Deputy Program Manager

Location: Washington, District of Columbia, United States

Workplace: hybrid

Employment Type: contract

Description

Apogee is seeking an experienced Deputy Program Manager / Enterprise Risk & Resilience Lead to support a federal readiness simulation and decision-support program. This role will combine program governance, enterprise risk management, organizational resilience, continuity planning, and executive decision support to help ensure successful delivery of mission-critical initiatives.

The successful candidate will work closely with the Program Manager, technical teams, operational subject-matter experts, and federal stakeholders to identify, assess, and mitigate mission, operational, workforce, cybersecurity, schedule, and implementation risks.

This individual will play a key role in strengthening program execution, improving organizational readiness, and enabling informed decision-making across complex federal environments.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support the Program Manager with program governance, schedule management, reporting, stakeholder coordination, and execution oversight.
• Develop, maintain, and manage the integrated enterprise risk register.
• Identify and evaluate operational, organizational, workforce, cybersecurity, technical, schedule, and implementation risks.
• Develop risk mitigation strategies, response plans, ownership models, escalation paths, and risk triggers.
• Lead risk and governance discussions with senior leaders and federal stakeholders.
• Support organizational resilience and continuity planning efforts, including disruption, surge, degraded operations, and recovery scenarios.
• Track program decisions, assumptions, dependencies, risks, issues, and corrective actions.
• Support executive briefings, readiness assessments, milestone reviews, and decision gates.
• Coordinate cross-functional teams, deliverables, and workstream dependencies.
• Contribute to program documentation, training materials, demonstrations, and transition activities.
• Support continuous improvement of program processes, governance frameworks, and operational readiness capabilities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Public Administration, Emergency Management, Organizational Leadership, Risk Management, or related discipline.
• Minimum 8 years of experience supporting program management, enterprise risk management, business continuity, resilience, readiness, or federal consulting initiatives.
• Proven experience establishing and managing enterprise risk management processes.
• Experience supporting complex federal programs with multiple stakeholders, technical teams, and interconnected workstreams.
• Ability to translate operational and organizational risks into actionable mitigation strategies.
• Strong communication skills with experience in executive briefings, reporting, facilitation, and stakeholder engagement.
• Ability to obtain and maintain required client suitability requirements, including Public Trust eligibility if required.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Master’s degree in a relevant field.
• PMP, PMI-RMP, CBCP, Lean Six Sigma, change management, or related professional certification.
• Experience supporting defense, national security, emergency management, continuity, mobilization, or federal readiness programs.
• Experience designing or supporting tabletop exercises, scenario planning, crisis management, or resilience programs.
• Familiarity with simulation platforms, analytics solutions, technology implementations, or decision-support environments.
• Experience working with federal agencies and mission-critical programs.
• Experience in Program management, risk strategy, operational resilience, and executive decision-making.
• Expertise in working with senior stakeholders, managing ambiguity, and driving risk-informed outcomes in complex federal environments.
• Ability to obtain and maintain client-required suitability clearance or Public Trust determination.
• Candidates must be able to support periodic onsite meetings in Virginia.

Benefits

For any questions (OR) to apply, please contact us at careers@apogeeglobalrms.com.