Senior Project Task Manager
- Contingent on Contract Award
- Mission Support
- Joint Base Langley-Eustis
Barbaricum is a rapidly growing government contractor providing leading-edge support to federal customers, with a particular focus on Defense and National Security mission sets. We leverage more than 15 years of support to stakeholders across the federal government, with established and growing capabilities across Intelligence, Analytics, Engineering, Mission Support, and Communications disciplines. Founded in 2008, our mission is to transform the way our customers approach constantly changing and complex problem sets by bringing to bear the latest in technology and the highest caliber of talent.
Headquartered in Washington, DC’s historic Dupont Circle neighborhood, Barbaricum also has a corporate presence in Tampa, FL, Bedford, IN, and Dayton, OH, with team members across the United States and around the world. As a leader in our space, we partner with firms in the private sector, academic institutions, and industry associations with a goal of continually building our expertise and capabilities for the benefit of our employees and the customers we support. Through all of this, we have built a vibrant corporate culture diverse in expertise and perspectives with a focus on collaboration and innovation. Our teams are at the frontier of the Nation’s most complex and rewarding challenges. Join us.
Barbaricum is currently seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Project Task Manager to join our dynamic team in support of the Program Executive Office Soldier. This critical role involves providing day-to-day direction and expert functional guidance to a group of subordinates, interfacing with both government management and the contractor to resolve problems, and establishing priorities based on government goals and objectives. The successful candidate will play a key role in ensuring the seamless operation and execution of project tasks, distributing and balancing workloads effectively, and leading the team towards achieving strategic objectives.
Responsibilities
- Provide day-to-day direction and supervision to a team of subordinates, ensuring efficient project progression.
- Offer expert functional guidance to employees, enhancing their performance and project contributions.
- Act as the primary interface between the government customer and the contractor, ensuring clear communication and problem resolution.
- Establish work priorities for subordinates based on government goals and objectives, ensuring alignment with project requirements.
- Perform direct support functional roles as needed, contributing to the project’s overall success.
- Manage and distribute the team's workload in accordance with established workflows, ensuring timely accomplishment of assigned tasks.
- Provide on-the-job training to new employees, guiding them through established procedures and practices.
- Lead team assessments, identifying strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement, and implement strategies to enhance performance.
- Communicate clearly with the team regarding assignments, problems to be solved, milestones, and timeframes for completion.
- Assign work based on personnel workload, ability, and assignment priority, offering instruction and assistance on issues as necessary.
Qualifications
- Active DoD Secret Clearance.
- Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field.
- More than 20 years of experience in project or task management, preferably within the defense sector.
- Demonstrated competency in key areas including written and oral communication, leadership, team management, negotiation, personal organization, and risk management.
- Proven ability to interface effectively with government management and resolve complex problems.
- Experience in establishing work priorities, distributing workloads, and ensuring the timely completion of projects.
- Strong ability to provide effective on-the-job training and guidance to new employees.
- Demonstrated leadership skills, with a track record of leading teams to assess and improve their performance.
- Excellent negotiation skills, with the ability to effectively manage relations between government customers and contractors.
- High level of personal organization and ability to manage multiple tasks and projects simultaneously.
- Expertise in risk management, with the ability to identify and mitigate potential project risks.
