[Remote] Program Manager
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aptive Resources is a company that partners with federal agencies to enhance service delivery and improve performance. They are seeking a Program Manager to provide leadership and operational oversight for federal transition assistance programs supporting military service members. The role involves managing cross-functional teams, ensuring compliance with federal regulations, and delivering services to transitioning service members across military installations.
Responsibilities
- Providing overall leadership, strategic direction, and operational oversight for the successful execution of large-scale federal transition assistance programs supporting military Service members transitioning to civilian life
- Overseeing program management, staffing, operational deployment, risk mitigation, quality assurance, and stakeholder coordination across geographically dispersed teams operating both CONUS and OCONUS
- Serving as the primary point of contact with Government leadership, ensuring all contractual deliverables, schedules, reporting requirements, and performance standards are met in accordance with federal regulations and program objectives
- Leading cross-functional teams responsible for curriculum development, training operations, onsite support services, data analysis, and modernization initiatives
- Managing project implementation plans, staffing strategies, operational readiness, and continuous improvement efforts while ensuring compliance with all security, privacy, and quality control requirements
- Overseeing large-scale workforce operations, maintaining effective communication with Government stakeholders, coordinating regional operations, monitoring program risks, and supporting the delivery of transition assistance services to approximately 200,000 transitioning Service members annually across more than 300 military installations worldwide
Skills
- 12 years of experience
- Master's degree in related field
- 5 years of experience in managing programs of a national scope, preferable for the DoD
- Project Management Professional certification (or equivalent industry recognized project management certification)
- Strategic thinker with a forward-looking approach to marketing trends and technologies
- Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to think critically
- Ability to manage competing deadlines
- Experience supporting complex projects and transformation efforts within the federal government
- Comfortability with supporting complex client relationships
- Ability to obtain and maintain a public trust clearance
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S
- Strong critical thinking, analytical and time management skills
- Proven ability to organize, prioritize and work well with others
- Ability to communicate thoughts, ideas and solutions logically both written and orally
- Ability to stay calm under pressure and in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to receive feedback from clients and implement changes quickly and effectively
- Ability to get up to speed quickly on complex issues
- Desire to work in a fast-paced, rapidly evolving environment
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