Risk Manager, Senior

Company: Booz Allen Hamilton
Location: Huntsville
Posted on: September 13, 2020

Job Description:

Are you searching for a position where you can use your project or program risk management and planning skills to make a difference? As a risk manager, you’ll establish, develop, and analyze project or program risks with a diverse team of leaders, technical SMEs, business and acquisition professionals, clients, and stakeholders. You’ll use your experience with developing and managing mitigation or correction action plans across workstreams and teams to assist the client and team in defining, planning for, tracking, and achieving their goals.

The real power of risk analysis comes from communication, so you’ll create and manage a diverse risk register to provide status updates and develop analytical reports that effectively communicate to all members of the team to assist with recommendations for improvement to project leadership. Through continued interface with the team and internal program management on relevant schedule issues, you will help resolve, report, and brief on risk, issue, or opportunity status and program health to internal program management. You’ll implement sustainable risk management processes.

Empower change with us.

You Have:

8 years of experience with establishing, development, managing and integrating large project or program risk registers and mitigation or corrective action plans using Microsoft Excel

5+ years of experience with project management on federal government contracts

Experience with advanced risk management techniques, including quantified risk analysis and performing schedule risk assessments (SRA) or enterprise risk assessments

Ability to establish, develop, manage, and analyze project risks with minimal oversight

Ability to critically assess risk inputs from client and team, and translate into a clear and concise risk register format for tracking

Ability to evaluate technical risk inputs and mitigation steps with team to validate impacts, probabilities, and dependencies

Ability to adapt to evolving requirements and deliver to project deadlines

BA or BS degree

Nice If You Have:

Experience with project, program, or portfolio performance metrics, including establishing, analyzing, and reporting

Experience with earned value, budget management, cost estimation

Experience with supporting programs and contracts within the federal government

Ability to be flexible, show initiative and innovation, and deal with ambiguous and fast-paced situations

Ability to work independently and as an integrated member of a project team

Possession of excellent data gathering, analytical, and problem-solving skills

Active PMP Project Management Professional (PMP), Schedule Professional (PMI-SP), or Risk Management Professional (PMI-RMP) Certification

Clearance:

Applicants selected will be subject to a security investigation and may need to meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information; Secret clearance is required.

Build Your Career:

A challenging and dynamic work environment isn’t all we have to offer. When you join Booz Allen, you’ll have access to:

experts in virtually every field

a culture that focuses on supporting our employees

opportunities that provide stability while offering variety

You’ll also be exposed to a wealth of training resources through our Digital University, an online learning portal featuring more than 5000 functional and technical courses, certifications, and books. Build your technical skills through hands-on training on the latest tools and tech from our in-house experts. Pursuing certifications that directly impact your role? You may be able to take advantage of our tuition assistance, on-site bootcamps, certification training, academic programs, vendor relationships, and a network of professionals who can give you helpful tips. We’ll help you develop the career you want as you chart your own course for success.

We’re an EOE that empowers our people—no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic—to fearlessly drive change

We’re an EOE that empowers our people—no matter their race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, veteran status, or other protected characteristic—to fearlessly drive change.

At Booz Allen, we harness our collective ingenuity to solve our clients’ toughest management and technology problems. We work with governments, Fortune 500 corporations, and not-for-profits around the globe, in industries ranging from defense to health, energy to international development. We believe there is no product, code, or strategy that can create progress—only people can. That’s why for more than 100 years we’ve empowered our team: over 24,000 dreamers, drivers, and doers who work together to change the world.

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