{"schemaVersion":"jobsearcher.job.v1","id":"00b2fd90f2eda8cbdc7dd8ad","url":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/00b2fd90f2eda8cbdc7dd8ad","canonicalUrl":"https://jobsearcher.com/jobs/00b2fd90f2eda8cbdc7dd8ad","title":"Program Manager","description":"Overview:\n\nLMI is seeking an experienced and highly adaptable Program Manager to support a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) program focused on suicide prevention and mental health. This role will serve as a deputy and trusted right hand to the Sr Program Manager, helping lead day-to-day contract operations, client delivery, workforce management, technical execution, and strategic growth. The successful candidate will independently lead major aspects of the program, maintain visibility across multiple projects and workstreams, supervise and develop staff, anticipate and resolve delivery challenges, and step in for program leadership as needed. This individual must be comfortable operating with limited direction, bringing structure to ambiguity, making sound decisions, and moving seamlessly between client engagement, team leadership, internal operations, technical delivery, and business strategy.\n\nA significant part of this role is people leadership. The Program Manager will supervise employees across different roles, disciplines, levels of seniority, and career stages. The successful candidate must be comfortable setting clear expectations, coaching and developing employees, recognizing strong performance, addressing performance or behavioral concerns directly, and having difficult conversations when necessary.\n\nThe ideal candidate brings strong federal program management experience, operational discipline, business acumen, and an interest in helping grow LMI’s VA portfolio. Experience with Agile delivery and familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint development, and/or program evaluation is strongly preferred. Prior experience supporting VA is a significant advantage.\n\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\n\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\n\nResponsibilities:\nServe as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager, providing leadership across contract operations, client delivery, staffing, financial performance, and strategic priorities.\nIndependently lead program activities and represent program leadership with clients, internal stakeholders, and delivery teams as needed.\nDirectly supervise and manage employees across different job families, technical disciplines, titles, experience levels, and levels of seniority.\nSet clear performance expectations, provide ongoing feedback and coaching, support professional development, and hold employees accountable for performance, behavior, and delivery commitments.\nLead LMI’s Performance 365 process for assigned staff, including goal setting, ongoing performance discussions, career development, recognition, documentation, and formal performance reviews.\nAddress performance concerns early and directly, including conducting difficult or sensitive conversations, establishing improvement expectations, documenting issues appropriately, and partnering with leadership and HR when necessary.\nPlan, coordinate, and oversee execution across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, ensuring priorities, resources, risks, and outcomes remain aligned.\nEstablish and maintain effective program operating rhythms, governance, schedules, action tracking, decision logs, and performance reporting.\nMonitor cost, schedule, scope, staffing, utilization, and performance, identifying emerging issues and recommending corrective actions.\nSupport program financial management, including forecasting, budget monitoring, labor planning, variance analysis, and monthly reporting.\nLead workforce planning activities, including staffing strategy, recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, resource allocation, and performance oversight.\nBuild and sustain trusted relationships with VA stakeholders, program leadership, technical teams, partners, and LMI leadership.\nTranslate evolving client priorities into actionable requirements, work plans, deliverables, and resource needs.\nLead and support Agile delivery using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches, including backlog management, prioritization, dependency management, and continuous improvement.\nUse Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, dashboards, and related tools to maintain visibility into milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery performance.\nCoordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include developers, analysts, data scientists, evaluators, technical leads, and subject matter experts.\nPartner with technical teams delivering solutions involving Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, analytics, data, workflow automation, and program evaluation.\nProactively identify and resolve operational, technical, staffing, client, and delivery risks before they affect program performance.\nDevelop executive briefings, program reviews, status reports, dashboards, recommendations, and decision materials for VA and LMI leadership.\nFacilitate client and internal leadership meetings, drive decisions, assign accountability, and ensure follow-through.\nEnsure program activities and deliverables meet applicable contractual, VA, federal, security, privacy, and LMI requirements.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to improve program operations, delivery processes, team effectiveness, and client outcomes.\nSupport account strategy and organic growth by identifying emerging client priorities, unmet needs, and opportunities for expanded LMI support.\nContribute to business development, capture, proposals, solution development, and strategic planning, including shaping approaches, developing content, coordinating technical expertise, and supporting client presentations.\nConnect client needs with capabilities across LMI to develop integrated solutions and strengthen the broader VA account.\nMentor project managers and team leads, helping strengthen delivery discipline and develop future program leadership capability.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in business, management, public administration, health administration, information systems, technology, public health, or a related field.