Program Manager

Evoke Consulting is a Federal Management Consulting firm specializing in strategic business and technology services areas across the federal market. We provide solutions to agencies and entities including Veterans Affairs, Department of Energy, Department of Agriculture, Department of Defense, and more. We defy the standard employee experience in government contracting with a commitment to providing a wide range of opportunities for our employees to grow professionally and socially by investing more than our competition in training our team and rewarding high performance. Evokers are hard-working, team-oriented, and come from diverse backgrounds and experience levels. We value our employees' ideas and act on suggestions for change and development as a firm.

Evoke is seeking a Program Manager to join our team!

Responsibilities:

• Serving as the Contractor's main point of contact and overall performance; ensuring execution is within defined performance and cost
• Responsible for the overall direction and management of all activities, including consolidated data reporting, risks and issues, and financial and schedule parameters
• Maintains and manages the client relationship at the senior levels of the client organization and promotes communication among client divisions and stakeholders
• Ensures consistency among strategic IT service delivery
• Responsible for all aspects of the development and implementation of assigned projects and provides a single point of contact for those projects.
• Takes projects from original concept through final implementation.
• Interfaces with all areas affected by the project including end users, computer services, and client services.
• Defines project scope and objectives. Develops detailed work plans, schedules, project estimates, resource plans, and status reports.
• Conducts project meetings and is responsible for project tracking and analysis.
• Ensures adherence to quality standards and reviews project deliverables.
• Manages the integration of vendor tasks and tracks and reviews vendor deliverables.
• Provides strategic, technical and analytical guidance to project team.
• Recommends and takes action to direct the analysis and solutions of problems from experience advising senior leadership on IT strategic work.
• Participate in business development including the expansion of existing projects, responding to RFP responses, client presentations and executing Statements of Work (SOW)

Professional Experience and Skills:

• Experience in a major services organization, with large-scale data or project management and oversight experience.
• Knowledge of industry leading data quality and data protection management practices
• Knowledge of data governance practices, business and technology issues related to management of enterprise information assets and approaches related to data protection
• Knowledge of data related government regulatory requirements and emerging trends and issues
• Demonstrated consulting skills, with change management concepts and strategies, including communication, culture change and performance measurement system design
• Knowledge of enterprise architecture, CPIC, and technology solutions
• Knowledge of NIH (preferred)

Education and Years of Experience:

• Minimum of eight (8) years of IT program management experience in technology solution delivery
• Minimum of five (5) years of experience with Agile methodologies and project management.
• MBA (IT Management or Program/Project Management)
• PMP preferred; PgMP highly preferred

Security Clearance

• Applicants selected must be eligible to work in the United States, be subject to a government security investigation, and meet eligibility requirements for access to protected information.

Work Location

• Bethesda, MD (1-2 days/week)

Benefits Offered:

• This position is paid a base salary based on job family, experience and skill level.
• Health benefits include medical, prescription, dental, and vision plans.
• Company paid Life Insurance coverage, Short-term and Long-term Disability coverage.
• Health Savings Account or Flexible spending accounts.
• 401(k) with discretionary company match.
• Paid time off (PTO) program and eleven (11) paid holidays.
• Additional time off benefits include parental leave, bereavement leave, volunteer hours.
• And more

Evoke is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, citizenship, national origin, ancestry sexual oriented, gender identity, age, religion, creed, physical or mental disability, marital status, veteran status, political affiliation, or any additional factors protected by local, state, or federal law.