Program Manager

SiloSmashers, Inc. is a strategy, technology, and management consulting firm, founded in 1992, and located in Reston, Virginia. SiloSmashers delivers superior services and solutions to the public sector in the areas of project/program management, performance management, and IT security. The company provides innovative, collaborative business approaches, and proven methodologies that enable customers to break down organizational silos and optimize operational efficiency to achieve peak performance and mission success. 

Summary of the Role 

The Program Manager has overall responsibility for the successful initiation, planning, design, execution, monitoring, controlling and closure of the project. The Program Manager provides strategic direction and support between agency customers and project managers, engineers, and other cyber professionals. The Program Manager maintains customer relationships to continuously manage and monitor stakeholder needs and promote SiloSmashers capabilities and services.  

The Program Manager is responsible for managing scope and ensuring all deliverables are completed on time, ensuring that all quality levels and service level agreements are met, and assisting in negotiating contracting modifications for out-of-scope requests. The Program Manager serves as the single point of contact for the contracting officer and the contracting officer's representative.  

The ideal candidate has experience managing a security program management office (PMO), positively affecting change and improving operations in a federal cybersecurity environment. The position entails managing a team of up to 50 individuals.  

General Responsibilities

• Collect requirements from customer on production and delivery of documentation providing operational guidance and processes around cybersecurity capability services, cybersecurity management, and other topics as needed. Translate technical cybersecurity capability requirements into stakeholder needs and solutions statements. 
• Manages overall contract financials. Maintains a budget and seeks efficiencies to save costs. Produces financial reports as required by the contract and by management. 
• Primary point of contact to the government customer. Responsible for successful performance against a variety of cybersecurity-related workstreams to include an Information Security focused Program Management Office (PMO), Risk Management, Security Compliance, and Information Security Training and Awareness.  
• Develop and report on measures to demonstrate to the customer and the management team how effectively key business objectives are being achieved. Monitor performance indicators for corporate quality program 
• Works directly with federal staff to ensure all requirements are understood, properly staffed and that the team is producing high quality deliverables. Additionally, support the team leads in other program areas by understanding and communicating priorities to the contract team members and assisting with guidance as needed. Proactively identifies and remediates program-level and/or contract-level challenges and provide overall client satisfaction across the contract. 
• Works with corporate recruiting, team leads and business partners to fully staff all positions with highly qualified personnel. Ensures good communication and collaboration across the entire team by ensuring prime and subcontractors are seamlessly integrated into a team. Manages employee performance by working with team leads of the various program and corporate components. Anticipates potential problems and executes performance improvement plans as needed. Escalates staff issues to HR and senior members of the corporate leadership team and keeps them informed on overall project performance. 
• Provide oversight of staff and sub-contractors to perform and successfully fulfill customer tasking to include developing, tracking, monitoring progress, and reporting status of deliverables. Manages all aspects of a project, from start to finish, so that it is completed on time and within budget. Team members may be in the office and remote 
• Identify opportunities to expand our support and deliver support with a broad vision of the landscape. Support corporate business development and proposal activities, as needed 

Education  

• High School Diploma or equivalent and 15+ years of IT-related experience 
• Bachelor's Degree and 10+ years' IT-related experience, or  
• Masters and 8+ years' IT-related experience 

Experience 

• 5+ years of IT project/program management with a budget of at least $20M. 
• Experience building relationships and stakeholder engagement 
• Experience managing resource allocations and budgets 
• Proven experience with Federal IT clients 
• Proven experience managing technical staff, assigning and organizing tasks and overseeing project implementations 
• Flexible and self-motivated, excellent communication and collaboration skills and proven ability to work effectively with all levels of IT and business management 
• Experience in FISMA and/or other authorization processes and reporting 
• Proven experience with NIST SP 800-37, 800-30, 800-53, 800-53A 
• Experience with NIST RMF 
• Demonstrated understanding of information security architectures, technologies, standards, and practices to secure applications and IT systems, desirable 
• Experience in developing security documentation such as System Security Plans, Incident Response Plans, Configuration Management Plans, directives, policies, procedures, etc. 
• Experience with proposal development and corporate quality programs, preferred 

Certifications

• Project Management Professional (PMP) 
• Agile Scrum Master, or equivalent 
• Oracle Financials, or equivalent 

Clearance requirements

• U.S. Citizen 
• Capable of securing Top Secret clearance