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Director, Space Operations

Summary

Join EXPANSIA as a Director in Operations, overseeing day-to-day operations of multiple programs, ensuring efficiency and scalability. The ideal candidate will have experience in program management, excellent communication skills, and the ability to obtain Secret Clearance.

Requirements

• Clearance: Ability to Obtain Secret Clearance(or contract required clearance level)
• Education and Years of Experience: Bachelor's Degree (or equivalent) with 12+ years of relevant experience or a Master's Degree with 10+ years of relevant experience. At least 4 years in a management capacity
• Relevant experience within DoD, Federal, Intelligence Community, Commercial Space (operations, acquisitions, engineering, research and development)
• Relevant experience at a space operations center, System Program Office, Headquarters, Combatant Command
• 3+ years of experience as a program manager
• Extensive working knowledge of program management practices to create, track and maintain cost, schedule, performance, and risk metrics
• Working knowledge of the Risk Management Framework within the DoD
• Excellent knowledge of MS Office products
• Working knowledge of agile management constructs (Agility, JIRA, Rally, etc.)
• Working knowledge of change management principles and practices
• Outstanding communication, organization, leadership, and problem-solving ability
• Excellent oral communication / briefing skills
• Demonstrated integrity and accountability
• Focused on the mission to support our nation’s warfighters
• Passion for transformative results
• Courageous decision maker
• Transparent work and communication style
• Desire to learn and grow

Responsibilities

• Implement operational strategies aligned within your Directorate
• Create and implement initiatives that optimize processes, enhance productivity, and ensure quality across all operational functions
• Explore new markets and create new corporate offerings
• Identify, track and mitigate portfolio risk
• Within your portfolio of programs, manage operational budgets effectively, allocating resources to maximize efficiency while controlling costs
• Identify areas for cost-saving measures and process improvements
• Meet/exceed approved revenue and profit target
• Ensure contract and task ceiling and hours are maximized
• Identify scope and ceiling increase opportunities on existing contracts
• Identify adjacent work with the same customer (aka - Organic Growth)
• Actively conduct customer engagement, participate in community events, gate reviews, proposal support, solutioning, review teams
• Ensure all contractual deliverables are met/exceeded to the customer's satisfaction via transparent management of each program
• Ensure Comprehensive Professional Development for all assigned employees
• Partner with HR to Execute Talent Acquisition (Hiring, termination, and interviews)
• Actively engage in Performance Management and day to day personnel management
• Within your Directorate, build and maintain productive and positive professional relationships with clients and their respective leadership organizations
• Proactively shape client satisfaction and CPAR ratings with regular intentional client engagement
• Create, track, and maintain metrics for both the design and development of cost, schedule, performance, and risk metrics
• Ensure effective communication is always maintained between requirements teams, development teams, company leadership, customers, and stakeholders
• Prepares staffing plans to ensure skill and labor mix will support contract operations
• Develop and maintain the project management plan for planning and development efforts
• Assist planning and development teams by removing roadblocks, mentoring, training, and advocating for resources as required to successful project delivery
• Ensure the risk management framework is followed as an integral part of project execution
• Execute all contract requirements as assigned in accordance with the prescribed contract LCAT
• Performs other duties as required

Preferred Qualifications

• Deep knowledge of DoD Program Management and/or Logistics Management
• PMP Certification
• DAWIA level II or III certifications such as (SPRDE, PM, LCL)
• Agile Certifications (Scrum Master, Product Owner, Release Train Engineer, etc)
• Ability to obtain TS/SCI and program level preferred