Head of Programme Management

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We are seeking an experienced Program Manager to serve as the primary contractor representative and single point of accountability for a public health technology program supporting a federal health agency. This leadership position offers the opportunity to direct agile development, operations, and modernization of a case-based disease surveillance platform that state, tribal, local, and territorial (STLT) health departments rely on nationwide.

About This Role
As Program Manager, you serve as the single point of accountability for the program and the contractor's authorized interface with the federal customer's contracting and product leadership. You direct delivery across help desk, DevSecOps, quality assurance, development, case notification, and migration workstreams, and you hold final contractor authority for release prioritization and go/no-go decisions. You lead a multi-team organization spanning software engineering, platform operations, user support, and public health informatics.

What You'll Do
Lead program governance
Provide governance, planning, coordination, and decision-making oversight across all contractor teams and workstreams
Establish and execute the Program Management Plan covering delivery approach, roles, communications, risk, and quality management
Serve as final authority for release prioritization, sequencing, and go/no-go decisions across teams
Represent the contractor in customer governance meetings and own the relationship with contracting and product leadership
Run the agile machine
Facilitate sprint planning, backlog refinement, execution check-ins, sprint reviews, and retrospectives across multiple Scrum teams
Develop and maintain the integrated release plan and release calendar, coordinating scope, schedule, dependencies, environments, approvals, and communications
Identify cross-team dependencies before sprint commitment and manage them through to resolution
Coordinate release communications: release notes packaging, user-facing advisories, and internal change notifications
Own performance and reporting
Manage program cost performance: labor planning, burn rate monitoring, forecast-to-complete, and early warning on cost risk
Produce, quality-check, and deliver all contractual reports and deliverables on schedule, including monthly status reports, staff rosters, and earned value reporting
Operate the risk, issue, and opportunity register with defined review cadence and escalation of high and critical items within one business day
Maintain staffing plans with designated backups for key roles, continuity coverage, and surge planning
Your day to day
Run the weekly execution review and monthly stakeholder governance review with agendas, notes, and action items
Chair release readiness reviews with documented entry and exit criteria and go/no-go decisions
Track release risks and blockers daily during active release windows
Review team delivery metrics (throughput, velocity trends, spillover) and use them to improve predictability
Deliver the monthly reporting package by the 10th calendar day of each month
Field escalations from workstream leads and clear impediments the teams cannot clear themselves

What You Bring
Bachelor's degree and at least 10 years of relevant program or project management experience
Experience managing agile software delivery programs for federal civilian agencies under firm-fixed-price terms
Demonstrated authority-holding roles: release decisions, budget accountability, government-facing leadership
Experience directing multi-team delivery organizations of 30 or more staff
Preferred
PMP or equivalent certification; agile certifications (CSM, SAFe) a plus
Experience with public health, health IT, or scientific mission programs
Experience leading incumbent-capture transitions and multi-vendor coordination
Earned value management reporting experience

Logistics and Classification
Location: remote (contractor facility), with core-hours availability 8:00 AM to 4:30 PM ET.
Occasional domestic travel to client and stakeholder sites.
All personnel must be able to obtain a federal background investigation commensurate with position sensitivity and a PIV credential. No security clearance is required.
This position is contingent upon contract award, with an anticipated start in October 2026.

Salary Information
$165,000.00 to $180,000.00 - commensurate with experience and skillset
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