Program Manager

Program Manager
February 17, 2024
C5T Corporation is a Woman-Owned, Certified Service-Disabled, Veteran-Owned Small Business headquartered at Scott AFB, Illinois. Founded in 2005 by three veterans, we value practical, innovation-minded people with a passion for successful mission accomplishment. We bridge the gap between operational and technical domains.
Our core values are: Integrity...Excellence...Patriotism
The selected candidate will serve as the contractor's single contract manager and shall be the contractor's authorized interface with the Government Contracting Officer (CO), Government management personnel and customer agency representatives.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• The Program Manager is responsible for overall contract performance.
• Formulating and enforcing work standards, assigning contractor schedules, reviewing work discrepancies, supervising contractor personnel and communicating policies, purposes, and goals of the organization to subordinates.
• Organizes, directs, and manages contract operation support functions, involving multiple, complex and inter-related project tasks.
• Manages teams of contract support services personnel at multiple locations.
• Maintains and manages the client interface at the senior levels of the client organization. Meets with customer and contractor personnel to formulate and review task plans and deliverable items. Ensures conformance with program task schedules and costs.

C5T is seeking a Program Manager to lead a team of functional analysts and trainers on Mobility Air Forces Command and Control (MAF C2) systems. Functional Analysts provide subject matter expertise to facilitate establishment, prioritization, and identification of MAF operational requirements ensuring a proper balance among cost, schedule, and performance. Management support shall focus on Transportation and MAF C2 systems, knowledge management, and logistics information systems, including: Consolidated Air Mobility Planning System (CAMPS), Global Decision Support System (GDSS), Global Command and Control System (GCCS)/Joint Operation Planning and Execution System (JOPES), Mobility Enterprise Information Services (MEIS), Deliberate and Crisis Action Planning and Execution Segments (DCAPES), and Mobility Air Forces Automated Flight Planning Service (MAFPS).
This is a Program Manager position garnering full operational authority from the C5T CEO and serves as the single point of contact with the Government for all contract matters. This individual manages substantial program and technical support operations involving multiple projects, task orders, and personnel at diverse locations. Additionally, the PM organizes, directs, and coordinates planning and execution of all support activities and adjusts coverage to meet changing workload. The PM will demonstrate global end to end deployment and distribution services experience, information technology expertise, and communications skills to be able to interface with all levels of management. This person meets and confers with ordering activity management officials regarding the status of specific contractor program and technical activities and problems, issues, or conflicts regarding resolution. Finally, the PM is responsible for team integration and focus on meeting or exceeding the customer's needs.
Responsibilities include:

• Provide direct support to C2 System Functional Managers (FM) and act as a functional management point of contact (POC) for the MAF functional user community and for various development/testing communities associated with MAF C2 transportation systems. Examples of this requirement include:

• Maintains all related documents and correspondence in accordance with HQ AMC/A3C SharePoint business rules;
• Works with users and developers to define, clarify, and prioritize functional requirements and implementation schedules;
• Participates in program reviews and meetings;
• Coordinates functional community participation in Joint Application Design/Rapid Application Development (JAD/RAD) sessions;
• Facilitates communication between application developers and functional community;
• Acts as the functional management focal point for coordinating program and technical document reviews;
• Reviews, coordinates and maintains program and technical documentation as required;
• Establishes and coordinates user certification and security access requirements;
• Provides monthly status on user security to include foreign nationals through the Contractor provided Security Features User Guide;

• Provide expert knowledge of user requirements in the review and analysis of functional requirements for AMC common service areas.
• Provide evaluation of existing legacy systems and future system requirements support.
• Support requirement analysis of MAF C2 system development and product teams.
• Provide functional knowledge of the operational needs for fixed and deployed systems for active, guard, reserve, and DoD users.
• Receive, document, identify, and clarify user requirements for future C2 system development.
• Provide recommendations for developing, updating, and reviewing program documentation such as operational requirement documents; mission needs statements; concept of operations; and other C2 system baseline documents.
• Work with functional managers to identify, document, analyze, and prioritize requirements from the user community.

• Provide requirements analysis by accomplishing the following tasks:

• Reviews the requirements and any available use cases to ensure that requirements assigned to a Release Specification Agreement (RSA) and/or Version Release List (VRL) are clearly defined for testing purposes and that those requirements are quantifiable and testable.
• Develop operational testing criteria and participate in the testing.

• Provides Expertise in MAF C2 system functional management support.
• Provides proficiency in linking operational requirements to capabilities/integration side.
• Provides recommendations to support matrixed teams regarding scope and interoperability of C2 systems issues and topics.

Qualifications:
Required:

• Possess functional subject matter expertise and broad-based operational experience in transportation and MAF C2 systems
• PMI Project Manager Trained
• Experience in Air Mobility Command (AMC) Headquarters and/or similar staff
• Understanding of current DoD and USAF doctrine, tactics, and concepts of operations related to air mobility operations and planning
• Excellent communication skills (verbal and written)
• Ability to effectively prioritize tasks, and manage projects from concept to production
• Must be able to thrive in a collaborative team environment, and quickly adapt to change
• Familiarity with Agile Development Process
• Proficient with Microsoft Office 365 applications including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook and Teams

• Current Secret or higher security clearance
• Must be a US Citizen

Benefits:
To show our commitment to our employees and their families, we offer:

• Competitive salaries
• Medical Insurance Benefit Options offered through United Health Care
• Dental and Vision Insurance Benefit Options offered through Guardian.
• 401(k) Plan with company match
• Flexible Spending Account
• 10 Paid Holidays per year
• Responsible PTO - The C5T Responsible Paid Time Off policy allows eligible employees the freedom to take RPTO for vacation and personal leave as long as they can fulfill their work obligations.

We are committed to providing equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, status as a protected veteran, or any other similarly protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
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