Senior Project Lead Job Listing at SAIC in Colorado Springs, CO (Job ID 2610972)

Description

Description

As a Senior Project Lead for the AF TENCAP HOPE 2.0 initiative, you will play a pivotal role in leading cross-functional projects to deliver advanced prototype solutions that meet the rapidly evolving needs of the United States Air Force. This high-visibility position requires a seasoned leader with a proven track record in matrixed projects, ensuring cost, schedule, and performance management of technically sophisticated teams, and facilitating the successful delivery of innovative solutions.

In this role, you will oversee a full portfolio of project leads and projects, for the full lifecycle of projects, from initial concept through successful transition. Leveraging your expertise in project management, you will execute key responsibilities such as workforce utilization, scheduling, and risk mitigation to ensure mission success. You will serve as the senior expert above project leads, and review project deliverables, forecasts, and schedule.  You will ensure that project leads are appropriately trained, issue guidance and expectations, and monitor the projects for increased support needs from the program or at the corporate level. 

You will lead a matrixed team of project leads, driving them to achieve our award fee metrics. Beyond technical execution, you will serve as a senior interface between your team, AF TENCAP, and mission partners—translating complex programmatic objectives into actionable outcomes while ensuring alignment with organizational goals.  You will solve complex project challenges that rise above the project lead level, serve as a leader on the HOPE 2.0 contract, and work directly with the HOPE 2.0 leadership team.

Location Requirement:
This position requires candidates to be local to the Colorado Springs area and capable of working onsite as needed to support project execution and engagement with stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

Your leadership and expertise will be instrumental in guiding high-impact, mission-critical initiatives. Core responsibilities include:

• Oversee diverse project leads: Ensure project leads are provided the training, guidance, and resources they require to execute their projects successfully. Provide senior level decision making as project challenges emerge and need to be escalated.
• Full Lifecycle Project Management: Accountable for the cost, schedule, and performance management of our projects. Participates in new project development and kickoff to ensure seamless project start. Builds, reviews, and approves project ROMs, and supports revisions during project execution.
• Stakeholder Engagement: Build and maintain strong relationships with AF TENCAP and mission partners, gathering requirements, aligning objectives, and ensuring mission goals are met.
• Alignment with Program Goals: Collaborate with HOPE 2.0 leadership team to align project consistency with contractual, programmatic, and customer-driven objectives.
• Reporting and Documentation: Review and approve comprehensive monthly project updates, EACs, ETCs, and technical data packages to stakeholders on time and with accuracy.
• Innovation and Efficiencies: Identify opportunities to enhance project effectiveness by recommending emerging technologies and optimized practices for TENCAP objectives.

Qualifications

TYPICAL EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: Bachelors and eighteen (18) years or more of related experience; Masters and sixteen (16) years or more experience; PhD or JD and thirteen (13) years or more experience.

Required Qualifications

To lead successfully in this role, you must bring deep expertise and a proven track record in leadership and rapid-response project management:

• Clearance: Active Top Secret security clearance with SCI eligibility.
• Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree with at least 10 years of experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD) or Intelligence Community (IC) projects.
  • Minimum of 5 years of experience leading technical teams in a prototyping or innovative development environment.
  • At least 3 years of experience in project or program management, with demonstrated proficiency in managing risk and driving results.
• Matrixed Team Leadership: Proven ability to effectively manage matrixed and geographically dispersed teams across diverse functions, analyzing workload and utilization.

Desired Qualifications

Ideal candidates will bring additional expertise to further elevate their impact on the HOPE 2.0 mission:

• 7+ years of project or program management
• Advanced Degree: A Master's or Ph.D. in a relevant discipline.
• Forecasting:  Experience applying program management principles to forecasts and estimates. Proven ability to understand and analyze cost and forecasting reports. Strong Excel skills highly desired.
• Functional support knowledge: Experience working with corporate support functions, such as security, subcontracts, contracts, program control, and HR. Experience and understanding as to when it is helpful, appropriate, needed, and/or required to engage with them.
• Proposal experience: Familiarity and experience with writing proposals and developing the staffing plan. Understanding of corporate risk, appropriate mitigation strategies, and contractual techniques.
• Contracts Understanding: Familiarity with GSA contracts, including but not limited to contract modifications, RIPs, and TARs.

Target salary range: $160,001 - $200,000. The estimate displayed represents the typical salary range for this position based on experience and other factors.

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