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Posted August 21, 2026

Program Manager w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting, LLC
Silver Spring, Maryland, United States 81210 Full Time
Reference: 286619777

Program Manager w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting is seeking a Program Manager to provide delivery leadership for a federal mission-support engagement focused on integrated master schedule sustainment, executive reporting, governance visibility, risk/dependency management, and decision-support analysis. If you thrive on operating in a highly visible federal environment, display the judgment to distinguish contractor recommendations from client decision authority, and the discipline to maintain delivery accountability across schedule, dashboard, governance, risk, action, and decision-support activities, this role is for you!
In this role you will:
  • Serve as the primary delivery lead and client-facing management point of contact.
  • Provide overall leadership for staffing, transition activities, work allocation, performance management, risk escalation, and delivery accountability.
  • Ensure continuity of schedule, dashboard, reporting, governance, risk, action, and decision-support artifacts throughout the engagement.
  • Coordinate across client stakeholders, incumbent support personnel, partner organizations, and other contractors as directed.
  • Establish and maintain the engagement's operating rhythm, including leadership touchpoints, status cadences, escalation paths, and performance reviews.
  • Monitor deliverable quality, schedule adherence, risk management, corrective actions, comment resolution, and performance against applicable quality standards.
  • Ensure all deliverables are accurate, traceable, complete, professionally formatted, and aligned to approved client direction.
  • Support executive-level communications, decision briefings, governance updates, management reviews, and senior-leader reporting.
  • Anticipate client support needs, identify risks or deviations from plan before they affect delivery, and recommend practical mitigation actions.
  • Maintain clear non-personal services boundaries by providing analysis and recommendations while preserving client decision authority.
  • Build and sustain a team culture focused on accountability, adaptability, collaboration, continuous learning, and measurable outcomes.
  • Lead resource planning, backfill coordination, onboarding, and continuity planning to minimize disruption from turnover or changing client priorities.
  • Ensure the team uses consistent methods for source validation, quality review, artifact control, repository management, and client comment disposition.
  • Provide senior-level oversight of deliverable quality gates, transition products, action tracking, decision tracking, risk registers, and management reporting.
Required Qualifications:
  • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Administration, Finance, Data/Analytics, or a related field.
  • 10+ years of federal program or project management experience.
  • Project Management Professional (PMP), SAFe Agilist, Scrum, Lean Six Sigma, or equivalent program/agile experience or certification.
  • Experience managing PMO, schedule, dashboard, governance, or executive reporting support efforts.
  • Experience leading cross-functional teams in federal, defense, intelligence, civilian, or other regulated mission environments.
  • Demonstrated experience overseeing CDRLs, quality management, performance standards, transition activities, stakeholder coordination, and comment resolution.
  • Strong executive communication, facilitation, risk management, delivery oversight, and client relationship management skills.
  • Demonstrated ability to translate complex or ambiguous business and mission needs into actionable requirements, roadmaps, backlogs, technical plans, decision products, and measurable outcomes.
  • Ability to motivate teams through ambiguity while maintaining delivery performance, quality discipline, and client trust.
  • Familiarity with integrated master schedules, dashboard reporting, governance packages, risk registers, action trackers, decision logs, and executive-ready reporting products.
  • Experience with Microsoft Office, Teams, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, Power BI, or similar collaboration and reporting tools.
Security Clearance:
  • Active Secret clearance (or higher) required.
Location:
  • Remote (DC Metro Area)
Salary Range:
  • The salary range of this position is $165,000 - $190,000 commensurate with experience and achievement.
Benefit Information:
A3 Consulting offers a robust benefits package to include but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, group life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, paid time off, 401k match, paid parental leave, professional development.
About A3 Consulting:
A3 Consulting LLC is a leading management and technology firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions to solve the pressing challenges of our Federal government and Department of Defense customers. With a proven track record of delivering mission-critical solutions and exceptional performance, we are committed to ensuring that our intelligent automation and technology offerings remain competitive in the rapidly evolving defense marketplace.




Equal employment opportunity, including veterans and individuals with disabilities.

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