As a Technical Project Manager, you will lead projects and programs that deliver key capabilities to accomplish the U.S. intelligence mission. Your teams will solve complex problems through your leadership in applying your project management, critical thinking, and people skills. Your Technical Project Management career will challenge you to apply your skills across the vast, global variety of technical and mission domains in CIA.
CIA Technical Project Managers drive critical technology initiatives in the Directorate of Digital Innovation (DDI) and turn user needs into operating capabilities. Your responsibilities involve integration of programmatic, technical, systems engineering, business, budget, schedule, and personnel elements of a project, including:
- Defining requirements, concepts of operation, architectures, and team structures
- Tailoring and applying program management and systems engineering processes
- Leading, negotiating, and defending technical and programmatic solutions
- Developing, managing, and defending cost, scope, performance, and schedule through delivery of initiatives, products, or systems
- Leveraging different methods to communicate status to stakeholders
- Conducting acquisition planning and source selection
Opportunities may exist for domestic and foreign travel, technical and management training, and assignments in other offices in the CIA.
