Senior Program Management Specialist

PKH Enterprises, LLC; Virginia; On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

PKH Enterprises is seeking a Senior Program Management Specialist to support federal security programs for government clients. The role involves strategic planning, governance, risk management and stakeholder engagement to drive program capability and funding decisions.

The ideal candidate will have top secret clearance, 15+ years of experience including federal contracting, and strong analytical, writing and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Top Secret Clearance required.
• Minimum of fifteen years’ experience, five years’ experience in federal contracting support.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in federal program management support or related experience.
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical, critical thinking, data management, and research skills.
• Experience conducting end-to-end analysis with qualitative and quantitative data.

Responsibilities

• Assess current processes and implement improvement plans with teams.
• Review and improve policy, governance and standard processes.
• Evaluate technical and non-technical solutions to improve program performance.
• Establish governance and engagement mechanisms with goals and metrics.
• Support business case development, resource planning and budgets.
• Conduct program risk assessments and mitigation strategies.
• Develop program performance metrics and reporting mechanisms.
• Draft/Update/Implement new policies and procedures with client.
• Document authorities and policy framework for funding decisions.
• Lead technical interchange meetings with client stakeholders.
• Develop and administer training and awareness campaigns.
• Evaluate data collection for accuracy, timeliness and relevance.
• Produce quality writing and communications materials.

Skills

Security program mgmt

Governance & policy

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Strategic planning

Analytical thinking

Technical writing

Education

Bachelor's degree or equivalent

PMP Certification

Tools

PowerPoint

Job description

Job Description

Senior Program Management Specialist

PKH Enterprises is seeking qualified individuals to support government clients in the development and implementation of Federal security programs. Qualified candidates should be able to understand strategic direction and formulate plans to implement that direction. They should have knowledge of security program elements, governance models and overall program operations. Previous experience with insider threat, counter-intelligence, counter drone, and protective intelligence, or other relevant fields are considered a plus.

Responsibilities:

• Be able to assess current processes, identify ways to improve processes and work with teams to implement changes.
• Review and improve policy, governance and standard processes to improve program effectiveness and efficiency.
• Evaluate and recommend both technical and non-technical solutions to improve program performance. Conduct analysis of alternatives for technology solutions.
• Evaluate and establish governance and stakeholder engagement mechanisms. Establish goals and metrics to evaluate performance of governance and engagement.
• Provide support in developing business cases, resource planning, budget justifications and other documents.
• Conduct program risk management assessments of critical operations and develop strategies for risk mitigation.
• Develop and operationalize program performance metrics and reporting mechanisms in support of client programs.
• Work with client to Draft / Update / Implement new policies and procedures.
• Document an authorities and policy framework that justifies and scopes program activities which can serve as the basis for metrics and program funding decisions.
• Conduct technical interchange meetings with client stakeholders to establish implementation processes, address concerns and troubleshoot challenges that arise in program deployment.
• Develop and administer training and awareness campaigns.
• Evaluate data collection to ensure collected data is accurate, relevant, timely, incorporates technical and non-technical data and is sufficient for program decision making.
• Quality writing, PowerPoint and communications skills.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree or equivalent.
• Top Secret Clearance required.
• Minimum of fifteen years’ experience, five years’ experience in federal contracting support.
• Minimum of 5 years of experience in federal program management support or related experience
• Strong oral and written communication, analytical, critical thinking, data management, and research skills.
• Experience conducting end-to-end analysis, including collecting and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data, and handling sensitive materials.

Preferred Qualifications:

• 7 or more years of professional experience in relevant fields including counterintelligence, personnel security, IT security, physical security, or behavioral analysis.
• PMP Certification

Company Description

PKH Enterprises (PKH) is a small, woman-owned professional services firm dedicated to helping clients address challenging policy and technology issues. The PKH team is comprised of professionals with varied backgrounds combining legal, policy and technical expertise and offers the services and experience of business process engineers, senior subject matter experts and certified project managers. Our diverse capabilities help our clients improve performance and achieve innovative solutions to their most complex business problems. Our clients turn to us as partners and trusted advisors, and depend on our ability to anti