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**Job Description**

Develop and manage an integrated master project schedule. Establish schedule baseline and manage updates to the baseline in accordance with program offices integrated change control procedures.

**Responsibilities include:**

+ Serve as a primary point of contact and liaison for the assigned program office and other program offices.

+ Decompose project work into tasks and subtasks that are represented on the master project schedule.

+ Meet regularly with project team to review progress on current tasks and upcoming milestones.

+ Apply knowledge of project management to help the team plan and estimate the duration of future tasks.

+ Collaborate with assigned program office to establish schedules and plans that allocate available resources to best serve client or customer needs.

+ Provide executive updates, reports, and dashboards on program status as required.

+ Maintain master schedule, revises as needed, and alert PM and appropriate client staff of schedule changes or delays.

+ Participate in planning meetings for assigned program office and other program offices.

+ Performs other related duties, as required.

**Must have:**

+ 5 years of experience using Microsoft Project to prepare logically linked schedules for programs or proposals and Bachelors degree or 9 years of related experience

+ Knowledge of Microsoft Project macros, views, custom reports in order to sort and present the data by "team", "current tasks", "late tasks", etc

+ Experience with Excel to include pivot tables, macros, lookup tables

**Nice to have:**

+ Strong working knowledge of Jira

+ Advanced skill in critical path analysis or in task decomposition

+ Ability to construct and manage logically linked tasks to complete defined project Milestones

+ Ability to report negative slack when predecessor tasks push a milestone past its scheduled due date

+ Experience with using MS Project to support Earned Value Management

+ Planning and Scheduling Professional (PSP) certification

+ Project Management Professional (PMP) certification

+ Experience with Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), HR Process Design, Master Production Scheduling (MPS), or Agile Project Management

**Security Clearance**

+ Active TS/SCI with polygraph clearance

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The pay range for the states of California, Colorado, Hawaii, Maryland, New York, Washington, and the District of Columbia is:

$126,400$256,300 USD

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