Project Manager, Project & Program Management

• Location (Hybrid),Columbia, MD, 21046,United States

At APV,we’remore than a technology company —we’rea mission-driven powerhouse transforming organizations through advanced technology and human ingenuity. Ourexpertisespans AI/ML, data architecture, low-code/no-code development, Agile Dev Sec Ops , and cloud services, delivering scalable and meaningful solutions.

In our Emerging Technology Lab, innovation drives progress. Our teams create intelligent chatbots, AI-powered assistants, robotic process automation (RPA), essay graders, and data analytics platforms. Ifyou’repassionate about solving complex challenges and shaping the future, APV is the place for you. Since 2007,we’vepartnered with federal and state agencies to deliver IT, training, and consulting solutions that achieve mission-critical outcomes. Built on accountability, integrity, and quality, we go beyond expectations.

With 70+ prime contracts and a proven record of client success, APV continues to grow — andwe’relooking for exceptional talent to grow with us.

The Project Manager is responsible for translating task-order strategy into disciplined day-to-day execution for a federal health regulatory agency. The role integrates enterprise workforce training, regulatory reviewer and scientific development, learning-system operations, data and compliance reporting, and modernization planning into one coordinated delivery model. The PM manages the operating rhythm, controls, and cross-functional dependencies required in a regulated federal environment; provides continuity of leadership;

and acts on the Program Manager's behalf when designated while preserving government approval and decision authority.

• Direct and coordinate daily APV task-order operations across task areas, labor categories, work streams, and authorized firm-fixed-price and time-and-materials activities
• Translate program priorities and client direction into integrated work plans, assignments, milestones, dependencies, staffing actions, and quality-control checkpoints.
• Monitor schedules, labor utilization, deliverable status, service levels, risks, issues, decisions, and action items; identify variances early and coordinate corrective action
• Maintain operational cadence through team meetings, workstream reviews, integrated planning sessions, and concise status communications.
• Coordinate training intake and governance workflows, ensuring requests are documented, clarified, prioritized, assigned, tracked, and aligned with approved plans and decisions.
• Ensure coordination among instructional design, training delivery, scientific and regulatory SMEs, LMS operations, reporting, analytics, and administrative support.
• Support preparation and quality review of monthly status reports, weekly or ad hoc reporting, forecasts, dashboards, risk registers, staffing plans, meeting materials, and other management artifacts.
• Manage operational interfaces with client stakeholders, clarify responsibilities and dependencies, and elevate decisions requiring Program Manager or government authority.
• Support staffing continuity, onboarding, workload balancing, surge planning, succession coverage, and timely backfill of vacancies without degradation of service.
• Coordinate deliverable reviews to verify completeness, technical and instructional quality, accessibility, LMS compatibility, schedule compliance, and alignment with approved requirements.
• Support transition planning and continuity of mission-critical learning operations during organizational, LMS, or federal human-capital modernization changes.
• Act for the Program Manager when assigned and maintain continuity of communications, decisions, and accountability during the Program Manager's absence.
• Help ensure that APV personnel follow contract scope, security, privacy, records-management, quality, and client governance requirements.

• Federal task-order consulting and contractor operations, including scope control, client governance,…