Senior Project Manager (T)

SimIS, Inc.

Senior Project Manager

Who We Are: Founded in 2007, SimIS Inc. is an innovative information technology solution Veteran Owned Small Business (VOSB) that models future environments, requirements, and capabilities, and then secures the enterprise from internal and external threats compliant with Federal, State, and industry standard governance to ensure client mission success. Our performance standard is “excellence,” with an outcomes-based, quality focus in our services and products, guided by our core values of honesty (in word and deed), relationships (confidence and trust with clients and partners), teamwork (shared goals, mission, and purpose), loyalty (allegiance to our client and team), and importance of others (work and win as a team).

Job Title: Senior Project Manager
Job Location: Arlington, VA

Security Clearance: Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility

Job Description: SimIS is seeking a Test Planner with expertise in Modeling and Simulation (M&S) to support the Joint Test and Evaluation (JT&E) Program Office. The JT&E program brings two or more military services together to provide improvements in the joint interoperability of service systems, technical and operational concepts, and system performance; validated testing methodologies; and the validation of models, simulations, and test beds. The JT&E Program achieves this objective by evaluating new concepts and addressing needs and issues in joint military environments.

Duty Requirements:

• The Project Manager shall be responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects
• Develop detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports
• Provide technical and analytical guidance to project team
• Develop and execute acquisition strategies on behalf of the government customer to execute program management balancing cost, schedule, and performance across a range of technology development initiatives
• Develop and refine contracting documentation on behalf of the government customer to enable the government to award innovative contracts that mature technology across a range of disparate technologies
• The Project Manager shall coordinate, facilitate, and participate in meetings across multiple time zones with a variety of stakeholders and summarize the proceedings
• Prepare and staff international documentation on behalf of the government customer to enable international project arrangements to be executed
• Maintain knowledge and awareness all other complimentary and competitive technology maturation initiatives across the Department of Defense
• Prepare papers, presentations, reports, and administrative packages on program management support issues in response to direction from TRMC leadership

 Experience Required:

• 10+ years of experience in Project/Program Management in the acquisition/development/release for DOD platforms
• Solid analytical skills based on work experience
• Excellent verbal, written communications, and interpersonal skills along with a professional appearance and countenance
• Comfortable interacting with high level individuals and functions well independently and in a fast paced, high pressure team environment
• Ability to take projects from original concept through final implementation
• Active Top-Secret Clearance with SCI eligibility
• Ability to travel mostly CONUS in the National Capital Region
• Proficient in Microsoft Professional Office Suite in a Windows environment
• DAWIA level III Certification in Program Management

Experience Desired:

• Served in at least one Critical Acquisition Position; Chartered Product/Project Manager Preferable
• Bachelor's degree in a technical or project management field from an accredited college or university
• Service in the Pentagon for more than 12 months
• Ability to work and interact across the Military Departments and multiple offices of the Secretary of Defense as well as industry and private citizens at a senior level
• Comfortable working a variety of disparate issues in a fluid environment simultaneously

Benefits:

• Medical, Dental, and Vision
• Short Term Disability (SimIS provides Short-Term Disability benefits at no cost to you)
• Life Insurance
• 401(k) Savings Plan
• Tuition Assistance Program
• Paid Time Off (PTO)
• 11 Holidays each year
• SimIS, Inc. is an AA / EOE / M / F / Disability / VET / Drug Free Employer