Program Manager Support- Sr Acquisition (1790)
Company: COMPASS
Location: Springfield
Posted on: April 2, 2026
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Job Description:
Position Title: Sr. Program Manager—Acquisition (1790) Location:
Springfield, VA Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI Overall
Assignment Description: Provide Acquisition Program Management to a
Government lead and team that: Provides acquisition strategy
program management services to senior management. Works across
customer directorates to help the Government coordinate development
of new and/or modified/enhanced capabilities for operational use.
Provides technical guidance to the Government Point of Contact
(GPOC) on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering.
Provides program management guidance in service frameworks and
models, agile engineering processes, and industry best practices to
achieve customer’s GEOINT mission. Duties may include: Provide
technical, financial, schedule and risk management guidance to the
project, program or Program Management Office (PMO). Provide
support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other
documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s. Provide
business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum
(POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control.
Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and
risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results.
Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope
with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams. Interface
with customer’s organizational areas, end users/customers including
foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks,
develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that
ensure technical results and program performance. Provide program
management support to customer management in strategic business
planning, business development activities, product concept
development and Information Technology engineering. Ensure
programmatic alignment and adherence to the customer’s Vision,
Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities. Support
the development, coordination and governance management of Request
for Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs)
requirements documents. Ensure the technical maintenance and
configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of
Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program
documents. Maintain PMO artifacts using customer’s approved
software, tools and processes. Provide acquisition program
management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution;
working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or
working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and
applications. Provide validation and verification of engineering
results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and
traceability to requirements. Skills and Experience: Required: U.S.
Citizenship. Current Top Secret clearance with current SCI access
and in-scope SSBI date. Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems,
Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or
Finance. Min 12 years overall experience. Min 8 years of
demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms
of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management. Project
Management Professional (PMP); DAWIA Level III certification in
Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with
Project Management tools and techniques. Desired: Demonstrated
specialized experience in Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or
financial management. Department of Defense (DoD) and or
customer-specific acquisition processes. Development and/or review
of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary
to achieve stated objectives. Geospatial intelligence mission and
its contributions to the Intelligence Community. Managing Cost Plus
Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed
Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite
Quantity type contracts. Lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with
demonstrated results. Tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall
development methodologies to support acquisition planning,
execution, integration and transition to operations. Identification
of technical issues and proactive communication of possible
impacts. Performing validation and verification of various
engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality
results against customer requirements. Department of Defense (DoD)
and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM)
processes. Developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans
and mission capabilities. Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s).
Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in
Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to
the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and
Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services
(A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to
our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense
and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile,
highly trained and extremely talented staff. Equal Opportunity
Employer Veterans/Disabled
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