Program Manager, PMP Required

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🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $120k - $145k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🔴 Lead

📋 Program Manager

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Ardent

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2008

💼 Consulting

🎖️ Defense

📦 Logistics

Consulting • Defense • Logistics

Ardent is a premier technology firm serving the public sector, focused on delivering mission-critical solutions. They specialize in data science and analytics, digital transformation, and location intelligence, helping organizations to make better decisions, modernize their systems, and decode spatial data. Ardent is committed to defending against man-made and natural threats, providing effective solutions such as cloud applications, cybersecurity, and spatial data science. They work closely with federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security, to ensure national safety. Their solutions are tailored to thrive in complex environments, proven in case studies, and delivered with the speed and precision required by their clients' missions.

📋 Description

• Lead and oversee program delivery for a cybersecurity assurance program for the state of Florida • Serve as the primary interface among company leadership, OCIG, agency OIGs, and technical leads • Serve as the single accountable point of contact for OCIG and coordinate project management functions with the OCIG Contract Manager or designee • Plan and conduct kickoff activities and document scope, roles, decisions, action owners, dependencies, communication protocols, risks, and approved deadlines • Own the Master Project Plan and maintain milestones, staffing, testing waves, access readiness, risks, dependencies, decisions, corrective actions, and acceptance status • Coordinate system access through OCIG and Agency OIG channels and maintain the System Access Log • Track approvals, authorized personnel, training, background screening, access periods, and obstacles • Enforce scope discipline and ensure changes are authorized in approved plans or Rules of Engagement • Provide daily updates during active testing, bi-weekly program reviews, monthly project-plan submissions, and immediate escalation of critical vulnerabilities or deconfliction events • Oversee submission of all ten deliverables and manage government comments and corrections through acceptance • Ensure agency risks inform sequencing, resource allocation, and testing priorities • Maintain independence, objectivity, confidentiality, public-records sensitivity, and separation of factual AUP results from advisory recommendations • Lead closeout reporting, lessons learned, final project-plan completion, and executive briefings

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in cybersecurity, information systems, engineering, business, project management, or related field • Active Project Management Professional (PMP) • At least 10 years of progressively responsible technology or cybersecurity program delivery experience, including multi-stakeholder government programs • Demonstrated management of deliverable-based contracts, integrated schedules, project risk, quality controls, access dependencies, and executive reporting • Experience coordinating cybersecurity assessment, continuous monitoring, audit-support, compliance, or control-validation work • Excellent written and verbal communication, with the ability to present evidence-based information to C-suite, Board, Inspector General, or senior government stakeholders • Working knowledge of NIST CSF, NIST risk-management concepts, cybersecurity control testing, and professional assurance practices • Willingness to undergo and maintain a government-issued background investigation process • Preferred: active CISSP • Preferred: experience supporting an Office of Inspector General, internal audit organization, or independent verification and validation program • Preferred: familiarity with IIA Global Internal Audit Standards, GAO Government Auditing Standards, Rule 60GG-2, F.A.C., and Florida public-records constraints • Preferred: experience coordinating work across numerous agencies or distributed operating environments • Preferred: change-control, Agile, ITIL, or Lean portfolio credentials

🏖️ Benefits

• Growth incentive • Remote work arrangement • Frequent travel expected to Tallahassee, Florida • Equal employment opportunity • Veterans and candidates with disabilities are encouraged to apply