Program Manager

The Program Manager will apply methods and maintain tools to track program, project, and task performance data, including cost, schedule, and performance data.  In addition, the candidate will be expected to provide oral and written discussion of analytical findings using narrative and graphic forms. The candidate will support all facets of contract administration and delivery including financials, monthly corporate reporting, subcontractor management, staffing, timesheets, invoicing, and documentation required by the company.  Further, the candidate will support financial reporting components of the program to include capturing and maintaining quantity-based statistics to maintain forecasting and actuals, and generation of monthly invoices. Tasks may include planning, initiating, managing, executing, and closing out small and large-scale projects in support of the department’s mission. The candidate will interact extensively with the customer’s business stakeholders, (the customer) line of business leadership, (the customer) system/product owners, and the COR, and is expected to document and resolve any issues that arise.

Duties and responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• Provide program management services on operations and maintenance and implementation initiatives.
• Manage and lead multiple Task Orders and Task Order Leads as a cohesive large-scale program.
• Supports efforts through design, development, and implementation of organizational and technical initiatives.
• Identifies leading practices and operational improvements and creates and assesses performance measurements.
• Collaborate with client to define future state vision, and plan and execute roadmap from current state to future state.
• Generate milestone schedules to deliver functionality for target state of financial applications, and periodically provide updates on progress and deviations affecting schedule or quality
• For each application, assess risks, constraints, and resources required to meet client objectives for each financial application
• Document requests via Action Items and develop materials to respond to these requests
• Prepare ad hoc and periodic (weekly, monthly, quarterly) presentations and reports and present them to stakeholder(s)
• Capture and report on quantity-based performance metrics used to track core project functions for status reporting and invoicing
• Utilize professional judgment, critical thinking skills and research to improve program processes and resolve issues affecting program performance
• Manage the program’s risk management process, on/off-boarding processes, status reporting, and support Action Item management. 
• Manage on-time submission of quality contract deliverables
• Manage program financials, including P&L responsibility, forecasts, ETC and EAC, and not-to-exceed funding ceilings
• Proactively engage GDIT support organizations for effective delivery of program services, i.e. Contracts management, Sub-Contracts management, Financial management, Human Resources, Line of Business management. 

Minimum Requirements:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, Management or other technically related discipline with 10+ years of relevant experience
• Must have 4+ years demonstrated experience managing Federal and/or commercial implementations and Enterprise Business Systems
• Must have increasingly responsible experience defining, implementing, and managing project processes
• Must have increasingly responsible experience leading software development or business process automation projects or programs
• Must have increasingly responsible experience managing contracts or task orders of similar scope, size and complexity
• Must have demonstrated experience presenting to and engaging with client leadership (government SES level) and GDIT leadership (Sr. Director and VP levels)
• Good team player, able to manage multiple assignments, and adapt to changing client needs
• Outstanding written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present to business leaders
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Security Clearance (Public Trust) and successfully pass a thorough Government background screening process requiring the completion of detailed forms and fingerprinting
• US Citizenship

Desired Qualifications:

• ITIL v3 or v4 Foundation certification
• Scaled Agile Framework certification
• Agile Scrum Muster certification
• Agile Product Manager or Product Owner certification
• Master of Science degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering or other technically related discipline, or MBA.
• Valid Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification preferred