Assistant Program Manager

Position Title : Assistant Program Manager

Reports To : Program Manager and Corporate PM

Clearance Type : Active Top Secret / SCI (willing to take CI Poly)

Work Location : National Capital Region

Start Date : On Contract Award

Job Description :

Advantage SCI is accepting applications to support a federal agency personnel security program.

Summary of duties include but not limited to :

• Assume the role of PM when the PM is absent, or the position is temporarily vacant
• Coordinate manpower and resources, assure quality control programs are in place and consistent.
• Serve as PM’s representative in daily operations and liaison activities. The following bullets are a sampling of PM duties :
• Manage and oversee the administrative and daily operations of the program.
• Serve as overall program lead and as the principal liaison between the Government and the Contractor.
• Serve as a consolidated point of contact that facilitates effective communication and proactively identifies and mitigates issues within the Contractor’s team and between the Contractor and the various Government customers.
• Attend regular meetings with Government customers to discuss workload, contract performance, and emergent issues.
• Assure quality control implementation.
• Produce required contractual and programmatic reports and briefs.
• Implement and exercise quality - control measures over Contractor staff to deliver services and products on budget and schedule per SOW requirements.
• Be responsible for overall project personnel, delivery of reports, and other deliverables.
• Implement short (tactical) and long term (strategic) work plans to ensure work performance.
• Be responsible for formulating and enforcing work standards.
• Coordinate with Government customer for assignment of work schedules.
• Review and remediate work discrepancies.
• Supervise Contractor personnel, communicate policies and organizational goals.
• Responsible for ensuring all incoming contractors are adequately trained for contract positions.
• Be responsible for contract performance.
• Be responsible for tracking all incoming Contractor personnel and weekly reports to Government customers of status and processing issues

Required Qualifications

• Must have a current TS / SCI and be willing to take a counterintelligence (CI) polygraph examination at the Government’s discretion
• Bachelor’s degree in any field of study.
• Minimum of eight (8) plus years federal, state, local or military LE or 10+ years of experience managing tasks and supervising people to include experience in human resources and personnel security.
• At least five (5) years of experience directly related to managing or performing responsibilities similar to those described herein
• Experience with EO 12960 and 12968, SEAD 4 and SEAD 7
• Experience as a functional practitioner of Continuous Vetting and Trusted Workforce 2.0 or programs similar in scope and scale

Desired Qualifications

• Advanced degree in any field of study.
• Prior security program management experience
• Prior experience managing all aspects of a full scope background investigation program

Working Conditions :

• Able to sit and work at a computer keyboard for extended periods of time
• Able to stoop, kneel, bend at the waist and reach
• Able to sit, stand, walk, run
• Able to lift up to 50 pounds
30+ days ago