Senior Program Manager

Teya Management Services, LLC (“Teya”) is seeking an experienced Senior Program Manager. The Senior Program Manager assists in the capture, planning, and implementation of various projects to ensure they progress in a timely and cost-effective manner, as well as completing or ensuring other required operational tasks in support of the contract(s). This key role will ensure our organization's adherence to complex regulatory requirements impacting Teya operational activities or government contracts.

Teya and Subsidiaries offer highly competitive benefits, including Federal Employee Health Benefits medical insurance, PTO, dental, vision, and a matching 401(k) retirement plan, as well as clear internal career progression and employee development pathways. This is a remote position with travel as needed by operations. Join our team of hardworking professionals today!

Duties and Responsibilities:

The Essential Duties and Responsibilities are intended to present a descriptive list of the range of duties performed for this position and are not intended to reflect all duties performed within the job. Other duties may be assigned.

• Program Leadership & Strategy: Oversee the strategic planning, implementation, and ongoing tasks required of awarded contracts and associated operational directives from company or contract clients/stakeholders. Develop program management plan, including component plan documents, in collaboration with program team; ensure program plan alignment with the strategic and business purpose and ensure component project plans align with the program’s goals and benefits.
• Employee and Contractor Management: Oversee the workforce associated with contracts. Provide direct leadership and guidance for contract staff in all areas of personnel management. Partner with other departments for recruiting, employee relations, performance management, separations, and union matters (if applicable).
• Stakeholder Engagement: Serve as the primary point of contact for the assigned contracts for both the company and the client, collaborating with Teya staff and external partners. Negotiate and influence program scope, schedule, and budget; adjust program execution to better meet stakeholder needs and contract requirements.
• Collaborate with internal and external stakeholders to ensure that activities are completed on time, in line with budget, and to Teya’s high standard of quality that fulfills requirements, meets or exceeds the client's expectations, and achieves and sustains benefit.
• Project & Performance Management: Monitor, analyze, and provide regular reports on contract/project effectiveness, tracking key performance metrics, and adjusting strategies as needed. Lead and facilitate program planning and high-level requirements gathering with internal stakeholders and clients; monitor and control execution of program work against requirements.
• Budget & Resource Allocation: Manage program budgets, ensuring efficient allocation of resources while maintaining high-quality execution. Monitor program metrics and analyze variances and trends in costs, schedule, quality, and risks and identify corrective actions or opportunities for improvement.
• Compliance & Reporting: Ensure adherence to federal acquisition regulations (FAR), contract requirements, and data security policies, providing regular reports and analysis to government or company stakeholders.
• Risk management: Identifying potential risks and threats and analyzing and overcoming them; Facilitate team in development of a risk management plan and identify, track, manage, and mitigate risk throughout the program life cycle; escalate issues when necessary to ensure minimal impact to quality, budget, timeline, and business objectives. Forecasts potential schedule delays and develops alternate plans.
• Tools & Technology: Utilize formalized, standardized, or familiar program management processes, tools, and techniques along with a fluent working knowledge of program scope, deliverables, requirements, and the assessment lifecycle to achieve program goals and strategic benefits.
• Manage the client relationship and expectations by ensuring requirements, preferences, and needs are met within the context of the approved work plan and per the program plan. Listen carefully to the client’s goals, objectives, and challenges to identify opportunities to offer solutions to grow the program, including expanding scope, increasing service offerings, or enhancing contract deliverables. Reviewing contracts for accuracy and completeness.
• Identify and pursue new business opportunities related to the programs managed by leveraging the program manager’s subject matter expertise, prior experience, and Teya’s corporate capabilities. Proactively recommend solutions that address client challenges and position Teya for additional contract awards, task orders, or adjacent opportunities.

Required Qualifications and Experience:

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential duty. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

· Bachelor’s degree in business or related field. Teya will consider experience in lieu of a formal degree.

· 7+ years in program management or advanced level management with a history of progressive advancement, preferably in U.S. federal government contracting

· 5+ years supervisory experience, preferably in U.S. federal government contracting

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities, and Other Characteristics

· Familiar with the Project Management Institute’s Project Management Body of Knowledge.

· Must be able to work independently

· Strong attention to detail.

· Strong leadership, commercial effectiveness, product management, change management and communication skills.

· Ability to clearly communicate complex issues in a succinct manner, including presentations to upper management; exceptional communicator with internal stakeholders, executives, department heads, and co-employees, and customers.

· Proficient in organization, planning, and time management.

· Ability to work collaboratively.

· Strong analytical thinking capability and program management/business acumen.

· Organizational experience with planning, budgeting, operations and objectives.

· Proficiency in standard computer software packages such as Excel, Word and Adobe.

Physical Demands and Working Conditions:

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Employee must maintain a constant state of mental alertness at all times. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

Essential and marginal functions may require maintaining physical condition necessary for bending, stooping, sitting, walking or standing for prolonged periods of time; most of time is spent sitting in a comfortable position with frequent opportunity to move about.

Additional Position Duties:

This position description is intended to describe the general content and requirements for performance of this job. It is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all job duties, responsibilities, and requirements. Other duties may be assigned, and the company reserves the right to modify, interpret, and apply the job description as necessary. This position description is not a contract for employment and employment is “at-will” unless otherwise stated in a Union contract, employment agreement, or where prohibited by local, state, or federal regulations.