Program Manager – Exercise Planning

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🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $190k - $200k / year

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Constellation Inc

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2006

💼 Consulting

🏛️ Government

🔐 Security

Consulting • Government • Security

Constellation Inc. is a U. S. federal government professional services firm that delivers data-driven consulting and technical solutions to national security and homeland security agencies. For over two decades it has supported DHS, FEMA, CBP and other federal clients with analytics and automation, program management, digital transformation, enterprise architecture, and intelligence community services. Constellation provides cleared personnel and focuses on modernizing legacy systems, improving operational performance, and delivering measurable mission outcomes.

📋 Description

• Serve as the primary program leadership interface with Government stakeholders and provide overall management, technical direction, and accountability for program performance. • Direct, organize, coordinate, and oversee exercise planning, consequence management planning, and major special-event preparedness activities. • Lead the full exercise lifecycle, including concept development, design, planning, facilitation, conduct, evaluation, reporting, and corrective-action tracking. • Lead multidisciplinary teams supporting national- and regional-level consequence management planning. • Coordinate with FEMA, DHS, federal interagency, state and local stakeholders, and other organizations. • Plan and facilitate meetings, workshops, working groups, exercise planning conferences, stakeholder engagements, and senior-leader activities. • Oversee development, validation, maintenance, and presentation of complex planning products and executive materials. • Ensure exercises validate plans, identify operational gaps, assess coordination mechanisms, and generate actionable recommendations. • Manage the Project Management Plan, Integrated Master Schedule, deliverable tracker, risk and issue log, action-item tracker, staffing, dependencies, milestones, and status reporting. • Identify risks, develop mitigation strategies, elevate critical issues, and drive resolution. • Oversee collection, analysis, visualization, and presentation of planning and exercise data. • Establish quality control, configuration management, version control, decision histories, action tracking, and knowledge-management practices. • Manage staffing, workload allocation, personnel performance, surge requirements, and continuity of operations. • Provide executive-level reporting on status, milestones, risks, dependencies, decisions, staffing, readiness, and Government actions. • Capture lessons learned, observations, corrective actions, and best practices. • Manage transition, knowledge transfer, and closeout activities.

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in Emergency Management, Homeland Security, Public Administration, Business Administration, Project Management, or a related field. • Minimum 10–15 years of progressively responsible experience managing complex federal emergency management, homeland security, exercise planning, consequence management, or major special-event programs. • Experience leading large-scale exercise planning and execution across the full exercise lifecycle. • Experience supporting national- or regional-level consequence management, emergency preparedness, or major national/international special-event planning. • Experience coordinating Federal, state, local, regional, and interagency stakeholders. • Ability to manage multidisciplinary teams and multiple planning workstreams, exercises, deliverables, dependencies, and deadlines. • Program management experience with IMS, project plans, deliverable tracking, risk and issue management, action-item tracking, performance metrics, and executive status reporting. • Experience developing and reviewing technically complex planning products, exercise documentation, executive briefings, reports, decision-support materials, and senior-leadership presentations. • Strong understanding of emergency management, preparedness, response, recovery, consequence management, continuity, and interagency coordination principles. • Excellent facilitation skills for planning conferences, workshops, working groups, exercises, and senior-level engagements. • Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including translating complex information into concise executive-level products. • Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project or comparable scheduling tools, SharePoint, Teams, collaboration tools, project-management tools, and data-visualization platforms. • This position requires U.S. citizenship and current residence in the U.S. • Preferred: DHS clearance with CBP/ICE, or DoD Top-Secret clearance. • Preferred: PMP certification, FEMA MEPP or comparable qualification, FEMA EMI and/or NIMS/ICS training, HSEEP experience, and experience supporting FEMA, DHS, federal emergency-management organizations, NSSEs, SEAR events, Olympic/Paralympic Games, or similarly complex events.

🏖️ Benefits

• 401(k) • 401(k) matching • Dental insurance • Employee assistance program • Flexible schedule • Flexible spending account • Health insurance • Life insurance • Paid time off • Professional development assistance • Vision insurance