Remote Agile Program Specialist – NOAA Moonshot

IBSS; Silver Spring (MD); On-site; USD 95,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

401K plan

Tuition reimbursement

Flexible spending

Job summary

IBSS is seeking highly qualified candidates to provide Agile program and project management services for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. The work supports multi-organization scientific R&D programs with substantial software components.

The role focuses on governance, cross‑functional coordination, and structured reporting for GPU-accelerated modeling, data assimilation, AI-augmented ensemble prediction, and the MPAS dynamical core.

Qualifications

• BA/BS degree or equivalent
• 5–7 years in the technical area managed and 5+ years IT management experience
• Ability to coordinate day-to-day engineering/program activities and organize delivery work
• Strong technical writing, editing, meeting facilitation, action tracking and stakeholder communication

Responsibilities

• Configure and administer Government-provided Google Workspace and Smartsheet structures.
• Support the initial program framework, living roadmap, stakeholder plan, reporting calendar, data dictionary, and cadence.
• Maintain risks, actions, issues, dependencies, decisions, and lessons-learned records to closure.
• Schedule and coordinate program meetings; prepare pre-reads and agendas; record decisions and minutes; track actions.
• Prepare Monthly Program Status Reports, Iteration Summary Reports, quarterly briefing inputs, and dashboard updates from governed data.
• Perform document control and first-level quality review for completeness and traceability.
• Support external-partner registers, transition records, roadmap updates, and risk workshops.
• Assist the Integration Lead and TPMs with cross-project coordination and process improvements

Skills

Technical writing

Meeting facilitation

Stakeholder communication

Document control

Action tracking

Program coordination

Google Workspace

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Smartsheet

Google Workspace

Dashboards

Spreadsheet tools

Job description

IBSS is seeking highly qualified candidates to provide Agile program and project management services for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. The work supports multi-organization scientific R&D programs with substantial software components.

The role focuses on governance, cross‑functional coordination, and structured reporting for GPU-accelerated modeling, data assimilation, AI-augmented ensemble prediction, and the MPAS dynamical core.