Senior Program Manager - Government Contracts (Secret Clearance)

The Ascendancy Group LTD; Virginia Beach (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

The Ascendancy Group aims to be the premier provider of SOF and Intelligence Community-focused solutions. The Program Manager will lead programs at TAG’s Headquarters Operations, interacting with customers, executives, and partners to drive performance from capture to closeout.

This senior, customer-facing role requires a Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and extensive experience managing government contracts, budgets, and schedules in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Active U.S. Government Secret security clearance and U.S. citizenship.
• 8+ years of program management, project management, operations management, or relevant leadership experience.
• 5+ years managing complex programs, contracts, task orders, or operational initiatives with schedule, budget, staffing, deliverables, and performance.
• 3+ years supporting DoD, IC, federal government, government contracting, or SOF-related organizations.

Responsibilities

• Lead assigned programs, contracts, task orders, and strategic operational initiatives.
• Serve as the primary interface with customers, KOs, CORs, TPOCs, subcontractors, and TAG leadership.
• Manage program execution from proposal and award through transition, performance, follow-on opportunities, and closeout.
• Develop and maintain program execution, staffing, transition, risk, management, quality, control, and communication plans.
• Ensure contractual requirements, deliverables, milestones, budgets, schedules, staffing, and quality standards are met.
• Oversee and mentor Project Managers, project coordinators, and operational staff; establish priorities and resolve barriers to execution.
• Coordinate with Recruiting, Finance, Contracts, Operations, Facility Security, and executive leadership on staffing, financial performance, invoicing, security, compliance, and program profitability.
• Monitor budgets, funding, labor utilization, forecasts, cost-to-complete estimates, risks, and schedule or performance variances.
• Prepare executive briefings, customer updates, status reports, dashboards, risk assessments, and recommendations.
• Review Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, task orders, modifications, staffing requirements, and deliverable schedules to ensure requirements are understood and executable.
• Identify and mitigate program risks, staffing challenges, compliance concerns, customer issues, and schedule or budget deviations.
• Lead program reviews, customer meetings, transition meetings, status meetings, and executive-level briefings.
• Ensure compliance with contract requirements, company policies, and applicable FAR/DFARS requirements.
• Support capture and proposal efforts, including staffing strategy, technical and management inputs, pricing coordination, proposal reviews, and transition planning.
• Improve processes that strengthen program performance, compliance, and customer satisfaction.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Organization

Problem-solving

Follow-through

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business/Management/Program Management/Operations/Finance/Communications/Organizational Leadership or related field

Master’s degree in business/management/operations/finance/leadership or related discipline

PMP, PgMP, DAU, FAC-P/PM, Agile/Scrum/Lean Six Sigma or comparable certification

Job description

The Ascendancy Group aims to be the premier provider of SOF and Intelligence Community-focused solutions. The Program Manager will lead programs at TAG’s Headquarters Operations, interacting with customers, executives, and partners to drive performance from capture to closeout.

This senior, customer-facing role requires a Secret clearance, U.S. citizenship, and extensive experience managing government contracts, budgets, and schedules in a fast-paced environment.