\n7+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, consulting, technology delivery, federal contracting, or a related discipline.\nDemonstrated experience serving in a deputy program manager, senior project manager, program operations lead, or comparable leadership capacity.\nDemonstrated people-management experience, including direct supervision of employees across multiple roles, disciplines, or levels of seniority.\nExperience establishing performance expectations, coaching employees, supporting career development, recognizing strong performance, and addressing performance or conduct issues.\nDemonstrated ability and willingness to have direct, constructive, and sometimes difficult conversations with employees and leaders when accountability, performance, behavior, or delivery expectations are not being met.\nExperience managing formal performance-management processes; familiarity with Performance 365 or similar continuous performance-management approaches is preferred.\nAbility to lead effectively in a matrixed environment, influence without direct authority, align individuals with competing priorities, and create accountability across multiple teams and stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, schedules, risks, and stakeholders.\nExperience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches.\nExperience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar delivery-management tools.\nFamiliarity with one or more of the following:\nMicrosoft Power Platform;\nSharePoint development or modernization;\nProgram evaluation, performance measurement, analytics, or data-informed decision support.\nStrong operational, organizational, and problem-solving skills.\nDemonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and lead with minimal direction.\nStrong client-facing communication and relationship-management skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, including executive-level briefings and recommendations.\nAbility to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.\nDemonstrated experience in business development, capture, proposal development, client growth, or account strategy.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance\n\nDesired Qualfications:\n\nPrior experience supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, particularly VHA or VA central-office programs.\nExperience in suicide prevention, mental health, behavioral health, healthcare, public health, or Veteran services.\nExperience with Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, program evaluation, analytics, or digital modernization.\nExperience managing multidisciplinary technical and analytical teams.\nFederal contract operations experience, including staffing, financial management, forecasting, and deliverable management.\nExperience supporting business development, capture, proposals, solutioning, or organic account growth.\nPMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Microsoft, or related certifications.\n\nTarget salary range: $140,000-$160,000\n\nDisclaimer: The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. 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This role will serve as a deputy and trusted right hand to the Sr Program Manager, helping lead day-to-day contract operations, client delivery, workforce management, technical execution, and strategic growth. The successful candidate will independently lead major aspects of the program, maintain visibility across multiple projects and workstreams, supervise and develop staff, anticipate and resolve delivery challenges, and step in for program leadership as needed. This individual must be comfortable operating with limited direction, bringing structure to ambiguity, making sound decisions, and moving seamlessly between client engagement, team leadership, internal operations, technical delivery, and business strategy.\n\nA significant part of this role is people leadership. The Program Manager will supervise employees across different roles, disciplines, levels of seniority, and career stages. The successful candidate must be comfortable setting clear expectations, coaching and developing employees, recognizing strong performance, addressing performance or behavioral concerns directly, and having difficult conversations when necessary.\n\nThe ideal candidate brings strong federal program management experience, operational discipline, business acumen, and an interest in helping grow LMI’s VA portfolio. Experience with Agile delivery and familiarity with Jira, Azure DevOps, Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint development, and/or program evaluation is strongly preferred. Prior experience supporting VA is a significant advantage.\n\nLMI is a new breed of digital solutions provider dedicated to accelerating government impact with innovation and speed. Investing in technology and prototypes ahead of need, LMI brings commercial-grade platforms and mission-ready AI to federal agencies at commercial speed.\n\nLeveraging our mission-ready technology and solutions, proven expertise in federal deployment, and strategic relationships, we enhance outcomes for the government, efficiently and effectively. With a focus on agility and collaboration, LMI serves the defense, space, healthcare, and intelligence sectors—helping agencies navigate complexity and outpace change. Headquartered in Tysons, Virginia, LMI is committed to delivering impactful results that strengthen missions and drive lasting value.\n\nResponsibilities:\nServe as a deputy to the Sr Program Manager, providing leadership across contract operations, client delivery, staffing, financial performance, and strategic priorities.\nIndependently lead program activities and represent program leadership with clients, internal stakeholders, and delivery teams as needed.\nDirectly supervise and manage employees across different job families, technical disciplines, titles, experience levels, and levels of seniority.\nSet clear performance expectations, provide ongoing feedback and coaching, support professional development, and hold employees accountable for performance, behavior, and delivery commitments.\nLead LMI’s Performance 365 process for assigned staff, including goal setting, ongoing performance discussions, career development, recognition, documentation, and formal performance reviews.\nAddress performance concerns early and directly, including conducting difficult or sensitive conversations, establishing improvement expectations, documenting issues appropriately, and partnering with leadership and HR when necessary.