Program Administrator

Leidos hiring for Program Administrator jobs in Takoma Park, MD, US

Description

Are you ready to join Leidos’ all-star team? Through training, teamwork, and exposure to challenging technical work, let Leidos show how to accelerate your career path.

Leidos has an exciting opportunity for a Project Administrator to support a critical National Media Exploitation Center (NMEC) program.

Are you looking for a high growth opportunity for professional development and advancement in technical program management that touches all aspects of finance, budgeting, procurement, task management/scheduling, personnel management skills, business development, and cutting-edge technologies? Do you like problem solving and thinking outside the box? Do you have excellent time-management skills, and a strong sense of accountability? If so, you could be our next Project Administrator working primarily at our client location in Bethesda, MD,

As the Program Administrator, you will work directly with the DOMEX Technology Platform (DTP) Program Management Office (PMO)  to support a variety of management oversight activities and practices with a team of about 100+ highly motivated, technical individuals who work in a collegial, collaborative work environment.  Tasks will include, but not limited to, the following:

• Onsite customer interaction support, on-boarding (polygraph, CACs, Indoctrinations) and off-boarding personnel, preparation, and promulgation of project status (weekly and monthly summaries of personnel security status).
• Monitoring and tracking government training requirements for program personnel to support special accesses and functions, including Data Transfer Officers (DTO), Privileged User Access (PUA), Removable Media Custodians (RMC) and yearly Agile course requirements.
• Attend weekly virtual program leadership meeting and provide condensed status updates/priority notifications. 
• Ensure consistent lines of communication with customer support staff and PMO and monitor delivery/result statuses of program needs.
• Work with program Resource Manager on maintaining staffing plan, on-boarding and off-boarding activities, preparation and maintenance of welcome packets and other related tasks as well as assisting with Intern coordination.
• Provide general administrative assistance to management including ordering equipment, purchasing miscellaneous items, coordinating meetings, securing catering, making travel arrangements, and preparing expense reports.
• Certain tasks or issues may be unclear and may require understanding of a broader set of issues – self-initiated outreach to team members is required in these circumstances.

 To be successful in this role you need these skills:

• Must possess TS/SCI clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain TS/SCI with Polygraph
• BA degree and 8-12 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 6-10 years of prior relevant experience. Additional years of experience maybe substituted for degree. 
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with strong attention to detail
• Self-motivated, creative, organized, and able to accomplish tasks under limited supervision
• Ability to work in a dynamic, fast paced environment
• Work independently to achieve day-to-day objectives with significant impact on operational results or project deliverables, with
• Ability to recognize priority deliverables based on timelines and mission requirements and adjust focus as needed. 

You will wow us even more if you have some of these:

• Key technical skills include a high proficiency in Microsoft Office products, Sharepoint, and Atlassian Products (Jira and Confluence)
• Strong knowledge of personnel security clearance processes
• Experience interacting with various government stakeholders
• Experience with Resource Management tools

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While subject to change based on business needs, Leidos reasonably anticipates that this job requisition will remain open for at least 3 days with an anticipated close date of no earlier than 3 days after the original posting date as listed above.

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline only and not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.