Program Manager

San Antonio, TX

The Program Manager - Subject Matter Expert RF serves as a senior advisor to AFRL/RFGW for the establishment, growth, and execution of urgent Offensive Cyber Operations (OCO) capabilities, with specific emphasis on the Hard Targets OCO acquisition community. The position requires current or very recent, well-established experience within this community and the ability to contribute immediately without introductory community orientation. The incumbent advises Government leadership at the DR-04/GS-15 level on technical requirements, acquisition priorities, customer funding streams, operational needs, and customer vision; develops and advances funded opportunities; leads high-level engagements with customers and performers; and supports rapid development, procurement, transition, and fielding of cyber solutions.

• →Apply the full range of program management philosophies, policies, and procedures to complex acquisition management activities supporting existing and future DoD programs.
• →Guide and support Government leads with management of program lifecycle requirements for advanced capabilities, major systems, subsystems, and equipment.
• →Lead strategic scheduling and agile capability planning using Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365 to develop capability roadmaps, track rapid sprint milestones, and align contractor development schedules with combatant command delivery timelines.
• →Plan, organize, coordinate, and support critical technical reviews, integrated program reviews, studies, analyses, conferences, and other programmatic forums.
• →Provide expert technical support, coordination, and planning for rapid development, prototyping, transition, and deployment of urgent cyber capabilities.
• →Identify, document, and manage technical, schedule, operational-transition, and security risks in fast-paced research, development, testing, and cyber-fielding environments, including DoD risk matrices and classified OCO constraints.
• →Prepare and integrate briefings, reports, studies, analyses, recommendations, schedules, and other program documentation.
• →Track and assess cost, schedule, performance, and risk information to support mission requirements and informed Government decision-making.
• →Represent AFRL/RF in high-level external customer engagements
• →Provide independent SME-level advice to DR-04/GS-15 Government leadership on Hard Targets OCO technical requirements, acquisition strategies, funding opportunities, customer priorities, and community direction.
• →Use established professional credibility and current customer knowledge to engage relevant Hard Targets OCO acquisition stakeholders from the start of performance.
• →Identify, shape, and advance executable opportunities that attract customer funding and expand the program’s supported mission portfolio.
• →Advise the team on accepted community practices, acquisition approaches, technical priorities, and emerging customer requirements while protecting classified and sensitive information.
• →Identify urgent operational gaps, present technical solutions, coordinate with mission partners, and support efforts to secure customer funding.
• →Coordinate professionally with engineering, program management, leadership, mission customers, performers, and internal and external organizations.
• →Maintain program records in accordance with applicable Air Force records management requirements.
• →Protect classified information, Controlled Unclassified Information, and other sensitive information in accordance with applicable requirements.
• →Use Government-furnished equipment and approved Government networks, software, and systems to perform assigned duties.
• →Travel in support of mission requirements when authorized.
• →Other duties as assigned

• Master’s Degree
• Minimum twenty (20) years program management experience
• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in the DoD OR
• Bachelor’s Degree
• Minimum twenty-five (25) years’ program management experience
• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in the DoD OR
• Minimum twenty-five (25) years directly related program management experience.
• Minimum ten (10) years’ experience in the DoD.
• Experience in the Hard Targets Offensive Cyber Operations acquisition community actively performing relevant active-duty assignment, Government service, or contract ended within the last twelve (12) months
• Possess and maintain an active Top Secret clearance with SCI
• Successfully pass background and drug screening

• PMP, DAWIA Program Management Level III or Advanced, FAC-P/PM, or a comparable credential.
• Experience with organizations such as SCO, DARPA, or the Hard Targets PMO at USCYBERCOM is strongly preferred when directly relevant to the supported mission.

• Experience leading multi-million-dollar defense portfolios, directly engaging SES and General Officer stakeholders, and providing cross-functional leadership.
• Experience supporting the Hard Targets OCO customer base, including relevant acquisition, requirements, program, technical, funding, or capability-development activities. 
• Ability to operate immediately as an advisor to DR-04/GS-15-level leadership without requiring introductory orientation to the community, its principal stakeholders, accepted practices, acquisition priorities, or current mission needs. 
• Ability to identify customer needs, shape technically credible solutions, and advance acquisition or funding opportunities that produce measurable mission and program value.
• Established professional credibility and working relationships within the supported Hard Targets OCO acquisition community, sufficient to engage customers and mission partners immediately.
• Experience within the tightly integrated Hard Targets OCO acquisition community
• Knowledge of relevant customers, performers, acquisition activities, funding pathways, technical priorities, and mission direction.
• Experience providing SME-level program management and acquisition advice to senior Government leaders, including DR-04/GS-15, SES, or General Officer-level stakeholders.
• Proficient in Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365
• Ability to develop agile roadmaps, track sprint milestones, and align development schedules with operational delivery timelines.
• Experience managing technical, schedule, operational-transition, and security risks in classified OCO research, development, testing, and fielding environments
• Ability and willingness to maintain a high-tempo travel schedule.
• Knowledge of DoD acquisition and program management principles, policies, processes, and lifecycle requirements.
• Skilled in agile capability road mapping, integrated scheduling, sprint and milestone management, program analysis, and executive-level reporting using Microsoft Project, Jira, Confluence, and Microsoft 365.
• Ability to integrate complex cost, schedule, performance, and risk information and develop actionable recommendations.
• Ability to apply DoD risk-management practices and develop mitigations for technical, schedule, transition, and security risks in classified OCO environments.
• Ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, with senior personnel and internal and external stakeholders.
• Ability to identify program risks and develop practical mitigation strategies.
• Possess strong analytical, organizational, briefing, facilitation, and technical writing skills.
• Ability to work independently, lead cross-functional coordination, and manage multiple priorities in a mission-focused environment.
• Professional judgment, discretion, tact, diplomacy, and commitment to protecting sensitive information.
• Proficiency with office automation, collaboration, document management, and web-based applications.
• Experience with rapid prototyping, Middle Tier of Acquisition, AFRL or DARPA S&T programs, or urgent operational needs statements, including UONS or JUONS Preferred.
• Experience rapidly procuring, transitioning, and deploying urgent cyber capabilities; rapid-acquisition and operational-fielding experience Preferred

Physical Demands:(The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• Sufficient fine motor skill for use of computers, calculator with an ability to withstand repetitive keyboarding for extended periods of time
• Visual, auditory and communication abilities sufficient to perform the essential functions of the job
• Ability to kneel bend and twist at the waist on an occasional basis,
• Ability to push, pull, carry and lift objects weighing up to 20 pounds on a regular basis and more on an occasional basis
• Ability to travel by plane and safely operate a motor vehicle

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