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Lincoln Institute of Land Policy

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 1974

🤝 Non-profit

📚 Education

🏠 Real Estate

Non-profit • Education • Real Estate

Lincoln Institute of Land Policy is a nonprofit research and education organization that seeks to improve quality of life through the effective use, taxation, and stewardship of land. It produces research, data tools, publications, courses, and convenings on land and water, fiscal and property tax systems, land conservation, urban planning, and housing policy, and works with policymakers, practitioners, and communities worldwide to inform land-related decision-making.

📋 Description

• Coordinate successful delivery of geospatial, data, AI, and environmental projects for public, private, nonprofit, and philanthropic partners • Translate contracts and scopes of work into practical project plans • Track schedules, budgets, resources, dependencies, risks, and deliverables • Coordinate multidisciplinary technical teams, subcontractors, and external partners • Lead multiple complex projects from contract execution and kickoff through delivery, acceptance, and closeout • Develop and own integrated project-management plans with schedules, workstreams, milestones, deliverables, dependencies, resource plans, decision points, and acceptance criteria • Resolve project-level issues involving priorities, staffing, sequencing, technical dependencies, client expectations, and contractual requirements • Maintain project plans, meeting notes, decision logs, action registers, and team coordination using Monday.com or comparable tools • Coordinate staffing and work sequencing with technical staff and organizational managers • Ensure reviews, approvals, and client submissions occur on time • Serve as primary day-to-day lead and trusted advisor for assigned clients and partners • Lead client meetings, executive-level project updates, planning sessions, reviews, and difficult conversations • Manage expectations regarding scope, schedule, roles, dependencies, data needs, and technical constraints • Build client relationships and identify concerns, opportunities, follow-on work, changing needs, and potential extensions • Represent CGS in multi-organization project teams, steering groups, and external forums • Manage project budgets, burn rates, labor plans, subcontractor costs, forecasts, invoicing inputs, and estimates to complete • Identify scope changes, delivery risks, resource constraints, and unresolved decisions and lead mitigation • Lead change-management processes and support amendments, modifications, or revised scopes • Support federally funded contracts, grants, cooperative agreements, and subawards, including reporting and compliance coordination • Maintain documentation for financial oversight, contractual accountability, audits, and organizational decision-making • Coach and mentor project managers, technical leads, and other staff • Establish operating rhythms including planning sessions, standups, reviews, retrospectives, risk reviews, and executive status reporting • Promote consistent project-management practices and adapt processes to project needs • Analyze lessons across projects and recommend improvements to delivery predictability, financial performance, client experience, and organizational scalability

🎯 Requirements

• Undergraduate degree or equivalent professional experience in project management, business, public administration, environmental science, geography, technology, or related field • 7 or more years of progressively responsible experience managing complex consulting, professional-services, technology, research, environmental, or other client-facing projects • Significant responsibility for project financial performance and client relationships • Experience running large, complex, or multidisciplinary projects involving multiple workstreams, stakeholders, technical disciplines, or partner organizations • Ability to manage scopes, schedules, budgets, deliverables, dependencies, risks, and cross-functional teams • Excellent written and verbal communication skills • 5 or more years of experience managing geospatial, remote sensing, data science, AI, software, or environmental projects • 3 or more years of experience managing large government or federally funded engagements, including prime contracts, subcontracts, grants, cooperative agreements, or subawards • Strong understanding of professional-services project economics, including labor planning, burn rates, estimates to complete, budget-to-actual analysis, and financial implications of scope and staffing decisions • Ability to translate technical and contractual information into practical project plans • Demonstrated ability with project management platforms, such as Monday.com • Ability to work effectively in a fast-moving, fully remote environment with multiple concurrent priorities • Passion for collaborative, inclusive, and client-centered project delivery • PMP, Agile, Scrum, or comparable project management training or certification (nice to have) • Familiarity with cloud environments, data platforms, or AI development processes (nice to have) • Domain expertise in water modeling, remote sensing, and geospatial data analysis (nice to have) • Proficiency with ArcGIS Pro, ArcGIS Enterprise, or QGIS (nice to have) • Programming and automation tools experience (a plus) • Cover letter and resume required

🏖️ Benefits

• 3x employer contribution towards retirement matching your employee contribution up to 15% • Health insurance with no deductible • Dental insurance • Vision insurance • Copay assistance through an employer-funded health reimbursement account • Short-term disability coverage • Long term disability coverage • Paid parental leave • Voluntary insurances such as accident insurance • Health care flexible spending • Dependent care flexible spending • Paid time off for holidays, vacation, personal, sick, bereavement, and jury duty • Office closure between December 24 Jan 1 each calendar year • Flexible schedule and option for a compressed 4 day workweek • Tuition and staff development reimbursement • Pet insurance • Employee Assistance Program • Fully remote work arrangement