Senior Project Manager

About the role

The NRO has been developing, acquiring, launching, and operating satellites for over sixty years, providing the foundation for America's space advantage and strength. Learn more at NRO.gov.

Responsibilities

• Assist the Program Manager in all aspects of the execution of a billion+ dollar MSA.
• Makes sure contract progress and expenditures align with plans.
• Monitors and assesses progress, including cost, schedule, and performance, supporting baseline requirements.
• Develops, executes, and monitors risk management strategies to address areas of concern or potential gaps.
• Plans, organizes, and coordinates activities with functional specialists, including contracting, engineering, manufacturing, program controls, configuration/data management, test, and operations support.
• Works closely and substantially with the program Contracting Officer's Technical Representative (COTR) and prime contractor to ensure program objectives are achieved within stringent cost, schedule, and technical performance requirements.
• Provides authoritative recommendations, briefings, and other formal and informal feedback and status to management on all aspects of program status, contractor technical performance.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics, or equivalent technical program from an accredited university.
• Program management space systems development and acquisition experience.
• Demonstrated experience in a breadth of programmatic skills, to include program management, risk management, systems engineering, and program budget formulation/execution.
• Demonstrated ability to develop programmatic solutions that achieve acquisition goals resulting in intelligence impacts.
• Demonstrated interpersonal, collaborative, team-building, and leadership skills with proven ability to effectively execute a highly complex acquisition program.
• Experience working with the US Intelligence Community, to include civilian and DoD organizations including knowledge of the IC/DoD budgeting process.
• Experience with satellite command & control, data architectures, communications architectures, network design, large-scale hardware & software development, ICD 503 compliance, integration & test, Enterprise readiness and test activities, transition to operations, factory support of operational ground hardware/software systems.
• Advanced academic degree Engineering, Science, Technology, or Mathematics or other related technical degree or equivalent work experience.

Qualifications

• U.S. Citizenship.
• TS/SCI security clearance.
• Subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testing.
• Subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinations.

Skills

• Proactive and energetic approach to managing a technically and programmatically complex, high-visibility space and ground acquisition within tight schedule constraints.
• Informed risk-taking needed to ensure on-time delivery of the critical capability in order to avoid an Intelligence Community and Department of War mission gap.

Benefits

N/A

Pay

2026 salary range for the Washington, DC area: GGS-15 $167,446 - $197,200

Schedule

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Location

Chantilly, VA 20151

Application Instructions

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