Project Manager

As a Technical Project Manager, you will lead projects that deliver key capabilities to accomplish the United States intelligence mission. Your teams will solve complex problems through your leadership in applying your project management, systems engineering, and people skills. Your Technical Project Manager career will challenge you to apply your skills across the vast, global variety of technical and mission domains in the CIA. CIA Technical Project Managers drive critical technology programs in the Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) and turn user needs into operating capabilities. Your responsibilities involve integration of programmatic, technical, systems engineering, business, and personnel elements of project, including:. Defining requirements, concepts of operation, and architectures. Tailoring and applying program management and systems engineering processes.

Leading and defending technical and programmatic decisions. Developing, managing, and defending cost and schedule. Conducting acquisition planning and source selection Opportunities may exist for domestic and foreign travel, technical and management training, and assignments in other offices in the CIA.

Project Manager Salary

Offices of the CIA – Directorate of Digital Innovation The Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) is at the forefront of defining the future of digital expertise within the CIA. DDI focuses on developing the workforce with cutting-edge skills, investing in IT infrastructure, and modernizing the way the Agency does business. DDI officers help accelerate the integration of innovative methods and tools to enhance the CIA's cyber and digital capabilities on a global scale and ultimately help safeguard our nation. See our work in action: Life at CIA In addition to a comprehensive package, the CIA offers exciting career opportunities and a dynamic environment. We're on the forefront of world-altering events – as they happen. So working here isn't just a job, it's a mindset and a lifestyle.

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They are organized, passionate and goal-oriented who understand what projects have in common, and their strategic role in how organizations succeed, learn and change. Project managers are change agents: they make project goals their own and use their skills and expertise to inspire a sense of shared purpose within the project team. They enjoy the organized adrenaline of new challenges and the responsibility of driving business results.

Project Manager Responsibilities

They work well under pressure and are comfortable with change and complexity in dynamic environments. They can shift readily between the 'big picture' and the small-but-crucial details, knowing when to concentrate on each.

Project managers cultivate the people skills needed to develop trust and communication among all of a project's stakeholders: its sponsors, those who will make use of the project's results, those who command the resources needed, and the project team members. They have a broad and flexible toolkit of techniques, resolving complex, interdependent activities into tasks and sub-tasks that are documented, monitored and controlled. They adapt their approach to the context and constraints of each project, knowing that no 'one size' can fit all the variety of projects. And they are always improving their own and their teams' skills through lessons-learned reviews at project completion. Project managers are found in every kind of organization - as employees, managers, contractors and independent consultants.

With experience, they may become program managers (responsible for multiple related projects) or portfolio managers (responsible for selection, prioritization and alignment of projects and programs with an organization's strategy). And they are in increasing demand worldwide.

For decades, as the pace of economic and technological change has quickened, organizations have been directing more and more of their energy into projects rather than routine operations. Today, senior executives and HR managers recognize project management as a strategic competence that is indispensable to business success. They know that skilled and credentialed practitioners are among their most valuable resources. Does this describe you? Interested in a career in project management?