Program Manager - AFTAS Pro

Socket.dev; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Socket.dev is hiring a Program Manager to own delivery of a technical and analytic support services portfolio for Department of the Air Force acquisition organizations. You will be the single point of accountability for program management, IT modernization, enterprise architecture, and acquisition support, interfacing with government contracting teams.

You will lead staffing, budgeting, quality standards, and client communications, author core artifacts, and coordinate travel.

Qualifications

• 5+ years leading multi-project technical or advisory engagements.
• Master's degree in business or engineering.
• PMP certification, current and in good standing.
• Active Secret clearance (interim Secret ok with approval).
• Able to work from a contractor facility near Arlington, VA with travel.

Responsibilities

• Own delivery across all engagement work streams and staffing.
• Lead strategic planning, budgeting, and staffing to meet requirements.
• Set and enforce quality standards across a distributed team.
• Be primary government point of contact and respond within 24 hours.
• Create and maintain project artifacts and transition plans.
• Coordinate travel approvals, including short-notice requests.

Skills

Program management

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Communication

Education

Master's degree in business or engineering

Job description

Description

We are hiring a Program Manager to own delivery of a technical and analytic support services portfolio for Department of the Air Force acquisition organizations. This is a single-point-of-accountability role: you are responsible for every work stream on the engagement — program management, IT modernization, enterprise architecture, industrial base analysis, AI integration, and acquisition support — and you are the primary interface to the government contracting team. It suits someone who has run multi-task advisory services engagements before and is comfortable being the person the customer calls first.

What You'll Get to Do as an Program Manager:

• Own overall delivery across all engagement work streams, from staffing and budget through technical quality of the products that reach the customer.
• Lead strategic planning, budgeting, and staffing in response to changing task requirements.
• Set, communicate, and enforce quality standards across a distributed technical team.
• Serve as the primary point of contact to the government Contracting Officer and Contracting Officer's Representative, remaining reachable during business hours and responding to inquiries within 24 hours.
• Author and maintain the core program artifacts: project management plans, quality control plan, phase-in and transition-out plans, and program management review material.
• Coordinate domestic and international travel approvals, including short-notice requests.

Requirements

• 5+ years managing multi-project or multi-task technical or advisory and assistance services (A&AS) engagements.
• Master's degree in business or engineering.
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, current and in good standing.
• Active Secret clearance (interim Secret considered with approval).
• Ability to work from a contractor facility within 30 minutes of Arlington, VA, with regular travel to customer sites in the National Capital Region.

Preferred Qualifications:

• DAWIA Practitioner or Advanced certification in Program Management, or equivalent prior service in a DoD program office. (DAWIA certification is available only to government acquisition workforce members, so we treat it as a prior-government-service indicator rather than something we expect you to hold as a contractor.)
• Prior work supporting Air Force or Secretary of the Air Force acquisition organizations.
• Track record on performance-based contracts measured against defined service thresholds.
• Experience standing up a new engagement — phase-in, onboarding at scale, and clearance processing.