Ardent
Program Manager
Suitland, MD · Senior · Contract
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About the role
- Ardent is seeking a Program Manager to join our team.
- This is an onsite position in Suitland, MD.
- This role provides overall direction of program activities, has full responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing, and establishes goals and plans that meet project objectives.
Responsibilities
- Ardent is seeking a Program Manager to lead all aspects of contract operational support for a large-scale federal modernization program supporting the U.S. Census Bureau's Decennial Transformation and Application Modernization (DTAM) effort.
- Provide the overall management framework, governance, structure, and controls to manage all requirements of the order, leading a dedicated Contractor Program Management Office (CPMO)
- Develop, document, implement, and maintain a Contract Management Plan (CMP), including the Staffing Plan and Subcontractor Management Plan
- Manage technical and administrative requirements in alignment with PMI PMBOK® standards, including governance, schedule, cost, and quality controls, issue and risk management, and change management
- Obtain formal Contracting Officer (CO) approval before any change to scope, cost, or schedule, and maintain a detailed Change Log
- Establish and maintain a Communication Plan, escalation procedures, and a Communications and Decision Log
- Develop and maintain the Contractor Work Breakdown Structure (CWBS) and provide schedule inputs to the Decennial Integrated Master Schedule (IMS)
- Develop, deliver, and adhere to a Quality Control Plan (QCP) and participate in monthly QASP performance reviews
- Lead Transition-In and Transition-Out activities, ensuring continuity of operations and knowledge transfer
- If you want to build something meaningful, while enjoying the kind of flexibility and support that you need to do your best work - Ardent is where your next mission begins.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Information Technology, Management, or a related field
- 15+ years of experience providing technical and management leadership on major programs, with full responsibility for financial management, methods, and staffing (SME level)
- Expertise in program governance, schedule, cost, quality, risk, and change management aligned with PMI PMBOK®
- Experience managing federal contract deliverables, QASP/quality surveillance, and CDRL-style reporting
- Experience managing large-scale federal IT modernization or System of Systems (SoS) programs
- Familiarity with Agile and scaled agile (SAFe) delivery in a federal environment
- Experience supporting U.S. Census Bureau, Department of Commerce, or similar federal statistical/IT programs
- Due to the nature of the work we support, all candidates in consideration for this role must be willing to undergo the government issued background investigation process.
- Maintain an active risk management process and Risk Register, and report risks, issues, and mitigation plans in all required weekly and monthly reports
Compensation
- We will not discriminate in employment, recruitment, advertisements for employment, compensation, termination, upgrading, promotions, and other conditions of employment against any employee or job applicant on the bases of race, color, gend
Company info
- Establish and maintain technical and financial reporting to show project progress to Government stakeholders and customers
- At Ardent, we hire people who want more than a job - they want to serve a mission that matters.
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