Program Manager
Tomorrow.io · College Park, MD · 1 mo ago
HybridInformation Technology$130/hrFull-time
About the role
The Program Manager will lead overall project management for a NOAA contracted program. This is a full-time key personnel role responsible for ensuring the program is organized, compliant, well-coordinated, and able to execute effectively across task orders, technical teams, subcontractors, and government stakeholders.
Responsibilities
- Lead overall project management for the NOAA contracted program across the IDIQ and task order levels, ensuring contract requirements, deliverables, milestones, and customer commitments are met.
- Serve as the primary program management liaison with NOAA stakeholders, including the Contracting Officer, COR, Program Team, and other government stakeholders as appropriate.
- Manage the PMO operating cadence, including kickoff meetings, biweekly progress meetings, leadership reviews, task order reviews, subcontractor reviews, and internal execution meetings.
- Establish and maintain the Integrated Master Schedule, including task order milestones, dependencies, deliverables, staffing inputs, risks, and key decision points.
- Lead 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.
- Oversee task order implementation, including scope confirmation, resource planning, schedule tracking, deliverable tracking, risk management, reporting, and closeout support.
- Cover technical leadership, and corporate functions to ensure execution is aligned, dependencies are visible, and blockers are resolved quickly.
- Partner with Ops to support contract execution requirements, including labor visibility, subcontractor support, ODCs, invoicing inputs, staffing, onboarding, and compliance needs.
- Maintain visibility into 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
- 8+ years of experience in project management, program management, technical program management, government program execution, or a related role.
- PMP Certification (certification number to be verified)
- Experience managing complex programs with multiple workstreams, stakeholders, schedules, risks, deliverables, and reporting requirements.
- 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.
- Experience supervising and managing teams.
Skills
- Experience managing software, cloud, data, scientific, engineering, aerospace, weather, or federal technology programs.
- Familiarity with federal contract compliance, government reporting, and subcontractor management.
Benefits
Comprehensive health benefits, unlimited paid time off and other benefits included. Relocation assistance may be offered/available for certain roles.
Pay
Anticipated salary range for this role is $130-150k subject to local market and candidates skills and experience.
Schedule
Full-time position.