Program Deputy Director

Responsibilities

• Serves as Deputy to Executive Director to direct enterprise-level DOS INL/A aviation operations and maintenance programs across deployed locations, sustaining contractually required mission readiness, aircraft availability, and operational execution rates.
• Support leading integrated flight operations, maintenance, logistics, safety, quality, and contractor performance functions to ensure safe, compliant, and uninterrupted mission support.
• Oversee daily readiness reviews, maintenance priorities, mission schedules, risk items, staffing, and supply constraints to drive timely corrective actions and measurable performance improvement.
• Manage program resources, budgets, manpower, aircraft utilization, and sustainment requirements to meet cost, schedule, safety, readiness, and mission-support objectives.
• Enforce DOS, INL/A, FAA, OEM, host-nation, safety, security, and contractual compliance, supporting zero major safety violations and successful audits, inspections, and program reviews.
• Advise senior government leadership on fleet health, mission execution, contractor performance, operational risks, and strategic priorities, enabling data-driven decisions and improved mission outcomes.
• Drive continuous improvement across aviation operations and maintenance by analyzing KPIs, trend data, and after-action findings to increase mission completion, reduce downtime, improve fleet reliability, and strengthen contractor accountability.
• Support executive leadership of DOS INL/A aviation programs by coordinating daily operations, maintenance, logistics, safety, and contract execution to sustain mission readiness.
• Direct cross-functional aviation teams deployed across locations to align aircraft, crews, maintenance, and resources with 100% of approved operational priorities.
• Maintain strict traceability between proposal commitments and post-award management processes to minimize performance risk and protect the potential award fee.
• Upon award, ensure rapid conversion of proposal artifacts into executable program management baselines, including staffing plans, governance boards, reporting cadences, and risk registers.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 12 years of project management experience and a total of 18 years’ professional work experience.
• Minimum of 10 years of broad, in-depth experience at executive and senior management levels in business process development, process improvement, change management, project management, general leadership and management.
• Must have ten (10) years of progressive experience in maintenance of aircraft and aircraft systems. FAA Airframe & Powerplant (A&P), DAWIA, or equivalent certification.
• Experience as manager of a cross-organizational program management office (PMO) that included multiple complex projects and exceeded $10 million in total life-cycle costs.
• Broad skills and significant depth of experience in a variety of disciplines ensure rapid diagnosis of organizational performance gaps. Significant experience across all line and staff disciplines enhances ability to accurately prescribe and communicate organizational remedies.
• Demonstrated expertise in providing guidance and direction to entire large, complex projects and programs.
• Proven abilities in process development for organizationally critical processes, process improvement, change management.
• Demonstrated capability in managing multi-task projects and programs of high complexity. Broad responsibility in process design, implementation and management at upper organizational levels.
• Experience with managing and mentoring program managers and directors.
• Bachelor's Degree from an accredited university or equivalent. Will consider tradeoff between minimum education and minimum experience.