Deputy Program Manager (TS/SCI with Poly Required)

GCI embodies excellence, integrity and professionalism. The employees supporting our customers deliver unique, high-value mission solutions while effectively leverage the technological expertise of our valued workforce to meet critical mission requirements in the areas of Data Analytics and Software Development, Engineering, Targeting and Analysis, Operations, Training, and Cyber Operations. We maximize opportunities for success by building and maintaining trusted and reliable partnerships with our customers and industry.

At GCI, we solve the hard problems. As an Deputy Program Sr Manager, a typical day will include the following duties:

In concert with the Program Manager, manages and is responsible for the successful completion of all tasks in assigned program area including technical work, recruiting and staffing, staff supervision, procurement, property management, financial and business development activities.

REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE/MANDATORY SKILLS

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, information technology (IT), or equivalent technical discipline, or minimum of six years of work experience in IT development projects

• Project Management Professional (PMP) Certification

• At least five years total experience as a program manager /deputy program manager of comparable complexity and scope of >~30 FTE, various technical disciplines, across several physical locations

• Demonstrated experience successfully managing disparately located personnel

• Experience with contract proposals and the RFP life-cycle (shaping, proposing, winning, executing).

• Demonstrated experience managing a fast-paced program delivering systems/tools/solutions to production using agile methodologies

• Demonstrated experience managing cost, schedule, and budget against mission requirements and prioritization

• Expert level knowledge and experience creating and using Excel Pivot Tables

• Demonstrated success and a passion for program staffing with diverse roles and responsibilities; including sourcing and screening resumes, conducting screening interviews, to include onboarding and out-processing of staff

• Experience interacting with customer stakeholders, COTRs, and contract officers

• Experience briefing customers at various levels, as well as company management, including Directors and VPs.

• Proven record of learning new programmatic skills to support a technical program

• Ability to work core hours of 9 am to 4 pm, most days, on site, Chantilly area

DESIRED KNOWLEDGE/SKILLS

• Demonstrated and current experience managing programs delivering technologically complex solutions to address near-real time data processing/availability requirements

• Demonstrated experience using ePMO

• Experience working in an Agile framework and some understanding of the full SDLC

• Prior experience with property management and procurement

• Experience with purchase orders, vendor quote requests, billing, and expense reports

• Experience with Jira and Confluence

• Experience with SharePoint and PowerBI