NGA – Springfield, VA – TS/SCI Required

Program Overview:

Board is seeking a candidate to provide Acquisition Program Management to a Government lead and team that:

• Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management.

• Works across NGA directorates to help the Government coordinate development of new

• and/or modified/enhanced capabilities for operational use.

• Provides technical guidance to the Government Point of Contact (GPOC) on programmatic

• matters related to lifecycle engineering.

• Provides program management guidance in service frameworks and models, agile engineering

• processes, and industry best practices to achieve NGA’s GEOINT mission

Principal Duties and Responsibilities

• Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management guidance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO).

• Provide support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s.

• Provide business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and

• Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control.

• Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results.

• Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams.

• Interface with NGA organizational areas, end users/customers including foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks, develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that ensure technical results and program performance.

• Provide program management support to NGA Management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering.

• Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the NGA Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities.

• Support the development, coordination and governance management of Request for Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents.

• Ensure the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents.

• Support the preparation of briefing packages for the Acquisition Governance Process and other related governance boards.

• Support the coordination of program management between the Engineering Divisions, CIO-T Offices, and NGA Directorates and Associate Directorates.

• Support NGA and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards.

• Support Enterprise Release Planning.

• Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s) and / or Assessments.

• Maintain PMO artifacts using NGA approved software, tools and processes.

• Provide acquisition program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution; working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and applications.

• Provide validation and verification of engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and traceability to requirements.

Requirements

Required Experience:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance.

• 12 years of overall experience, with 8 Years of demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management.

• Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques.

Desired Experience:

• Demonstrated specialized experience in Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.

• Demonstrated specialized experience in Department of Defense (DoD) and or NGA acquisition processes.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with the development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.

• Demonstrated knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.

• Demonstrated specialized experience in managing Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive

• Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite

• Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contracts.

• Demonstrated specialized experience in lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results.

• Demonstrated specialized experience tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with the identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.

• Demonstrated specialized experience in performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s).

Benefits

• Healthcare, Vision, and Dental Insurance

• 20 Days of PTO

• 401K Matching

• Training/Certification Reimbursement

• Short term/Long term disability

• Parental/Maternity Leave

• Life Insurance

STEMBoard is committed to hiring and retaining a diverse workforce. All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, protected veteran status, race, color, religious creed, national origin, citizenship, marital status, sex, sexual orientation/gender identity, age, or genetic information. Selected applicant will be subject to a background investigation. STEMBoard is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer.