NOA2302: Program Manager and Senior Technical Project Manager

College Park, Maryland

Full-Time

Experienced

Overview

IMSG is seeking to fill two positions that provide program and project management support (a Program Manager and a Senior Technical Project Manager as described below) to the National Weather Service (NWS) Office of Science and Technology (OSTI) Modeling Program Office. Both positions will interact with a collaborative team of program managers, scientists, and engineers from NWS, Office of Atmospheric Research (OAR) labs, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR), and Academia. Both positions will also perform activities related to program and project management services related to science and technology integration of climate and weather modeling.

Program Manager Responsibilities:

• Maintain HFIP project portfolios and related information such as scope, schedule, progress, and project maturity level.
• Coordinate, track, and manage programmatic and technical project activities related to the HFIP program.
• In coordination with the HFIP managers (program, science, development, and operational), contribute to the execution and assessment of the HFIP related projects including gap analysis and project maturity.
• In coordination with the HFIP community, contribute to the development and maintenance of HFIP related documents such as strategic plans, website content development, annual and quarterly reports.
• Coordinate the High Performance Compute (HPC) resource applications, allocation, and monitor HPC usage during the HFIP real-time experiments.
• Support OSTI Modeling programmatic services such as workshops, meetings, website contents development, and other administrative responsibilities.
• Coordinate, schedule, and facilitate regular meetings, including weekly and biweekly teleconferences, development team calls, and bi-annual/annual HFIP, and Hurricane Supplemental related meetings.
• Prepare meeting minutes, follow-up to reduce risks, resolve issues and maintain and improve program performance.
• Prepare technical documents and reports to include supporting annual and quarterly reports, briefings, reporting, white papers and general information materials, as needed.
• Perform other support, as needed, to include facilitating code management governance of the NCEP production suite.
• Provide a Monthly Activities report to include a summary of activities to include details on customer deliverables, meetings and any planned activities discussed with the Government customer.

Senior Technical Project Manager Responsibilities:

• In coordination with the leadership team, develop strategic and annual plans including development priorities, resource requirements, and schedules for supported projects and programs.
• Work with the Project Investigators (PIs) from NWS centers, NOAA labs, National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and Academia to help address issues, coordinate related activities, and act as the liaison between the leadership team and PIs. Work with the UFS Community and the Earth Prediction Innovation Center (EPIC) Program team to ensure alignment between the projects.
• Provide technical liaison activities with the Environmental Modeling Center (EMC).
• Provide technical coordination, monitoring of schedule and scientific aspects of program performance, reporting of program performance, monitoring of technical data, and maintaining and improving tools for monitoring of product timeliness.
• Prepare technical documents and reports to include supporting annual and quarterly reports, briefings, reporting, white papers and general information materials.
• Organize and maintain technical documents utilizing electronic records management best practices.
• Coordinate, track, and manage programmatic and technical project activities related to the Air Quality Program and other projects, as needed, such as scope, schedule, progress, and project maturity level.
• Support program outreach with Air Quality forecasters, constituents, and external user community questions and answers based on subject matter scientific knowledge of meteorology, chemistry and atmospheric dispersion.
• Support program outreach activities, such as meetings associated with modeling programs, including the Unified Forecast System (UFS), with forecasters and stakeholders. Prepare and distribute communication with forecasters and stakeholders, prepare answers to questions from the user community, prepare summary of user feedback by relying on subject matter scientific and technical knowledge of numerical weather prediction.
• Establish project dependencies and assumptions and track issues and risks to better develop mitigation plans and resolution.
• Assist NWS program managers in coordination of transition, implementation and maintenance of prediction capabilities including preparation of slides for operational readiness briefings.
• Schedule and facilitate virtual, in-person or hybrid discussions for internal and external meetings.
• Organize annual workshops.
• Prepare meeting minutes, follow-up to reduce risks, resolve issues and maintain and improve program performance.
• Provide a Monthly Activities report to include a summary of activities of all IMSG employees on this task order, to include details on customer deliverables, meetings and any planned activities discussed with the Government customer. For each IMSG employee, provide an accounting of totals worked and any planned vacation for the upcoming month.

Program Manager Qualifications:

• Bachelor (BS/BA) or Masters (MS/MA) degree in physical sciences, engineering, project management, or similar related fields
• 4+ years of relevant experience related to scientific/technical project management and program coordination.
• Experience with google suite products/tools.
• Team player and strong communication skills in a scientific/technical environment
• Experience with programmatic services related to NOAA line offices and/or numerical weather prediction and modeling would be a strong plus.
• Must have demonstrated experience working with senior level executives and possess effective oral and written communication skills.

Senior Technical Project Manager Qualifications:

• Masters (MS/MA) or Ph.D. degree in physical sciences, engineering or similar related fields.
• 15+ years of relevant experience related to scientific/technical projects related to weather forecasting, numerical weather modeling or similar experience.
• Experience with Google suite products and tools. Smartsheet experience is a plus.
• Experience with development of strategic plans and programmatic assessments within government or military environments.
• Experience with programmatic services related to NOAA line offices and/or numerical weather prediction and modeling would be a strong plus.
• Demonstrated experience working with senior level executives and possessing effective oral and written communication skills.

Desired:

• Prior working experience in similar programs/projects.
• Demonstrated ability to work efficiently in a team environment and communicate effectively using good oral and written communication skills.

Candidates must be a U.S. Citizen or Green Card Holder to qualify

(US Citizen must live in US for 3-5 years prior to application)

(Please indicate in your cover letter).

NOTE: Provide three References

IMSG is an Equal Opportunity Employer and Veteran and Disability friendly.

Pay Transparency Nondiscrimination Provision

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