.
• Confident communicating with and presenting to senior executives.
Strong backgrounds include:
• Senior Project Manager or Program Manager roles leading complex, crossfunctional transformation initiatives involving business, technology, risk,
compliance,and operations.
• Enterprise PMO leadership roles within large financial institutions,
insurance companies, or other regulated organizations.
• Operational Resilience, Risk, Governance, Regulatory Remediation, or
Enterprise Change Management programs in a project/program management
capacity.
• Consulting engagements focused on program delivery, transformation
execution, or large-scale change initiatives.
This role is likely notafit for candidates who:
• Have only written frameworks, policies, or playbooks without direct
deliveryaccountability.
• Have no exposure to time-sensitive, high-pressure operational
environments.
• Cannot speakclearlyto their role in an actual or simulated incident. 
 
At SPECTRAFORCE, we are committed to maintaining a workplace that ensures fair compensation and wage transparency in adherence with all applicable state and local laws. This position’s starting pay is: $ 100.00/hr.