Project Manager

Overview

The Project Manager will serve as the Contractor’s Key Personnel lead responsible for the successful delivery, management, and coordination of work supporting enterprise business applications within the NIH Business Applications Services (BAS) environment.

 

The Project Manager will provide overall leadership for contractor delivery, ensuring work is completed on time, within scope, and within budget. This role is responsible for project planning and execution, stakeholder coordination, financial and resource management, risk management, quality oversight, reporting, and coordination of technical and functional teams throughout the systems development lifecycle.

 

Benefits:• Comprehensive Medical, Dental, and Vision Insurance• Employer-Paid Life Insurance• Employer-Paid Short-Term and Long-Term Disability Insurance• 401(k) • Paid Time Off (PTO) that includes Vacation Leave, Sick Leave, and 11 Paid Holidays• Educational Assistance

 

Salary: $135,0000 - $150,000

 

**Hybrid in Bethesda, MD**

 

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Responsibilities

• Serve as the contractor Project Manager and Key Personnel lead for the assigned program.
• Work closely with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), system owners, business owners, and other Government stakeholders.
• Manage project scope, schedule, cost, quality, resources, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables.
• Lead project planning, estimation, execution, monitoring, and tracking for Agile and iterative releases.
• Coordinate technical and functional teams throughout requirements, design, development, integration, testing, implementation, operations, maintenance, and enhancement activities.
• Lead meetings with Government stakeholders, business users, technical teams, and functional teams.
• Maintain clear communication regarding project status, accomplishments, risks, issues, dependencies, mitigation activities, and upcoming milestones.
• Oversee contractor deliverables and ensure quality throughout the software development lifecycle.
• Manage project financial activities, including labor utilization, timekeeping, cost tracking, budget alignment, forecasting, and reporting.
• Prepare and maintain project plans, schedules, release plans, risk and issue registers, status dashboards, and other required project documentation.
• Manage project resources to ensure appropriate staffing levels, expertise, skill mix, training, and team readiness.
• Coordinate operations and maintenance, enhancements, releases, modernization, and other authorized development efforts.
• Support requirements traceability, testing oversight, release readiness, configuration management, and implementation planning.
• Identify and mitigate project risks and escalate issues requiring Government attention.
• Support continuous improvement initiatives focused on quality, efficiency, automation, and cost reduction.
• Support adoption of Government-approved AI-assisted development, automated testing, DevSecOps, cloud, and intelligent automation practices as applicable.
• Perform other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• Minimum 10 years of experience as an IT Project Manager.
• Minimum 3 years of experience managing IT projects of similar size and complexity using the same or similar technologies.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading projects using Agile or iterative Enterprise Performance Life Cycle (EPLC) approaches.
• Minimum 2 years of experience leading IT projects for the Federal Government.
• Strong understanding of the complete software engineering lifecycle, including requirements, design, implementation, testing, deployment, and operations and maintenance.
• Solid understanding of EPLC.
• Demonstrated experience managing project scope, schedule, cost, resources, risks, issues, dependencies, and deliverables.
• Experience managing Agile or iterative software releases.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technical and functional teams.
• Experience working with system owners, business owners, CORs, and other Government stakeholders.
• Ability to lead teams in evaluating and adopting new technologies.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong stakeholder management, facilitation, interpersonal, and client-facing skills.
• Must hold or be eligible to obtain a Public Trust Moderate (Tier 2) background investigation.

Desired:

• Previous experience supporting Federal enterprise business applications.
• Experience managing application operations and maintenance, enhancements, modernization, and new development.
• Experience leading cross-functional Agile application teams.
• Experience working in DevSecOps, CI/CD, cloud-enabled, or cloud-native environments.
• Experience with automated testing, workflow automation, process improvement, or AI-assisted delivery.
• Experience managing technical teams operating within defined service-level and performance requirements.
• Experience advising Government customers on technology modernization and delivery improvements.
• FOIA – Previous experience supporting FOIA systems, FOIA case management applications, or other federal records and information management systems highly desired.
• FOIA – Experience supporting federal administrative or workflow-driven applications preferred.
• ITAS – Previous experience supporting enterprise timekeeping, time and attendance, workforce administration, or similar HR-related systems highly desired.
• ITAS – Experience supporting large-scale federal administrative applications preferred.
• NED – Previous experience supporting enterprise directory, identity management, personnel directory, or similar enterprise identity-related systems highly desired.
• NED – Experience supporting directory applications within a federal environment preferred.
• FMG Apps – Previous experience supporting federal financial management, accounting, budgeting, or other enterprise financial applications highly desired.
• FMG Apps – Experience supporting complex financial or administrative applications within a federal environment preferred.

EOE/Minorities/Females/Vet/Disabled 

We are an equal opportunity employer that values diversity and commitment at all levels. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. Employment policies and decisions on employment and promotion are based on merit, qualifications, performance, and business needs. The decisions and criteria governing the employment relationship with all employees are made in a nondiscriminatory manner, without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, sex, age, marital status, physical or mental disability, medical condition, veteran status, or any other factor determined to be unlawful by federal, state, or local statutes.