Program Manager w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting LLC; United States; On-site; USD 165,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k match

Paid time off

Paid parental leave

Professional development

Job summary

A3 Consulting is seeking a Program Manager to provide delivery leadership for a federal mission‑support engagement focused on integrated master schedule sustainment, executive reporting, governance visibility, risk/dependency management, and decision‑support analysis.

You will operate in a highly visible federal environment, distinguish contractor recommendations from client authority, and maintain delivery accountability across schedule, dashboard, governance, risk, action, and decision‑support

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of federal program or project management experience.
• PMI/SAFe/Agile certification or equivalent experience.
• Experience managing PMO, schedule, dashboard, governance, or executive reporting support efforts.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams in federal, defense, intelligence, civilian, or other regulated mission environments.
• Overseeing CDRLs, quality management, performance standards, transition activities, stakeholder coordination, and comment resolution.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, risk management, delivery oversight, and client relationship management skills.
• Ability to translate complex or ambiguous business and mission needs into actionable requirements, roadmaps, backlogs, technical plans, decision products, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to motivate teams through ambiguity while maintaining delivery performance, quality discipline, and client trust.
• Familiarity with integrated master schedules, dashboard reporting, governance packages, risk registers, action trackers, decision logs, and executive‑ready reporting products.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Power BI, or similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary delivery lead and client‑facing management point of contact.
• Provide overall leadership for staffing, transition activities, work allocation, performance management, risk escalation, and delivery accountability.
• Ensure continuity of schedule, dashboard, reporting, governance, risk, action, and decision‑support artifacts throughout the engagement.
• Coordinate across client stakeholders, incumbent support personnel, partner organizations, and other contractors as directed.
• Establish and maintain the engagement’s operating rhythm, including leadership touchpoints, status cadences, escalation paths, and performance reviews.
• Monitor deliverable quality, schedule adherence, risk management, corrective actions, comment resolution, and performance against applicable quality standards.
• Ensure all deliverables are accurate, traceable, complete, professionally formatted, and aligned to approved client direction.
• Support executive‑level communications, decision briefings, governance updates, management reviews, and senior‑leader reporting.
• Anticipate client support needs, identify risks or deviations from plan before they affect delivery, and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Maintain clear non‑personal services boundaries by providing analysis and recommendations while preserving client decision authority.
• Build and sustain a team culture focused on accountability, adaptability, collaboration, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead resource planning, backfill coordination, onboarding, and continuity planning to minimize disruption from turnover or changing client priorities.
• Ensure the team uses consistent methods for source validation, quality review, artifact control, repository management, and client comment disposition.
• Provide senior‑level oversight of deliverable quality gates, transition products, action tracking, decision tracking, risk registers, and management reporting.

Skills

Federal program management

Executive reporting

Cross-functional leadership

Stakeholder management

Risk management

Delivery oversight

Client relationship management

Requirements & roadmaps

Team motivation under ambiguity

Master schedules & governance

Education

Bachelor's Degree in IT/Engineering/Business

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Power BI

SharePoint

Teams

Job description

• Experience managing PMO, schedule, dashboard, governance, or executive reporting support efforts.

A3 Consulting is seeking a Program Manager to provide delivery leadership for a federal mission-support engagement focused on integrated master schedule sustainment, executive reporting, governance visibility, risk/dependency management, and decision-support analysis. If you thrive on operating in a highly visible federal environment, display the judgment to distinguish contractor recommendations from client decision authority, and the discipline to maintain delivery accountability across schedule, dashboard, governance, risk, action, and decision-support activities, this role is for you!

In this role you will:

• Serve as the primary delivery lead and client‑facing management point of contact.
• Provide overall leadership for staffing, transition activities, work allocation, performance management, risk escalation, and delivery accountability.
• Ensure continuity of schedule, dashboard, reporting, governance, risk, action, and decision‑support artifacts throughout the engagement.
• Coordinate across client stakeholders, incumbent support personnel, partner organizations, and other contractors as directed.
• Establish and maintain the engagement’s operating rhythm, including leadership touchpoints, status cadences, escalation paths, and performance reviews.
• Monitor deliverable quality, schedule adherence, risk management, corrective actions, comment resolution, and performance against applicable quality standards.
• Ensure all deliverables are accurate, traceable, complete, professionally formatted, and aligned to approved client direction.
• Support executive‑level communications, decision briefings, governance updates, management reviews, and senior‑leader reporting.
• Anticipate client support needs, identify risks or deviations from plan before they affect delivery, and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Maintain clear non‑personal services boundaries by providing analysis and recommendations while preserving client decision authority.
• Build and sustain a team culture focused on accountability, adaptability, collaboration, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes.
• Lead resource planning, backfill coordination, onboarding, and continuity planning to minimize disruption from turnover or changing client priorities.
• Ensure the team uses consistent methods for source validation, quality review, artifact control, repository management, and client comment disposition.
• Provide senior‑level oversight of deliverable quality gates, transition products, action tracking, decision tracking, risk registers, and management reporting.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
• 10+ years of federal program or project management experience.
• Project Management Professional (PMP), SAFe Agilist, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent program/agile experience or certification.
• Experience managing PMO, schedule, dashboard, governance, or executive reporting support efforts.
• Experience leading cross‑functional teams in federal, defense, intelligence, civilian, or other regulated mission environments.
• Demonstrated experience overseeing CDRLs, quality management, performance standards, transition activities, stakeholder coordination, and comment resolution.
• Strong executive communication, facilitation, risk management, delivery oversight, and client relationship management skills.
• Demonstrated ability to translate complex or ambiguous business and mission needs into actionable requirements, roadmaps, backlogs, technical plans, decision products, and measurable outcomes.
• Ability to motivate teams through ambiguity while maintaining delivery performance, quality discipline, and client trust.
• Familiarity with integrated master schedules, dashboard reporting, governance packages, risk registers, action trackers, decision logs, and executive‑ready reporting products.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Power BI, or similar collaboration and reporting tools.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance (or higher) required.

Location

• Remote (DC Metro Area)

Salary Range

• The salary range of this position is $165,000 - $190,000 commensurate with experience and achievement.

A3 Consulting offers a robust benefits package to include but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, group life and AD&D, short‑term and long‑term disability, paid time off, 401k match, paid parental leave, professional development.

About A3 Consulting

A3 Consulting LLC is a leading management and technology firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions to solve the pressing challenges of our Federal government and Department of Defense customers. With a proven track record of delivering mission‑critical solutions and exceptional performance, we are committed to ensuring that our intelligent automation and technology offerings remain competitive in the rapidly evolving defense marketplace.