Deputy Program Manager

About the role

Parsons is looking for a Deputy Program Manager (DPM) to join our Federal Solutions team. In this high-impact role, you will support leading a highly skilled cybersecurity workforce focused on defending evolving and emerging threats to critical U.S. systems with the common goal to prevent and eradicate those threats. This includes management of a team of software/systems/test engineers, data scientists, and cyber threat analysts in a deadline-driven, demanding mission space.

Responsibilities

• Support Program Manager (PM) in day-to-day program operations ensuring production schedules, mission deliverables, and performance standards are consistently met.
• Work with PM in the coordination of program functional support areas including Contract Management, Subcontract Management, Finance, and Security.
• Collaborate with mission customers including leadership and technical points of contact to ensure transparency and alignment of program execution with government requirements.
• Support program staffing requirements including writing job requisitions, posting requisitions via internal and external facing tools, and interfacing with corporate recruiters and subcontractor staffing partners.
• Join interviews with potential candidates ensuring proper feedback loop. Implement actions to coordinate next steps to add candidates to the program team and support all onboarding activities.
• Support mitigation of program risks to ensure timely and accurate solutions that support mission success.
• Review contract modifications and support the preparation of program financial outputs including labor burn assessments and delivery of estimates to customer.
• Provide input and/or provision program reports, briefings, quarterly reviews, and performance assessments to both internal corporate senior leadership and customer/contracts leadership.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Intelligence, Management, Business or related field.
• Current Program Management/Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification.
• Fifteen plus (15+) years’ experience working as part of a Program Management Office (PMO) or supporting execution of a government contract.
• Background leading high performance technical teams.
• Strong verbal and written communications skills.
• Experience supporting government proposal efforts.
• Background in defensive cybersecurity mission space is helpful but not required.
• U.S. Citizenship.
• Active TS SCI w/polygraph security clearance.

Pay

Salary Range: $134,100.00 - $241,400.00

Benefits

• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Paid time off.
• 401(k) retirement plan.
• Life insurance.
• Flexible work schedules and holidays.