Agile Project Manager

Toffler Associates; Arlington (VA); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Toffler Associates is seeking an Agile Project Manager to lead strategic client projects, including work across NOAA within the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research. You will guide planning, budgeting, and stakeholder engagement while delivering complex solutions that create value for government and commercial clients.

The role requires 5+ years in federal project management, experience with agile teams, and the ability to obtain a top-secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 5 years of experience managing federal contracts or project teams.
• Experience with managing support services for high-performing agile teams.
• Must reside in or commute regularly within the Washington, DC metro area; hybrid on-site/virtual locations.

Responsibilities

• Oversee project portfolios, budgets, grants, and schedules.
• Coordinate with NOAA modeling, observations, and testing initiatives.
• Provide strategic insights that contribute to business development.
• Ensure high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact.
• Identify opportunities the client may not see through broad organizational scanning.

Skills

Federal contract management

Agile team management

Stakeholder engagement

Interdisciplinary collaboration

Security clearance readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in business/management/Agile PM

Tools

Atlassian suite (Jira)

Azure DevOps

Broadcom Rally

Digital.ai Agile

Wrike

Job description

Your future has many paths. Be ready for them all.

Toffler Associates is a future-focused strategic advisory firm that works with both government and commercial clients. Our Future Proof® business consulting approach makes us unique in the industry, helping global leaders understand how future shifts impact current decisions and empowering them to take advantage of opportunities, manage risk, and create value.

Our firm is seeking an Agile Project Manager to join our growing team. This person will be working on strategic client projects, including those across the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the National Weather Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

In this role, you provide subject matter expertise, coaching, and direct execution of project planning, resource management, and stakeholder engagement activities and ensure the successful delivery of complex solutions. Additionally, you provide strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives. The expansion of client relationships and identification of new opportunities in your client mission area is critical to success in this role. With expertise in strategic analysis and risk planning, this person will manage project financials, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact.

Your Impact Will Include

• Oversee project portfolios, budgets, grants, and schedules
• Coordinating with teams across NOAA modeling advancements, observations, and testing initiatives
• Providing strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives
• Ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact
• Strong acumen in scanning the broader organization, connecting dots across stakeholders, and identifying opportunities the client may not see

You'll Arrive Equipped With

• A minimum of 5 years of experience managing federal contracts or project teams
• Experience with managing support services specifically for high-performing agile teams
• Strong background working with interdisciplinary teams, academic partners, and scientific/analytical modeling enterprises
• Must reside in or be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area; hybrid work environment anticipated, to include on-site and virtual locations
• U.S. citizenship (the nature of our work with the federal government limits our hiring to
• U.S. citizens)
• Ability to obtain and maintain up to a top-secret security clearance.
• Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business, management, or a field related to Agile program management within a federal scientific modeling enterprise

Preferred Qualifications

• Background supporting atmospheric science departments of the US government such as NOAA, EPA, NASA etc.
• Agile certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master I, Project Management Institute – Agile Certified Practitioner, SAFe Agilist)
• Experience developing robust project plans and continuously managing project financials, budgeting, and forecasting
• Strategic thinker with strong systems thinking and first principles of reasoning
• Able to translate strategy to execution and own execution (work cross-functionally and across seniority levels within a client space to drive change, keeping relationships and culture in mind)
• Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous and open-ended problems
• Strong executive presence with the ability to command a room and engage senior clients
• Confident facilitator able to guide discussions, manage conflict, and drive alignment
• Strong storyteller capable of creating compelling narratives, insights, and recommendations
• Relationship builder with strong client service orientation
• Strong analytical skills; comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative data
• Highly organized; able to manage multiple workstreams, deliverables, and internal/external expectations; can manage up
• Experience with managing complex team structures and project budgets
• Knowledge of key consulting frameworks and concepts (Mento Pyramid, MECE, ChoiceCascade, 7S, Growth Share)
• Previous experience in a defense or commercial consulting firm
• Experience serving or working in a large corporate environment, including familiarity with strategy development and execution, organizational change, and processes
• Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative data analytics

Technical Skills

• Demonstrated fluency with industry-standard Agile enterprise management platforms (e.g., the Atlassian suite, Azure DevOps, Broadcom Rally, Digital.ai Agility, Wrike)
• Strong PPT and Excel skills

Growth Expectations

• Able to identify, frame, and scope problems across all consulting disciplines: strategy, operations, human capital, security and resilience, technology and innovation readiness
• Confident in engaging new people and building relationships across all levels
• Creative in identifying pathways into organizations, buyers, and influencers
• Comfortable shaping solution options and articulating value drivers
• Understanding of the full sales lifecycle and able to assist in developing proposals, estimates, and statements of work

We'll Equip You With

• A flexible, agile, and employee-driven workplace that will enable you to thrive as a well-balanced professional
• A fundamentally collaborative team that places a premium on transparent leadership and diversity of experience and thought
• A community of lifelong learners dedicated to engaging in rewarding and meaningful work
• A culture committed to interpersonal connection that will encourage you to leverage your existing relationships and invest in new ones
• An environment that is unconditionally inclusive across the many characteristics that make us all unique
• Competitive compensation and outstanding benefits

What sets Toffler Associates apart?

We are thinkers and doers. We connect dots to see what others don't and act on what we see. Drawing from our namesake and founding legacy-world-renowned futurists Alvin and Heidi Toffler-we provide clients with a perspective and strategic approach they cannot find anywhere else.

The Toffler Associates differentiator is our internal culture. When we say we are curious lifelong learners, we mean this ethos is baked into how we work. We successfully inspire our clients to speak truth to power because our own teams do it every day. We know how to help others engage in diverse thought because doing so is part of the Toffler Associates DNA.

We are looking for big thinkers with a bias for action. If you are interested in embarking on a journey with us to hone your curiosity, push your skills to the next level, help drive the firm's growth, and make a lasting contribution to something larger than yourself, we encourage you to apply.

Toffler Associates, Inc. complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws regarding recruitment and hiring. All qualified applicants are considered for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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