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Program Manager, VA
Job Description:
- Own day-to-day delivery for the Veteran Transition Experience program at the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Serve as Scrum Master and facilitate sprint planning, stand-ups, reviews, retrospectives, backlog refinement, and other ceremonies
- Partner with Product Managers to align execution with product goals, priorities, and release plans
- Monitor scope, schedule, resources, quality, risks, dependencies, milestones, and delivery commitments
- Coordinate work across product, engineering, design, research, analytics, and other functions
- Track sprint velocity and delivery measures to improve predictability and continuous improvement
- Lead contractual reporting, including the Monthly COR report, and maintain program-health visibility
- Build relationships with VA stakeholders and communicate progress, risks, dependencies, and mitigation plans
- Support project invoice workflows with operations and finance partners
- Establish Agile, documentation, and knowledge-management practices; support onboarding
- Develop reporting on delivery progress, risks, trends, and outcomes using delivery and product metrics
- Provide leadership across an assigned IronArch portfolio, including delivery performance, staffing, and risk oversight
- Serve as an escalation point for client and contract delivery issues
- Build executive-level customer relationships and monitor staffing, delivery, financial, and portfolio health
- Participate in Delivery Operations, Business Health Reviews, and Monthly Business Reviews
- Manage, coach, and develop Program Managers, Associate Program Managers, and other delivery personnel
- Mentor delivery leaders and support strategic account planning and growth opportunities
- Partner with leadership when programs require additional technical, operational, or delivery support
Requirements:
- Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent relevant professional experience
- Significant experience leading delivery for complex digital product or technology programs
- Demonstrated experience serving as a Scrum Master, Delivery Lead, Agile Delivery Manager, or in a comparable hands-on delivery role
- Strong working knowledge of Scrum and Agile delivery practices, including sprint planning, backlog refinement, retrospectives, release planning, velocity, dependency management, and continuous improvement
- Experience coordinating cross-functional teams including product management, engineering, design, research, analytics, and operations
- Demonstrated ability to identify and manage delivery risks, blockers, dependencies, schedules, and competing priorities
- Experience developing program or contract reporting for customers and organizational leadership
- Experience working directly with government or enterprise customers and communicating effectively with stakeholders at multiple organizational levels
- Experience managing and developing employees, including coaching and performance feedback
- Ability to move between hands-on team delivery and broader program or portfolio-level concerns
- Strong facilitation, communication, organization, and problem-solving skills
- Ability to create structure and clarity in complex or ambiguous delivery environments
- Nice-to-have: Current authorization/onboarding to work with the Department of Veterans Affairs
- Nice-to-have: Previous experience supporting VA, VHA, or other federal civilian technology programs
- Nice-to-have: Experience supporting Veteran-facing digital products or digital health services
- Nice-to-have: Experience with Google Analytics 4 or similar analytics platforms
- Nice-to-have: Experience with GitHub, Mural, Jira, Confluence, or similar tools
- Nice-to-have: Experience with government contract reporting, invoice workflows, staffing forecasts, and contract performance monitoring
- Nice-to-have: Experience managing delivery across multiple contracts or programs
- Nice-to-have: Experience supporting account growth, capture, proposals, or business development activities
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