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Leidos is seeking a highly qualified candidate for the Project Manager position for the Integrated Defensive Cyber Systems Contract. This person will support the Air Force Defensive Cyber Operations Program Management Office. This person would be a part of the Systems Coordination Team and work at the overall Branch level supporting innovative technologies, tracking dependencies, and ensuring the right information is passed to the customer and the team lead. They would be responsible for understanding how the multitude of teams communicate, inter-relate with other teams, and ensure project status is always updated for internal and external stakeholders.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Plan, organize, and manage small and medium projects.
• Drive project progress through task and stakeholder management to enable mission success.
• Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverables.
• Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements.
• Direct project team personnel, manage schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
• Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors and work centers.
• Present project related information potentially to the customer, internal leadership and peers.
• Create project management plans, set expectations, and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
• Ensures projects are delivered on-time and remain in scope.
• Monitors and tracks project dependencies.
• Create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.
• May be asked to mentor other team members.

Basic Qualifications:

• Requires Bachelor's Degree and 4+ years of prior relevant experience or Master's with 2+ years of prior relevant experience, additional years of experience will be accepted in lieu of a degree.
• Ability to creating and managing tasks in Jira, ensuring smooth workflow coordination and task tracking within project teams.
• Ability to design and customized Confluence dashboards, enhance collaboration and information sharing among team members.
• Experienced in utilizing the MS Office suite for various tasks, including document creation, data analysis, and presentations, facilitating efficient project management and communication.
• Exceptional communication, presentation, and facilitation skills, enabling effective interaction with stakeholders and team members.
• Committed to providing excellent customer service, with a focus on understanding and addressing customer needs and concerns.
• Possess a solid background in cyber or IT, with a strong understanding of relevant technologies and industry practices.
• Must possess an active Secret clearance and ability to obtain TS/SCI clearance is required to be considered.
• Must be able to obtain a TS/SCI clearance within 90 days.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Prior experience with defensive cyber.
• Prior experience supporting Air Force Cyber or Cyber Command.
• Possess Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, showcasing expertise in project management methodologies and best practices.
• Prior experience with AFLCMC/HNCD.
• Able to create and manage basic SharePoint sites.
• Agile fundamentals certification.
• ITIL fundamentals certification.

Original Posting Date: 2024-06-21While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

Pay Range: Pay Range $68,900.00 - $124,550.00
The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.
About Leidos Leidos is a Fortune 500® innovation company rapidly addressing the world's most vexing challenges in national security and health. The company's global workforce of 47,000 collaborates to create smarter technology solutions for customers in heavily regulated industries. Headquartered in Reston, Virginia, Leidos reported annual revenues of approximately $15.4 billion for the fiscal year ended December 29, 2023. For more information, visit www.Leidos.com .
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