Project Manager

Responsibilities:

• Plan, execute, and close projects that meet or exceed customer objectives.
• Creates clear and attainable project objectives, builds project requirements, and manages constraints of cost, time, scope, and quality.
• Develops the overall project plan and manages project operations. Manages the project stakeholders, project team, project risk, project schedule, project budget, and project conflicts.
• Ensures team members know and execute their respective roles and the roles of the other team members.
• Ensure production schedules are met and system resources are used effectively.
• Coordinate resolution of production-related problems.
• Ensures proper relationships are established between customers, teaming partners, and vendors to facilitate the delivery of information technology services.
• Define and analyze processes and develop plans and requirements to support acquisition lifecycle management.
• Support the mission of the PEO to include educating and guiding stakeholders and Program Managers through the full acquisition lifecycle process and ensure alignment with CIO PPBES.
• Support acquisition governance boards, Program Management Reviews (PMRs) Quarterly Process Reviews (QPRs), In Process Reviews (IPRs), working groups, and TEMS and ensure they align with CIO strategic plan, business processes and policies.
• Support program governance and oversight of multiple programs and projects with multiple contracts and task order efforts.
• Improve the quality of IT acquisition requirement packages to prepare CIO Requirements Owners for Acquisition Review Board (ARB) approval.
• Reduce the risk of protest by generating well defined requirements, clear and concise evaluation criteria, and ensure solicitations that close on time.
• Reduce the time necessary for technical evaluations by closely tying the requirement to meaningful evaluation criteria allowing for swift and decisive source selection decisions.
• Utilize critical thinking skills and past experiences to provide acquisition support to CIO IT Requirements owners by providing feedback to all artifacts of acquisition packages.
• Advise CIO/PEO management in the creation of future acquisition/contract strategies to improve the agency's approach for purchasing IT products and services.
• Provide tactical level, hands on support drafting various acquisition related documents, including but not limited to Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statements of Work (SOW's), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), evaluation criteria, acquisition plans and Justification and Approvals (J&As).
• Provide end-to-end acquisition support services for all CIO customers/stakeholders.
• Log all activity in the customer provided tracking system for management visibility and performance measurement against the Procurement Acquisition Lead Time (PALT).
• Support acquisition governance boards, working groups, and TEMS.
• Coordinate with technical experts and contracting office to ensure project milestones are reflected in contractual documents.
• Determine appropriate Government-Furnished Equipment/Information (GFE/GFI) for acquisitions based upon the scope and requirement.
• Consult and recommend business transformation tools and processes to manage pre award activities using agile methodologies to enable ruthless resource management.
• Drive process improvement to DIA's acquisition processes and support initiatives that help shape and develop acquisition strategies for the CIO.
• Support the development of agile business transformation tools and processes to manage activities using agile methodologies.
• Work directly with stakeholders to align business and acquisition processes to industry and DIA best practices.
• Support Stakeholder Engagement in identifying and developing business needs, requirements, capability, architectures, software design, agile task prioritization, and other requirements as needed.
• Educate and guide stakeholders and pilot programs through the full acquisition lifecycle.

Qualifications:

• TS/SCI with CI Poly (or ability to obtain a polygraph)
• Experience: Minimum 8 years of experience
• Education: Master's degree in a related field OR Bachelor's degree and an additional 5 years of related senior experience