Executive Program Manager

Executive Program Manager

Job Category: Project and Program Management

Time Type: Full time

Minimum Clearance Required to Start: TS/SCI with Polygraph

Employee Type: Regular

Percentage of Travel Required: Up to 10%

Type of Travel: Local

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CACI seeks a talented individual to join our team as an Executive Program Manager, within the Mission and Engineering Support Line of Business.

Manage the mission with a winning team! CACI is looking for an experienced Executive Program Manager to join our team to lead a large, geographically dispersed program. This role affords the opportunity to manage the program and become a trusted advisor within CACI. Additionally, you will liaise between CACI leadership and the customer on management methodologies, and measures of success.

Responsibilities:

• Lead a very large, geographically dispersed program.
• Be a trusted advisor at all levels of the program to provide advice and guidance on project and program management methodologies and measures of success.
• Manage budgets, operational plans, and performance requirements.
• Responsible for meeting budgetary goals and objectives.
• Engage partners to build positive relationships, develop strategic and tactical plans to deliver project objectives, and direct the work to be executed.
• Drive the team to achieve performance objectives for the program on schedule and within budget.
• Provide leadership and guidance to team members to achieve complex goals.

More About the Role:

• Leads team and facilitates communication between staff, management, vendors, and other resources within and outside of the organization.
• Interacts with senior management to keep abreast of objectives.
• Supports direct reports and peers in management, customer organizations, and vendors to interpret information and improve cross-functional processes and projects.
• Builds and enhances key internal and external contacts.
• Captures and tracks program risks and works with the organization to develop mitigations for the most critical risks.
• Communicates program milestones, schedules, and risks to the team and to the broader organization.
• Formulates a comprehensive program management plan that aligns with the overall business objectives, budgetary considerations, and product requirements.
• Ensures key milestones and outcomes are turned into action plans for execution by project teams.
• Tracks and leads progress to planned milestones and program outcomes.
• Establishes decision-making framework that empowers team to execute and ensures effective and timely elevation through the program governance structure.
• Plans and executes team and leadership sessions required to support execution including advanced planning of key reviews, decisions, and action items.
• Identifies and facilitates timely resolution of significant issues impacting project delivery.
• Leads execution and expectations using data - both quantitative and qualitative analysis of milestones and budget status, issues, and risks.
• Develops budget, chart of accounts, and manage financial performance.
• Serves as the primary point of accountability for the Contract in dealing with Contractor Services delivery.
• Maintains responsibility for managing and coordinating the delivery of customer satisfaction.
• Builds efficient and effective program management processes and facilitates the sharing of resources, methodologies, tools, and techniques.
• Collaborates with practitioners across the team and with other areas to continuously improve the practice.
• Supports cross-functional efforts to meet technical program needs.
• Establish project milestones, roadmaps, and schedules for project teams.
• Anticipates, captures, and manages dependencies across the program.
• Regularly communicates across teams about critical cross-project dependencies and associated coordination efforts.
• Meets regularly with the Government representatives at designated Government facilities.
• Leads meetings with key stakeholders for the program to align on and make key decisions, remove obstacles, and address key program issues.
• Regularly communicates program milestones, schedules, and critical risks to the program management team and to the broader organization.
• Initiates and manages workgroup alignment meetings to address program changes, tactical issues, critical risks, technical challenges, etc.
• Creates a collaborative environment that fosters creativity, innovation, and learning.
• Makes decisions with respect to actions to be taken by Contractor in the ordinary course of day-to-day performance of the Contrac