Duties
Serves as the Innovation Project Manager for the Child and Youth Program, Family Care Branch, Marine and Family Program Division (MF), Manpower and Reserve Affairs Department (M&RA), Headquarters Marine Corps (HQMC) in Quantico, VA. The incumbent reports directly to the Child and Youth Program Manager. The Innovation Project Manager¿s primary duty is the development, coordination, implementation, administration and evaluation of various initiatives directly related to access, cost and quality of Child and Youth programming (CYP) across the Marine Corps.
Uses established project management skills, tools, and knowledge to develop and complete planned projects and achieve project goals within the scope, budget, time constraints and organizational limitations. Projects will vary in scope and complexity and incumbent must have the ability to manage multiple projects, at varying stages of development, simultaneously.
Serves as the Project Manager with responsibility for the oversight of day-to-day implementation of various initiatives which have broad, multifaceted and significant impact on the mission of the Marine Corps Child and Youth Programs.
Identifies and analyzes issues, problems, and challenges facing the organization and formulates and evaluates possible courses of action to proactively make and implement decisions to transform programs to meet key mission requirements.
Serves as a contracting officer representative (COR) on contracts in support of centralized purchasing, implementing a point of sale and program management IT system and staff scheduling tool.
Develops new policies, guides or instructions and makes decisions to change existing guidance to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of program management.
Project Management
Community Outreach and Partnerships- Identify opportunities within community programs, located around Marine Corps installations, to expand existing childcare capacity for military members, such as space buy-down or other innovative means.
Program Innovation- Propose, implement, oversee and analyze the impact of CYP pilot programs, to identify promising practices which expand capacity, improve quality, support employee retention, or reduce the cost of child or youth programming.
Planning and Policy -Lead efforts associated with near- and long-term strategic planning for the program.
Identify, analyze and develop plans, policy and budget for routine lifecycle replacement of CYP equipment (classroom, training rooms, kitchen) and playground items across the Marine Corps enterprise.
Contracts-Serve as the Contracting Officer¿s Representative (COR) and Subject Matter Expert (SME) in the identification, selection, transition, implementation and training for a cloud-based information technology system. Develops a transition plan to ensure sufficient contract modifications and options remain viable until a new system is fully functional.
Installation Collaboration and Partnership - Partner with Installation CYP representatives to drive efficiencies through automation and to provide information analysis to be used in advancing services to the military customer and create product value.