Project Manager - Information Advantage Office

• Develop, coordinate, and maintain project budgets, work breakdown structures, rough order estimates, task prioritization, and integration plans in collaboration with investigators and program managers
• Coordinate with investigators and financial teams to establish project budget baselines and update budgets throughout the project lifecycle
• Provide cost, labor, and project data to financial teams to support estimating, tracking, and financial reporting
• Review and analyze project costs regularly to ensure accuracy and support timely and compliant project closeout
• Collaborate with financial and property inventory teams to review fabrication costs and ensure correct classification, coding, and work breakdown structures in preparation for project closeout
• Apply project management methodologies and strategies to implement project requirements
• Collaborate with investigators to develop, execute, and maintain project plans, including scope, schedule, milestones, and deliverables
• Monitor project execution to ensure adherence to approved plans, schedules, and technical requirements
• Facilitate communication among sponsors, investigators, resource managers, project engineers, and technical personnel
• Manage stakeholder expectations and coordinate with investigators to ensure compliance with sponsor requirements and commitments
• Collect, manage, and analyze project status information related to schedule, cost, resources, and deliverables
• Prepare and distribute project status reports and maintain required project documentation
• Manage project resources in coordination with resource managers and project teams
• Oversee subcontracted work, including reviewing subcontractor hours, identifying risks, and reviewing agreements for alignment with project requirements
• Identify, coordinate, and resolve conflicts and issues within and across project teams
• Recommend and implement solutions to address project risks, issues, and performance concerns

• Project management including, tracking project cost, schedule milestones, quality assurance processes, and the management of project commitments and timelines
• Success in environments where various forms of communication and organizational skills were crucial to be effective
• Experience collaborating in multi-disciplinary, team-oriented cultures
• Current eligibility for access to classified information at the Top Secret/SCI level or the ability to get it

• PMI Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) or equivalent certification

• Experience with the following tool suites:  Microsoft applications, to include strong user experience with Excel, Atlassian (Confluence and JIRA)

• Support of projects to include financial and technical reporting, meeting planning facilitation, and facility/equipment needs

ARL’s purpose is to research and develop innovative solutions to challenging scientific, engineering, and technology problems in support of the Navy, the Intel Community (IC), and other federal government customers.

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