Cybersecurity Program Manager

MindPoint Group is searching for a Program Manager with a strong background in Cybersecurity for an exciting opportunity in Washington DC.

Responsibilities:

• Responsible for planning, organizing, and executing all aspects of program scope, schedule, cost, technical, and staffing performance and activities on major, complex contracts to ensure timely and quality delivery of services to the client
• Formulate and enforce work standards, assign staff work schedules, and review and resolve work discrepancies
• Ensure timely, complete, high-quality contract deliverables; ensure SLAs are met or exceeded 100% of the time
• Select and provide metrics and dashboards to make program status and performance visible to the client and other stakeholders
• Interface with client’s senior management personnel, including briefings up to CIO/CISO level
• Identify and lead continuous improvement initiatives including process optimization to maximize efficiencies within the team and program, process automation, and functional integration across task areas and teams
• Be a positive change agent, both within and outside the organization; propagate our corporate culture throughout the program
• Lead risk management activities, including identification and recommended mitigations; track and manage risks and issues through closure
• Build, grow, and develop high-performing teams aligned with the customer’s mission and strategy
• Manage program personnel to include interviewing, hiring, performance evaluations, compensation, and training and development
• Guide and mentor lower-level managers, team leads, and staff
• Must have the ability to work in a dynamic environment and flexibly adapt to changing conditions
• Must possess a high degree of originality, creativity, and initiative requiring minimal supervision

Required:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or related field. Bachelor's degree may be substituted with an additional 8 years of relevant functional experience
• Minimum ten (10) years of general experience and eight (8) years of managing federated cybersecurity programs with Information Assurance, Security Engineering, and/or Security Operations components
• Experience successfully managing FFP contracts, including managing staffing and financials to ensure adequate profit margins are maintained
• PMP required
• Strong leadership, relationship-building, written and verbal communication, and analytic and problem-solving skills are required
• Ability to maintain flexibility in schedules and shift priorities as a result of changing operational priorities
• Strong experience with Microsoft Office and other program and project management tools and applications is required

Desired:

• MS Degree preferred
• CISSP highly preferred

Clearance: US Citizenship, Public Trust eligibility required

Location: Washington DC