Program Management Manager

Position Responsibilities

• Builds and maintains working relationships with customers, team members, vendors, and other stakeholders.
• Responsible for the staffing, management, quality, and performance on the contract.
• Develop major concepts, initiatives, processes, procedures, PM tools and programs.
• Affirm and enhance programs Requirements Definition, Strategic Planning, and Stakeholder Analysis.
• Generate Project Charter, Project Management Plan, and After Action Reports.
• Prepare and facilitate informal workshops, briefings, and applying project Customer Project Processes, Procedures, and Program Management best practices for Government audiences.
• Drive the organization towards meeting customer requirements and strategic initiatives. Align team to program/customer vision and expectations.
• Ensure contract deliverables are submitted on a timeline basis.
• Provides leadership, guidance, training and resources to the contract leads, program team leads and individuals performers on their team.
• Process Improvement Guide and define business improvement and organizational process to drive critical functional areas to success.
• Develop and present needs assessments, briefings, position papers, and reports.
• Leverage leadership team and problem-solving methodologies to foster solutions alleviating strategic roadblocks and create innovative solutions for ambiguous problem-sets.
• Facilitate meetings, informal workshops and brown-bag-type sessions related to customer initiatives, methodologies, and programs for audiences up to the executive level.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's and fifteen (15) years or more of related experience; Masters and thirteen (13) years or more experience; PhD or JD and ten (10) years or more experience.
• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must have an Active Secret Clearance at start.
• Five (5) years of experience as a personnel manager, Deputy PM, Technical Lead or Project Manager on contracts of a team of similar size, scope and complexity.
• PMP Certification.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication – Oral and Written.
• Proficient with Microsoft applications and programs (Visio, Project, Publisher, SharePoint, Outlook, Excel).
• Comprehensive and thorough knowledge of Best Practices Studies, Business Case Analysis, Creative Problem Solving, Decision Briefing, Project Management Processes, Project Activity Implementation, and Risk Management, Strategic Planning.

Desired Skills

• Experience with DoD Tactical Networks.
• Financial management and Financial Planning.
• Operational or analytic production experience.
• Knowledge of Change management, Facilitation, Organizational Assessment, Process Modeling, Business Planning, Business Process Reengineering, Consensus Building, Organizational Restructure, Design, and Implementation, Project Management Processes, Data Modeling, and Benchmarking/metrics.
• Demonstrated ability to quickly ramp up to support customer’s needs, clearly communicate (orally and written) ideas, take initiative to provide creative solutions to challenges and/or systemic problems.

Target Salary Range

$160,001 - $200,000.