Remote Project Scheduler (VA ESOM)

Overview: Thank you for considering IT Concepts dba Kentro, where innovation drives opportunity and collaboration leads to success. Our dynamic community of experts is fully committed to advancing our customers' missions, fostering professional growth, and making a positive impact on our communities. By joining our supportive community, you will find that Kentro is dedicated to your personal and professional development. Together, we can drive meaningful change, spark innovation, and achieve extraordinary milestones. Kentro is seeking a seasoned Project Scheduler to support our VA\-ESOM\- End Point Support and Operations Monitoring contract across the United States and serve as the bridge between agile delivery teams and enterprise scheduling functions, translating sprint\-level work into integrated master schedules, maintaining program timelines, and surfacing risk and dependencies across a complex portfolio of technology initiatives. The Scheduler / IMS Lead builds and maintains the IMS for the CAM ESOM Support Cell tracking milestones, dependencies, critical path activities, and schedule risks across all workstreams while also owning the day\-to\-day schedule which drives prioritizations and resource allocation. You will work closely with team members, project managers, and senior leadership to ensure projects are delivered on time and within scope, collaborating effectively across distributed teams and time zones. **Location:** This position can be performed remotely within the United States and will support Eastern Time working hours. **Compensation Range:** The salary for this position is between $125\-145K/annually. Factors affecting pay within this range may include geography/market, skills, education, experience, and other qualifications of the successful candidate. Responsibilities: * Develop, maintain, and optimize integrated master schedules (IMS) using MS Project for multiple concurrent IT programs, incorporating agile sprint cadences and waterfall dependencies. * Conduct critical path analysis, resource leveling, and what\-if scenario planning to proactively identify scheduling risks and propose mitigation strategies. * Facilitate virtual scheduling governance meetings and produce weekly status reports, Gantt views, and variance analyses for executive and stakeholder consumption. * Maintain baseline schedules, track actual vs. planned progress, and manage change control in alignment with PMO standards. * Identify and report key metrics and variances in alignment with PMO guidance and standards. * Coordinate cross\-project dependency mapping and escalate conflicts to Program Managers and the Portfolio Management team. * Continuously improve scheduling processes, templates, and tools in collaboration with the broader PMO and Agile CoE. * Champion remote\-first communication practices by maintaining clear, timely documentation and proactively sharing schedule updates across distributed teams. Qualifications: * Bachelor's Degre