Program Manager Jobs

As an experienced Lead Technical Program Manager, you thrive at managing complex technology programs that have far-reaching implications for clients, employees and stakeholders throughout the organization. You will lead projects that deliver key capabilities to accomplish the United States Air Force mission. Your teams will solve complex problems through your leadership in applying your project management, systems engineering, and people skills. This role requires a strong grasp of the big-picture – namely, how can technology help achieve business goals – as well as a keen ability to establish priorities, manage resources and build high-performing teams. You'll work closely with colleagues to identify opportunities to develop projects and programs that are broadly applicable. Once you and your team establish a roadmap, you'll play an integral role in ensuring that the project is running on time, within budget and in accordance with firm-wide guidelines, including risk and architecture. Just as importantly, you'll work with your team to set goals, foster collaboration and promote the values, culture and brand of DDC IT services.

• Coordinate, monitor and report compliance status for Government specialized training requests or other adhoc requests
• Manage and utilize resources and interdependencies across PWS initiatives
• Coordinate and facilitate program integration status meetings and all hands touch point work sessions
• Serve as primary POC for program level issue escalation with Government Sponsor
• Formulate, organize and monitor inter-connected PWS initiatives and taskings with Project and Technical Leads for data management, data governance, infrastructure/tool support, enterprise architecture, interface change control processing evaluations, data analytics, and data visualization
• Coordinate creation of and approve submission of all contract data requirement list (CDRL) artifacts including but not limited to integrated management schedule, monthly financial report, meeting agenda/minutes, monthly status report (MSR), meeting read ahead materials, travel requests and reports, technical reports and technical metrics
• Coordinate and facilitate Government Sponsor and Stakeholder communications including but not limited to quarterly Program Management Reviews (PMR)s, other presentation materials as requested, risk and issue management and corrective action submissions
• Coordinate, approve, submit and track hardware, software and system access requests required for initiative execution
• Plan and direct program level standards, procedures, processes and job aids as needed
• Provide oversight of employee booster planning and event execution
• In conjunction with Program Technical Manager and Air Force Portfolio Director align program objectives and goals with corporate mission and vision
• Support Air Force Portfolio Director with all aspects of program staffing actions (position description definitions, candidate screening, interview participation, all aspects of employee onboarding acclimation definition and tracking, out-processing, corporate training requests, program level time reporting) as well as sub contract management as requested

Project

• Strong relationship building and communication skills Ability to adapt to various employee and Government personality types
• Participate and support status meetings
• Leadership Ability to empower and effectively lead a highly skilled team
• Active DoD Secret Clearance
• Serve as primary issue and risk management escalation point of contact
• Problem solving Consult with subject matter experts to appropriately respond to unforeseen events or challenges with corrective action recommendations
• Bachelor’s degree
• Discernment/Proven stakeholder management skills Ability to effectively gather/prepare and present program status to Senior Government Leaders
• Serve as a tertiary back-up to program support resources as needed
• 5-10 years of experience working as a Program/Project Lead for DoD, US Armed Services or other US Government entity
• Plan, direct and manage successful execution of project support tasks

Preferred Qualifications And Skills

• Related Field Knowledge ExposureAir Force Logistic and Weapon Systems functional and/or technical experienceDepartment of Defense Instruction (DoDi), Business Capability Acquisition Cycle (BCAC)Agile Framework/MethodologyData Management Body of Knowledge (DMBOK)
• Business Capture Experience (Shipley Business Development Life Cycle, Response Writing)
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management or Program Management Professional active certification