Position: Technical Project Manager 

Location: Springfield, VA - Onsite at Customer Facility
Clearance: Active TS/SCI Clearance 

Duration: Full-time

Position Summary

ODRG is seeking an experienced Technical Project Manager to join our team to lead the delivery of an agency-wide metadata governance solution with a strong emphasis on geospatial data within national intelligence. 

What we are looking for:

The ideal candidate must have deep enterprise-level project management skills, including strong expertise in understanding and working with a variety of operating styles and team dynamics across multiple cross-functional teams. You must be able to skillfully recognize and adapt to environmental or cultural nuances and be able to change your behavior, as well as influence other’s behaviors, accordingly.

As Technical Project Manager, you will work closely with internal development team, onsite system integrators, and government stakeholders and will be responsible for ensuring the solution’s successful implementation and delivery. You will need to have a strong understanding of a broad range of technology principles and services, so that you can skillfully represent us within the customer’s environment and drive discussions with senior personnel regarding trade-offs, best practices, project management, and risk mitigation.

This is an exciting opportunity to lead a strategically important deployment in a fast-paced, high-impact environment, collaborating with analysts, developers, and senior managers to deliver innovative solutions.

What you will do:

• Work onsite at NGA’s Springfield, VA facility, supporting classified information
• Ensure goal alignment and execution across stakeholder groups which may include customers, internal teams, and partners.
• Create and deliver communication tailored to the audience, ranging from executive level project updates to detailed sprint plans and financial reports.
• Apply judgement and tact to challenge, recommend, and redirect teams as well as manage client expectations during the engagement.
• Strategically think who can demonstrate understanding of requirements, foresee risks, make decisions guided by policies, procedures and a business plan with limited guidance.
• Utilize business and financial acumen to manage the scope, timeline, and budget of each individual project.
• Deliver successful implementation and delivery of identified solutions and project plans as agreed upon with customers.
• Assist customers to achieve their mission outcomes and help to drive innovation throughout the engagement life cycle through iterative feedback mechanisms as a strategic business partner.

•  This role requires onsite work in a classified environment.
• 5+ years of customer-facing, COTS/GOTS implementation consulting experience across multiple cross-functional teams.
• 5+ years of experience managing enterprise-level IT projects.
• Understands contract management and delivery (PWS, SOW, CDRLs, KPIs).
• 2+ years driving Agile/Scrum/Iterative development using a project management tool set (Confluence, Jira, RallyDev, VersionOne, Taiga, etc) and source code management products.
• Possess at least one active project management certification (e.g., APM, CSM, PMI-PMP, PMI-ACP).
• Cloud experience is a must, preferred candidate will have equivalent of Cloud Practitioner level certification.
• Excellent communication skills, with experience presenting solutions and technical concepts to both technical teams and senior leadership in the public sector.
• Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience/combined education.
• Must be willing to travel to customer sites across the US.

Preferred Experience

• 3+ years of experience in the GEOINT domain supporting either DoD/IC or FedCiv agencies (FEMA, DHS, Law Enforcement)
• Shareable experience managing one or more projects with a combination of 5+ resources, 6+ months, or $500K+ in contract value.
• 3+ years of experience with the software development life cycle (SDLC) and experience implementing project management best practices in an effective yet pragmatic way across large, complex projects following documented methodologies such as Agile or Iterative development.
• Experience with search engine technologies and strong understanding of geospatial data workflows, GIS technologies, and tools (e.g., Esri ArcGIS).

Security Clearance Requirements:

• This position requires you to have a current TS/SCI Clearance with CI Poly (or willingness to obtain CI Poly). A government background investigation will be conducted on selected applicants to determine whether they qualify for access to classified information.

Compensation:

The pay range for this job is determined by various factors, including but not necessarily limited to location, responsibilities of the job, and alignment with market data. When determining a salary for this role, the following factors may be taken into consideration: contract-specific affordability, education, knowledge, skills, competencies and experience. The estimate displayed represents the salary range for this position and is just one component of ODRG's total compensation package for employees. It is not necessarily reflective of actual compensation that may be earned, nor a promise of any specific pay for any specific employee. Compensation for this position has not yet been determined.

About Us

Organizational Development Resource Group (ODRG), LLC is a management consulting company that provides professional services to organizations within DoD, Federal, Commercial, and non - profit sectors.

About the Team

ODRG professional consultants provide management consulting and administrative support services. We assist our customers with strategic direction, implementation, and evaluation efforts that optimize their workforce and ultimately enhance the effectiveness of the organization. Our consultants have designed and delivered value added solutions for government and private organizations that have resulted in organizational effectiveness; process efficiency, strengthen workforce, and cost savings.

What you'll be part of - ODRG Culture

We foster a winning culture of solution creators built on innovation, collaboration, flexibility, and work-life balance. Our success is measured by the level of impact we have on our clients, and we are prideful of the ability we have to solve difficult problems through collaboration with government agencies as well as other organizations, along with our ability to deliver the results they need. There is a great deal of passion in the people who make up our organization when it comes to the causes we support.