Country Project Officer, Virginia

ManTech seeks a motivated, career and customer-oriented Country Project Officer (CPO) to join our team in the Tysons Corner or Reston, VA location. This is an onsite position.

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Leading the CPO cadre in the successful completion of the below responsibilities while executing as a member of the CPO cadre as required

Planning, pre-staging, directing, scheduling, and ensuring the timely execution of all tasks for new system installations, operations and maintenance, and upgrade field deployments

Serving as the primary point of contact for all overseas deployments

Working closely with the Engineering, Operations, and Logistics teams to ensure day-to-day execution of all installation and integration tasks

Managing interactions with external stakeholder personnel to ensure the successful completion of mission objective and communicating status and information to the Sponsor and documenting appropriately

Recommending process improvements and cost-saving measures for potential approval and implementation.

Ability and willingness to travel overseas as required

Basic Qualifications:

10+ years of relevant experience serving as a Project Manager or similar work leading high performing teams

Bachelor’s degree in a relevant area or five (5) additional years of relevant project management experience in lieu of a degree

Preferred Qualifications:

Prior experience managing worldwide projects and managing interactions with worldwide stakeholders desired

Project Management Professional (PMP) certification desired

Clearance Requirements:

Must have an active/current TS/SCI w/ polygraph

Physical Requirements:

Must be able to be in a stationary position more than 50% of the time 

Must be able to communicate, converse, and exchange information with peers and senior personnel 

Constantly operates a computer and other office productivity machinery, such as a computer 

The person in this position frequently communicates with co-workers, management, and customers, which may involve delivering presentations. Must be able to exchange accurate information in these situations 

The person in this position needs to occasionally move about inside the office to access file cabinets, office machinery, etc.