Strategic Federal Programs Lead

Harkcon, Inc.; Silver Spring (MD); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. is seeking a Program Operations Manager to coordinate planning, reporting, communications, workflow, and organizational support for a federal mission-support office.

This role requires an organized manager who can connect day-to-day execution with leadership priorities and keep multiple projects moving. The successful candidate will develop work plans, risk logs, performance measures, and recurring reports; facilitate planning sessions and workshops; and coordinate with financial,

Qualifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university with preferred fields in Business, Education, Public Administration, or related discipline.
• At least three years of experience in project management, project support, analysis, or administrative functions related to education or training programs.
• Experience in data analysis, report development, task tracking, and collaborative work within a team or interagency environment.
• Experience supporting senior leaders through planning, reporting, task management, meeting facilitation, and decision support.
• Strong writing, editing, briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements and remain eligible for security clearance.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning, reporting, communications, workflow, and organizational support for a federal mission-support office.
• Develop work plans, schedules, action trackers, risk logs, decision records, performance measures, and recurring management reports.
• Coordinate leadership data calls, taskings, briefings, correspondence, meeting support, and follow-up actions.
• Facilitate planning sessions, working groups, after-action reviews, and process-improvement workshops.
• Analyze processes, workloads, roles, handoffs, and information flows; propose changes to improve accountability and timeliness.
• Prepare executive summaries, decision papers, presentations, status reports, dashboards, and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain shared workspaces, document repositories, calendars, templates, and version-controlled program records.
• Coordinate with financial, acquisition, training, human-capital, IT, and operational stakeholders.
• Monitor deliverable quality and ensure outputs are complete, accurate, timely, and audience-appropriate.
• Support division leadership and education-program managers with planning, coordination, analysis, and administrative requirements.
• Prepare and edit weekly division reports and oversee assigned projects, milestones, and actions.
• Coordinate support to project managers and senior analysts across education and professional-development initiatives.
• Support programs involving tuition assistance, credentialing, advanced education, apprenticeships, and civilian career development.

Skills

Data analysis

Report development

Task tracking

Stakeholder management

Writing & briefing

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Teams

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. is seeking a Program Operations Manager to coordinate planning, reporting, communications, workflow, and organizational support for a federal mission-support office.

This role requires an organized manager who can connect day-to-day execution with leadership priorities and keep multiple projects moving. The successful candidate will develop work plans, risk logs, performance measures, and recurring reports; facilitate planning sessions and workshops; and coordinate with financial,