Website Central Intelligence Agency
Position Summary:
As a Technical Project Manager, you will lead projects and programs that deliver key capabilities to accomplish the U.S. intelligence mission. Your teams will solve complex problems through your leadership in applying your project management, critical thinking, and people skills. Your Technical Project Management career will challenge you to apply your skills across the vast, global variety of technical and mission domains in CIA.
Key Responsibilities:
CIA Technical Project Managers drive critical technology initiatives in the Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) and turn user needs into operating capabilities. Your responsibilities involve integration of programmatic, technical, systems engineering, business, budget, schedule, and personnel elements of a project, including:
- Developing, managing, and defending cost, scope, performance, and schedule through delivery of initiatives, products, or systems
- Conducting acquisition planning and source selection
- Tailoring and applying program management and systems engineering processes
- Defining requirements, concepts of operation, architectures, and team structures
- Leading, negotiating, and defending technical and programmatic solutions
- Leveraging different methods to communicate status to stakeholders
Required Education & Experience:
- Technical domain understanding
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal)
- You must be a U.S. citizen and at least 18 years of age (dual-national U.S. citizens are eligible).
- Self-starter attitude with initiative
- Ability to meet the minimum requirements for joining CIA, including U.S. citizenship and a background investigation
- You must be willing to move to the Washington, DC, area.
- Experience as a technical project manager
- Ability to plan and oversee implementation of short and long term tasks
- You must apply online, while in the United States.
- At least a 3.0 GPA on a 4-point scale
- Resource and risk management experience
- Excellent time management and organizational skills
- Demonstrated critical thinking and problem solving abilities
- Ability to work independently and in a group
- You must successfully complete a thorough medical and psychological exam, a polygraph interview, and a comprehensive background investigation.