Technical Project Management SETA
About The Position
Everforth ECS is seeking a Technical SETA - STO to work in our Arlington, VA office. This position is contingent upon additional funding. ECS seeks a Technical Science, Engineering, and Technical Advisory (SETA) candidate to provide onsite support to DARPA's Strategic Technology Office (STO). STO’s mission is to develop technology to give national security leaders trusted, disruptive capabilities to win in all physical domains. STO seeks to carry out DARPA’s mission of creating high-risk, high reward “breakthrough” technologies with a focus on ambitious, difficult, and revolutionary projects that achieve significant changes or fundamental shifts in technical capabilities and give our warfighters new ways to fight. The successful candidate will support a DARPA program manager by participating in or leading all activities in project management, technical and programmatic risk analysis, program-funded test coordination, and coordination with members of the Department of Defense for transition. The candidate will also be responsible for coordinating meetings, assessing performer technical progress, projecting performer outcomes, and ensuring that project management best practices are followed by performers, independent verification and validation (IV&V) entities funded by DARPA, and within DARPA itself. Duties range from developing point papers, slide decks, and other materials that convey the need, status, and importance of a program to researching unique problem set ideas to aid in National Security priorities. This specific role will provide daily tracking of a program.
Requirements
- Master's degree in a STEM field
- Demonstrated experience leading diverse technical teams
- Strong communication skills, both written and oral, to include experience preparing technical papers and presentations, as well as providing technical briefings to senior leaders
- Experience with Electronic Warfare, especially ES and EP, analog and signal processing techniques including digital beamforming, RF lens beamforming, photonic beamforming, and signal detection
- Active DoW Secret security clearance
Responsibilities
- Participating in or leading all activities in project management
- Technical and programmatic risk analysis
- Program-funded test coordination
- Coordination with members of the Department of Defense for transition
- Coordinating meetings
- Assessing performer technical progress
- Projecting performer outcomes
- Ensuring that project management best practices are followed by performers, independent verification and validation (IV&V) entities funded by DARPA, and within DARPA itself
- Developing point papers, slide decks, and other materials that convey the need, status, and importance of a program
- Researching unique problem set ideas to aid in National Security priorities
- Daily tracking of a program
Benefits
- General Description of Benefits [https://ecstech.com/careers/benefits]
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
