Project manager Jobs in Alexandria, VA

Project Manager Opportunity

Grow, innovate, and generate progress: Harness your expertise to solve challenges and celebrate success! JCS Solutions has a need for a Project Manager to support the Air Force National Capital Region (AFNCR) IT Services (ITS) program at The Pentagon. This position offers an excellent opportunity to be part of a high-performing team responsible for supporting a high-velocity collaborative environment, along with tremendous growth potential. If you are interested in a challenge and a great working environment, apply today!

What's in it for you:

• Join a premier technology firm specializing in innovative solutions.
• Be part of a collaborative, inclusive, and innovative work culture.
• Enjoy tremendous growth potential in a high-performing team environment.
• A robust benefits package:
• Health, dental, and vision insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-and-long term disability
• Paid time off (PTO)
• 401k retirement plan with employer match
• Annual Professional Development Reimbursement Program
• And more!

What you will do:

• Plan, coordinate and manage small and medium projects.
• Integrate all functions and activities necessary to perform the project/program to meet the client or customer requirements.
• Direct project team personnel, manage cost and schedule, ensure contract compliance, and serve as customer interface.
• Provide strong, proactive, and assertive leadership skills that engage multidiscipline work teams to respond to business needs for assigned projects.
• Manage project teams that typically includes multiple vendors and work centers.
• Present project related information potentially to the customer, internal leadership and peers.
• May be asked to mentor other team members.
• Create project management plans, set expectations, and ensure the project plans are driven by organizational procedures.
• Coordinates with cross-functional project stakeholders to develop project scope, objectives, goals, and deliverables.
• Ensures that requirements are gathered, documented, reviewed, and approved per organizational/PMO standards.
• Ensures projects are delivered on-time, on budget, and remain in scope.
• Monitors and tracks project dependencies.
• Create a work breakdown structure that defines all activities required for the project deliverables.
• Establish and provide high-quality, informative written and verbal project communications, including weekly status, dashboards, and project updates.
• Actively monitor, track, and manage project tasks, timelines, attainment of established milestones and overall quality of project activities and deliverable.

What you will bring:

• U.S. Citizenship
• Active Secret Security Clearance.
• Bachelor's degree with 5+ years of related experience, or Master's with 3+ years of related experience and 4+ years of experience supervising or leading teams or projects.
• Education and experience requirements may be substituted with: No degree with 10 years of intensive and progressive experience demonstrating the required proficiency levels related to task and a current PMP certification.
• 5+ years of project management and related experience with the US Air Force
• Prior experience working in the National Capital Region
• Strong oral and written communications skills

How you will wow us:

• Familiarity with the Headquarters Air Force staff organization.

JCS Solutions LLC (JCS) is a premier technology firm specializing in enterprise-wide capabilities including cloud and infrastructure solutions, cyber security, digital modernization, next generation technologies enablement, software solutions, and mission support services dedicated to providing the highest quality of services and solutions. JCS delivers expert management consulting and information technology (IT) solutions to federal agencies. We are a learning organization that promotes a work culture of collaboration, inclusiveness, inspiration and innovation. JCS has been certified as a Great Place to Work four years in a row and was awarded as Washington Post's Top Places to Work for 2024. Our employees embody our core values, and we are looking for others who do too!

• Customer Experience: Strive for excellence and delight our clients
• Innovation: Embrace creative thinking to enable continual growth and powerful solutions
• Accountability: Take ownership of and pride in our actions and service delivery
• Inspire: Be inspired to be your best self and have fun in the process
• Integrity: Do the right thing, the right way, every time!
• Stewardship: Careful management of something entrusted to us.

Commitment to Non-Discrimination: All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state, or local laws.