IT Project Lifecycle Manager

Title: IT Project Lifecycle Manager


Location: Reston, VA


Clearance: TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Responsibilities:

• Provide project lifecycle coordination, schedule management, execution monitoring, stakeholder communication, and reporting support across multiple dynamic IT initiatives


• Support projects that may vary in size, complexity, maturity, and execution model


• Create structure, visibility, and disciplined reporting to initiatives that may be executed by government personnel, external contractors, system owners, or technical teams outside the direct authority of the PMA


• Maintain open lines of communication, and keep information flowing through professionalism, consistency, helpful coordination, and strong relationship management


• Identify, document, track, and escalate project risks, issues, dependencies, decisions, and action items


• Work closely with the Business Modernization and Project Lifecycle Lead, Information System Security Advisor, government stakeholders, project sponsors, technical teams, and external execution teams


• Respond to feedback, adjust reporting products quickly, expand useful reporting areas, reduce low-value reporting, and continuously improve the clarity and usefulness of project status information

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, information systems, computer science, or related field required, with a minimum of two (2) years of directly related experience


• Hand-on experience supporting all stages of the project lifecycle, including intake, requirements validation, planning, schedule development, execution monitoring, reporting, implementation coordination, transition, and closeout


• The ability to develop, maintain, and monitor project schedules, milestone trackers, dependency logs, and delivery timelines across multiple concurrent projects


• Comfortable developing and refining project reporting products in a new and evolving environment


• Experience in managing multiple dynamic projects at the same time, each with different stakeholders, reporting requirements, schedules, risks, and dependencies


• The ability to effectively build working relationships with project teams, government stakeholders, system owners, technical staff, cybersecurity personnel, data analysts, and external contractors


• Experience supporting information systems security, cybersecurity documentation, accreditation, compliance, or risk management activities in a in a federal, DOD, or IC environment


• Current active PMP or CSM certification


• Current, active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain and maintain a CI polygraph

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled