Strategic Federal Programs Manager

Harkcon; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

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

The role connects day-to-day execution with leadership priorities across multiple projects and data calls. The position requires a four-year degree and at least three years of project-management experience, with strong writing, briefing, facilitation, and collaboration skills.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university.
• Preferred fields include Business, Education, Public Administration, or a related discipline.
• At least three years of experience in project management, project support, analysis, or administrative functions related to education or training programs.
• Demonstrated 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.

Responsibilities

• Manage an integrated portfolio of operational, workforce, training, policy, and organizational-support activities.
• 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 organizational processes, workload, roles, handoffs, and information flows; recommend changes that 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, information-technology, and operational stakeholders.
• Monitor deliverable quality and ensure products are complete, accurate, timely, and appropriate for the intended audience.
• Support division leadership and education-program managers with planning, coordination, analysis, and administrative requirements.
• Prepare and edit weekly division reports and maintain oversight of 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

Project management

Data analysis

Stakeholder management

Writing and editing

Briefing and facilitation

Team collaboration

Education

Four-year degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Teams

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

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

The role connects day-to-day execution with leadership priorities across multiple projects and data calls. The position requires a four-year degree and at least three years of project-management experience, with strong writing, briefing, facilitation, and collaboration skills.