Agile Program Manager Job Arlington area,Virginia USA,Management

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Toffler Associates is a future-focused strategic advisory firm that works with both government and commercial clients. Our Future Proof® business consulting approach makes us unique in the industry, helping global leaders understand how future shifts impact current decisions and empowering them to take advantage of opportunities, manage risk, and create value.

Our firm is seeking an Agile Program Manager to join our growing team. This person will be working on strategic client projects, including those across the Office of Oceanic and Atmospheric Research and the National Weather Service at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).

In this role, you provide subject matter expertise, coaching, and direct execution of project planning, resource management, and stakeholder engagement activities and ensure the successful delivery of complex solutions. Additionally, you provide strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives. The expansion of client relationships and identification of new opportunities in your client mission area is critical to success in this role.

With expertise in strategic analysis and risk planning, this person will manage project financials, budgeting, and forecasting, ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact.

Your Impact Will Include

Oversee project portfolios, budgets, grants, and schedules
Coordinating with teams across NOAA modeling advancements, observations, and testing initiatives
Providing strategic insights that will contribute to business development initiatives
Ensuring high-quality outputs that drive client success and organizational impact
Strong acumen in scanning the broader organization, connecting dots across stakeholders, and identifying opportunities the client may not see

You’ll Arrive Equipped With

A minimum of 5 years of experience managing federal contracts or project teams
Experience with managing support services specifically for high-performing agile teams
Strong background working with interdisciplinary teams, academic partners, and scientific/analytical modeling enterprises
Must reside in or be willing to commute regularly within the Washington, DC metropolitan area; hybrid work environment anticipated, to include on-site and virtual locations
U.S. citizenship (the nature of our work with the federal government limits our hiring to
U.S. citizens)
Ability to obtain and maintain up to a top-secret security clearance.
Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in business, management, or a field related to Agile program management within a federal scientific modeling enterprise

Preferred Qualifications

Background supporting atmospheric science departments of the US government such as NOAA, EPA, NASA etc.
Agile certifications (e.g., Certified Scrum Master, Professional Scrum Master I, Project Management Institute - Agile Certified Practitioner, SAFe Agilist)
Experience developing robust project plans and continuously managing project financials, budgeting, and forecasting
Strategic thinker with strong systems thinking and first principles of reasoning
Able to translate strategy to execution and own execution (work cross-functionally and across seniority levels within a client space to drive change, keeping relationships and culture in mind)
Proven ability to bring structure to ambiguous and open-ended problems
Strong executive presence with the ability to command a room and engage senior clients
Confident facilitator able to guide discussions, manage conflict, and drive alignment
Strong storyteller capable of creating compelling narratives, insights, and recommendations
Relationship builder with strong client service orientation
Strong analytical skills; comfortable with both quantitative and qualitative data
Highly organized; able to manage multiple work streams, deliverables, and internal/external expectations; can manage up
Experience with managing complex team structures and project budgets
Knowledge of key consulting frameworks and concepts (Mento Pyramid, MECE, Choice Cascade, 7S, Growth Share)
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