ECS

Interagency Agreement Manager

ECS$90K — $130K *
Education, Government & Non-Profit
5 - 7 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Must be a US Citizen
  • Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in a relevant field or equivalent professional experience
  • 5+ years of experience in federal interagency coordination or program management
  • Proven track record in drafting and managing government agreements
  • Understanding of data-sharing and privacy requirements in a governmental context
  • Exceptional communication skills to navigate complex stakeholder environments

Responsibilities

  • Establish and maintain relationships with military and government partners
  • Coordinate interagency data-sharing initiatives, aligning objectives and responsibilities
  • Draft and manage various formal agreements related to data sharing
  • Ensure agreements specify data sharing purpose, roles, and authorized uses
  • Document compliance with data classification and cybersecurity protocols
  • Collaborate with legal and technical teams on agreement implementation
  • Develop schedules tracking agreement milestones and associated risks

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work within government sectors on critical data-sharing initiatives
  • Gain experience in interagency collaboration on high-stakes agreements
  • Access to a network of government professionals across various domains
  • Role contributes to national security and operational efficiency
  • Potential for career advancement within the Department of War or federal agencies
Full Job Description
The Interagency Agreement Manager will support a Department of War (DoW) customer by establishing and maintaining relationships with DoW Components, military departments, federal agencies, laboratories, and other government mission partners. The primary objective of this position is to develop, coordinate, and manage the agreements required to enable secure, lawful, and timely sharing of data between government organizations.

The successful candidate will manage agreements throughout their full lifecycle-from initial stakeholder engagement and requirements discovery through drafting, review, negotiation, approval, implementation, renewal, amendment, and closeout. This individual will work closely with mission owners, data stewards, technical teams, cybersecurity personnel, privacy officials, records managers, legal counsel, acquisition professionals, and senior leaders to translate operational data needs into clear and executable agreements.

The ideal candidate will possess strong relationship-management, facilitation, writing, and organizational skills, along with an understanding of federal data governance, information security, and interagency coordination. This position requires an individual who can independently drive complex actions, resolve competing stakeholder concerns, and maintain momentum across multiple organizations and approval processes.
Responsibilities
  • Establish and maintain productive working relationships with DoW Components, military departments, federal agencies, laboratories, combatant commands, and other government mission partners.
  • Serve as the primary coordinator for interagency data-sharing initiatives, helping participating organizations identify common objectives, responsibilities, requirements, and constraints.
  • Draft, edit, coordinate, and manage Data Sharing Agreements, Data Use Agreements, Declassification Agreements (coordination), Memoranda of Agreement, Memoranda of Understanding, Interagency Agreements, support agreements, implementation plans, annexes, amendments, and related documentation.
  • Ensure agreements clearly address the purpose and scope of the data sharing arrangement, participating organizations, roles and responsibilities, authorized users, permitted uses, access restrictions, data ownership, stewardship, and release authorities.
  • Document requirements associated with data classification, Controlled Unclassified Information, privacy, records management, retention and disposition, dissemination, cybersecurity, incident reporting, auditing, and termination of access.
  • Coordinate with government legal counsel, privacy officials, cybersecurity personnel, information security officers, records managers, acquisition professionals, financial managers, data owners, and other approving authorities.
  • Work with systems engineers, data engineers, cloud engineers, security teams, and data custodians to develop technical appendices covering data inventories, transfer methods, storage locations, system boundaries, access controls, logging, and other implementation requirements.
  • Consolidate and adjudicate stakeholder comments, identify unresolved issues, recommend paths to resolution, and document final decisions.
  • Coordinate agreement packages through required government review and approval processes and ensure that all required supporting documentation is complete before signature.
  • Develop and maintain integrated schedules identifying agreement milestones, dependencies, review periods, approval authorities, signatures, implementation activities, renewal dates, and expiration dates.
  • Identify risks, delays, policy conflicts, or organizational barriers that could prevent agreement execution and develop mitigation or escalation plans.
  • Support broader data-governance and data-discovery efforts by identifying government data holdings, responsible organizations, authoritative data owners, and potential mission applications.
  • Promote collaboration and transparency among government organizations while appropriately protecting sensitive, classified, proprietary, privacy-related, and controlled information.
  • Perform other duties as assigned.

Salary Range: $90,000-130,000

General Description of Benefits

  • Must be a US Citizen
  • Active Secret clearance with ability to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI clearance
  • Bachelor's degree in Public Policy, Business Administration, Government, Political Science, Information Management, Data Governance, Security Studies, Communications, Law, or a related discipline. Relevant professional experience may be considered in place of a degree
  • 5+ years of experience supporting federal government or Department of Defense programs in interagency coordination, program management, policy development, data governance, stakeholder engagement, agreements management, or a related field
  • Demonstrated experience drafting, coordinating, reviewing, or managing formal government agreements, policies, directives, memoranda, or similar documentation
  • Experience working directly with multiple government organizations and coordinating actions across organizational boundaries
  • Understanding of federal or DoW data-sharing, information-governance, privacy, cybersecurity, records-management, and information-handling requirements
  • Ability to identify and document agreement requirements related to data access, authorized use, security controls, privacy, retention, dissemination, auditing, incident response, and termination
  • Excellent written and oral communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively with technical personnel, attorneys, policy professionals, program managers, and senior government leaders
  • Demonstrated ability to facilitate meetings, reconcile competing stakeholder positions, resolve comments, and move complex documents toward approval
  • Strong attention to detail and demonstrated ability to produce accurate, complete, and professionally formatted documentation
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint

About ECS

ECS is a leading provider of digital solutions and services to the federal government. The company was founded in 2001 by Roy Kapani and has since grown to become a trusted partner to a wide range of government agencies. ECS offers a broad range of services, including cloud computing, cybersecurity, and artificial intelligence. The company has been recognized for its innovative solutions and has won numerous awards, including the AWS Public Sector Partner of the Year award.
Learn more about ECS
Size
2,000 employees
Industry

Similar Jobs

More Jobs at ECS

More Education, Government & Non-Profit Jobs

Find similar Interagency Agreement Manager jobs: