Deputy Program Manager

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MANTECH seeks a Deputy Program Manager to join our team in support of a key technical program in Chantilly, VA.
In this role, you will support the management and execution of a large, complex technical contract. As the deputy to the Executive Director/Program Manager, you will play a critical leadership role in achieving contract objectives, ensuring compliance, and delivering mission-focused results on schedule and within budget.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Managing contract personnel, ensuring both customer-facing and corporate-facing requirements are exceeded
• Building and maintaining productive relationships with customers, stakeholders, and contract personnel
• Optimizing contract staffing, recruitment, and retention of personnel
• Interfacing with a variety of support organizations, to include finance, contracts, subcontracts, security, recruiting, and subcontractor company management
• Ensuring contract deliverables are accurate, complete, and delivered timely
• Preparing and presenting status reports, reviews, and briefings as required
• Ability to support occasional travel to McLean, VA and other Northern Virginia locations as required

Minimum Qualifications:

• High School Diploma with 10+ years of relevant program management, project management, technical, and/or analytic experience
• Experience managing contracts, or portions of contracts, of similar size (contract value or FTE) and/or scope (technical requirements)
• Demonstrated experience and success managing cost reimbursable contracts and controlling costs within contract value
• Demonstrated experience and ability to communicate effectively at all levels of customer and corporate organizations, to include both informal written and verbal communications and formal briefings, reviews, and control gates
• Demonstrated experience in leadership roles, with responsibilities for managing both personnel and competing technical priorities and tasks

Preferred Qualifications:

• Ten (10)+ years of program management experience
• Demonstrated experience successfully managing disparately-located personnel
• PMP or PgMP certification
  
   

Clearance Requirements:

• An active/current TS/SCI with polygraph is required
  
   

Physical Requirements:

• Use hands to operate a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a calculator, copy machine and computer printer.
• The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.
• Constantly positions self to maintain computers in the lab, including under the desks and in the server closet.