Team Coordination & Support: Lead onboarding, security processing, and team integration activities to ensure readiness and cohesion.
Operational Oversight: Manage SharePoint, Teams, Jira, and Confluence environments to support collaboration and data organization.
Acquisition Documentation: Assist with acquisition planning, documentation, and milestone decision support across programs.
Battle Rhythm & Task Management: Track action items, manage taskers, and support oversight boards to maintain operational cadence.
Leadership Support: Act as a deputy to the branch leadership, providing strategic and administrative support to enhance team performance.
Synchronize leadership efforts: bridging communication silos, and optimizing branch performance through strategic planning and continuous process improvement.
Lead cradle to grave in-person support to leadership when briefing external to branch; special or ad hoc projects
Cross-functional Integration: Act as the primary liaison across different portfolios within the Branch; identify interrelated efforts and facilitate communication between leadership stakeholders to prevent siloed operations and ensure unified effort.
Strategic Planning: Assist the Branch Chief and leadership team in developing, refining, and tracking strategic plans; help translate leadership's strategic vision into actionable operational milestones and workstreams.
Gap Analysis & Risk Identification: Conduct continuous assessments of Branch operations, programmatic efforts, and capabilities to proactively identify mission gaps, blind spots, or emerging operational risks; recommend mitigation strategies to leadership.
Business Process Improvement: Analyze existing workflows, battle rhythms, and standard operating procedures (SOPs); identify bottlenecks, redundancies, or administrative friction; recommend and help implement lean methodologies to enhance overall Branch efficiency.
Knowledge Management: Maintain the branch's digital footprint (e.g., SharePoint, shared drives) and manage access controls on NIPR; SIPR; and JWICS
Executive Synthesis & Reporting : Monitor disparate workstreams and consolidate complex data into cohesive executive summaries, point papers, and strategic briefings; ensure the Branch Chief has a holistic, 360-degree view of operations for informed decision-making.
Action & Task Management : Receive, assign, and track all internal and external taskers (e.g., via Task Management Tool/TMT or ABMS Workflow); enforce suspense dates; ensure quality control of submissions prior to leadership review.
Work Environment:
Location: On-site, JBAB, Washington, DC
Travel Requirements: 0-25%
Working Hours: Standard - Core hours 0900 - 1500
Requirements
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Business, Management, or related field.
Program/Project Management Experience: Minimum 10 years of experience in acquisition or program management roles.
Organizational Skills: Strong ability to manage multiple priorities, systems, and stakeholders.
Communication: Excellent interpersonal and written communication skills.
Active TS/SCI with SAP eligibility
Desired:
Advanced Degree or Certification: Master's degree or PMP certification preferred.
DoD Acquisition Experience: Familiarity with DoD acquisition processes and documentation.
Tool Proficiency: Experience with Jira, Confluence, SharePoint, and Microsoft Teams.
Process Improvement: Ability to streamline workflows and improve team efficiency.
Leadership Experience: Prior supervisory or team lead experience in a government or defense setting.
Basic Compensation:
$140,000-$160,000
This range is for the Washington, D.C. area only
The offered rate will be based on the selected candidate's work location, knowledge
Benefits
Vision insurance
Additional Information
Title:
Chief of Staff/PM
Belong. Connect. Grow. with KBR!
KBR's National Security Solutions team provides high-end engineering and advanced technology solutions to our customers in the intelligence and national security communities. In this position, your work will have a profound impact on the country's most critical role - protecting our national security.
Why Join Us?
Innovative Projects: KBR's work is at the forefront of engineering, logistics, operations, science, program management, mission IT and cybersecurity solutions.
Collaborative Environment: Be part of a dynamic team that thrives on collaboration and innovation, fostering a supportive and intellectually stimulating workplace.
Impactful Work: Your contributions will be pivotal in designing and optimizing defense systems that ensure national security and shape the future of space defense.
Position Summary:
KBR, Inc. is seeking a highly capable and organized Program Manager to join our team at Joint Base Anacostia Bolling (JBAB). This role supports the ABMS Program Office by serving as a Chief of Staff, project lead, supervisor, and operational coordinator-ensuring smooth execution of acquisition activities, team support functions, and program office operations.
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