The program manager provides leadership and overall management of an assigned technical or operational portfolio, which may be large or small in total budget and may encompass one or more discrete programs.
The program manager brokers with customers and individual researchers or research groups/programs to determine what work will be done to meet the customers needs, general timeframes, and funding requirements.
The program manager is expected to develop working relationships that span existing internal and/or external institutional missions and extend into new opportunities as policies, missions, and opportunities evolve.
Programs are a complex set of related activities needed to produce products or services over time to meet customer requirements within a given mission area.
Programs are often ongoing over multiple years and evolve in response to the customers changing needs. The customer may be an external body, such as a federal agency, or may be an internal organization within the Laboratory.
Position requires advanced knowledge of and successfully demonstrated experience in all aspects of program management of technical or operational work, including defining program work scope, schedules, budgets, priorities, and performance milestones; developing cost, scope, and schedule baselines; reporting cost and schedule variance; and managing change control and risk.
Advanced knowledge of the technical or operational discipline of the assigned portfolio(s).
Advanced knowledge of regulatory and Laboratory requirements related to programmatic work of assigned portfolio(s).
Successfully demonstrated experience in developing and nurturing effective internal and/or external customer relationships.
Successfully demonstrated experience in interacting effectively with all levels of internal and/or external personnel; building trust, gaining consensus, and resolving conflicts. Excellent oral and written communication and presentation skills.