Program Manager

City/State: Colorado Springs, CO (Relocation Available)

Type and Schedule: Full-Time

Annualized Salary Range: $135,000 – $180,000 depending on experience.

About Us: Caliola is a woman-owned small business that is improving and protecting our Nation’s way of life through secure collaboration and resilient communications. Our engineers, subject matter experts, and veterans are developing and delivering trusted solutions for mission-critical communications. We seek teammates who share our core values:

I³ for C³ – Insight, Innovation, and Integrity for Command, Control, and Communications

We are headquartered in Colorado Springs, CO, which is consistently ranked as one of the Nation’s top ten places to live by US News & World Report. Caliola has been recognized by Governor Jared Polis and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade (OEDIT) as a key contributor to the growth of the Colorado Springs defense industry. We offer a flexible, collaborative, and open culture that is unusual in the defense industry. We offer generous benefits, including subsidized health insurance and 401(k) matching, and a scalable, competitive pay structure.

Position Description: The Program Manager role requires an individual with the ability to provide influential leadership across multiple programs to ensure customer expectations and contractual requirements are met. This role will contribute strategic input into product strategy and development, develop strong relationships with customers and industry partners, and will advise leadership on all relevant aspects of program and project level scope, schedule, resources, and overall ownership of program and project level financial performance. This position requires reporting to the Colorado Springs office with ability to support a hybrid work environment.

Essential Responsibilities:

• Serve as primary customer relationship manager include but not limited to:
  • Managing overall company relationships for defined scope(s) of work to ensure responsiveness to customer needs
  • Lead customer meetings and reviews, tracking resulting action items to closure
  • Develop materials for programmatic briefings and reviews
  • Coordinate with customer on execution of the contract throughout its lifecycle
• Lead daily contract execution of multiple programs/projects to ensure program costs, schedule, and technical performance goals are met while meeting customer expectations and contractual requirements.
• Maintain effective communication with subcontractors to ensure the performance, cost, and schedule of the subcontract is being met.
• Build relationships with both internal cross-functional and external teams providing leadership and guidance.
• Lead staff by providing a clear direction and maintain accountability for the team’s performance
• Provide concise reports to the leadership team on status, potential issues, risks, and recommended courses of action.
• Review the financial picture of assigned programs and present an impressive project forecast.
• Provide timely and accurate projections of engineering resource requirements, to include program technical staffing needs.

• Comprehend complex program and staffing interdependencies and communicate clear and consistent priorities.
• Contribute to the development and execution of a growth strategy for the portfolio through activities such as:
  • Actively identifying additional and expanded tasking with existing customers and defining new technical requirements for draft statements of work.
  • Providing significant elements to a re-compete capture strategy.
  • Developing new customer contacts and conceptualizing solutions to customer problems that lead to new business for the company.
  • Identifying potential buying agents for growth beyond current customer.
• Lead/support capturing opportunities, including bid and proposal development, pricing, and developing statements of work with operational insight gained on projects.
• Lead change in a growing organization, seek out and document best practices and incorporate lessons learned into future project/programs.
• Other duties as assigned.

What We Require:

**Minimum Skills & Requirements**

• Bachelor’s degree, and minimum 10 years of Program/Project Management experience with demonstrated ability to develop strong internal and external customer relationships, prioritize efforts and achieve results.
• Minimum 5 years’ experience in working with or within a branch (Air Force, Army, Navy, etc.) of the Department of Defense as a Program/Project Manager.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a security clearance issued by the US Government. Security clearances may only be granted to US citizens.
• Ability to travel as needed to our DoD customers and other stakeholder facilities.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to effectively communicate (verbally and in writing) to our DoD customers and other stakeholders.
• High level of proficiency in MS Project and MS Office particularly Excel and Powerpoint.

**Demonstrated Qualifications/Skillsets**

• In depth knowledge of program & project management processes, tools and procedures including ability to quickly learn and adapt to company’s ERP system (Unanet) in reporting, analyzing, and managing project spend vs. budgets, and schedule performance.
• Solid leadership and management skills, particularly influence management and conflict resolution.
• Excellent leadership and oral and written communication skills
• Experience throughout the program life cycle from development through sustainment to include: proposal development, requirements decomposition, generation of system and subsystem statements of work and subcontracts, risk management, and continuous improvement efforts including implementation for cost reduction and performance improvement efforts
• Experience with metrics for assessing and reporting program progress, productivity, and variance analysis.
• Excellent collaboration and working across organization skills to achieve top performance results
• Self-starter and a problem solver; must have the ability to see the big picture and implement changes as required
• Demonstrated success in managing manpower planning, project reviews, scheduling, and budget control.
• Successful track record in managing complex defense programs as a prime or subcontractor.

What We Value:

• B.S or M.S. Degree in a Technical Field (preferred Engineering degree in Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, or a related discipline).
• Program Management Professional (PMP^®) or comparable certification
• Knowledgeable in FAR/DFAR/ITAR requirements.

Expression of Interest: By applying for this job, you are expressing interest in this position and could be considered for other career opportunities at Caliola. Should a match be identified between your skillset and Caliola’s requirements for this or a future opening, you may be contacted.

At Caliola, we believe that true innovation can only occur when teammates bring their authentic selves to collaborate in a supportive and encouraging environment. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status, age, or any other federally protected class.

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