Senior Program Manager

The Senior Program Manager full-time position supports the headquarters staff for a U.S. Federal agency and its stakeholders. In support of the agency’s mission, the Senior Program Manager is responsible for the oversight of their assigned program(s). The Senior Program Manager ensures programs are within schedule and cost, including contract management, cost proposals, scheduling, budgeting, and task order management. The Senior Program Manager possesses the leadership and management skills required to manage and coordinate with personnel of various skill levels and professional or technical expertise across multiple government agencies.

Core Responsibilities:

• Strive to continually collaborate and coordinate across the whole of the U.S. government to advance programs that provide a decisive U.S. capability to Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction and Proliferation of WMD materials.
• Ensure project/program milestones are met and projects are completed to scope, within budget, and on schedule.
• Continually strive to challenge the status quo and break through stovepipes and silos across U.S. government agencies by building unified action across various stakeholders.
• Take the necessary steps to provide a safe and secure workforce of employees and subcontractors.
• Continually demonstrate excellent judgment and unwavering ethics.

Supporting Duties/Responsibilities May Include:

• Develop and maintain a professional and trustful business relationship with the customer’s management and leadership personnel.
• Conduct and participate in regular weekly check-ins with the Executive PM and leadership team.
• Participate in the management of various customer programs and their contracted product and service delivery:
  • Manage budgets, including tracking, forecasting, and reporting as required.
  • Develop/refresh and execute a written plan each year that ensures the program and its deliverables are of the highest quality, fresh, contemporary, innovative, and technically accurate before the start of every project year. Deliver to the Executive PM NLT 15 August of each project year.
  • Develop and maintain a balanced project schedule across BVG Team members.
  • Work to ensure meeting contractual work share goals between BVG and teaming partners.
  • Demonstrate the achievement of progress and desired outcomes through metrics.
  • Ensure team members have adequate time, resources, and support to complete deliverables within project/task budgets and timelines.
  • Ensure after-action reports are prepared, lessons learned, and best practices are gleaned, and improvement planning is conducted and implemented.
  • Coordinate with federal, state, and local agencies, Allies/partners, and Industry partners planning to participate in customer-contracted engagements to ensure critical objectives are met.
  • Encourage and develop new initiatives to support the strategic direction of the program.
  • Develop processes and procedures to develop and deliver products and services effectively.
• Contribute to the supervision and leadership of the BVG team and their delivery of contracted products and services:
  • Build a skilled workforce and provide for their continued/consistent professional development.
  • Complete team member performance evaluations by establishing deadlines, providing feedback, and managing performance expectations. Set goals with deadlines for team members to meet performance improvement. Ensure team members understand their affirmative obligation to inform leadership of their desires for professional development and to take appropriate steps to pursue and achieve professional goals.
  • Ensure program goals are met and tracked for success.
  • Ensure team members understand and are committed to traveling to support the customer’s priorities and program deliverables.
  • Adhere to established standards and guidelines provided by the customer, including standards supporting the appropriate levels of national security clearance as required.
  • Maintain team business core hours at client-directed work locations, including some nights and weekends depending on the project tasks and real-world events.

THERE WILL BE A WATCHSTANDING REQUIREMENT FOR THIS POSITION DURING GLOBAL CRISIS RESPONSE EVENTS.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Applicants must demonstrate knowledge/understanding in the following areas:
  • WMD Defeat, WMD Pathway Defeat, and CBRN Response policy and operational planning.
  • Interagency WMD Crisis Response operations.
  • First responder missions for WMD and CBRN threats and hazards.
  • Emergency Preparedness and Emergency Management Concepts, including, but not limited to, PPD-8, National Preparedness, whole community planning frameworks, and Federal interagency operational plans; NIMS; State/local EOC Operations; Federal operational centers/command post operations; and capability and resource management.
  • A professional level of expertise using Microsoft 365 Word, PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint, Teams, etc. suite of applications.
  • Experience managing and conducting virtual training courses and presentations via tools like MS Teams and Zoom.
  • A professional level of skills in conducting research, all-source analysis, public speaking, exercise facilitation, and preparing verbal and written communications for senior leaders and various audiences.
  • Must be willing and able to travel domestically and/or internationally for approximately 35% of allotted annual work hours.
  • Ability to speak and write clearly and concisely to various audiences.
  • Reside within the National Capital Region (NCR) and report to work at the customer’s headquarters in Washington, D.C., when required, including for Operations Center Watch Standing during Crisis Response events.
• Eligible to obtain and maintain a Department of Energy Q clearance, DoD Top-Secret clearance if required by the customer, with preference given for current clearance holders.
• Possess a valid driver’s license and U.S. passport.

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent knowledge and experience in Counter Weapons of Mass Destruction, emergency management, national security mission area, or homeland security; Master’s degree preferred.
• Ten (10) years of experience planning, developing, and facilitating collaboration and engagements across the interagency and Allies/partners.
• Possess five (5) years of supervisory experience.
• Possess ten (10) years of programmatic experience, including managing projects, budgets, and forecasts in a multi-team environment. A current Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification may be considered in lieu of this experience.
• Possess seven (7) years working in a related field of CWMD/CP, emergency management, critical infrastructure, Sensitive Activities, or other similar experience.
• Possess seven (7) years of experience briefing and interacting with SES/GOFO leadership and above.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to walk, stand, or sit at a desk for prolonged periods of time.