Project Manager

Overview/ Job Responsibilities

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security (CISA) mission is to lead the national effort to protect and enhance the resilience of the nation’s physical and cyber infrastructure.  CISA includes the CISA Mission Enabling Offices (MEOs) and six Divisions: the Cybersecurity Division (CSD), the Emergency Communications Division (ECD), the Integrated Operations Division (IOD), Infrastructure Security Division (ISD), the Stakeholder Engagement Division (SED), as well as, the National Risk Management Center (NRMC), which are headquartered within the National Capital Region (NCR).  

 

CISA’s information technology (IT) landscape has historically produced networks and systems individually managed and maintained within each of its Divisions as well as its MEOs.  This task order is to provide Enterprise Engineering and Operations Support Services (EEOSS) to CISA/OCIO to establish enterprise IT capabilities. These enterprise IT capabilities shall support CISA’s ability to continue establishing a modern IT infrastructure; engaging in various initiatives to evaluate and implement emerging technologies; migrating to the cloud; supporting mobility and collaboration platforms; and continually improving the performance, security, and availability of enterprise IT services.

 

Working with an enterprise network architecture, engineering, and implementation team supporting our Federal customer, the Project Manager supports program management and project management projects  to include overall reporting to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), management and reporting of progress and activities in all task areas, coordinating and reporting on Contractor work on projects as directed by the Government project managers and leads, conducting the Kick-Off Meeting, and performing transition in/out activities.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Provide end-to-end program leadership from planning to business readiness/rollout
• Coordinate with Agile Release Trains, including SIT/testing, to create work packages and schedule work
• Lead and guide initiative management/enterprise solution engineer teams to deploy dependent projects
• Work closely with Project Managers, Scrum Masters, and Delivery team to deliver business value
• Define and track business and development milestones on a program level
• Track and communicate dependencies on a program level
• Manage risks, issues, change control and decision logs for the program
• Communicate and manage project status to internal project teams and to those in the executive level
• Track and manage program spend against budgets
• Interact with stakeholders for spending needs/budget changes
• Leverage stakeholder relationships and technical expertise to enable or make key decisions
• Identify strategic milestones in concert with business and/or mission stakeholders and tie work packages to milestones
• Work with development teams to ensure understanding of high level business requirements so that they are well positioned to deliver the appropriate business value
• Work closely with our managed services technical delivery manager to ensure our programs are running efficiently and our junior/mid pm's are running their projects effectively
• Work in a program coordination / senior project management capacity

Minimum Qualifications

Minimum of 4 years’ working experience as a Project Manager, with at least 2 years’ experience in a relevant industry

• Prior experience managing field teams in complex technical environments
• Confidence in driving people to deliver objectives
• Experience managing large-scale domain migration and system integration initiatives 
• MS Project / SAFE
• Technical Delivery Management experience a plus
• Experience in enterprise environments

 

Must be able to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship

 

Other Duties: Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

 

Desired Qualifications

3+ years’ experience as a program delivery manager

• Previous experience in classified environments
• Exceptional communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to pursue and resolve issues independently
• Ability to prioritize and assess impacts of issues to other resources
• Problem solver with sound judgment and decision-making skills
• Demonstrated attention to detail and follow-through
• Excellent collaboration skills;