Deputy Program Manager, Sustainment
$160,283–$212,267 year
On-siteCamp H.M. Smith, Hawaii, United States
Job Summary
Manage the principal deputy role to the Program Manager, overseeing contract execution, SLAs, and operational delivery for a coalition information-sharing enterprise. Coordinate workforce management, resource planning, and financial oversight while monitoring cost and schedule performance against DoD standards. Direct sustainment operations, IT portfolio management, and cybersecurity activities including RMF authorization and vulnerability management. Lead project management functions, engineering change management, and exercise support to ensure system availability and mission readiness. Supervise contractor personnel and interface with Government stakeholders, technical leads, and coalition partners. Maintain active TOP SECRET clearance and report status to senior leadership.
Required Qualifications
- Active in-scope TOP SECRET clearance
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field
- Ten (10) or more years of relevant experience
- Equivalent combination of education and experience
- Five (5) years of program or project management experience supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) or equivalent U.S. Government organizations
- Demonstrated supervisory or team-leadership experience
- Demonstrated experience leading sustainment, lifecycle management, modernization, or operations-and-maintenance (O&M) of enterprise IT or network environments
- Experience overseeing multiple functional disciplines such as IT portfolio/investment management, project management, engineering, and cybersecurity
- Demonstrated experience managing Government contracts of similar size, scope, and complexity
- Experience in a CONUS/OCONUS or theater-deployed environment
- Strong leadership, organizational, and customer-engagement skills
- Ability to interface effectively with senior and flag/general-officer-level Government personnel
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
- Ability to interface directly with Government stakeholders, technical leads, subcontractors, and teaming partners
- Ability to identify, track, and mitigate program risks
- Ability to provide regular status updates, risk assessments, and performance reporting to senior Government leaders and SOSi program leadership
- Ability to apply DoD program management standards, industry best practices, and continuous-improvement principles
- Ability to supervise, mentor, and develop assigned contractor personnel
- Ability to direct sustainment operations across the enterprise
- Ability to oversee IT Portfolio Management
- Ability to lead the Project Management function
- Ability to oversee Exercise Support
- Ability to provide leadership over Engineering
- Ability to oversee Cybersecurity sustainment activities
- Ability to establish and enforce sustainment metrics, service level agreements (SLAs), and configuration-management discipline
- Must be available for occasional travel
- Must be available for after-hours support during exercises, mission events, or scheduled maintenance periods
Desired Qualifications
- Active in-scope TOP SECRET / SCI clearance
- Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certification
- DAWIA / DAU Program Management certification
- Prior experience supporting similar size and scope contracts, or coalition information-sharing programs
- Familiarity with Combined Joint All-Domain Command and Control (CJADC2) concepts and multinational/coalition operations in the Pacific theater
- Experience managing distributed teams across multiple sites and time zones
- ITIL Foundation certification
- Experience in an ITIL-aligned service delivery environment
- Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework (RMF) and DoD cybersecurity authorization and compliance processes
- Experience managing an IT portfolio, technology-refresh, or modernization roadmap in a DoD or enterprise environment
- Familiarity with configuration management, ITSM tooling, and enterprise architecture frameworks
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