Agile Program ManagerOur firm is seeking an
Agile Program Manager to join our growing team. This person will be working on strategic client projects, including those across the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the National Weather Service at the
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
In this role, you provide subject matter expertise, coaching, and direct execution of project planning, resource management, and stakeholder engagement activities and ensure the successful delivery of complex solutions. Additionally, you provide strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives. The expansion of client relationships and identification of new opportunities in your client mission area is critical to success in this role. With expertise in strategic analysis and risk planning, this person will manage project financials, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact.
Your impact will include:- Oversee project portfolios, budgets, grants, and schedules
- Coordinating with teams across NOAA modeling advancements, observations, and testing initiatives
- Providing strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives
- Ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact
- Strong acumen in scanning the broader organization, connecting dots across stakeholders, and identifying opportunities the client may not see
You'll arrive equipped with:- A minimum of 5 years of experience managing federal contracts or project teams
- Experience with managing support services specifically for high-performing agile teams
- Strong background working with interdisciplinary teams, academic partners, and scientific/analytical modeling enterprises
- Must reside in or be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area; hybrid work environment anticipated, to include on-site and virtual locations
- U.S. citizenship (the nature of our work with the federal government limits our hiring to
- U.S. citizens)
- Ability to obtain and maintain up to a top-secret security clearance.
- Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business, management, or a field related to Agile program management within a federal scientific modeling enterprise
Preferred Qualifications:- Background supporting atmospheric science departments of the US government such as NOAA, EPA, NASA etc.
- Agile certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master I, Project Management Institute - Agile Certified Practitioner, SAFe Agilist)
- Experience developing robust project plans and continuously managing project financials, budgeting, and forecasting
- Strategic thinker with strong systems thinking and first principles of reasoning
- Able to translate strategy to execution and own execution (work cross-functionally and across seniority levels within a client space to drive change, keeping relationships and culture in mind)
- Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous and open-ended problems
- Strong executive presence with the ability to command a room and engage senior clients
- Confident facilitator able to guide discussions, manage conflict, and drive alignment
- Strong storyteller capable of creating compelling narratives, insights, and recommendations
- Relationship builder with strong client service orientation
- Strong analytical skills; comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative data
- Highly organized; able to manage multiple workstreams, deliverables, and internal/external expectations; can manage up
- Experience with managing complex team structures and project budgets
- Knowledge of key consulting frameworks and concepts (Mento Pyramid, MECE, ChoiceCascade, 7S, Growth Share)
- Previous experience in a defense or commercial consulting firm
- Experience serving or working in a large corporate environment, including familiarity with strategy development and execution, organizational change, and processes
- Experience conducting qualitative and quantitative data analytics
Technical Skills:- Demonstrated fluency with industry-standard Agile enterprise management platforms (e.g., the Atlassian suite, Azure DevOps, Broadcom Rally, Digital.ai Agility, Wrike)
- Strong PPT and Excel skills
Growth Expectations:- Able to identify, frame, and scope problems across all consulting disciplines: strategy,
- operations, human capital, security and resilience, technology and innovation readiness
- Confident in engaging new people and building relationships across all levels
- Creative in identifying pathways into organizations, buyers, and influencers
- Comfortable shaping solution options and articulating value drivers
- Understanding of the full sales lifecycle and able to assist in developing proposals, estimates, and statements of work
We'll equip you with:- A flexible, agile, and employee-driven workplace that will enable you to thrive as a well-balanced professional
- A fundamentally collaborative team that places a premium on transparent leadership and diversity of experience and thought
- A community of lifelong learners dedicated to engaging in rewarding and meaningful work
- A culture committed to interpersonal connection that will encourage you to leverage your existing relationships and invest in new ones
- An environment that is unconditionally inclusive across the many characteristics that make us all unique
- Competitive compensation and outstanding benefits
