We are seeking an experienced Senior Project or Program Manager to interface with key federal clients and ensure the effective oversight of multi-disciplined technical delivery services and consulting services task orders and scopes of work across multiple contract vehicles. The Program Manager will also support relationship management and business development across multiple federal agencies.
Responsibilities:
Program & Project Management
Support day-to-day operation of the federal and other government services market area, including project delivery performance, go/no-go decisions, pricing strategies, risk management, forecasting and budgeting, and performance reporting.
Direct and supervise project managers and delivery teams to ensure timely, effective, and efficient performance of project management responsibilities.
Serve as a project manager for a sub-set of projects within the group managing scope, schedule, budget, quality, and risk.
Assign projects and pursuit efforts to project managers and team leads within the group.
Evaluate and ensure project management compliance with policies and procedures (e.g. CMMI).
Identify potential risks and problem areas, recommend and implement solutions.
Conduct regular project review meetings with project managers to monitor project-level performance, budget, schedule, risk, and quality management.
Create and update processes and standard operating procedures to improve project operations
Lead and support efforts to integrate improved resource management (e.g., implementation of resource-loaded scheduling capabilities and practices).
Regularly brief senior leadership on program status and milestones
Position the company as a trusted advisor - Lead teams to meet and exceed SLAs and KPIs while managing schedules and controlling costs
Advice Corporate Leadership on client and contract strategies
Mentorship & Training
Identify and close capability gaps among project management staff, providing valuable team management and talent development support to foster career growth and required skills of project managers.
Manage and review individual performance of project managers within the group.
Mentor and develop staff, including conducting thorough high-quality performance appraisals.
Support the recruitment, hiring, onboarding, and offboarding of project staff
Marketing & Business Development
Engage federal agency clients to maximize the potential of existing contracts, promote client engagement to support revenue growth, and support future sales initiatives through close coordination with the business development team.
Initiate and maintain relationships with multiple clients to understand their needs and match with capabilities to support revenue growth and support future sales initiatives.
Assist in developing, reviewing, and approving proposals (with support from BD staff) and related pricing, approaches, and schedules to support market area objectives and individual bid pricing strategies.
Travel
Minimum travel required, possibly 1-3 weeks per year.
Minimum Qualifications:
Must be able to clear a federal government background investigation.
Bachelor's degree in business, administration, Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, or a related field. .
10 years of related experience supporting or managing broad, multi-disciplined scopes of work related to the IT/service delivery and consulting projects within the federal government.
Proven track record of providing leadership, managing teams, and developing and retaining staff engineers and scientists.
Strong project management skills, with experience in organizing, planning, and executing projects from pursuit through closeout involving internal personnel and subcontractors.
Knowledge of federal contracting, processes, rules and regulations
Expert knowledge of management, administration, budgeting, training, and personnel management
Skilled business developer with experience identifying, developing, and maintaining relationships with key prospects.
Familiarity with capture management and proposal processes and experience leading large scale proposal efforts, particularly for federal government procurements.
Business and financial acumen
A high degree of professionalism and confidentiality