Project Manager

Join Our Team at Niyam IT: Embrace Diversity, Excel Together

Are you ready to be part of a dynamic, inclusive, and fearless team that values your well-being and individuality? At Niyam, we’re not just a company; we’re a close-knit community of experts and leaders dedicated to providing IT solutions for esteemed clients. Niyam provides IT solutions to improve system efficiency while optimizing the value that we deliver to our customers. Our team members have the drive and the right mindset to take ownership of the projects they work on. They partner with our customers, going the extra mile when necessary to ensure success.

What We Offer:

• Comprehensive Benefits: We’ve got you covered with 100% company-paid health, dental, vision, life, and AD&D insurance.
• Peace of Mind: Enjoy free short-term and long-term disability coverage, ensuring your financial security in any situation.
• Flexible Work Hours: Life doesn’t always fit into a 9 to 5 schedule. We offer flexibility to help you manage your work-life balance effectively.
• Remote and Hybrid Work: Niyam understands the value of flexibility. We offer remote and hybrid work options on our projects.
• Paid Time Off: Recharge and rejuvenate with our generous paid time off policy.
• Retirement Plans: We care about your future. Niyam offers retirement plans to help you secure your long-term financial goals.
• Career Growth: Niyam is not just a job; it’s a career journey. We provide a supportive environment for your professional development and offer fully paid opportunities (including technology and business conferences) for training and advancement within the company.
• Great People: Our people are the blueprint of who Niyam is to the industry and community.
• Great Environment: Niyam fosters a great environment where innovation, collaboration, and personal growth thrive.
• Diversity & Inclusion: We believe in the strength of diverse perspectives. Your unique ideas are welcomed and celebrated every day at Niyam.

Join us in creating a workplace where innovation, diversity, and well-being thrive. Your journey at Niyam awaits. Apply today!

Niyam is seeking a motivated Project Manager to join our team. We offer competitive compensation and benefits. Position is hybrid, and will require occasional travel for public meetings. This is in support of our federal clients.  

Role and Responsibilities

Provides oversight and management to overall contract operations often involving multiple projects/tasks and groups of personnel at multiple locations. Maintains and manages relationships with senior level management within the client organization. Ensures quality standards and work performance on all task orders and projects; plans, organizes, and oversees work efforts; assigns resources; manages personnel; and monitors overall project and contract performance. Directs and conducts facilitation and related decision support services for agencies, working groups, and teams.  Utilizes standard project management practices and methodology to reliably produce expected contract outcomes.

• Support and lead aspects of program implementation, including but not limited to, coordinating, monitoring, and providing leadership across projects and project related activities.
• Facilitate and lead customer and vendor engagements that include process analysis, business case development, and resource planning as needed based upon the business’ objectives.
• Develop in-depth business domain knowledge/skills with the objective of becoming a trusted business partner in the execution of the customer’s goals and objectives.
• Serve as a primary contact for the project to the business partner, building partnerships and trust through understanding of the end-to-end processes; work closely to understand strategic and business intent of projects.
• Work with business leads to implement best practices associated with leading trends within our industry and lines of business within our company.
• Facilitate cross-functional / departmental collaboration to achieve consensus on objectives and solutions as needed for the customer and within our company.
• Perform quality control on deliverables to meet or exceed industry standards.
• Make effective decisions to drive team performance and meet the customer’s needs.
• Coordinate with customers and stakeholders to provide overarching management of program functions that include program deliverables, resource management, financial management, stakeholder management and performance management.
• Participate and provide support as needed for organic growth strategies, proposal and capture efforts and broader organization pursuits.
• Perform other job-related duties as assigned.
• Coordinates activities of multi-disciplinary staff to ensure project delivery per schedule, on budget, and within scope parameters
• Works with team members and clients to prepare scopes, schedules, budgets, assumptions, and constraints for projects
• Upon approval of individual projects, provides oversight for the development of project plans for efficient and successful delivery across the full project lifecycle
• Provides guidance to team members related successful delivery
• Coordinate with other managers to balance workload and staffing needs
• Accountable for compliance with contract requirements, including quality and security requirements.

Other essential skills include creative problem-solving, organizational skills, financial project management skills, including earn value management, strong production management capabilities, and a proven understanding of project management methodologies. The ideal candidate will have an aptitude for leadership, a strong sense of ownership, and natural communication skills.

Qualifications and Education Requirements

• US Citizenship  and ability to obtain public trust
• Master's Degree in Engineering, Planning, Business, Communications, or related discipline
• PMP Certification
• At least 15 years of experience of coordination and management of projects
• Local to Northern VA area
• Methodological expertise and practical experience supporting large mission centric programs
• Expertise in managing mid to large programs in the defined sector (Homeland Security, Federal Public Health, and Federal Civilian)
• Team Leadership: Demonstrated ability in creating, guiding, and developing high-performance teams
• Client Management: Robust skills in managing relationships with both direct federal customers and prime contract stakeholders
• Strategic Thinking & Problem Solving: Ability to strategize and resolve complex problems, with a focus on creating solutions
• Communication Skills: Excellent communication capabilities both verbal and written. Ability to work as part of a team and develop effective communication strategies amongst the team and with the customer
• Project Management: Strong project delivery skills to manage and implement complex projects for key clients. Develop targets, maintain schedules, and support budget management
• Ability to learn new ideas and capabilities: Ability to rapidly assimilate new ideas and information through self-driven learning and research

Preferred Skills

• Ability to travel periodically, as needed 
• Experience managing projects in the government sector
• Industry involvement (e.g., Project Management Institute (PMI), etc.)
  

Application Deadline: This will be posted for a minimum of 2 business days or until a sufficient candidate pool has been collected. Job posting may come down early due to volume of applicants.

Niyam IT, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity (“EEO”) Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, creed, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, marital status, partnership status, age, citizenship status, veteran or military status, medical condition, genetic information, national origin, disability, unemployment status or any other characteristic prohibited by federal, state and/or local laws.