Project Management Support SME

Vosper Thornycroft Group; Bethesda (MD); On-site; USD 190,000 - 220,000; Full time

Job summary

VTG is seeking a Project Management Support SME in Bethesda, MD, requiring a TS/SCI clearance with poly. The role focuses on portfolio management, strategic planning, and assisting senior government executives with program goals and schedules.

Responsibilities include analyzing IT portfolios, recommending strategies and roadmaps, and ensuring effective cross-entity collaboration while coordinating with partners outside the US. Pay ranges from $190,000 to $220,000 annually.

Qualifications

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• Typically requires a BA degree and 12–15 years of prior relevant experience or a Master’s with 10–13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Draft products that reflect strong writing and grammatical skills.
• Knowledge of portfolio, program, and project management discipline.
• Familiarity with planning, programming, budgeting, and execution discipline.
• Knowledge of key performance indicators.
• Strong analytical competence, problem-solving, communication and organizational skills; provide audience-appropriate written and verbal communications.
• Ability to take charge of a group and set strategic guidance for a team of SMEs.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze IT portfolio of programs and their capabilities and services.
• Support the Sponsor's strategic direction and priorities evolution.
• Recommend strategies, roadmaps, risks, gaps, dependencies, and funding issues.
• Assist government clients with program goals, schedules, and reports to executives.
• Communicate technical topics in non-technical terms to senior audiences.
• Collaborate across multiple entities with extensive experience.
• Work with partners outside the US.

Skills

Portfolio management

Strategic planning

Decision support

Stakeholder communication

Inter-agency collaboration

Cross-border partnerships

Briefing senior leaders

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree

Tools

Excel

Word

PowerPoint

Job description

Overview

VTG is looking to hire a Project Management Support SME in Bethesda, MD. This position requires a TS/SCI with Poly.

What will you do?

Responsibilities include:

• Portfolio Management Experience - Monitor and analyze IT portfolio of programs and their associated capabilities and Services.
• Strategic Planning Experience - support the evolution of the Sponsor's strategic direction and priorities.
• Make recommendations to aid sponsor decision-making, to include proposed strategies and/or roadmaps; identified risks, capability and performance gaps, and dependencies; alignment with the strategic framework and priorities; and funding and related program issues.
• Assist government clients with programmatic goals and objectives, schedules, and reports to the senior-level executives.
• Communicate technical topics in a non-technical manner to senior-level audiences.
• Extensive experience in collaboration across multiple entities.
• Experience working with partners outside the US.

Do you have what it takes?

Basic Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI security clearance with polygraph.
• Typically requires a BA degree and 12 - 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 - 13 years of prior relevant experience.
• Draft products that reflect strong writing and grammatical skills.
• Knowledge of portfolio, program, and project management discipline.
• Familiarity with planning, programing, Budgeting, and execution discipline.
• Knowledge of key performance indicators.
• Strong analytical competence, problem-solving, communication and organizational skills Provide audience-appropriate written and verbal communications and demonstrate strong interpersonal and customer service skills.
• Work with seniors in diverse, fast-paced, multi-task environment managing competing priorities.
• Produce deliverables in multiple formats as needed (e.g., Excel, Word, PowerPoint, etc.).
• Ability to take charge of a group and set strategic guidance for a team of SMEs.

Pay Range: VTG's estimated starting pay range is $190,000-$220,000 annually, which is a general guideline for the geographic location. When extending an offer, VTG also considers work experience, education, skill level, market considerations and may possibly include contractual requirements which may cause an offer to fall outside of this range.