I am pretty sure it shouldn't, but want to make sure that I am doing this correctly in a proposal that I am working on.
Should job titles like "Project Manager" ever be capitalized, and if so when?
In particular I am concerned about capitalization in sentences like this where the title refers to a specific person, not the role in general.
"The Project Manager will
evaluate the alternatives and offer a
solution."
I'm a lot more certain that it should NOT be capitalized in sentences like this.
"A project manager is the person who
manages the budget and deliverable for
a project."
Best Answer
Agreed on both counts regarding the examples in the OP. That is, job titles should be capitalized when they are taking the place of a single person (or otherwise acting as a name of an entity). However, there is no need to capitalize in other cases, and it would be strange if capitalized in the second example, unless it were in a company operations manual, for example.
A similar example is when you capitalize "dad" in the sentence:
However you don't capitalize it in the following version:
The former replaces a name, where the latter simply states the relationship of the person.