Project Manager (USASOC-CDAO)

Responsibilities

• Manage day-to-day execution of assigned USASOC CDAO projects and initiatives.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, milestones, deliverables, and dependencies.
• Cook up project activities across government personnel, contractors, technical teams, and organizational stakeholders.
• Track project scope, requirements, risks, issues, action items, and decisions through completion.
• Facilitate project meetings, working groups, status reviews, and stakeholder engagements.
• Prepare project status reports, briefings, dashboards, and executive-level updates.
• Monitor project performance against established schedules, objectives, and customer requirements.
• Identify schedule, resource, technical, and operational risks and coordinate mitigation strategies.
• Coordinate with data engineers, analysts, software developers, architects, cybersecurity personnel, and other technical resources to support successful project execution.
• Support the development and maintenance of project documentation, processes, and standard operating procedures.
• Assist with requirements gathering, documentation, prioritization, and validation.
• Support Agile and/or traditional project management methodologies as appropriate to the effort.
• Track project deliverables and ensure products are completed and submitted in accordance with contractual and customer requirements.
• Cook up dependencies between projects and identify potential impacts to the broader CDAO portfolio.
• Support resource planning and provide leadership with visibility into staffing, workload, and project execution.
• Aid with acquisition, tasking, and coordination of technical resources as required.
• Maintain accurate project records and ensure documentation is stored in accordance with program and government requirements.
• Support continuous process improvement initiatives across the CDAO organization.
• Perform other project management duties as assigned by program leadership.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree in Project Management, Business Administration, Information Technology, Computer Science, Data Analytics, or a related field; equivalent experience may be considered.
• Experience: 3+ years of project management experience, preferably supporting DoD, Army, USSOCOM, or other federal government programs.
• Technical Skills: Experience managing IT, software development, data, analytics, cybersecurity, or enterprise technology projects.
• Demonstrated experience developing and maintaining project schedules, tracking milestones, and managing deliverables.
• Experience coordinating cross-functional teams and multiple stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to develop and deliver clear project status reports and briefings.
• Strong organizational and time-management skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Experience identifying and tracking project risks, issues, assumptions, and dependencies.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining close coordination with government and contractor leadership.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced environment with changing requirements.