Deputy Program Manager

About the role

The Deputy Program Manager supports overall project management for a contracted NOAA program. This is a full-time key personnel role responsible for ensuring the program is organized, compliant, well-coordinated, and executed effectively across task orders, technical teams, subcontractors, and government stakeholders. This role is the prime-contractor program manager and is accountable for delivering against contract requirements, task order commitments, subcontractor dependencies, reporting obligations, and customer expectations.

Responsibilities

• Support overall project management across the IDIQ and task order levels, ensuring contract requirements, deliverables, milestones, and customer commitments are met.
• Manage the PMO operating cadence, including kickoff meetings, biweekly progress meetings, leadership reviews, task order reviews, subcontractor reviews, and internal execution meetings.
• Maintain the Integrated Master Schedule, including task order milestones, dependencies, deliverables, staffing inputs, risks, and key decision points.
• Development and maintenance of core program artifacts, including the Project Management Plan, communication plan, staffing plans, risk register, action-item tracker, deliverables tracker, decision log, change-control documentation, and progress reports.
• Drive task order implementation, including scope confirmation, resource planning, schedule tracking, deliverable tracking, risk management, reporting, and closeout support.
• Capture and resolve program risks, issues, blockers, decisions, and dependencies; escalate items that may affect cost, schedule, quality, compliance, or stakeholder expectations.
• Prepare and support customer briefings, monthly progress reports, program reviews, executive dashboards, and other status updates for NOAA and Tomorrow.io leadership.
• Ensure program records are maintained in approved systems such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects, or other program management tools.
• Support quality review of deliverables before submission to NOAA and help maintain a clear, disciplined, and collaborative operating model across Team Tomorrow.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in project management, program management, technical program management, government program execution, or a related role.
• Experience managing complex programs with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, schedules, risks, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
• Knowledge of NOAA's NWP modeling suites.
• Experience supporting government contracts, federal programs, task orders, subcontractor coordination, or customer-facing delivery programs.
• Strong project management discipline, including schedule management, risk management, action tracking, meeting facilitation, status reporting, and deliverable coordination.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to prepare executive-ready status updates, meeting notes, progress reports, and follow-up communications.
• Experience using project management and collaboration tools such as Jira, Confluence, GitHub Projects, Smartsheet, Asana, Monday.com, or similar systems.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-moving environment with ambiguity, shifting priorities, and time-sensitive deliverables.

Preferred but not required

• Experience managing software, cloud, data, scientific, engineering, aerospace, weather, or federal technology programs.
• Experience working with NOAA, NASA, DoD, or other federal science/technology agencies.
• Familiarity with federal contract compliance, government reporting, and subcontractor management.