Serco is excited to continue support to the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter Program Office (JPO). This contract provides program management support in support of the full acquisition lifecycle of the F-35 program, to include development, production, and sustainment.

Our F-35 JPO Program Senior Program Manager position is located in Crystal City, Arlington, VA, and serves in an integrator role providing program management support to the F-35 JPO Director of Integrated Acquisition & Affordability (DIA&A) in managing JPO functions as they relate to business operations, foreign compliance, process improvement, cost, requirements, and acquisition.

You will be part of a dynamic team of F-35 JPO Program Managers and Analysts who works closely with the customer and other key F-35 National Security and Allied stakeholders to deliver quality F-35 systems.

In this role, you will:

• Support DIA&A by serving as the primary coordination point between the F-35 JPO's Program Management Offices (PMOs); Air Vehicle, Propulsion, Training Systems & Simulation, Maintenance Systems, International Directorate, Combat Data Systems, Office of Chief Information Officer, and Future Capability & Technology Directorate.
• Facilitate cross-functional integration of requirements, schedules, deliverables across multiple F-35 program elements, including U.S. Services and international partner nations.
• Track and synchronize milestons, risks, and dependencies, ensuring timely resolution of integration issues affecting cost, schedule, or performance.
• Prepare, consolidate, and deliver program updates, status reports, and decision briefs for senior leadership, including the Program Executive Officer (PEO) and Deputy PEO.  
• Coordinate with prime contractors, subcontractors, and government stakeholders to resolve technical and programmatic challenges.
• Support integrted product team (IPT) meetings, design reviews, and test readiness reviews, ensuring action items are captured and tracked to closure.
• Analyze and communicate the impacts of changes to requirements, budgets, or schedules to affected stakeholders.
• Promote collaboration between PMOs, Directorates, U.S. Services, partner nations, and industry participants to advance operability and sustainment readiness.
• Support DIA&A in leading Joint Program Review (JPR), Acquisition Summit, Executive Risk/Opportunity Management Board, & Executive Steering Group (ESG).
• Support DIA&A in managing acquisition documents, the Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES), Selected Acquisition Report (SAR), CPARS, and JPO Issuances.
• Assist DIA&A in managing procurement and enterprise procurement metrics.
• Provide program management and analysis support in Financial Improvement Audit Readiness (FIAR), enterprise earned value, data rights strategy, Integrated Product (IP), and the POM or Performance Based Regulation (PBR) process.
• Assist DIA&A in Procurement Process and Product Management Team (PMT) management, small business contracting and management, scheduling (e.g. the Enterprise Integrated Master Schedule [IMS]), and enterprise risk management.
• Assist DIA&A in managing the PMO Integration Council (PIC).

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• An active DoD Secret clearance.
• Master’s Degree in the stated discipline or a Bachelor’s Degree plus 4 years additional work experience related to the labor category functional description.
• The ability to provide onsite support at the F-35 Joint Program Office (JPO) located in Crystal City, VA a minimum of 2-3 days per week, each week.  Onsite days in the JPO office may increase to provide onsite support up to 5 days per week to support the needs of the customer.  Exact days in office at the JPO must be coordinated with F-35 customer and approved by your Serco manager.
• At least ten (10) years’ experience in program management, technical, or business analysis discipline, in weapon systems acquisition and life cycle management; and a minimum of six (6) years out of 10 years of recent work experience related to analysis and planning.
• At least three (3) years in support of a Major Defense Acquisition Program (MDAP).
• Leadership experience in US Service-related military operations or defense acquisition program management related to weapons system acquisition, employment, and life cycle management.
• Knowledge in DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2 (Operation of the Defense Acquisition System), DoD Directive (DODD) 5530.03 (International Agreements), and the International Cooperation in Acquisition, Technology and Logistics (IC in AT&L) Handbook
• To be provide subject matter expertise to support F-35 program in delivering the weapons system.
• To assist with task support of acquisitions, financial management, risk management, systems engineering, total ownership cost determination, acquisition coordination, and communications.
• To demonstrate knowledge of the principles, policies, and practices of system acquisition to plan, organize, and coordinate critical aspects of the development, production, and deployment of systems, subsystems, and equipment.
• To demonstrate knowledge of the system equipment life-cycle phases and the documentation, analyses, and reviews associated with those phases.
• The ability to travel 10%.

Additional desired skills:

• Microsoft Offices to include: Outlook, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint
• Knowledge and demonstrated skills necessary to lead and manage teams and/or Working Groups consisting of representatives from multiple countries/Services' to develop common sustainment solutions.
• Experience of international collaborative programs to manage, coordinate, and integrate diverse program efforts.
• Experience in the task management tool, Enterprise Task Management System Software Solution 2 (ETMS2).

Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. In North America, Serco’s 9,000+ employees strive to make an impact every day across 100+ sites in the areas of Defense, Citizen Services, and Transportation. We help our clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state, provincial and local governments, and commercial clients. While your place may look a little different depending on your role, we know you will find yours here. Wherever you work and whatever you do, we invite you to discover your place in our world. Serco is a place you can count on and where you can make an impact because every contribution matters.

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