Collaborative Project Order lead

The Role

We are seeking a CPO Lead to join our team and support our client.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

• Lead execution of a classified customer portfolio supporting mission operations, engineering, data, and modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for customer engagement, internal program governance, and day-to-day delivery oversight.
• Manage integrated program activities across scope, staffing, priorities, milestones, and subcontractor coordination.
• Drive performance management through schedule reviews, action tracking, issue resolution, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Partner with technical leads to align mission needs with delivery plans, resource requirements, and operational objectives.
• Ensure compliance with customer security, reporting, and operational requirements in a sensitive environment.
• Support growth objectives by contributing to capture strategy, staffing readiness, transition planning, and customer relationship management.

Work Experience and Job Skills

• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex federal, DoD, or Intelligence Community programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading mission-critical work in classified environments with distributed technical teams.
• Proven ability to manage program performance across cost, schedule, staffing, quality, and customer satisfaction objectives.
• Experience supporting NRO, NGA, or other Intelligence Community organizations is strongly preferred.
• Strong understanding of program execution in secure environments, including customer engagement, team leadership, and delivery accountability.
• Able to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, technical teams, and program staff.
• Experience managing engineering, data, cloud, or mission support portfolios is preferred.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and standard program management tools is required.

Education

• Bachelor's Degree is required. Preferred field of study in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Systems, Operations Management, or related field of study.
• MBA/Master's Degree in a relevant field of study preferred.

Certificates, Licenses and Registrations

• PMP certification or equivalent program management credential is required.
• Agile, SAFe, or related leadership certification is preferred.

Communication Skills

• Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to present proposals and performance data, comfortable interfacing all levels of organization.
• Ability to write clear and concise creative content in a highly confidential manner.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to lead customer meetings, operational reviews, and high-level program discussions.

Clearance Requirements

• This position requires the candidates to be a U.S. Citizen.
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required; polygraph eligibility or current polygraph is strongly preferred based on customer need.

Travel

• Local travel within the National Capital Region may be required for customer meetings and program reviews.
• Additional travel may be required based on mission and contract needs.

Environmental Requirements

• Mainly a routine office environment.
• May be required to lift up to ten (10) pounds.
• Flexible in working extended hours.