RMF Project Manager

Pueo Business Solutions

• $120K — $145K *
Aerospace & Defense
11 - 15 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
  • Relevant cybersecurity certification like PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, or ITIL is a plus
  • Bachelor's degree is required
  • 12 years of experience in project management or a related field
  • Active Top Secret clearance is mandatory

Responsibilities

  • Convert Government and program priorities into actionable plans
  • Coordinate with senior Government leaders at GG-14 level and above
  • Maintain current schedules, risks, issues, and leadership briefings
  • Own scope, budget tracking, and delivery governance for projects
  • Facilitate stakeholder alignment and executive briefings
  • Manage change control and project closeout processes
  • Escalate risks and decisions with clear options and recommendations

Benefits

  • Support for professional development and certifications
  • Collaborative work environment with government stakeholders
  • Opportunities for involvement in high-stakes cybersecurity initiatives
  • Engagement in projects that influence national security
  • Exposure to classified environments and intelligence community requirements
Full Job Description
Job Type

Full-time

Description

OVERVIEW:

We are seeking a Risk Management Framework Project Manager to support the RMF program DIA by planning, coordinating, controlling, and reporting RMF and Assessment and Authorization activities across an assigned portfolio.

GENERAL DUTIES:
  • Converts Government and program priorities into executable plans
  • Works directly with senior Government leaders (GG-14 level and above)
  • Coordinates system owners, program offices, cybersecurity personnel, assessors, authorizing stakeholders, and contractor teams
  • Ensures schedules, risks, issues, actions, dependencies, decisions, and leadership briefings remain current and decision-ready
  • Owns scope, schedule, milestones, dependencies, budget tracking, and delivery governance
  • Maintains project plans, RAID logs, decision records, action trackers, and status reporting
  • Facilitates stakeholder alignment, working sessions, reviews, and executive briefings
  • Coordinates RMF, A&A, technical, security, program-office, customer, and contractor workstreams
  • Manages change control, acceptance criteria, deliverables, and project closeout
  • Escalates risks and decisions early with clear options, impacts, and recommendations
  • Working knowledge of RMF, NIST standards, SA&A processes, DoD cybersecurity policies
  • Experience using project management tools (Microsoft Project, Xacta, SharePoint, etc.)
  • Understanding of RMF and A&A lifecycle activities and decision points
  • Knowledge of Intelligence Community security requirements.
  • Strong interpersonal and communication skills to engage senior Government stakeholders
  • Excellent project management and organizational skills
  • Ability to synthesize complex information into executive-ready briefings and reports
  • Solid analytical and problem-solving skills for dependency and risk management
  • Effective facilitation and stakeholder coordination across technical and non-technical teams
  • Lead or contribute to security initiatives requiring cross-functional coordination
  • Manage competing priorities and complex stakeholder relationships
  • Work effectively in classified environments
  • Maintain compliance with classified information protection requirements

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:
  • Project Management Professional (PMP) preferred
  • PMI-ACP, Certified ScrumMaster, SAFe, ITIL, or relevant cybersecurity certification preferred
  • No certification mandatory if candidate demonstrates equivalent experience and capability
  • Possess a Bachelor's degree
  • 12 years of experience in addition to education.

CLEARANCE:
  • Active Top Secret clearance minimum required

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