Job Description:

The Senior Program Manager (Change Management) plays a critical role in driving strategic change initiatives that deliver on our objective to establish a modular, interoperable, and scalable system capable of enhancing safety, efficiency, and adaptability in a complex, multi-domain environment with global impact. This position entails leading large-scale, complex programs from conception through completion, ensuring they align with and advance the organization's strategic goals. The Senior Program Manager provides visionary leadership, and optimizes resource utilization. This role requires exceptional leadership, strategic planning, and communication skills to influence and collaborate with executive leadership, stakeholders, and cross-functional teams.

To be successful in this role, the Organizational Change Management (OCM) skillset required will encompass business process re-engineering, organizational change strategy, people management, and executive presence.

Responsibilities:

Serve as the single point of accountability for all project management activities
Apply and implement metric-focused delivery model for workstream and contract performance reporting, including defining the metrics, processes, feedback loops, and continuous improvement practices
Collaborate with leadership to assemble and assimilate a new delivery team, ensuring seamless operational and cultural integration with the technical implementation team and customer environment
Rapidly evaluate OCM needs based on an aggressive technical modernization schedule and complex customer environment to set vision, and strategy – formulating actionable plan to achieve goals
Create the environmental infrastructure (e.g., standard operating procedures (SOPs), tools, team dynamic factor, collaboration requirements) for a strong foundation that evolves with the discovery process
Ensure alignment with the client’s implementation schedule and provide oversight for the organizational change management (OCM) workstreams
Submit Status Reports, summarizing completed efforts, deliverables, and anticipated work
Develop OCM strategy and provide leadership and oversight to ensure strategically-aligned execution that evolves with organizational readiness, stakeholder input, capability development and technical rollouts, and programmatic direction
Develop and execute a comprehensive stakeholder engagement plan to guide proactive management of a complex stakeholder landscape that include internal organizations and group as well as external stakeholders such as other federal agencies, state/local government, industry partners, and organizations such as unions and policy groups
Coalesces and synchronizes stakeholder management with modernization activities, inter-dependent technical workstreams, and OCM support areas such as change planning, stakeholder coordination, communications and messaging, public relations, and sponsorship management
Defines overarching change management strategy and aligns team to an adopter-oriented, data-driven OCM approach
Oversees the definition and tracking of KPIs to measure program success
Lead pressure-testing of strategy for refinement, pivoting team direction for improved effectiveness, accelerated roadmap delivery, and high velocity adoption
Provide and implement a Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) tool to manage change, ensuring compliance with government data protection standards
Collaborate with multiple departments to update the content on client’s internal digital platforms
Guide workstream to establish agile processes to facilitate tailoring needs and application maintenance
Prioritize and sequence activities in alignment with OCM needs, seamlessly integration tool use with OCM and removing roadblocks for the implementation team

Qualifications:

Required:

Bachelor’s degree with 12 years in leading large-scale, complex transformational or modernization initiatives
Diverse organizational change and stakeholder management experience
Excellent leadership and team/people management skills, with ability to motivate and inspire others, foster trust, and develop strong relationships and rapport
Demonstrated success supporting enterprise modernizations, with strong experience collaborating with technical and specialized experts
Experience working directly with C suite executives on strategy
Excellent written and verbal communication skills
Familiarity with complex technical implementations and leads with optimism and confidence through ambiguity and challenging situations
Microsoft Office Suite expertise (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, etc.)
U.S. Citizen

Preferred:

Aviation experience
Project Management Professional (PMP), Program Management Professional (PgMP), or equivalent certifications is a plus
Change Management certifications (e.g., Prosci Change Management Certification) are desirable
Extensive knowledge of project management software and tools
Previous Federal Consulting Experience

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About Us:

Perks of working at NetImpact Strategies

Your health comes first – we offer comprehensive medical, dental, & vision insurance that starts the first of the month after you join the team
Invest in your future – 401(k) Plan – Immediately vested employer contributions; no matching required
Work hard, play hard – we offer a generous Paid Time Off (PTO) policy, one (1) additional day of paid wellness leave per calendar year, and observe ten (10) federal holidays
Pawsitively pawesome – Pet Insurance (because our little critters are part of our families, too!)
Invest in your education – Tuition reimbursement, internal training programs, & company-sponsored industry certifications!
Be part of a dynamic and collaborative work environment recently ranked by The Washington Post as a Top Work Place in 2019, 2021,2022, 2023, & 2024!
Have fun and celebrate and give back – Team building activities, community volunteering, quarterly HQ days, wellness events, happy hours, family fun events, and more!

ABOUT US

NetImpact Strategies Inc. (NetImpact) has been a Trusted Advisor driving impact through digital transformation for the Federal Government for over a decade. We solve complex problems with innovation and agility to create meaningful, transformative, and enduring change. As Trusted Advisors, NetImpact professionals partner with customer agencies to deliver solutions that empower them to not only meet their missions but also realize their strategic vision through agile, outcome-focused solutions addressing both strategic and tactical requirements. We design and implement comprehensive, tailored solutions that are both mindful of the client's culture and organizational dynamics. NetImpact’s core values and commitment to a customer and results-oriented delivery approach has propelled our growth and enabled us to deliver impactful value across Strategic Consulting, Process Automation, Cloud, DevSecOps, Data and Analytics, and Cyber Security for the Federal Government.

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