Senior Program Manager / SARSAT PMO Support Services Project Manager

Strategic Resilience Group; Washington, Northern (District of Columbia, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 160,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Resilience Group in Washington, DC seeks an experienced Senior Program Manager to lead SARSAT PMO activities, coordinating interagency and international partners. You will manage schedules, program plans, risk briefings, and dashboards while guiding a multidisciplinary team to ensure on-time, compliant delivery.

The role requires an active Secret clearance and 10+ years in emergency or incident management, with PMI-PMP or CEM certifications.

Qualifications

• Ability to speak, read, write, and understand English.
• Active Secret security clearance and ability to maintain required access.
• At least 10 years of emergency management or incident management experience.
• Current or prior project management certification.
• Extensive experience in contingency planning, exercise design or policy support, and knowledge management.
• Experience managing multidisciplinary teams, government stakeholders, and interagency coordination.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, executive briefing, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat.

Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of contact for contract performance and maintain accountability for scope, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, and deliverables.
• Lead SARSAT PMO support activities, including interagency and international coordination, integrated schedules, milestones, program plans, agreements, reporting, metrics, risk briefings, and stakeholder engagement.
• Supervise project personnel, assign responsibilities, resolve non-routine issues, and ensure timely completion of all tasks.
• Maintain routine contact with the Government and respond to requests for discussion or resolution of technical issues within four hours during business hours.
• Lead monthly progress meetings and submit accurate monthly status reports covering labor, cost, technical progress, schedule, travel, risks, and recommendations.
• Oversee development and maintenance of the project plan, business continuity plan, quality controls, action trackers, decision logs, and management dashboards.
• Facilitate senior-level preparedness policy, strategic planning, workshop, and stakeholder meetings as assigned.
• Ensure all work complies with security, privacy, sensitive-information, records-management, and quality requirements.

Skills

Project management

Stakeholder engagement

Risk management

Executive briefing

Written communication

Education

PMI-PMP Certification

CEM

Tools

Microsoft Word

Microsoft Excel

PowerPoint

Outlook

Adobe Acrobat

Job description

Washington, DC

Position Responsibilities

• Serve as the single point of contact for overall contract performance and maintain full accountability for scope, schedule, staffing, quality, risk, and deliverables.
• Lead SARSAT PMO support activities, including interagency and international coordination, integrated schedules, milestones, program plans, agreements, reporting, metrics, risk briefings, and stakeholder engagement.
• Supervise project personnel, assign responsibilities, resolve non-routine technical and managerial issues, and ensure timely completion of all assigned tasks.
• Maintain routine contact with the Government and respond to requests for discussion or resolution of technical issues within four hours during required business hours.
• Lead monthly progress meetings and submit accurate monthly status reports covering labor, cost, technical progress, schedule, travel, risks, and recommendations.
• Oversee development and maintenance of the project plan, business continuity plan, quality controls, action trackers, decision logs, and management dashboards.
• Facilitate senior-level preparedness policy, strategic planning, workshop, and stakeholder meetings as assigned.
• Ensure all work complies with applicable security, privacy, sensitive-information, records-management, and quality requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Ability to speak, read, write, and understand English.
• Active Secret security clearance and ability to maintain required access throughout performance.
• At least 10 years of experience in emergency management or incident management, as required by the PWS. Candidates with more than 10 years of relevant experience align directly with the OASIS+ Senior definition.
• Current or prior recognized project management certification, consistent with the PWS certification expectation.
• Extensive experience in contingency planning, exercise design or exercise policy, federal policy support, emergency or incident response, and knowledge management.
• Demonstrated experience managing multidisciplinary teams, fixed-price delivery, recurring deliverables, Government stakeholders, and interagency coordination.
• Strong written communication, facilitation, executive briefing, risk management, and problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Adobe Acrobat.

Required Certification

• Program Management Institute – Program Management Professional (PMI-PMP)
• Certified Emergency Management (CEM

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior U.S. Coast Guard, Department of Homeland Security, Department of Defense, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, or space-program support experience.
• Experience supporting classified programs, satellite or search-and-rescue systems, international working groups, or security-sensitive program offices.
• Experience managing integrated master schedules, cost-benefit analyses, risk registers, technical libraries, and outreach activities.

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