[Contingent] Senior Project Manager: Federal Cyber Grant Program

Overview

phia is seeking a mission-driven Project Manager to lead a multidisciplinary team supporting a federal civilian agency's cybersecurity grant and operations programs. In this role you are not managing a schedule from the sidelines—you are the single point of contact to the Government and the person accountable for how the whole program performs. You will lead a firm-fixed-price task order spanning federal cybersecurity grant programs that serve state, local, tribal, and territorial communities; the customer's service delivery model and security assessment offerings; and executive-level front office mission support. This is Key Personnel work on a high-visibility homeland security mission—your name goes in the proposal, and your leadership shapes how national cyber grant dollars reach the communities that need them.

What You'll Do

• Customer Ownership: Serve as the single point of contact to the Contracting Officer and the Contracting Officer's Representative; be available during core business hours on weekdays and respond to technical issues within 24 hours.
• Team Leadership: Provide oversight and facilitate execution across all task areas, leading task leads and a multidisciplinary team of analysts, technical writers, and administrative specialists.
• Delivery Rhythm: Own the cadence: daily leadership agendas, talking points, and meeting rollups; monthly status reports and program management reviews; and a contractor-proposed Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan.
• Grant Program Execution: Drive cybersecurity grant program support, including return-on-investment frameworks, program monitoring checklists, regional grant training, and grant close-out functions.
• Milestone Delivery: Lead quarterly program milestones such as stakeholder notification and information-request SOPs, workflow platform support packages, stakeholder survey automation, site visit support, a special events concept of operations, and field operating guidance governance.
• Project Control: Manage contract administration end to end: staffing continuity, government-furnished equipment accountability, risk and cost-variance reporting, deliverable acceptance cycles, and transition-in execution.
• Enterprise Coordination: Coordinate across customer divisions, mission enabling offices, regional field offices, partner agencies, and interagency stakeholders.
• Risk Management: Identify, track, and mitigate program risks; escalate early with a proposed course of action rather than a problem statement.
• Mission Enablement: Ensure every team member understands and complies with customer site rules, security requirements, and conduct standards.

Who You Are

• Program Leader: Seven or more years of supervisory experience leading multidisciplinary professional services teams.
• Certified Practitioner: Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Operations & Planning Depth: Seven or more years supporting Operations and Planning requirements of the same size and scope.
• Executive Communicator: Strong interpersonal, critical-thinking, communication, and writing skills, with the presence to brief senior government leadership and protect a principal in a fast-moving front office.
• Trusted Advisor: A track record of advising on contract performance and management, not just reporting status.
• Suitability Ready: A U.S. citizen able to obtain a favorable federal Entry on Duty (EOD) and Public Trust fitness determination.
• Committed: Willing to be named in phia's proposal to the Government and to sign a one-page Letter of Commitment.

Preferred Skills

• A current or recent federal Public Trust suitability determination (accelerates start).
• Direct experience supporting federal cybersecurity grant programs or other federally administered grant programs, including coordination with regional field offices.
• Experience with SharePoint, MS Forms/Power Automate, Power BI, ServiceNow, and Section 508 documentation standards.
• Experience managing firm-fixed-price professional services contracts of approximately $2–4M per year and 10 or more FTE.
• Experience standing up a Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan and managing to quantitative performance metrics.

Required Education + Experience

• Education: Master's degree in business administration, public policy, communications, or a similar comparable field.
• Experience: Minimum of seven (7) years of supervisory experience and seven (7) years of demonstrated experience supporting Operations and Planning requirements of the same size and scope.
• Certification: Active PMI Project Management Professional (PMP) certification — required, no exceptions.

General Program Requirements

• Citizenship: Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Work Hours: Core daytime hours determined with the customer; Monday through Friday, excluding Federal holidays. Overtime is not authorized.
• Work Location: On-site at the customer facility in the National Capital Region as the primary duty location. Telework is not authorized except as approved by the customer.
• Travel: Travel may be required within and outside the National Capital Region, coordinated and approved in advance.
• Key Personnel: This position is designated Key Personnel. The selected candidate will be named in phia's proposal, will sign a one-page Letter of Commitment, and cannot be substituted after award without Government approval.