Location: Fully Remote (United States); occasional travel for stakeholder meetings, program reviews, and FAA field facilities

Employment Type: Full-Time

About AKIVA

AKIVA is an AI-native engineering firm specializing in enterprise services, domain-specific solutions, and high-performance infrastructure from strategy through deployment. We build innovative systems that drive measurable results for commercial enterprises and government agencies. AKIVA is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).

Position Overview

AKIVA is seeking a Program Manager to lead end-to-end delivery of an FAA Air Traffic Organization (ATO) safety policy and performance support engagement. You will serve as AKIVA's single point of accountability to the federal program office, own task execution and schedule across a portfolio of safety policy, audit/assessment, and analytics workstreams, manage a multidisciplinary delivery team, and ensure every deliverable, status report, and program review is on time, accurate, and Section 508 compliant.

Key Responsibilities

·         Serve as the single point of contractual and operational accountability to the federal program office; own the customer relationship and lead recurring program reviews

·         Author, maintain, and execute a Project Management Plan covering schedule, milestones, deliverables, staffing plan, and resource rationale across all workstreams

·         Author and submit monthly status reports covering work completed, in progress, and planned; hours by task and labor category; deliverable status; risk identification and mitigation; and full financial status by line item, including F&E and OPS funding segregation

·         Develop and maintain a Quality Control Plan that supports the government's Quality Assurance Surveillance Plan

·         Plan, prepare materials for, and run quarterly program management reviews including financial summary, six-month staffing forecast, performance summary, accomplishments, Quad Charts, and action item tracking

·         Maintain a project schedule aligned to the Project Management Plan with program- and task-level milestones, resource requirements, and deliverables

·         Author and maintain a quarterly Stakeholder Communication Plan covering communication types, recipients, frequency, medium, and follow-through actions

·         Lead transition-in (including joint inventory of Government Furnished Property) and transition-out (including final inventory and closeout meeting) activities

·         Supervise, coach, and develop the delivery team; set performance targets, allocate workload, and conduct regular reviews

·         Manage program risks, escalations, and corrective actions in coordination with the federal program office

·         Ensure all documentation and deliverables are Section 508 compliant

·         Coordinate with AKIVA corporate leadership on subcontractor and teaming-partner management and small-business participation reporting

Required Qualifications

·         Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Engineering, Information Systems, Aviation Management, or a related field (equivalent experience may be substituted)

·         Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, current and in good standing

·         8+ years of program or project management experience supporting federal contracts

·         5+ years leading multi-task federal task orders, including responsibility for monthly status reporting, financial reporting by contract line item, risk management, and recurring program reviews

·         Demonstrated experience authoring and executing Project Management Plans, Quality Control Plans, transition-in plans, and transition-out plans

·         Demonstrated experience as the contractor lead interface with a Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and federal program leadership

·         Excellent stakeholder management, executive-level business writing, and meeting facilitation skills

·         Proficient with Microsoft Project or equivalent, Microsoft Office Suite, and SharePoint or comparable government collaboration platforms

·         Ability to obtain and maintain a federal Personal Identity Verification (PIV) credential

·         Must be authorized to work in the United States

Preferred Qualifications

·         Master's degree (MBA, MPA, MS in Engineering, or related discipline)

·         Program Management Professional (PgMP), ITIL Foundation or higher, PMI-ACP, or Certified Scrum Master

·         Lean Six Sigma Green Belt or Black Belt

·         Prior FAA, ATO, DOT, or aviation-industry program management experience

·         Familiarity with FAA Safety Management System (SMS), ATO Audits and Assessments, Independent Operational Assessment (IOA), and In-Service Decision (ISD) processes

·         Experience managing programs with mixed FFP and T&M funding, including segregation of F&E and OPS funds

·         Familiarity with AI-assisted program reporting, risk-monitoring, and document-generation tools

Tools, Technologies & Frameworks

Project Management: Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, Atlassian Jira | Productivity: Microsoft Office Suite, Teams, SharePoint, Outlook | Reporting: Microsoft Excel, Power BI, Tableau | Collaboration: SharePoint, government Knowledge Sharing Network (KSN) sites, Confluence | Standards: PMBOK, FAR/AMS, Section 508, ISO/IEC 27001

What AKIVA Offers

·         Professional development and skill-building opportunities

·         Supportive management team with Veteran-owned company values

·         Opportunity to work on impactful public sector engagements

·         Long-term contract engagement with potential for extension

·         AI productivity tools and training provided at no cost to employees

·         401(k) with generous company match

·         Medical Insurance

·         Dental Insurance

·         Vision Insurance

·         Short-Term & Long-Term Disability Insurance

·         Paid Time Off (PTO)

·         Profit Sharing

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Equal Employment Opportunity Statement

AKIVA is committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, physical disability, marital status, military and Veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by applicable law. We believe that diversity among our teammates is critical to our success as a company, and we seek to recruit, develop, and retain the most talented people within a qualified candidate pool.

AKIVA is a certified Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB).