Deputy project manager job description

Griffin & Strong, P.C. is a law and public policy consulting firm based in Atlanta, GA. For 25 years, we have delivered quality legal representation and consultative expertise to individual clients, small businesses, corporations, and government entities, and have developed a reputation as leaders in disparity studies and supplier diversity consulting. Our mission is to advance the economic development of the communities we serve by providing the highest quality professional services to our clients in both the public and private sectors.

The role will require you to lead research projects and other projects from ‘planning’ all the way to ‘reporting’, ensuring that all research is technically well designed, resourced, implemented, reported and disseminated to the client and public on time and to budget. Furthermore, as a manager in the team you will play a key role in managing research and technical staff to ensure that we are delivering research to the highest standard. You will also be engaging public officials and involved in extensive community outreach, including local organizations and activists, council people, commissioners, and directors.

Research and other work focus on disparity, diversity, equity and inclusion for private and governmental clients.

• Leads research projects from the initial phase of planning to closeout
• Ensures that all research is technically well designed according to GSPC’s methodology
• Responsible for reporting to the client at regular intervals and ensuring that projects are completed on time and within budget.
• Assists in the production of proposals as required by the Contract Administrator
• Manages deliverables from internal technical staff, consultants, and local subcontractors on assigned projects
• Maintains Subconsultant Guide, Style Guides for each project, and efficiently manages the production of deliverables
• Works with a team of experts to produce a final document and contributes meaningfully to the production of findings and recommendations on each assigned study
• Edits and proofreads all correspondence with clients and the public and any and all written deliverables on a project including chapters of the studies
• Supports all members of the team in the production of disparity studies
• Stays abreast of latest development in the fields of economic development, stakeholder engagement, disparity research, and public policy.

Requirements

This position requires a minimum of a B.A. or B.S. from an accredited University and 2+ years’ work experience in a related field. Degree in the Social Sciences preferred.

The deputy project manager reports to the Senior Director of the Consulting Group, and to an assigned Project Manager, if applicable. The position requires strong writing skills and an understanding of qualitative and quantitative research. A candidate must have excellent project management skills, including planning and coordinating research and analysis with multi-disciplinary teams, and a track record of delivering findings on time, within budget and to a high standard.

The deputy project manager must have experience in managing and motivating staff, be able to juggle multiple needs and deadlines and creatively solve problems.

The role requires someone who is proactive, forward looking and solution oriented. In addition, the deputy project manager must have excellent communication skills and be able to translate data and analysis into implementable policy.

Leidos is seeking an experienced Deputy Project Manager (DPM) to support a high visibility first responder / first receiver training delivery services program. The DPM will oversee operation in support of all hazards training including CBRNE incidents, mass casualty incidents, and incidents involving hazardous materials. He/She will be required to interface with customer and Leidos executives frequently. The DPM will be the alternate point of contact for all customer requirements and interactions, understanding customer needs, and leveraging Leidos innovative solutions to solve complex problems. The DPM will act on behalf of the Program Manager during any absence. Candidate must have direct project management experience in delivery of responder training.

The DPM, when required, shall be available to meet with Government personnel at the designated facility(s) within thirty minutes during normal working hours (Monday through Friday between 07:30 and 16:30, CST) and within two hours of request outside normal working hours.
Basic Qualifications

+ Bachelor or Master's degree and 8-12 years of experience in program and project management.

+ 8 years of prior relevant experience in first responder/receiver training

+ 4 years, within the last 7, experience in the management and supervision of program operations

Preferred Qualifications

+ Experience / Education in Emergency Management

+ Experience in responder course development and delivery

Communicates well with colleagues across multiple areas

Pay Range:Pay Range $81,900.00 - $126,000.00 - $170,100.00

The Leidos pay range for this job level is a general guideline onlyand not a guarantee of compensation or salary. Additional factors considered in extending an offer include (but are not limited to) responsibilities of the job, education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities, as well as internal equity, alignment with market data, applicable bargaining agreement (if any), or other law.

REQNUMBER: R-00096351

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or veteran status. Leidos will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories for employment in accordance with relevant Laws. Leidos is an equal opportunity employer/disability/vet.

• Provides the technical leadership and direction in implementing enterprise information/data management practices.
• Responsible for leading and engaging in information/data management projects including the Enterprise Information Architecture, information models and flows, data dictionaries, data standards, and data quality standards and processes.
• Works directly with the Chief Architect for developing and maintaining the logical Enterprise Information Architecture that enables seamless information interoperability of systems from transaction systems, document management systems and information delivery systems.
• Proven experience in developing information architectures aligned information lifecycle management.
• Proven experience performing conceptual, logical and physical data modeling with data modeling tools and database design in complex, large-scale data environments.
• Proven experience in transactional data modeling, dimensional modeling and object oriented modeling. Proven experience in developing scalable design of entities using advanced data structures (e.g., tall tables) is a plus.
• Experience in developing data models that support, inter alia, time dependency, historical tracings, taxonomies (simple and complex), and multilingual data.
• Experience in developing data sharing standards and architecting scalable service oriented solutions.
• Solid understanding of transaction and information systems, data warehouses, data marts, ODS, MDM methodologies and life cycle as well as ETL and MDM technologies.

Qualifications

BS 8-10, MS 6-8, PhD 3-5

Certifications:

• Information Assurance Technical Level II (or higher) within 120 days of hire is required (e.g., Security + CE, CCNA Security, CySA+, GICSP, GSEC, CND, SSCP) - Suggested
• ITIL Foundations - Suggested
• PMP and/or SCRUM Master - Suggested

Peraton Overview

Peraton drives missions of consequence spanning the globe and extending to the farthest reaches of the galaxy. As the world's leading mission capability integrator and transformative enterprise IT provider, we deliver trusted and highly differentiated national security solutions and technologies that keep people safe and secure. Peraton serves as a valued partner to essential government agencies across the intelligence, space, cyber, defense, civilian, health, and state and local markets. Every day, our employees do the can't be done, solving the most daunting challenges facing our customers.

An Equal Opportunity Employer including Disability/Veteran.

For Colorado Residents Colorado Salary Minimum: $75,500
Colorado Salary Maximum: $183,100

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