Program Manager AFTAS Pro

We are hiring a Program Manager to own delivery of a technical and analytic support services portfolio for Department of the Air Force acquisition organizations. This is a single-point-of-accountability role: you are responsible for every work stream on the engagement program management IT modernization enterprise architecture industrial base analysis AI integration and acquisition support and you are the primary interface to the government contracting team. It suits someone who has run multi-task advisory services engagements before and is comfortable being the person the customer calls first.

What Youll Get to Do as an Program Manager:

• Own overall delivery across all engagement work streams from staffing and budget through technical quality of the products that reach the customer.
• Lead strategic planning budgeting and staffing in response to changing task requirements.
• Set communicate and enforce quality standards across a distributed technical team.
• Serve as the primary point of contact to the government Contracting Officer and Contracting Officers Representative remaining reachable during business hours and responding to inquiries within 24 hours.
• Author and maintain the core program artifacts: project management plans quality control plan phase-in and transition-out plans and program management review material.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel approvals including short-notice requests.

• 5 years managing multi-project or multi-task technical or advisory and assistance services (A&AS) engagements.
• Masters degree in business or engineering.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification current and in good standing.
• Active Secret clearance (interim Secret considered with approval).
• Ability to work from a contractor facility within 30 minutes of Arlington VA with regular travel to customer sites in the National Capital Region.

Preferred Qualifications:

• DAWIA Practitioner or Advanced certification in Program Management or equivalent prior service in a DoD program office. (DAWIA certification is available only to government acquisition workforce members so we treat it as a prior-government-service indicator rather than something we expect you to hold as a contractor.)
• Prior work supporting Air Force or Secretary of the Air Force acquisition organizations.
• Track record on performance-based contracts measured against defined service thresholds.
• Experience standing up a new engagement phase-in onboarding at scale and clearance processing.