\nPlan, coordinate, and oversee execution across multiple concurrent projects and workstreams, ensuring priorities, resources, risks, and outcomes remain aligned.\nEstablish and maintain effective program operating rhythms, governance, schedules, action tracking, decision logs, and performance reporting.\nMonitor cost, schedule, scope, staffing, utilization, and performance, identifying emerging issues and recommending corrective actions.\nSupport program financial management, including forecasting, budget monitoring, labor planning, variance analysis, and monthly reporting.\nLead workforce planning activities, including staffing strategy, recruiting, interviewing, onboarding, resource allocation, and performance oversight.\nBuild and sustain trusted relationships with VA stakeholders, program leadership, technical teams, partners, and LMI leadership.\nTranslate evolving client priorities into actionable requirements, work plans, deliverables, and resource needs.\nLead and support Agile delivery using Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches, including backlog management, prioritization, dependency management, and continuous improvement.\nUse Jira, Azure DevOps, SharePoint, dashboards, and related tools to maintain visibility into milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, and delivery performance.\nCoordinate multidisciplinary teams that may include developers, analysts, data scientists, evaluators, technical leads, and subject matter experts.\nPartner with technical teams delivering solutions involving Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, analytics, data, workflow automation, and program evaluation.\nProactively identify and resolve operational, technical, staffing, client, and delivery risks before they affect program performance.\nDevelop executive briefings, program reviews, status reports, dashboards, recommendations, and decision materials for VA and LMI leadership.\nFacilitate client and internal leadership meetings, drive decisions, assign accountability, and ensure follow-through.\nEnsure program activities and deliverables meet applicable contractual, VA, federal, security, privacy, and LMI requirements.\nIdentify and implement opportunities to improve program operations, delivery processes, team effectiveness, and client outcomes.\nSupport account strategy and organic growth by identifying emerging client priorities, unmet needs, and opportunities for expanded LMI support.\nContribute to business development, capture, proposals, solution development, and strategic planning, including shaping approaches, developing content, coordinating technical expertise, and supporting client presentations.\nConnect client needs with capabilities across LMI to develop integrated solutions and strengthen the broader VA account.\nMentor project managers and team leads, helping strengthen delivery discipline and develop future program leadership capability.\nQualifications:\nBachelor’s degree in business, management, public administration, health administration, information systems, technology, public health, or a related field.\n7+ years of experience in program management, project management, operations, consulting, technology delivery, federal contracting, or a related discipline.\nDemonstrated experience serving in a deputy program manager, senior project manager, program operations lead, or comparable leadership capacity.\nDemonstrated people-management experience, including direct supervision of employees across multiple roles, disciplines, or levels of seniority.\nExperience establishing performance expectations, coaching employees, supporting career development, recognizing strong performance, and addressing performance or conduct issues.\nDemonstrated ability and willingness to have direct, constructive, and sometimes difficult conversations with employees and leaders when accountability, performance, behavior, or delivery expectations are not being met.\nExperience managing formal performance-management processes; familiarity with Performance 365 or similar continuous performance-management approaches is preferred.\nAbility to lead effectively in a matrixed environment, influence without direct authority, align individuals with competing priorities, and create accountability across multiple teams and stakeholders.\nDemonstrated ability to manage multiple workstreams, priorities, schedules, risks, and stakeholders.\nExperience working in Agile delivery environments, including Scrum, Kanban, or hybrid approaches.\nExperience with Jira, Azure DevOps, or similar delivery-management tools.\nFamiliarity with one or more of the following:\nMicrosoft Power Platform;\nSharePoint development or modernization;\nProgram evaluation, performance measurement, analytics, or data-informed decision support.\nStrong operational, organizational, and problem-solving skills.\nDemonstrated ability to work independently, exercise sound judgment, and lead with minimal direction.\nStrong client-facing communication and relationship-management skills.\nExcellent written and verbal communication, including executive-level briefings and recommendations.\nAbility to work effectively across technical and non-technical teams.\nDemonstrated experience in business development, capture, proposal development, client growth, or account strategy.\nAbility to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance\n\nDesired Qualfications:\n\nPrior experience supporting the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, particularly VHA or VA central-office programs.\nExperience in suicide prevention, mental health, behavioral health, healthcare, public health, or Veteran services.\nExperience with Microsoft Power Platform, SharePoint, program evaluation, analytics, or digital modernization.\nExperience managing multidisciplinary technical and analytical teams.\nFederal contract operations experience, including staffing, financial management, forecasting, and deliverable management.\nExperience supporting business development, capture, proposals, solutioning, or organic account growth.\nPMP, CSM, PMI-ACP, SAFe, Microsoft, or related certifications.\n\nTarget salary range: $140,000-$160,000\n\nDisclaimer: The salary range displayed represents the typical salary range for this position and is not a guarantee of compensation. 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