Education: Bachelor's degree
Experience: 6+ years
- Serve as the primary decision authority and focal point for all program-related matters.
- Oversee program execution, managing cost, schedule, and technical performance throughout all phases, from transition to contract closure.
- Develop and implement comprehensive program plans, schedules, and budgets, optimizing resource allocation and identifying cost-saving opportunities.
- Ensure timely delivery of all contract deliverables (CDRLs) and adherence to mission requirements, financial constraints, and stakeholder priorities.
- Monitor program progress, track key performance indicators (KPIs), identify risks, and implement mitigation strategies, while reporting status to senior leadership.
- Serve as the direct interface with the customer, ensuring effective communication and resolution of issues.
- Effectively communicate program status, risks, and opportunities to stakeholders at all levels.
- Build and maintain strong relationships with key stakeholders, including sponsors, employees, and teammates.
- Recommend innovative solutions and management strategies, particularly in customer-focused IT projects
- Lead change initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and addressing stakeholder concerns to minimize disruption.
- Manage critical programmatic linkages, including personnel assignments, financial constraints, and stakeholder equities.
- Foster a positive and collaborative work environment, promoting teamwork and innovation.
- Provide leadership, coaching, and performance feedback to team members.
- Resolve conflicts and negotiate solutions to complex issues.
- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology (IT), or equivalent technical discipline, or minimum of six years of work experience in IT development projects
- At least five years total experience as a program manager on projects of comparable complexity and providing specialized software development and engineering services in support of technical operations
- Demonstrated experience successfully managing disparately located personnel
- Demonstrated and current experience managing programs with complex data processing requirements
- Demonstrated and current experience managing a program delivering systems/tools/solutions in production, while transitioning to better technology solutions
- Demonstrated experience managing cost, schedule and budget of contract against mission requirements and prioritization
- Prior experience managing projects with dependencies across Intelligence Community elements
- Experience managing programs delivering technologically complex solutions to address 24/7 near-real time data processing/availability requirements
- Experience managing programs delivering tactical technical operations solutions to OCONUS locations and foreign government entities on behalf of the Intelligence Community
- Prior experience managing projects with OCONUS short- and long-term deployments
- Strong communication and interpersonal skills, both written and verbal.
- Proficiency in project management tools (e.g., Visio, Jira).
A candidate must be a US Citizen and requires an active/current TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance.
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