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Ascension LLC is seeking a highly organized, technically fluent, and mission-focused Program Manager to lead contract execution for a federal data analytics support services effort. This individual will serve as the primary management lead responsible for overseeing project performance, coordinating technical teams, managing stakeholder communications, tracking deliverables, and ensuring that work is completed on time, within scope, and in alignment with Government expectations.

This role directly supports the DoW OIG’s need for specialized project management, data science, business intelligence, and data engineering services to strengthen oversight capabilities and improve the identification of fraud, waste, abuse, trends, anomalies, and other mission-critical insights. The PWS identifies the Program Manager as key personnel and requires the role to manage daily contract operations, act with authority on contract matters, and remain available during core business hours.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Program Manager will provide day-to-day leadership across a multi-disciplinary analytics support team. The ideal candidate will bring demonstrated experience managing technical projects, portfolios, or workflows in IT, business intelligence, data analytics, or data science environments. This individual must be comfortable operating in a structured federal environment while also supporting iterative development, proactive risk management, executive-level communication, documentation control, transition planning, quality oversight, and continuous improvement.

The successful candidate will be a self-driven planner, clear communicator, and disciplined project leader who can translate complex technical information into concise updates for Government stakeholders. The role requires comfort using tools such as Azure DevOps, SharePoint, ServiceNow, Microsoft Office, dashboards, project trackers, and reporting repositories to manage visibility, accountability, and project health.

Day-to-Day Activities

The Program Manager will be expected to:

• Lead overall contract execution, project planning, scheduling, coordination, risk management, status reporting, and performance oversight.
• Serve as the primary contractor point of contact for assigned project and contract matters.
• Coordinate activities across project management, data science, business intelligence, and data engineering workstreams.
• Develop and maintain project plans that include scope, schedule, resources, risks, dependencies, milestones, and deliverables.
• Manage iterative project execution using phased approaches, including projects scoped to eight-week development cycles or other timelines agreed to with the Government.
• Track progress against deliverables, performance standards, milestones, staffing requirements, and Government expectations.
• Prepare monthly status reports, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, project dashboards, risk logs, action item trackers, and executive briefing materials.
• Facilitate status meetings, project reviews, planning sessions, stakeholder discussions, and technical coordination meetings.
• Maintain current and accessible project documentation in a centralized repository such as SharePoint or a comparable system.
• Monitor vacancies, staffing updates, resource utilization, and administrative performance indicators.
• Support quality control by reviewing deliverables for completeness, accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with contract standards.
• Coordinate knowledge transfer sessions, documentation updates, solution sustainment planning, and transition activities.
• Identify risks, issues, bottlenecks, and dependencies early and recommend practical mitigation strategies.
• Collaborate with Government stakeholders, technical staff, and contractor leadership to ensure continuity, transparency, and mission alignment.
• Support contract phase-in and phase-out planning, including transition documentation, access tracking, and handoff materials.
• Ensure contractor personnel complete required annual Government training and security requirements.