NRO Lead

Unissant • Herndon, VA

12d • Onsite

About The Position

Unissant, Inc. delivers innovative capabilities to the agencies that keep our nation healthy and safe. We apply our domain expertise, data acumen, and technology know-how to achieve breakthrough results for our clients. Working collaboratively, we advance missions and careers through a focus on honesty, integrity, and dependability. We continuously look for talent, excited to join that effort. We are seeking a NRO Lead to join our team and support our client. The ideal candidate is a senior cleared leader with experience managing mission-critical delivery in classified environments. This individual will combine strong program execution skills with the ability to lead technical teams, engage customer leadership, and ensure disciplined performance across a high-visibility national security portfolio.

Requirements

• Minimum of 10 years of experience managing complex federal, DoD, or Intelligence Community programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading mission-critical work in classified environments with distributed technical teams.
• Proven ability to manage program performance across cost, schedule, staffing, quality, and customer satisfaction objectives.
• Strong understanding of program execution in secure environments, including customer engagement, team leadership, and delivery accountability.
• Ability to communicate effectively with executive stakeholders, technical teams, and program staff.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite and standard program management tools is required.
• Bachelor's Degree is required.
• PMP certification or equivalent program management credential is required.
• Excellent verbal and written skills, ability to present proposals and performance data, comfortable interfacing all levels of organization.
• Ability to write clear and concise creative content in a highly confidential manner.
• Strong executive presence with the ability to lead customer meetings, operational reviews, and high-level program discussions.
• This position requires the candidates to be a U.S. Citizen.
• Active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Nice To Haves

• Experience supporting NRO, NGA, or other Intelligence Community organizations is strongly preferred.
• Experience managing engineering, data, cloud, or mission support portfolios is preferred.
• MBA/Master's Degree in a relevant field of study preferred.
• Agile, SAFe, or related leadership certification is preferred.
• polygraph eligibility or current polygraph is strongly preferred based on customer need.

Responsibilities

• Lead execution of a classified customer portfolio supporting mission operations, engineering, data, and modernization initiatives.
• Serve as the senior point of contact for customer engagement, internal program governance, and day-to-day delivery oversight.
• Manage integrated program activities across scope, staffing, priorities, milestones, and subcontractor coordination.
• Drive performance management through schedule reviews, action tracking, issue resolution, risk management, and executive reporting.
• Partner with technical leads to align mission needs with delivery plans, resource requirements, and operational objectives.
• Ensure compliance with customer security, reporting, and operational requirements in a sensitive environment.
• Support growth objectives by contributing to capture strategy, staffing readiness, transition planning, and customer relationship management.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior