{"id":2518680,"url":"https://alion.io/job/orchard-llc-senior-program-manager","title":"Senior Program Manager","company":{"id":4420891,"name":"Orchard LLC","domain":"atorchard.com","url":"https://alion.io/company/atorchard","size_band":"201-500","is_staffing_agency":false,"employer_type":"direct","is_intermediary":false,"listed_via":null,"ats_vendor":"Paylocity","truth_index":{"grade":"B","score":75,"open_postings":4,"ghost_share":0,"stale_share":1,"repost_share":0,"time_to_fill_p50_days":null,"computed_at":"2026-10-17T05:46:00Z"}},"role":"Management","role_family":"Management","seniority":"senior","employment_type":null,"work_mode":"hybrid","remote_scope":null,"remote_scope_basis":null,"remote_working_hours":null,"hiring_geo_confidence":"explicit","locations":["United States"],"countries":["US"],"hiring_countries":[],"hiring_countries_total":0,"salary":null,"salary_estimate":{"min_usd":90000,"max_usd":168000,"period":"year","method":"role_seniority_country_remote_cell","sample_n":4158},"experience_years_min":10,"visa_sponsorship":false,"relocation_package":false,"has_equity":false,"technologies":[{"name":"SharePoint","optional":false}],"status":"live","first_seen_at":"2026-08-03T12:37:52Z","employer_posted_date":"2026-10-14","last_verified_at":"2026-10-18T02:58:45Z","board_verified":true,"closed_at":null,"days_open":75,"trust":{"level":"ok","repost_count":null,"flags":[],"days_open":75},"description":"Description\nSenior Program Manager - Federal Programs & GrowthHybrid Role - Can be based in Woods Hole, MA / Northern Virginia U.S. Citizenship Required Must be able to travel up to 25% as needed\n\nAbout @Orchard:\n@Orchard is a growing Woman-Owned Small Business and federal prime contractor delivering mission-critical science, data, technology, program management, and workforce solutions. Since 2010, we have built high-performing teams and disciplined delivery systems that help federal agencies launch complex programs, sustain performance, and achieve meaningful mission outcomes.\nOur federal contract vehicles include DoD MDA SHIELD, NOAA ProTech 2.0 Oceans, NOAA ProTech 2.0 Fisheries, NOAA OMAO Uncrewed Marine Systems, and GSA Multiple Award Schedule.\nThese vehicles position @Orchard to compete for task orders supporting complex federal missions across the Department of War, NOAA, NASA, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the U.S. Department of Energy, and other agencies.\nPosition Summary:\nThe Senior Program Manager reports directly to the Vice President of Strategic Growth and is responsible for leading the execution and growth of @Orchard's federal programs. This role manages a portfolio of federal task orders while partnering with the Vice President to identify, capture, and win new work across the company's federal contract vehicles. The position serves as the operational leader for assigned programs, ensuring exceptional customer satisfaction, financial performance, compliance, and employee success.\nThis position is a corporate leadership role-not an embedded, single-contract assignment. The Senior Program Manager owns successful program delivery, customer relationships, identification of follow-on opportunities, capture and proposal support, and operational transition after award. The Vice President of Strategic Growth retains ownership of enterprise growth strategy and the company's pipeline, capture, bid/no-bid, teaming, and proposal strategy decisions.\nKey Responsibilities:\nFederal Program and Task Order Management\nManage a portfolio of multiple federal contracts and task orders simultaneously.\nProvide hands-on oversight of program performance, customer satisfaction, staffing, schedules, deliverables, quality, compliance, and financial results.\nServe as the primary program-level point of contact for Government Contracting Officers, Contracting Officer’s Representatives, program officials, scientists, technical leads, and other customer stakeholders.\nLead recurring customer meetings, including monthly program reviews, status meetings, technical discussions, and performance briefings.\nEstablish and maintain program management plans, schedules, risk registers, action-item logs, staffing plans, and performance metrics.\nEnsure all contract deliverables are accurate, complete, compliant, and submitted on schedule.\nIdentify program risks, performance issues, and customer concerns early and implement corrective actions before they affect delivery.\nSupport contract modifications, option-year exercises, funding actions, personnel changes, and contract closeout activities.\nMaintain documentation necessary to support strong customer evaluations and CPARS ratings.\nReporting and Performance Management\nPrepare, review, and submit monthly program status reports in accordance with contract requirements.\nCollect and review weekly status reports from program staff and ensure that accomplishments, risks, challenges, and upcoming activities are accurately documented.\nDevelop executive-level program summaries and performance briefings for company leadership.\nTrack contractual milestones, deliverables, staffing commitments, key performance indicators, and customer action items.\nEnsure program documentation is complete, current, organized, and audit-ready.\nMaintain clear communication between program staff, company leadership, Finance, Contracts, Human Resources, Recruiting, and government customers.\nStaff and Resource Management\nLead, supervise, and support employees and subcontractors assigned to multiple federal task orders.\nEstablish clear roles, responsibilities, performance expectations, and reporting requirements for program personnel.\nConduct regular staff meetings, one-on-one discussions, performance reviews, and employee-development conversations.\nMonitor employee performance, engagement, workload, utilization, and retention.\nAddress performance, conduct, attendance, and customer-service issues promptly and in coordination with Human Resources.\nForecast staffing requirements and work with Recruiting and Resource Management to fill vacancies and maintain uninterrupted program delivery.\nSupport candidate evaluation, interviewing, selection, onboarding, orientation, and transition activities.\nDevelop succession and backfill plans for critical program positions.\nEnsure employees understand and comply with contract requirements, company policies, timekeeping procedures, security requirements, and customer expectations.