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Ascension is seeking a disciplined, mission-focused Project Manager with federal program/project management experience and familiarity with DoD logistics, acquisition, business operations, or mission support environments. The ideal candidate is organized, proactive, and comfortable coordinating multiple workstreams in a structured government environment where tasks must be tracked, monitored, and completed on schedule.

This position is important because DLA Weapons Support requires analytical, program, and project management support to help deliver cost-effective logistics support to the Warfighter. The Project Manager will serve as a coordination and delivery lead, helping ensure that tasks are understood, assigned, tracked, completed, and communicated clearly to Government stakeholders. The solicitation states that all tasks will be loaded, tracked, and monitored in the Daily Workload Utility (DRU) or a similar DLA-designated tracking system, and that contractor personnel must be proficient in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and Access.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Project Manager will support day-to-day execution of project management, task tracking, deliverable coordination, stakeholder communication, meeting support, schedule monitoring, risk/issue tracking, and reporting activities. The role requires someone who can work with limited supervision, manage shifting priorities, support Government decision-making, and maintain visibility into the status of ongoing work.

The successful candidate should bring strong oral and written communication skills, experience preparing briefings and reports, and the ability to coordinate with functional leads, subject matter experts, agile project management resources, and analytics staff. Because this effort supports DLA Weapons Support, the candidate should understand, or be able to quickly learn, DoD logistics policies, programs, acquisition support processes, combatant command requirements, and the roles and missions of the Military Departments, DLA, and related Congressional activities.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage assigned project activities, task schedules, action items, and deliverable timelines.
• Track work in the Daily Workload Utility (DRU) or other DLA-designated tracking system.
• Coordinate with Government stakeholders, functional SMEs, Agile Project Manager, and analytics team members to monitor progress against assigned tasks.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, task trackers, status reports, risk logs, issue logs, and meeting materials.
• Prepare and update briefings, dashboards, spreadsheets, reports, and project documentation using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Project, and Access.
• Facilitate project meetings, working sessions, status reviews, and action item follow-ups.
• Identify schedule, staffing, technical, or performance risks and recommend practical mitigation actions.
• Support quality and timeliness of deliverables before submission to Government stakeholders.
• Document decisions, meeting outcomes, action items, dependencies, and next steps.
• Support implementation planning, workload coordination, and communication across multiple DLA Weapons Support directorates and Industrial Support Activities.
• Ensure assigned activities remain aligned to contract scope, schedule, and customer expectations.
• Maintain awareness of sensitive information handling requirements, data use restrictions, and nondisclosure obligations.