Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. A3 Consulting LLC is a management and technology firm providing solutions for Federal government and Department of Defense customers. The company is seeking a Program Manager to lead delivery for a federal mission-support engagement, overseeing staffing, schedules, governance, reporting, risks, quality, and client communications. The role also provides senior-level oversight of teams, deliverables, decision support, and continuity planning.
Responsibilities
- Serve as the primary delivery lead and client-facing management point of contact
- Provide overall leadership for staffing, transition activities, work allocation, performance management, risk escalation, and delivery accountability
- Ensure continuity of schedule, dashboard, reporting, governance, risk, action, and decision-support artifacts throughout the engagement
- Coordinate across client stakeholders, incumbent support personnel, partner organizations, and other contractors as directed
- Establish and maintain the engagement’s operating rhythm, including leadership touchpoints, status cadences, escalation paths, and performance reviews
- Monitor deliverable quality, schedule adherence, risk management, corrective actions, comment resolution, and performance against applicable quality standards
- Ensure all deliverables are accurate, traceable, complete, professionally formatted, and aligned to approved client direction
- Support executive-level communications, decision briefings, governance updates, management reviews, and senior-leader reporting
- Anticipate client support needs, identify risks or deviations from plan before they affect delivery, and recommend practical mitigation actions
- Maintain clear non-personal services boundaries by providing analysis and recommendations while preserving client decision authority
- Build and sustain a team culture focused on accountability, adaptability, collaboration, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes
- Lead resource planning, backfill coordination, onboarding, and continuity planning to minimize disruption from turnover or changing client priorities
- Ensure the team uses consistent methods for source validation, quality review, artifact control, repository management, and client comment disposition
- Provide senior-level oversight of deliverable quality gates, transition products, action tracking, decision tracking, risk registers, and management reporting
Skills
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field
- 10+ years of federal program or project management experience
- Project Management Professional (PMP), SAFe Agilist, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent program/agile experience or certification
- Experience managing PMO, schedule, dashboard, governance, or executive reporting support efforts
- Experience leading cross-functional teams in federal, defense, intelligence, civilian, or other regulated mission environments
- Demonstrated experience overseeing CDRLs, quality management, performance standards, transition activities, stakeholder coordination, and comment resolution
- Strong executive communication, facilitation, risk management, delivery oversight, and client relationship management skills
- Demonstrated ability to translate complex or ambiguous business and mission needs into actionable requirements, roadmaps, backlogs, technical plans, decision products, and measurable outcomes
- Ability to motivate teams through ambiguity while maintaining delivery performance, quality discipline, and client trust
- Familiarity with integrated master schedules, dashboard reporting, governance packages, risk registers, action trackers, decision logs, and executive-ready reporting products
- Experience with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Power BI, or similar collaboration and reporting tools
- Active Secret clearance (or higher) required
- Remote (DC Metro Area)
Benefits
- Medical benefits
- Dental benefits
- Vision benefits
- Flexible spending accounts
- Health savings accounts
- Group life and AD&D
- Short-term disability
- Long-term disability
- Paid time off
- 401k match
- Paid parental leave
- Professional development
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