CO Response Manager

When you join AIS, you're joining a mission-driven team that's passionate about making a difference. You'll work on projects that matter, alongside industry-leading experts, in an environment that fosters innovation, driving client success, and empowering our team to make a lasting impact. As an employee-owned company, we value collaboration, inclusivity, continuous growth, and shared success.

• Employee Ownership: Your contributions directly impact the company's success, and you share in its achievements.

• Continuous Learning: Access to resources, training, and mentorship to support your professional growth.

• Inclusive Culture: A workplace where diversity is celebrated, and everyone's voice is valued.

• Mission-Driven Work: Engage in projects that make a meaningful difference for our clients and communities.

At AIS, we're looking for more than just skills - we're looking for driven individuals who are passionate about making a difference, eager to grow, and aligned with our core principles.

This position is contingent upon contract award. We are currently pursuing a proposal and are seeking qualified candidates to include in our submission and identify candidates for future hiring needs on the program once awarded.

• Core Knowledge & Skills: Expert in global documentation standards, advanced tools, and emerging technologies.

• Work & Complexity: Directs enterprise-wide documentation strategies; manages multiple large-scale initiatives; drives innovation in content delivery and automation.

• Quality & Independence: Establishes organizational benchmarks for clarity, usability, and compliance; ensures consistency across global teams.

• Teamwork & Communication: Leads cross-functional and global documentation teams; mentors senior leaders; fosters collaboration and knowledge sharing at scale.

• Consulting & Engagement: Provides strategic consulting to executives; shapes documentation policies; influences industry best practices through thought leadership.

Position Overview

The CO Response Manager plays a critical role in supporting contract operations by ensuring compliance, managing schedules, and driving effective communication across delivery teams. This position requires expertise in proposal writing, schedule management, and compliance, along with strong organizational and analytical skills. The ideal candidate will be proactive in engaging Mission Partners (MPs), evaluating tools for enterprise metric collection, and assisting with strategic organizational change management (OCM).

Key Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain Playbook modules focused on Mission Partner (MP) engagement and compliance.

• Engage MPs early and often to ensure alignment with project objectives.

• Evaluate non-invasive UX tools for enterprise metric collection and reporting.

• Assist with strategic Organizational Change Management (OCM) initiatives.

• Collaborate with CO Delivery Teams to ensure timely and accurate responses to requirements.

• Support proposal development and compliance activities.

• Monitor progress to ensure deadlines, standards, and cost targets are met.

• Recommend major changes impacting short-term project growth and success.

Required Qualifications

• Education: BA/BS degree in a related field.

• Experience: 10+ years of experience in technical writing, proposal development, and project management.

• Certifications: PMP required; Agile Scrum certification preferred.

• Clearance: Active Top Secret Clearance is mandatory.

• Strong understanding of compliance, schedule management, and IT project coordination.

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

• Active/Current Top Secret clearance

Preferred Skills

• Experience with BPA processes and Playbook development.

• Familiarity with DoD acquisition and compliance requirements.

• Ability to evaluate and implement UX tools for enterprise-level metric collection.

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