Program Manager L6 (Remote)

Overview
Georgia Tech prides itself on its technological resources, collaborations, high-quality student body, and its commitment to building an outstanding and diverse community of learning, discovery, and creation. We strongly encourage applicants whose values align with our institutional values, as outlined in our Strategic Plan. These values include academic excellence, diversity of thought and experience, inquiry and innovation, collaboration and community, and ethical behavior and stewardship. Georgia Tech has policies to promote a healthy work-life balance and is aware that attracting faculty may require meeting the needs of two careers.

About Georgia Tech
Georgia Tech is a top-ranked public research university situated in the heart of Atlanta, a diverse and vibrant city with numerous economic and cultural strengths. The Institute serves more than 45,000 students through top-ranked undergraduate, graduate, and executive programs in engineering, computing, science, business, design, and liberal arts. Georgia Tech's faculty attracted more than $1.4 billion in research awards this past year in fields ranging from biomedical technology to artificial intelligence, energy, sustainability, semiconductors, neuroscience, and national security. Georgia Tech ranks among the nation's top 20 universities for research and development spending and No. 1 among institutions without a medical school.

Georgia Tech's Mission and Values
Georgia Tech's mission is to develop leaders who advance technology and improve the human condition. The Institute has nine key values that are foundational to everything we do:
1. Students are our top priority.
2. We strive for excellence.
3. We thrive on diversity.
4. We celebrate collaboration.
5. We champion innovation.
6. We safeguard freedom of inquiry and expression.
7. We nurture the wellbeing of our community.
8. We act ethically.
9. We are responsible stewards.

Over the next decade, Georgia Tech will become an example of inclusive innovation, a leading technological research university of unmatched scale, relentlessly committed to serving the public good; breaking new ground in addressing the biggest local, national, and global challenges and opportunities of our time; making technology broadly accessible; and developing exceptional, principled leaders from all backgrounds ready to produce novel ideas and create solutions with real human impact.

The Office of Information Technology (OIT) provides information technology leadership and support to the Georgia Institute of Technology, working in partnership with academic and business units to meet the unique needs of a leading research university. OIT serves as the primary source of enterprise-wide information technology and telecommunications services in support of students, faculty, staff, and researchers.

The Program Manager works with many levels of leadership and staff to manage program efforts based on industry best practices; works as the single point of contact for facilitation and communication of program goals, deliverables, and schedules, and must be an excellent communicator; various levels of documentation will be produced at each stage of the program and the program manager is often the person who creates these with input from others.

This position may supervise: Assigned Staff

Job Duty 1 -
Provide senior leadership and direction to program management activities, including major organizational transformation efforts; maintain best practices for program management

Job Duty 2 -
Analyze and evaluate proposals for scope of related work; determine the feasibility of proposals and provide or evaluate cost-benefit analysis as appropriate

Job Duty 3 -
Demonstrate an advanced competency in business analysis and organizational change management

Job Duty 4 -
May serve as a member of the senior leadership team; participate in thought leadership with unit or institute decision-makers

Job Duty 5 -
Lead integrated logistics support and/or quality assurance activities

Job Duty 6 -
Develop, monitor, and implement budget(s) for the program's effective operation

Job Duty 7 -
Participate in the strategic planning process and provide input into strategic decisions for unit(s)

Job Duty 8 -
Conducts staff recruitment, selection, and evaluation

Job Duty 9 -
Perform other job-related duties assigned

Duties may include but are not limited to:

Lead and manage cybersecurity research programs, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and objectives.
Develop and implement strategic plans for research initiatives, including setting goals, timelines, and budgets.
Ensure all research activities comply with relevant regulations, standards, and best practices.
Prepare and present regular reports on research progress, findings, and outcomes to senior management and stakeholders.
Oversee all CMMC and other Research Security Program activities. Collaborating with key stakeholders to determine relevant in-scope controls, to identifying significant changes that warrant special handling, to following significant change processes.
Work toward process improvement and enhance capability maturity, performing redesign and developing plans, requirements, and compliance specifications for automation.
Develop and maintain the calendar of compliance requirements for assigned identified control owners.
Collaborate with a range of stakeholders from individual contributors to senior leadership to external parties including Gov/Agency Partners and/or Third-Party Security Assessors.
Drive activities related to the remediation of regulated research (e.g., CMMC) requirements Gaps, technical security, and compliance risks with cross-functional teams, including, but not limited to, engaging third party services, leading meetings, assigning, and tracking work items, producing reports, and escalating risks and issues.
Financial management of the regulated research (e.g., CMMC) program to ensure maximization of investments to ensure security while increasing support for research activities.
Perform other related duties as assigned.

Educational Requirements
Bachelor's Degree or an equivalent combination of education and experience

Required Experience
Seven or more years of job-related experience

Additional Preferred Qualifications
Preferred Certifications, Licenses or Permits:

o Program Management Professional (PMP) Certification
o Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM) Certification

Preferred Educational Qualifications
Master's Degree

Salary Budget: Up to $130,846

Job Grade: A12

Location: Atlanta, GA

Candidate should possess:
Federal Regulatory Compliance experience
IT Project Mgmt. experience

CMMC Compliance experience

ABILITIES
Ability to adjust plans and milestones to changing priorities or customer requirements

KNOWLEDGE
o Knowledge of industry-standard and organizationally accepted analysis principles and methods
o Knowledge of business and management principles involved in strategic planning, resource
allocation, coordination of forecasting and modeling, leadership technique, production methods,
and coordination of people and resources

SKILLS
o Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate complex data into
actionable insights
o Skill in effectively managing change and the communication and enforcement thereof

The University System of Georgia is comprised of our 26 institutions of higher education and learning as well as the System Office. Our USG Statement of Core Values are Integrity, Excellence, Accountability, and Respect. These values serve as the foundation for all that we do as an organization, and each USG community member is responsible for demonstrating and upholding these standards. More details on the USG Statement of Core Values and Code of Conduct are available in USG Board Policy 8.2.18.1.2 and can be found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section8/C224/#p8.2.18_personnel_conduct.

Additionally, USG supports Freedom of Expression as stated in Board Policy 6.5 Freedom of Expression and Academic Freedom found on-line at https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/C2653.

The Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech) is an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer. The University is committed to maintaining a fair and respectful environment for all. To that end, and in accordance with federal and state law, Board of Regents policy, and University policy, Georgia Tech provides equal opportunity to all faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including applicants for admission and/or employment, contractors, volunteers, and participants in institutional programs, activities, or services. Georgia Tech complies with all applicable laws and regulations governing equal opportunity in the workplace and in educational activities.

Georgia Tech prohibits discrimination, including discriminatory harassment, on the basis of race, ethnicity, ancestry, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, national origin, age, disability, genetics, or veteran status in its programs, activities, employment, and admissions. This prohibition applies to faculty, staff, students, and all other members of the Georgia Tech community, including affiliates, invitees, and guests. Further, Georgia Tech prohibits citizenship status, immigration status, and national origin discrimination in hiring, firing, and recruitment, except where such restrictions are required in order to comply with law, regulation, executive order, or Attorney General directive, or where they are required by Federal, State, or local government contract.

More information on these policies can be found here: https://www.usg.edu/policymanual/section6/c2714 Board of Regents Policy Manual | University System of Georgia (usg.edu).

This is not a supervisory position.
This position does not have any financial responsibilities.
This position will not be required to drive.
This role is not considered a position of trust.
This position does not require a purchasing card (P-Card).
This position will not travel
This position does not require security clearance.

Successful candidate must be able to pass a background check. Please visit http://policylibrary.gatech.edu/employment/pre-employment-screening