Location: Chantilly, VA
Travel: Some travel may be required
Skill Level: 3 Senior (12 - 18 years total experience)
Overall Assignment Description:
The Senior Program Manager (PM) is responsible for ensuring the successful contractual and programmatic execution of the TO and serves as the authoritative point of contact for the Vendor on all TO performance matters. The PM interfaces with the NSES PMO and TO Government Leads to ensure all positions are staffed and/or backfilled quickly with qualified personnel in accordance with the specified TO Position Descriptions. The PM is responsible for ensuring work deliverables, resolving performance shortfalls or deficiencies, supervising contractor personnel and communicating overarching Government objectives and goals for the Task Order to the contractor team. The PM works with the TO Lead Integrators, Business Process Manager, and all Critical Staff as well as the Government TO Leads to plan and orchestrate work activities for coordinated deliveries and comprehensive solutions. The PM provides technical expertise and assistance to the Government on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering and industry best program management practices to achieve NGA’s GEOINT mission.
Duties include:
Required:
Travel: Some travel may be required
Skill Level: 3 Senior (12 - 18 years total experience)
- 2 years of school = 1 year of experience relevant to the PD
- 2 years of experience relevant to the PD = 1 year of school
Overall Assignment Description:
The Senior Program Manager (PM) is responsible for ensuring the successful contractual and programmatic execution of the TO and serves as the authoritative point of contact for the Vendor on all TO performance matters. The PM interfaces with the NSES PMO and TO Government Leads to ensure all positions are staffed and/or backfilled quickly with qualified personnel in accordance with the specified TO Position Descriptions. The PM is responsible for ensuring work deliverables, resolving performance shortfalls or deficiencies, supervising contractor personnel and communicating overarching Government objectives and goals for the Task Order to the contractor team. The PM works with the TO Lead Integrators, Business Process Manager, and all Critical Staff as well as the Government TO Leads to plan and orchestrate work activities for coordinated deliveries and comprehensive solutions. The PM provides technical expertise and assistance to the Government on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering and industry best program management practices to achieve NGA’s GEOINT mission.
Duties include:
- Provide program management support to Government TO Leads to facilitate the contractor’s technical execution of the TO. Program Management support includes cost, schedule, risk and performance management of all TO staff and work activities.
- Support Government TO Leads to ensure contractor personnel are qualified to perform the assigned task, tasks are understood and completed within the specified timelines, and potential personnel problems are pre-empted.
- Work with the Government TO leads to ensure contractor personnel are qualified to perform the assigned task, tasks are understood and completed within the specific timelines, and potential personnel problems are pre-empted.
- Consult and coordinate with the Government PMO and appropriate Government To leads to resource fulfillment activities and associated cost estimates resulting from technical work scope adjustments.
- Respond to the NGA CO, COR, and technical monitor as appropriate for new resource requirements and associated cost estimates resulting from technical work scope adjustments.
- Coordinate all travel and training with the NSES PMO and Government TO Leads prior to scheduling.
- Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the NGA Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and IPA Priorities.
- Ensure the accuracy, quality, configuration management and timely delivery of all required TO deliverables to include the Monthly Financial Report, Monthly Staffing Report, Monthly Activity Report, Quarterly Program Management Review materials, and as required Trip Reports, Briefings, Evaluations, Technical Assignments, White Papers or other Government requested deliverables necessary for the successful execution and/or completion of work activities.
- Plan and execute Quarterly Program Reviews to provide the NSES PMO and Government TO Leads a comprehensive understanding of the health/status of all TO activities.
- Support the coordination of program management activities between the TA Engineering Offices and Divisions, CIOT Groups, IPA, and NGA Directorates and Associate Directorates.
- Support NGA and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards as required.
- Provide program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution and agile methods, practices and execution.
- Perform day-to-day contractual and programmatic management of the TO.
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree.
- Senior-level experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance and risk management.
- Expert-level experience in engineering, design or analysis of IT or related systems. Experience in all phases of design, development, analysis and documentation, and development of standards and guidelines for tasks being performed.
- Senior-level experience in government or industry in DoD/IC Acquisition Process or The Planning, Programming, and Budgeting Execution (PPBE) Process.
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management with specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques such as Microsoft project or JIRA.
- Master’s degree or higher in Engineering, Computer Science, Information Technology, Management Information Systems, or related STEM degree.
- Demonstrated experience of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.
- Demonstrated experience of Model-based systems engineering (MBSE), processes, tools and languages.
- Demonstrated experience with the development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.
- Demonstrated experience in tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies.
- Demonstrated experience with the identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.
- Demonstrated experience in performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements.
- Demonstrated experience integrating solutions using AAA technologies as well as structured and unstructured Big Data.
