Interagency Agreement Manager

ECS; Fairfax (VA); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth ECS is seeking an Interagency Agreement Manager to join our Fairfax, VA office with hybrid flexibility. You will manage data-sharing agreements across DoW components and federal partners, guiding requirements through drafting, negotiation, and closeout.

You will collaborate with mission owners, legal counsel, cybersecurity, and records management teams to ensure secure, compliant, and timely data sharing across agencies, while driving complex actions to resolution.

Qualifications

• Minimum a bachelor’s degree in a policy, administration, IT, security, or related field.
• Five+ years of experience in interagency coordination, program management, or similar roles.
• Experience drafting and managing government agreements and related documentation.
• Proven ability to coordinate across multiple organizations and approvals.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain relationships with DoW components, agencies, and mission partners.
• Lead coordination for interagency data-sharing initiatives and define roles and responsibilities.
• Draft and manage Data Sharing Agreements, Data Use Agreements, and related documents.
• Ensure agreements cover purpose, scope, access, ownership, and release authorities.
• Document data classification, privacy, cybersecurity, records management, and retention needs.
• Coordinate with legal, privacy, cybersecurity, and acquisition stakeholders.
• Work with engineers to develop technical appendices covering data handling.
• Aggregate stakeholder feedback, resolve issues, and document final decisions.
• Navigate government review processes and ensure complete documentation before signature.
• Develop schedules with milestones, reviews, signatures, and renewal dates.

Skills

Interagency coordination

Relationship management

Drafting & editing

Data governance

Security/compliance

Stakeholder engagement

Written communication

Oral communication

Project management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

Job description

Job Description

Everforth ECS is seeking an Interagency Agreement Manager to work in our Fairfax VA office with hybrid flexibility. This position is contingent upon additional funding.

The Interagency Agreement Manager will support a Department of War (DoW) customer by establishing and maintaining relationships with DoW Components, military departments, federal agencies, laboratories, and other government mission partners. The primary objective of this position is to develop, coordinate, and manage the agreements required to enable secure, lawful, and timely sharing of data between government organizations.

The successful candidate will manage agreements throughout their full lifecycle—from initial stakeholder engagement and requirements discovery through drafting, review, negotiation, approval, implementation, renewal, amendment, and closeout. This individual will work closely with mission owners, data stewards, technical teams, cybersecurity personnel, privacy officials, records managers, legal counsel, acquisition professionals, and senior leaders to translate operational data needs into clear and executable agreements.

The ideal candidate will possess strong relationship-management, facilitation, writing, and organizational skills, along with an understanding of federal data governance, information security, and interagency coordination. This position requires an individual who can independently drive complex actions, resolve competing stakeholder concerns, and maintain momentum across multiple organizations and approval processes.

Responsibilities

• Establish and maintain productive working relationships with DoW Components, military departments, federal agencies, laboratories, combatant commands, and other government mission partners.
• Serve as the primary coordinator for interagency data-sharing initiatives, helping participating organizations identify common objectives, responsibilities, requirements, and constraints.
• Draft, edit, coordinate, and manage Data Sharing Agreements, Data Use Agreements, Declassification Agreements (coordination), Memoranda of Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding, Interagency Agreements, support agreements, implementation plans, annexes, amendments, and related documentation.
• Ensure agreements clearly address the purpose and scope of the data sharing arrangement, participating organizations, roles and responsibilities, authorized users, permitted uses, access restrictions, data ownership, stewardship, and release authorities.
• Document requirements associated with data classification, Controlled Unclassified Information, privacy, records management, retention and disposition, dissemination, cybersecurity, incident reporting, auditing, and termination of access.
• Coordinate with government legal counsel, privacy officials, cybersecurity personnel, information security officers, records managers, acquisition professionals, financial managers, data owners, and other approving authorities.
• Work with systems engineers, data engineers, cloud engineers, security teams, and data custodians to develop technical appendices covering data inventories, transfer methods, storage locations, system boundaries, access controls, logging, and other implementation requirements.
• Consolidate and adjudicate stakeholder comments, identify unresolved issues, recommend paths to resolution, and document final decisions.
• Coordinate agreement packages through required government review and approval processes and ensure that all required supporting documentation is complete before signature.
• Develop and maintain integrated schedules identifying agreement milestones, dependencies, review periods, approval authorities, signatures, implementation activities, renewal dates, and expiration dates.
• Identify risks, delays, policy conflicts, or organizational barriers that could prevent agreement execution and develop mitigation or escalation plans.
• Support broader data-governance and data-discovery efforts by identifying government data holdings, responsible organizations, authoritative data owners, and potential mission applications.
• Promote collaboration and transparency among government organizations while appropriately protecting sensitive, classified, proprietary, privacy-related, and controlled information.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $90,000-130,000

General Description Of Benefits

Required Skills

• Must be a US Citizen
• Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor’s degree in Public Policy, Business Administration, Government, Political Science, Information Management, Data Governance, Security Studies, Communications, Law, or a related discipline. Relevant professional experience may be considered in place of a degree
• 5+ years of experience supporting federal government or Department of Defense programs in interagency coordination, program management, policy development, data governance, stakeholder engagement, agreements management, or a related field
• Demonstrated experience drafting, coordinating, reviewing, or managing formal government agreements, policies, directives, memoranda, or similar documentation
• Experience working directly with multiple government organizations and coordinating actions across organizational boundaries
• Understanding of federal or DoW data-sharing, information-governance, privacy, cybersecurity, records-management, and information-handling requirements
• Ability to identify and document agreement requirements related to data access, authorized use, security controls, privacy, retention, dissemination, auditing, incident response, and termination
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical personnel, attorneys, policy professionals, program managers, and senior government leaders
• Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings, reconcile competing stakeholder positions, resolve comments, and move complex documents toward approval
• Strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to produce accurate, complete, and professionally formatted documentation
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint

Desired Skills

• Active TS/SCI security clearance
• Experience developing or managing Data Sharing Agreements, Data Use Agreements, Memoranda of Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding, Interagency Agreements, or government support agreements
• Prior experience supporting a DoW Chief Data Office, Chief Information Office, Chief Digital and AI Office, program executive offices, military department, combatant command, defense agency, laboratory, or similar federal organization
• Experience supporting data-sharing arrangements involving cloud environments, government data platforms, secure enclaves, application programming interfaces, data repositories, or large-scale data transfers
• Experience supporting data used for artificial intelligence, machine learning, autonomy, modeling and simulation, analytics, test and evaluation, or other advanced technical applications
• Familiarity with data inventories, metadata, data lineage, access-control models, system security boundaries, and data-transfer workflows
• Project Management Professional, Certified Associate in Project Management, data-governance, privacy, cybersecurity, or related professional certification

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ECS Federal LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis any characteristic protected by law. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to disability, status as a protected veteran or any other status protected by applicable federal, state, or local jurisdiction law.

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