Technical Program Manager

MANTECH seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Technical Program Manager to join our team in the Annapolis Junction, MD area.

Responsibilities

• Allocate resources (staffing, facilities, and budgets) on the contract
• Work with clients and enterprise management to determine priorities and structure the team’s work to align with those priorities, while effectively managing expectations at all levels
• Manage requirements, including coordinating and facilitating exchange meetings or forums to determine/validate requirements and ensure tasks are performed according to agreed-upon plans
• Use standard methods and procedures to track and maintain work parameters, and host/attend required meetings
• Maintain consistent, proactive, and timely communication with management and other internal stakeholders, particularly regarding outages and events that may impact other teams
• Review risk and risk mitigation activities and allocate budgets for the same
• Prepare program status reports, deliverables, and other formal reviews to be presented to clients and enterprise management
• Organize and maintain documentation that is easily interpreted by all required parties
• Collaborate with teammates, other service providers, vendors, and users to build relationships and achieve objectives
• Review all financial and technical reports before release to clients
• Communicate issues and solutions to client stakeholders in a timely and transparent manner
• Ensure compliance with all regulatory and administrative requirements imposed by the contract in coordination with internal contracts staff
• Coordinate the preparation of Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs) and value engineering proposals to clients

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree and 10+ years of experience as a Project Manager in programs and contracts
• Experience conveying technical concepts to various audiences and communicating effectively with senior managers, colleagues, and others
• Experience in a management role with an understanding of related processes and functional support elements
• Experience handling complex customer situations and interacting with all levels of personnel to provide quick and effective resolutions
• Proven ability to manage distributed teams and projects while building strong relationships with clients, stakeholders, and technical contractors
• Direct experience managing multi-task contracts and subcontracts of various types and complexity, as well as experience leading a multi-vendor environment
• Active PMP® Certification or equivalent project management certification
• Current/active TS/SCI with Polygraph clearance

Preferred Qualifications

• 7 years of hands-on relevant experience in a technical field
• Experience with Agile project management, including experience with Agile development-related project management applications such as Jira and/or ServiceNow
• Experience working with ServiceNow
• Experience with the Atlassian tool suite, including Jira and Confluence

Physical Requirements

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position at least 50% of the time
• Needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a copy machine, fax machine, computer, or printer