Strategic Engagement Portfolio Manager

Noblis•Washington, DC

1d•Hybrid

About The Position

Noblis is seeking a Strategic Engagement Portfolio Manager to provide expert-level strategy, planning, and operations support to a front office organization within the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) Science & Technology Directorate (S&T). This organization is responsible for planning and executing senior-level and strategic engagements across industry, interagency, international, Congressional, and intelligence community partners across all homeland security science and technology mission areas. The role involves managing and integrating S&T’s strategic initiatives, ensuring consistent enterprise-wide planning, governance, and execution. This position drives coherence by synchronizing cross-functional products and expertise, partnering with data and analytics staff to meet reporting requirements, and ensuring timely delivery of high-quality analytic products, governance artifacts, and engagement materials aligned with S&T's strategic priorities. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, manage competing priorities, and provide recommendations to senior leadership. This position also provides informal leadership and task-level oversight of a small team, including reviewing work products and mentoring junior staff. This is a hybrid position requiring on-site work at the DHS S&T client site in Washington D.C. as needed.

Requirements

Advanced Degree with 5+ years of related experience or 10+ years of related experience.
Eligibility to obtain a Top Secret Clearance and DHS Suitability determination.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly articulate complex information to technical and nontechnical audiences.
Excellent interpersonal and relationship-building skills with the ability to work effectively with a diverse range of stakeholders, both domestic and international.
Experience providing strategic guidance and advisory support to senior government leaders.
Experience providing informal leadership or task-level oversight of small teams, including reviewing work products for quality and consistency.
Candidates must have a Top Secret Clearance, with ability to attain a TS / SCI

Nice To Haves

Experience providing program oversight of multi-workstream portfolios, including tracking milestones, managing dependencies, and reporting on initiative health to senior leadership.
Demonstrated experience serving as an integrator or coordinator across multiple concurrent lines of effort serving DHS, DoD or other national security organizations.
Understanding of diverse stakeholder priorities, including industry, interagency, international, or Congressional engagement, and the ability to align these stakeholders around common strategic objectives
Experience developing and institutionalizing policies, processes, or frameworks for structured engagement programs.
Demonstrated ability to analyze communications processes and improve their efficiency, inclusive of automating routine and repetitive tasks.
Demonstrated ability to work independently and at pace with senior executives, rapidly translating strategic direction into delivered data products.
Experience providing informal leadership or task-level oversight of small teams, including reviewing work products for quality and consistency.
Demonstrated ability to independently develop and execute project plans with minimal oversight.
Experience with project tracking, collaboration, and work management tools such as Excel, SharePoint, Power BI, and MS Teams is preferred.
Experience providing strategic guidance and advisory support to senior government leaders.
Ability to work in a dynamic team-oriented environment, demonstrate teamwork and initiative, and function productively in the face of new assignments and the re-prioritization of existing assignments and processes.
Project Management Professional certification or equivalent certificate.
Active Top Secret clearance (SCI preferred) and current DHS Suitability are strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

Managing S&T’s strategic initiatives portfolio across all lines of effort — tracking initiative status, assessing progress against milestones, identifying risks and dependencies, and ensuring all activities are executed according to plan and aligned with S&T strategic priorities.
Serving as the central integrator for strategic engagement planning — synchronizing priorities, timelines, and deliverables across industry, interagency, international, Congressional, and intelligence community functions to ensure enterprise-wide coherence.
Conducting cross-functional analysis of S&T engagement activities to identify duplication, synergies, and strategic opportunities across efforts, and developing integrated recommendations that inform leadership decision-making on engagement strategy and portfolio governance.
Leading the development and institutionalization of policies, processes, and frameworks for structured engagements to accelerate technology solutions across S&T's mission areas.
Evaluating engagement governance frameworks and operational processes, periodically assessing against performance metrics, identifying inefficiencies, and developing improvement recommendations based on outcome data and stakeholder feedback.
Analyzing engagement portfolio performance and governance effectiveness – assessing stakeholder coverage, evaluating ROI of engagement activities, and developing data-driven recommendations for resource allocation and strategic prioritization.
Providing technical oversight and quality assurance of all SEO deliverables — ensuring timely delivery of unified analytic products, governance artifacts, and engagement materials that meet organizational standards and align to objectives.
Drafting and coordinating executive-level communication materials including presentations, memos, point papers, and briefings for senior leadership and external stakeholders.
Representing S&T at interagency coordination meetings and working-level engagements as directed by senior leadership.
Building and maintaining collaborative relationships among DHS and stakeholder communities.
Tracking and reporting on engagement outcomes, identifying trends, and recommending adjustments to engagement strategy based on data-driven insights.