FMS Branch Program Manager - COS

Position Summary

Odyssey Systems has an exciting new opportunity for a Program Manager to join the team. As the Program Manager Supporting the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Program Office Senior Staff, you will be responsible utilizing your technical expertise to provide program support, professional services, engineering technical services that improve policy making, decision-making, management, administration, program management, or research and development activities.

The FMS Program Office supports and sustains the Shared Early Warning System, architecture for fourteen partner nations, and two early warning radars in partner countries.  The FMS program enhances US strategic and regional stability objectives and coalition knowledge of incoming missiles and missile launch information, 24-hours per day, 365 days per year.

Responsibilities

Duties include but are not limited to:

Support and conduct strategic planning consistent with program direction, resources, and objectives established by higher authority; make recommendations for improving division processes and products

Support road-map planning, development and review

Help lead acquisition strategy analyses and program planning processes

Analyze programs and develop sound, efficient and effective strategies

Use experience, expertise and skill set to advise, assist, and recommend actions to the Government Division/Branch/Program Offices on consistency and continuity of requirements, objectives and planning/programming

Develop, prepare, staff and review Early Strategy and Issues Session and Acquisition Strategy Panel briefings

Support the development, management, and monitoring of program and project-integrated master schedules

Advise Government personnel on contractor performance issues and risks

Prepare briefings and reports

Present Government briefings

Assist in risk assessments

Apply cost analytics and data processing skills to provide advice and assistance on technical evaluations and realism, balance, and reasonableness assessments of proposals

Support requirements definition, development, configuration management, test (all phases), risk management, system security engineering, operations and organizational/intermediate/depot-level, maintenance (all types), planning/programming, implementation/deployment of solutions, review, and development of system technical baseline documentation

Qualifications

Citizenship:
Must be a US citizen

Minimum Required Qualifications:

Clearance:
Must have a valid DOD Secret clearance with the ability to upgrade to Top Secret

Certifications:

PMP, OR DAWIA Program Management Level III certification (if a Master’s degree not obtained)

Education:

High School Years of

Experience:

7 years of experience as a Project/program Manager OR, Bachelor's or Master's Degree with 3 years of experience as a Project/Program Manager Additional

Experience:

Demonstrate intermediate knowledge of their technical/professional discipline as well as possess a comprehensive understanding and ability to apply associated standards, procedures, and practices in their area of expertise.

Experience writing, reviewing, and executing Project Plans, Financial Reports, and MS Project Schedules

Preferred Qualifications Clearance:
Active DoD Top Secret clearance

Education:

MA/MS in a related field

Years of experience: 3 years of acquisition program management

Certifications:

PM level II certification, DAWIA Program Management Level III certification (or equivalent) Technical Skills Knowledgeable of Foreign Military Sales Knowledgeable of C2 Systems Knowledge of Ground-Based Radar and Infra-Red systems

Knowledge of Missile Warning operations

Knowledgeable in Global Command and Control Systems Knowledgeable in Cross Domain Solutions Previous active-duty military…