PROGRAM MANAGER SUPPORT- SR ACQUISITION (#1790) WITH SECURITY CLEARANCE

Description Position Title: Sr. Program Manager-Acquisition (#1790) Location: Springfield, VA Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI Overall Assignment Description: Provide Acquisition Program Management to a Government lead and team that: * * Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management. * Works across customer directorates to help the Government coordinate development of new and/or modified/enhanced capabilities for operational use. * Provides technical guidance to the Government Point of Contact (GPOC) on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering. * Provides program management guidance in service frameworks and models, agile engineering processes, and industry best practices to achieve customer's GEOINT mission. Duties may include: * * Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management guidance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO). * Provide support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9's and MIPR's. * Provide business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control. * Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results. * Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams. * Interface with customer's organizational areas, end users/customers including foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks, develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that ensure technical results and program performance. * Provide program management support to customer management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering. * Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the customer's Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities. * Support the development, coordination and governance management of Request for Change (RFC's) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents. * Ensure the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents. * Maintain PMO artifacts using customer's approved software, tools and processes. * Provide acquisition program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution; working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and applications. * Provide validation and verification of engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and traceability to requirements. Skills and Experience: Required: * U.S. Citizenship. * Current Top Secret clearance with current SCI access and in-scope SSBI date. * Bachelor's Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance. * Min 12 years overall experience. * Min 8 years of demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management. * Project Management Professional (PMP); DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques. Desired: Demonstrated specialized experience in * Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management. * Department of Defense (DoD) and or customer-specific acquisition processes. * Development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives. * Geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community. * Managing Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contracts. * Lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results. * Tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations. * Identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts. * Performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements. * Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes. * Developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities. * Analysis of Alternatives (AoA's). Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff. Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled