Remote Program Manager - Federal VA Health Delivery

LMI Government Consulting; United States; Remote; USD 140,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced Program Manager to support a VA suicide prevention and mental health program, serving as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager. You will oversee contract operations, client delivery, staffing, and strategic growth while leading multiple workstreams and coaching staff.

The ideal candidate has strong federal program management experience, familiar with Agile methods, and proficiency with Jira, Azure DevOps, Power Platform, and SharePoint.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in business, management, public administration, health administration, information systems, technology, public health, or a related field.
• 7+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, consulting, technology delivery, federal contracting, or a related discipline.
• Demonstrated experience serving in a deputy program manager, senior project manager, program operations lead, or comparable leadership capacity.
• Demonstrated people-management experience, including direct supervision of employees across multiple roles, disciplines, or levels of seniority.
• Experience establishing performance expectations, coaching employees, supporting career development, recognizing strong performance, and addressing performance or conduct issues.
• Experience working in Agile delivery environments; familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, Power Platform, analytics, or program evaluation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager, providing leadership across contract operations, client delivery, staffing, financial performance, and strategic priorities.
• Independently lead program activities and represent program leadership with clients, internal stakeholders, and delivery teams as needed.
• Directly supervise and manage employees across different job families, technical disciplines, titles, experience levels, and levels of seniority.
• Set clear performance expectations, provide ongoing feedback and coaching, support professional development, and hold employees accountable for performance, behavior, and delivery commitments.
• Lead LMI’s Performance 365 process for assigned staff, including goal setting, ongoing performance discussions, career development, recognition, documentation, and formal performance reviews.
• Address performance concerns early and directly, including conducting difficult or sensitive conversations, establishing improvement expectations, documenting issues appropriately, and partnering with leadership and HR when necessary.
• Plan, coordinate, and oversee execution across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, ensuring priorities, resources, risks, and outcomes remain aligned.
• Establish and maintain effective program operating rhythms, governance, schedules, action tracking, decision logs, and performance reporting.
• Monitor cost, schedule, scope, staffing, utilization, and performance, identifying emerging issues and recommending corrective actions.
• Lead workforce planning activities, including staffing strategy, recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, resource allocation, and performance oversight.
• Build and sustain trusted relationships with VA stakeholders, program leadership, technical teams, partners, and LMI leadership.
• Translate evolving client priorities into actionable requirements, work plans, deliverables, and resource needs.
• Lead and support Agile delivery using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches, including backlog management, prioritization, dependency management, and continuous improvement.
• Use Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, dashboards, and related tools to maintain visibility into milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery performance.
• Coordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include developers, analysts, data scientists, evaluators, technical leads, and subject matter experts.
• Partner with technical teams delivering solutions involving Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, analytics, data, workflow automation, and program evaluation.

Skills

Leadership

People management

Agile delivery

Stakeholder management

Program management

Strategic planning

Budget forecasting

Staff development

Risk management

Education

Bachelor’s degree in a related field

PMP, PMI-ACP, CSM, SAFe certifications

Tools

Jira

Azure DevOps

Power Platform

SharePoint

Dashboards

Job description

LMI Government Consulting seeks an experienced Program Manager to support a VA suicide prevention and mental health program, serving as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager. You will oversee contract operations, client delivery, staffing, and strategic growth while leading multiple workstreams and coaching staff.

The ideal candidate has strong federal program management experience, familiar with Agile methods, and proficiency with Jira, Azure DevOps, Power Platform, and SharePoint.