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Ascension is seeking a Project Manager / Contract Delivery Lead to manage contract execution, schedule, deliverables, reporting, risks, staffing coordination, and client communications for a U.S. Marine Corps iNFADS professional services engagement. This role supports Marine Corps Installations Command by ensuring the contractor team delivers required support for iNFADS database management, data extraction and analysis, systems access support, training coordination, help desk support, policy/technical review, working group support, and program support to system users. The PWS states that the contract objective is to provide iNFADS database management services, including database extraction and analysis, system access support, system training, help-desk support, policy technical review, liaison with the software operator, and program support to system users.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented federal contract delivery professional who can keep a small technical team aligned to scope, schedule, quality, and Government expectations. This person must be comfortable managing a non-personal services contract, coordinating with a COR, preparing monthly progress reports, tracking deliverables, facilitating kickoff and transition activities, and ensuring that contract actions remain within authorized scope.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Project Manager / Contract Delivery Lead will serve as Ascension’s primary delivery coordinator for the iNFADS engagement. The role is responsible for managing the overall contract delivery rhythm, including kickoff preparation, schedule and action item tracking, monthly status reporting, risk and issue escalation, quality review of deliverables, staffing coordination, travel coordination, and transition-in/transition-out support.

This role must ensure the team performs in accordance with the PWS, QASP, deliverable schedule, security requirements, and COR direction. The PWS requires the contractor to provide all necessary program management, quality assurance, and materials to execute each task. The PM must also ensure monthly reports include completed work by task, accepted/rejected deliverables, upcoming work, meetings, issues, staffing projections, financial status, ODCs, and travel information.

The successful candidate should be self-driven, organized, responsive, and comfortable working in a remote-first environment with federal stakeholders. The candidate should be able to anticipate delivery risks, maintain a clear action tracker, coordinate technical contributors, and ensure all contractor communications, reports, and deliverables are professional, timely, accurate, and compliant.

Expected Day-to-Day / Recurring Activities

• Manage overall contract delivery across Tasks 1–5, including iNFADS database support, policy/working group support, access/help desk support, programmatic support, and training support.
• Develop and maintain a project schedule, action item tracker, risk register, deliverable tracker, and meeting cadence.
• Coordinate the contract kickoff meeting within the required timeframe and prepare briefing materials covering staffing, schedule, resources, transition approach, and performance metrics. The PWS requires a kickoff meeting within five business days of award and briefing materials two business days before the meeting.
• Prepare monthly status reports for COR review, including completed work, planned work, deliverables status, meetings, issues, staffing updates, subcontractor utilization, financial status, ODCs, and travel information.
• Track deliverable quality, acceptance, rejection, resubmission timelines, and corrective actions.
• Coordinate with technical staff supporting iNFADS data requests, data validation, reports, user access reviews, help desk support, working group support, system change requests, and training activities.
• Monitor PWS performance standards and ensure the team meets required response times, reporting deadlines, accuracy standards, and customer support expectations.
• Support transition-in and transition-out planning, including knowledge transfer, project documentation, points of contact, schedules, milestones, and weekly transition status meetings when required.
• Coordinate travel requests when travel is required, ensuring COR pre-approval at least 10 business days in advance and compliance with FTR/JTR/DSSR requirements.
• Facilitate internal team meetings and client-facing meetings using Microsoft Teams and Microsoft Office tools.
• Maintain clear documentation for project management processes, correspondence, meeting notes, issue resolution, and contract performance evidence.
• Escalate risks, staffing concerns, access delays, deliverable quality issues, or Government dependency issues to Ascension leadership and the COR as appropriate.