Senior Country Project Officer

Secure our Nation, Ignite your Future

ManTech is seeking a motivated, career and customer-oriented Senior Country Project Officer (CPO) to join our team in the Tysons Corner or Reston, VA location. This is an onsite position.

The successful candidate will manage all projects pertaining to a group of partner countries, including systems deployments and maintenance, and ensure the timely completion of all field operations and projects while maintaining constant engagement and communication with external stakeholders worldwide.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Planning, pre-staging, directing, scheduling, and ensuring the timely execution of all tasks for new system installations, operations and maintenance, and upgrade field deployments

• Serving as the primary point of contact for all overseas deployments

• Working closely with the Engineering, Operations, and Logistics teams to ensure day-to-day execution of all installation, maintenance, and integration tasks

• Managing interactions with external stakeholder personnel, both in-country and remotely, to ensure the successful completion of mission objectives

• Communicating status and information to the Sponsor and documenting appropriately

• Recommending process improvements and cost-saving measures for potential approval and implementation

Basic Qualifications:

• Ten (10)+ years of relevant experience serving as a Project Manager or similar work leading high performing teams

• Ability and willingness to travel overseas 25% - 50% of the time

• Strong experience managing multiple complex projects at once and balancing/deconflicting priorities between a primary customer organization and multiple external stakeholders

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience managing worldwide projects and managing interactions with worldwide stakeholders desired

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired

Clearance Requirements:

• Must have an active/current TS/SCI w/ polygraph.

Physical Requirements:

• Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time 

• Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel 

• Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer 

• The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations 

• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.

For all positions requiring access to technology/software source code that is subject to export control laws, employment with the company is contingent on either verifying U.S.-person status or obtaining any necessary license. The applicant will be required to answer certain questions for export control purposes, and that information will be reviewed by compliance personnel to ensure compliance with federal law. ManTech may choose not to apply for a license for such individuals whose access to export-controlled technology or software source code may require authorization and may decline to proceed with an applicant on that basis alone.

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