Deputy Program Manager

Job description

**Req ID:** 38069
**Summary**

**Deputy Program Manager**

**Melbourne, FL**

Are you ready to enhance your skills and build your career in a rapidly evolving business climate?

Are you looking for a career where professional development is embedded in your employer’s core culture?

If so, Chenega Military, Intelligence & Operations Support (MIOS) could be the place for you! Join our team of professionals who support large-scale government operations by leveraging cutting-edge technology and take your career to the next level!

**Astraeus Operations (AO)** is an SBA-certified 8(a) Small Disadvantaged Business (SBD) subsidiary of the Chenega Corporation, an Alaska Native Corporation (ANC).

We are a small business with large business capabilities due to our shared-services Program Management Office (PMO) structure.

Through our **ISO 9001:2015** certification, we can accomplish the full range of contract services including financial, human capital, recruiting, procurement, security, and technical resources to achieve contract mission requirements.

As a result, our ‘ _small business – big capability’_ dynamic benefits our clients through consistent communications and straight-lined workflows, ensuring our accountability to our clients for successful mission fulfillment.

In plain terms, our clients gain a team that’s on the same page to achieve and support the client’s mission.

We vigorously respond to clients’ requests without additional costs, delays, or inefficiencies that are often experienced with larger, more cumbersome organizations.

AO is eligible for sole source, direct awards up to $100M for DOD and up to $25M for other federal agencies, without J&A.

Astraeus is the easy button for a client wishing to take advantage of the rapid, agile, and flexible sole source procurement option.

Combined with the shared PMO services, Astraeus offers highly competitive labor rates to fulfill day-to-day contract operations.

The **Deputy Program Manager** will lead a dynamic team that provides IT support, maintenance, operations, logistics, and engineering services to help ensure the secure, reliable, and uninterrupted availability of INL/A Management Information Systems.

This role will lead and facilitate agile practices in support of the Department of State, Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs Office of Aviation (INL/A), and provide essential technology services in support of their missions to sustain the national security and economic interests of our nation.

**Responsibilities**

+ Manage operational aspects of program activity, including cost, quality, and schedule.
+ Plan, organize, direct, and guide the activities of team members.
+ Ensure adherence to quality standards and review project deliverables.
+ Facilitate agile practices, including stand-ups, backlog refinement sessions, sprint planning sessions, and retrospectives.
+ Lead and facilitate scrum meetings and eliminate blockers (PI Planning, Retrospectives, Daily Stand-ups, Demos, etc.).
+ Lead and build relationships to encourage collaboration, transparency, and innovation across a cross-functional Agile software development team supporting CI/CD.
+ Lead the end-to-end project management process for technology and software development projects, including initiation, planning, execution, monitoring, and closure.
+ Promote Agile quality practices, coordinate across organizations, and serve as a resource to answer questions.
+ Monitor project progress by tracking activity, resolving problems, publishing progress reports, and recommending actions.
+ Prepare technical reports by collecting, analyzing, and summarizing information and trends.
+ Track and report on team progress using Agile metrics such as burndown charts and velocity.
+ Work directly with senior-level client leadership teams in client-delivery engagements.
+ Participate in hiring and onboarding.
+ Review and approve employee timecards.
+ Travel may be required for special projects.

(CONUS, OCONUS)
+ Other duties as assigned.

**Qualifications**

+ Bachelor’s Degree
+ Education requirement may be substituted with 7+ years of relevant experience.
+ 5+ years of experience as a Project Manager or Scrum Master.
+ CAPM or higher program management certification is required.
+ PMP Certification is highly desired.
+ Certified Scrum Master, SAFe Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master, or similar Scrum certification is required within 90 days of hire.
+ Secret clearance required.

**Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:**

+ Proven experience leading dynamic teams.
+ Experience managing project costs, schedule, and scope.
+ Ability to motivate and lead a high-performing team, attract recruits, and retain highly qualified staff.
+ Must possess strong leadership and organizational skills
+ Proficiency with Agile project management tools (e.g., Jira, Trello, or similar).
+ Detailed knowledge of agile processes.
+ Strong interpersonal skills demonstrating comfort in coordinating a large agile team.
+ Strong communication skills- verbal, written, listening, and presentation.

**How you’ll grow**

At Chenega MIOS, our professional development plan focuses on helping our team members at every level of their careers to identify and use their strengths to do their best work every day.

From entry-level employees to senior leaders, we believe there’s always room to learn.

We offer opportunities to help sharpen skills in addition to hands-on experience in the global, fast-changing business world.

From on-the-job learning experiences to formal development programs, our professionals have a variety of opportunities to continue to grow throughout their careers.

**Benefits**

At Chenega MIOS, we know that great people make a great organization.

We value our team members and offer them a broad range of benefits.

Learn more about what working at Chenega MIOS can mean for you.

**Chenega MIOS’s culture**

Our positive and supportive culture encourages our team members to do their best work every day.

We celebrate individuals by recognizing their uniqueness and offering them the flexibility to make daily choices that can help them be healthy, centered, confident, and aware.

We offer well-being programs and continuously look for new ways to maintain a culture where we excel and lead healthy, happy lives.

**Corporate citizenship**

Chenega MIOS is led by a purpose to make an impact that matters.

This purpose defines who we are and extends to relationships with our clients, our team members, and our communities.

We believe that business has the power to inspire and transform.

We focus on education, giving, skill-based volunteerism, and leadership to help drive positive social impact in our communities.

Learn more about Chenega’s impact on the world.

Chenega MIOS News- https://chenegamios.com/news/

**Tips from your Talent Acquisition Team**

We want job seekers exploring opportunities at Chenega MIOS to feel prepared and confident.

To help you with your research, we suggest you review the following links:

Chenega MIOS web site - www.chenegamios.com

Glassdoor - https://www.glassdoor.com/Overview/Working-at-Chenega-MIOS-EI_IE369514.11,23.htm

LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/company/1472684/

Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/chenegamios/

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Native preference under PL 93-638.
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