\nFinancial and Contract Management\nManage the financial performance of assigned contracts and task orders.\nMonitor funding, labor utilization, burn rates, ceilings, revenue, direct costs, subcontractor costs, and program profitability.\nReview employee timekeeping and labor charging for accuracy and contractual compliance.\nReview and approve monthly invoices and supporting documentation before submission to the customer.\nCoordinate with Finance and Contracts to resolve billing discrepancies, funding concerns, contract questions, and payment issues.\nEnsure labor categories, staffing assignments, rates, and invoiced costs align with contractual requirements.\nDevelop program forecasts and identify potential funding, staffing, schedule, or profitability issues.\nSupport preparation of estimates, change requests, requests for equitable adjustment, and other contract-management actions when necessary.\nCustomer Relationship Management\nDevelop and maintain trusted relationships with government customers and mission stakeholders.\nMaintain regular contact with Contracting Officers, CORs, program managers, scientists, and technical leaders.\nUnderstand each customer’s mission, operating environment, priorities, challenges, and emerging requirements.\nProactively resolve customer concerns and communicate program risks before they become performance issues.\nIdentify opportunities to improve service delivery, expand support, and increase the value @Orchard provides to the customer.\nRepresent @Orchard professionally during customer meetings, industry events, site visits, conferences, and other engagements.\nBusiness Development, Capture and Task Order Growth\nIdentify and qualify task-order opportunities under @Orchard’s existing IDIQ, BPA, GWAC, and GSA contract vehicles.\nDevelop customer and opportunity intelligence through ongoing engagement with agency stakeholders, industry partners, and internal subject-matter experts.\nWork with the Vice President of Strategic Growth to develop capture strategies, win themes, solution concepts, staffing approaches, and teaming plans.\nParticipate in bid/no-bid and gate-review decisions.\nLead or support task-order capture efforts from opportunity identification through proposal submission and award.\nCoordinate proposal writers, subject-matter experts, recruiters, pricing personnel, subcontractors, and teaming partners.\nContribute directly to technical, management, staffing, transition, quality-control, and past-performance proposal sections.\nReview proposal content for accuracy, compliance, responsiveness, and alignment with the customer’s evaluation criteria.\nSupport oral presentations, customer capability briefings, industry days, one-on-one meetings, and other pre-award activities.\nMaintain responsibility for both excellent execution of current work and continued growth of @Orchard’s federal portfolio.\nRequirements\n Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Science, Technology, or a related field.\nProject Management Professional certification required.\nAt least 10 years of progressively responsible experience managing federal government contracts, task orders, or professional-services programs.\nDemonstrated experience managing multiple federal task orders or programs concurrently.\nExperience serving as a primary interface with Government Contracting Officers, CORs, program managers, scientists, technical leaders, and other federal stakeholders.\nDemonstrated experience managing program staff, subcontractors, deliverables, schedules, risks, quality, and customer relationships.\nExperience preparing monthly reports, reviewing employee status reports, conducting customer meetings, and managing contractual deliverables.\nExperience managing contract financials, including funding, labor utilization, burn rates, ceilings, forecasting, invoicing, and profitability.\nDemonstrated experience supporting or leading federal capture and proposal efforts.\nWorking knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulation, federal contracting practices, contract administration, and task-order management.\nStrong leadership, organization, financial-management, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.\nExceptional written, verbal, presentation, and customer-relationship skills.\nAbility to manage competing priorities in a fast-paced small-business environment.\nProficiency with Microsoft 365, including Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint.\nU.S. Citizenship required.\nPreferred Qualification:\nMaster’s degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Project Management, Engineering, Science, Technology, or a related field.\nExperience supporting one or more of @Orchard’s core federal customers, including the Department of Defense, NOAA, NASA, EPA, or DOE.\nExperience managing scientific, technical, engineering, environmental, maritime, research, technology, or mission-support programs.\nExperience working under multiple-award IDIQs, BPAs, GWAC, GSA schedules, or similar federal contract vehicles.\nDemonstrated record of helping capture and win competitive federal task orders.\nExperience with CPARS, quality-management systems, ISO 9001 processes, and federal program audits.\nExperience managing geographically dispersed, hybrid, field-based, scientific, or technical workforces.\nExperience working in a small or mid-sized federal government contracting organization.\nCompensation: The anticipated base salary range for this position is depending on the candidate’s qualifications, federal program management experience, customer relationships, capture experience, and demonstrated record of winning task orders. The position may also be eligible for a performance-based incentive tied to program delivery, customer satisfaction, financial performance, employee retention, and new task-order awards.\nWhat We Offer: Competitive base salary with opportunities for advancement, career growth and professional development, work-life balance, comprehensive benefits including health, dental, vision, life insurance, 401(k), generous PTO, and paid federal holidays.\nIf you are a strategic and results-driven Program Manager with a passion for leading complex initiatives, building collaborative partnerships, and delivering impactful outcomes, we want to hear from you!\n@Orchard is an equal opportunity employer. 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