Program Manager - Expert

Position Title: Program Manager - Expert (1691)
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).
  • Support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s.
  • Business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control.
  • Programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results.
  • Program management support to Agency Management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering.
  • Decision support analysis, leveraging techniques, tools and models, to influence the definition and delivery of GEOINT Services priorities and objectives.
• 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.
• Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the Agency Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities.
• Monitor the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents.
• Support
  • Coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams.
  • Development, coordination and governance management of Request For Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents.
  • Preparation of briefing packages for the Acquisition Governance Process and other related governance boards.
  • Coordination of program management between the Engineering Divisions, CIO-T Offices, Planning and Programs Office, Agency Directorates and Associate Directorates.
  • Agency and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards.
  • Enterprise Release Planning.
  • Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s) and / or Assessments.
  • 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:
  • Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.
  • Department of Defense (DoD) and or Agency acquisition processes.
  • Development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.
  • Geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.
  • 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.
  • Lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results.
  • Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations.
  • Identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.
  • Performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements.
  • Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes.
  • Developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities.

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, 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.


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