Deputy Program Manager

NexTech Solutions (NTS) is a team of experts and engineers who understand the challenges that organizations face in finding and implementing the best technologies and IT solutions to meet mission requirements. We work with our government customers in defense and civilian agencies to identify new technologies.

The Opportunity
The Deputy Program Manager (DPM) for contracts supports the Program Manager in overseeing day-to-day program execution, ensuring all contractual, financial, and operational requirements are met across multiple Department of State (DoS) task orders and projects. This role provides critical support in project management, contract oversight, financial tracking, proposal development, and stakeholder coordination. The DPM helps drive execution across a diverse project portfolio to meet key business objectives-orders, revenue, operating income, and cash flow-while ensuring full compliance with SOWs, schedules, deliverables, and cost commitments.

The DPM plays an integral role in the growth and success of the company by developing pricing models, managing vendor and procurement activities, ensuring timely reporting, and supporting special projects essential to program and organizational performance.

Key Responsibilities

Project Management

• Ensure adherence to all Task Order Statements of Work (SOWs), including in-scope/out-of-scope determinations and requirements tracking.
• Support proposal development, pricing activities, and ongoing bid preparation.
• Maintain and update DoS Program organizational charts.
• Capture, track, and distribute meeting minutes, summaries, and action items.

Contract Oversight

• Oversee and ensure compliance with all applicable contracts and task orders.
• Support contract proposals, modifications, vendor management, and procurement activities to meet SOW requirements.

Task Order Deliverables

• Coordinate and support Task Order kick-off meetings.
• Prepare and submit monthly program reports.
• Support monthly invoice reviews to ensure accuracy and alignment with contractual requirements.

Financial and Task Order Tracking

• Serve as primary reviewer/approver for employee timesheets and expense reports.
• Monitor labor hours and costs against budgets and forecasts.
• Oversee ODC/PO tracking and approvals, ensuring alignment with budgeted amounts.
• Manage EWW (Extended Work Week) requests, tracking, and documentation.
• Track and approve uplifts and related financial adjustments.
• Provide input for monthly financial reporting and analysis.

Program Execution & Support

• Monitor program activities to ensure compliance with technical requirements, schedules, deliverables, and cost commitments.
• Prepare price models, cost estimates, and support development of contract proposals and modifications.
• Deliver monthly reporting, analytics, and performance insights to company leadership.
• Contribute to achievement of operational goals with a direct impact on program and company performance.
• Participate in special initiatives and projects essential to program growth and strategic outcomes.