Portfolio Manager

Overview

You understand the power of great service experience and its ability to inspire customer behavior.  You have a keen understanding of what it takes to deliver exceptional services, both in front of the house and behind the scenes.  But most of all, you see all of this in the context of furthering our clients’ core mission or business. You will help large, complex government organizations to transform their global human capital, training, and education enterprise. The issues to be resolved are often difficult to define and quantify; may involve complex, traditionally competing interests; are often characterized by senior leadership interest and visibility and require extensive proving and analysis.

Governance and Portfolio Management

• Maintains a concept of operations (ConOps) for portfolio management and governance to select, prioritize, plan, monitor and control a portfolio of government projects in multi-year planning scenarios.
• Develops standardized and consistent metrics to track project portfolios and provide monthly metrics to track progress and performance of projects within the portfolio.
• Facilitates the development of client multi-year planning workshops with leadership stakeholders to inform client program and acquisition strategies 
• Applies extensive experience and expertise in the areas of systems integration, technical projects, and executive facilitation to support complex program integration. 
• Develops strategic performance measures linking client’s strategic goals and programmatic outcomes to government-wide initiatives like the Government Performance and Results Act Modernization Act (GPRAMA)
• Is accountable for exceptional outcomes and client experiences while delivering value to the bottom line. 
• Maintains a professional demeanor that is consistent with Technical Assent core values at all times

Qualifications

• A Bachelor’s Degree 
• 8+ years of experience conducting governance and portfolio management support services
• Extensive experience and expertise in the areas of systems integration, technical projects, and executive support.
• Project Management Professional (PMP®) or related certification is preferred

The Company

Technical Assent is passionate about services – in government, business, and not-for-profit. We design exceptional service experiences, engineer them to be robust, and deliver real capability and business outcomes for our clients. You will be working on government programs that have strategic importance to our client.  Your team will work IN and ON the client’s core mission – helping them to deliver their services day-to-day while simultaneously looking for opportunities to improve.  Our work is Driven by Evidence, Grounded in Understanding, and Focused on Impact.  

A Little About Our Culture

We look for these attributes in our teammates.

• Our team combines the creative and the pragmatic to deliver the results that matter most to our clients.  We see beauty when art and science come together.
• We seek self-starters, people who are confident in tackling challenges independently and bringing this to high-performing teams.  We continually seek feedback from our customers and employees, looking for opportunities to grow.
• We are a small company which gives you an essential voice in shaping our culture.  You will help grow our culture, and you will grow from the experience, too.

You will be part of a team to take an improvement concept and transform it into a capability – an asset that provides measurable value to our client’s mission.  The team will work with users, prototype, develop, and deliver new capabilities.  We hold ourselves accountable to impacting outcomes.