Project Manager

Empower AI is AI for government. Empower AI gives federal agency leaders the tools to elevate the potential of their workforce with a direct path for meaningful transformation. Headquartered in Reston, Va., Empower AI leverages three decades of experience solving complex challenges in Health, Defense, and Civilian missions. Our proven Empower AI Platform® provides a practical, sustainable path for clients to achieve transformation that is true to who they are, what they do, how they work, with the resources they have. The result is a government workforce that is exponentially more creative and productive. For more information, visit www.Empower.ai.

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Empower AI: Serves as the Project Manager for a large, complex project. Responsible for the planning, initiating, and management of multiple Information Technology projects.  Leads and guides the work of a planning staff.  Serves as liaison between programmatic and technical aspects of projects and initiatives.  Plans project stages and phases and assesses the business, mission, and technical implications of each.  Monitors progress to assure deadlines, standards, and contract requirements.

Highlights of Responsibilities:

• Oversees the efforts of planning staff in managing the lifecycle of assigned projects
• Analyzes user needs to determine functional and cross-functional requirements
• Gathers and organizes technical information about an organization’s mission goals and needs
• Performs requirements gathering and analysis of those requirements
• Performs functional analysis to identify required tasks and their interrelationships
• Performs functional allocation and identifies resources required for each task
• Performs risk analysis that also include risk assessment
• Assists government Program Managers who are managing specific programs at the Delivery Order or Technical Task order (TTO) level
• Assists the Government Program Managers with the management, administrative and technical oversight of the specific program portfolio
• Responsible for the day-to-day tactical duties for a moderate to highly complex technical program
• Responsible for the administrative/operational leadership of a project within the program guidelines set by the Program Manager and customer
• Provides the coordination between resource managers/supervisors and ensures all necessary reviews and approvals are received

Minimum Requirements:

• TS/SCI clearance or eligibility
• Bachelor’s degree
• 10 years of IT management or engineering leadership experience
• Experience working in the defense industry
• DoD Cyber Workforce Framework (DCWF) Project Manager qualified (DCWF 802)
• CCISO, CCSP, CISA, CISM, CISSP, CISSP-ISSEP, CISSP-ISSMP, or GSLC certified
• Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional (PMP) or Program Management Professional (PgMP) certified
• Information Technology Information Library (ITIL) Foundation certification
• Intermediate management expertise with experience leading enterprise technical teams.
• Intermediate knowledge of program and project management concepts, processes, and techniques consistent with the Project Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) and industry best practice.
• Intermediate expertise in decomposing project requirements to generate a work breakdown structure.
• Intermediate expertise in risk management analysis and procedures.
• Intermediate communication expertise with experience delivering written and oral presentations to military and Government personnel.
• Intermediate knowledge in Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, Teams, Project, and PowerPoint.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree
• ITIL Intermediate, Practice Manager, Managing Professional, or Strategic Leader certification
• Experience supporting Army Information Technology programs

Physical Requirements:

• Sitting for long periods
• Ambulate throughout an office
• Ambulate between several buildings
• Travel by land or air transportation 10% or less

It is the policy of Empower AI to provide equal opportunity in recruiting, hiring, training, and promoting individuals in all job categories without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity, or any other protected class or category as may be defined by federal, state, or local laws or regulations. In addition, we affirm that all compensation, benefits, company-sponsored training, educational assistance, social, and recreational programs are administered without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, sexual orientation, or gender identity. It is our firm intent to support equal employment opportunity and affirmative action in keeping with applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations.  Empower AI is a VEVRAA Federal Contractor.