Deputy Program Manager
Posted 5 Aug 2026
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- Expected experience
- 8+ yrs
- Management level
- Individual contributor
- Contract
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Field of studyBusiness, Emergency Management, Organizational Leadership, Public Administration, Risk Management (or related)
Study levelBachelor's
CertificationsProject Management Professional, PMI-RMP, CBCP
Field of studyRelevant Field
Study levelMaster's
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.