RD&E Program Manager – Prescient Edge

Prescient Edge is seeking a RD&E Program Manager

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone’s success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule. Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description

• Provide strategic leadership and direction within the operations team to support organizational objectives and goals.
• Actively engage as key personnel in bid efforts for the DIU RAINS, ensuring alignment with organizational strategy and objectives.
• Oversee and participate in all phases of proposal development, including planning, coordination, content creation, and review.
• Lead proposal preparation activities, ensuring quality, compliance, and timeliness.
• Serve as a senior program leader within the Research, Development, and Engineering (RDE) division, providing mentorship, guidance, and feedback to analyst and program management staff.
• Facilitate effective team communication and collaboration, promoting best practices and operational efficiencies.
• Build and maintain strong relationships with current customers, identifying opportunities for project expansion within the gizmo program.
• Pursue and develop new customer relationships, focusing on contract growth and securing new business opportunities.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with internal stakeholders to ensure proposal and program management activities align with organizational goals.
• Drive continuous improvement within the program, leveraging insights and data to optimize performance and outcomes.

Desired experience:

• Management experience for large-scale contracts.
• Experience as the PM of a FEDSIM contract.
• Leadership experience.
• FAC PMM Level III Government Career Path.
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) experience.
• Within the last 15 years, possess a minimum of 10 years of experience working on DoD service-specific and/ or Joint-Service projects.
• Within the last 10 years, possess a minimum of 5 years of experience managing projects that are of a similar scope and complexity. One of the projects managed must have included intelligence or special operations support elements.
• Possess a current certification in at least one of the following at time of proposal submission and maintain the certification throughout the life of the task order: Project Management Institute (PMI) Project Management Professional or PMI Program Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Possess a minimum of 5 years of experience managing a geographically dispersed workforce.
• Air Force experience, especially with AFRL or AFSOC.

Desired education:

• Bachelor’s degree from an accredited university.
• 10 years of experience providing technical support in a related area to one of the support tasks listed above, or a master’s degree and 8 years of experience providing technical support in a related area to one of the support tasks listed above.
• At least 5 years of experience in a leadership position overseeing a team of at least 5 subordinates in the execution of technical, engineering, or intelligence tasks.
• Preferably a Master’s degree from an accredited university.