Position Title: Program Manager - Expert
Location: Springfield, VA
Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI
Duties may include:
- Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management expertise and assistance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO).
- Provide support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s.
- Provide business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control.
- Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results.
- Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams.
- Interface with Agency organizational areas, end users/customers including foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks, develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that ensure technical results and program performance.
- Provide program management support to Agency Management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering.
- Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the Agency Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities.
- Support the development, coordination and governance management of Request For Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents.
- Monitor the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents.
- Provide decision support analysis, leveraging techniques, tools and models, to influence the definition and delivery of GEOINT Services priorities and objectives.
- Support the preparation of briefing packages for the Acquisition Governance Process and other related governance boards.
- Support the coordination of program management between the Engineering Divisions, CIO-T Offices, Planning and Programs Office, Agency Directorates and Associate Directorates.
- Support Agency and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards.
- Support Enterprise Release Planning.
- Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s) and / or Assessments.
- Support cross functional/cross geographical team meetings.
- Maintain PMO artifacts using customer approved software, tools and processes.
- Provide acquisition program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution; working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and applications.
- Monitor validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and traceability to requirements.
- Responsibiltiy for ensuring that security guidance flows from the PM to the developer for satisfying the requirements to deliver the system, to include the schedule for delivering a certified and accredited system.
Skills and Experience:
Required
- U.S. Citizenship.
- Current Top Secret clearance with current SCI access and in-scope SSBI date.
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance.
- 15 Years of demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques.
Desired
- Demonstrated specialized experience in Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in Department of Defense (DoD) and or Agency acquisition processes.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with the development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in managing Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contracts.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results.
- Demonstrated specialized experience tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with the identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities.
Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Woman-Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in Herndon, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.
Compass, Inc. is an affirmative action/equal opportunity employer (M/F/D)