GovTech Program Lead — Remote-First

Nava Public Benefit Corp.; Rhode Island; Remote; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

Disability & life insurance

Paid time off

Annual bonus

401(k) match

Remote-friendly

Home office stipend

Professional development

Job summary

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Program Manager to lead the delivery and client engagement on strategic contracts with government partners. You will oversee cross-functional teams, manage milestones, and maintain trusted relationships across stakeholders.

The role requires extensive program management experience, strong government contracting knowledge, and proficiency in agile methods. Remote-friendly and requires east coast hours with potential travel to Richmond, VA as needed.

Qualifications

• Must have experience with Custom Software or Cloud infrastructure programs/projects.
• Must work east coast hours and easily travel to Richmond, VA by direct flight, short connecting flight OR train/car.
• Experience working with or for state government agencies, with solid understanding of government contracting, compliance, and importance of audit trails.
• Experience with leading and growing agile development teams and the challenges of managing a project at scale, whether you inherited that team or built it from scratch.
• Ability to demonstrate experience leading large-scale projects with significant complexity, including managing milestones, dependencies, and integrations with significant risk, uncertainty or scale.
• Experience using agile frameworks like scrum, kanban, or SAFe and familiarity with agile development practices such as continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• You are highly organized and care deeply about building and growing a sustainable, culture-conscious business.
• A strategic approach to delivery planning and contract management over the medium-term and long-term.
• Ability to maintain broader situational awareness beyond the immediate team.
• Previous experience in managing Paid Family Leave Benefits Programs, either in-house or as a vendor.
• Experience working closely with or inside state government (or local government of major cities like NYC, LA, Chicago, or Houston).
• Proven track record of building and leading high-performing, agile technology teams of 50+ staff.
• Experience with using common project management tools like Jira and Confluence.
• Track record of introducing and expanding agile transformation and pursuing best practices in project management with clients and stakeholders.
• Experience managing projects that provide production operations and support alongside ongoing product/feature development.

Responsibilities

• Proactively detect risks and work collaboratively with the delivery team and program stakeholders to effectively resolve them (issues can span delivery, process, culture, expectation setting, staffing, contract milestones, finances)
• Maintain awareness of the broader project landscape and potential for new opportunities and risks and grow your program accordingly with surge contract line item numbers (CLINs), option years, and negotiations with subcontractors.
• Collaborate across projects and across the organization to proactively anticipate and solve problems across delivery
• Support the creation of delivery environments built on mutual trust between government partners and our team
• Scale efforts through a team of project managers and other functional delivery leads
• Manage all the contracts and finances on within your portfolio in coordination with the finance team and coordinate necessary contract modifications
• Set and uphold standards for delivery excellence and client service
• Apply Nava's policies and guidance at the program level (E.g. utilization guidance)

Skills

Project management

Agile methodologies

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Contract management

Jira/Confluence

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Job description

Nava Public Benefit Corp. is seeking a Program Manager to lead the delivery and client engagement on strategic contracts with government partners. You will oversee cross-functional teams, manage milestones, and maintain trusted relationships across stakeholders.

The role requires extensive program management experience, strong government contracting knowledge, and proficiency in agile methods. Remote-friendly and requires east coast hours with potential travel to Richmond, VA as needed.