Strategic Federal Programs Manager (Remote-Eligible)

Harkcon, Inc.; Washington (District of Columbia); Hybrid; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. is seeking a Program Operations Manager to coordinate planning, reporting, and organizational support for a federal mission-support office. The role connects day-to-day execution with leadership priorities across multiple projects and stakeholders.

This full-time position at federal customer facilities in the DC/Norfolk area requires organizing complex schedules, data calls, and executive-level communications, with some remote collaboration and on-site work as approved.

Qualifications

• Four-year degree from an accredited college or university (Business, Education, Public Administration preferred).
• 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.
• Demonstrated ability to organize concurrent assignments, establish priorities, and follow actions through completion.
• Strong writing, editing, briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder-management skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, and PowerPoint.
• Ability to work effectively with geographically dispersed teams and changing priorities.
• Ability to meet federal background-investigation, credentialing, and system-access requirements; active clearance not required.

Responsibilities

• Coordinate planning, reporting, communications, workflow, and organizational support for the 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, meetings, and follow-up actions.
• Facilitate planning sessions, working groups, after-action reviews, and process-improvement workshops.
• Analyze processes, workload, roles, handoffs, and information flows; recommend changes for accountability and timeliness.
• Prepare executive summaries, decision papers, presentations, status reports, dashboards, and stakeholder communications.
• Maintain shared workspaces, 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 suitable for the audience.
• Support division leadership and education-program managers with planning, coordination, analysis, and admin requirements.
• Prepare and edit weekly division reports; oversee 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

Written communication

Meeting facilitation

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Microsoft Office

Teams

SharePoint

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

Job description

Harkcon, Inc. is seeking a Program Operations Manager to coordinate planning, reporting, and organizational support for a federal mission-support office. The role connects day-to-day execution with leadership priorities across multiple projects and stakeholders.

This full-time position at federal customer facilities in the DC/Norfolk area requires organizing complex schedules, data calls, and executive-level communications, with some remote collaboration and on-site work as approved.