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.