Program Manager – Cybersecurity & Compliance

Location: Florida, Remote
Candidates must reside in Florida
Employment Type: Full Time

Role Overview

The Program Manager will serve as the single point of accountability to client executive leadership, participating oversight offices, and stakeholder organizations. This role will own the end to end execution of contract deliverables, including kickoff, planning, testing oversight, reporting, quality management, knowledge transfer, and closeout.

The program may span up to 30 participating agencies, requiring strong multi agency coordination and executive level communication. The Program Manager will be accountable for schedule, cost, quality, and client satisfaction under a deliverable based contract with financial consequences tied to on time acceptance.

Key Responsibilities

• Serve as the primary client interface and single point of accountability for all deliverables and contractual commitments.

• Lead project kickoff and develop, publish, and maintain the Master Project Plan as the authoritative program tracking tool.

• Direct multi agency coordination for system access requests, testing schedules, stakeholder communications, and deployment activities.

• Own the deliverable acceptance process from end to end, including evidence packages, submission tracking, and formal approval records.

• Maintain risk and issue registers and proactively identify and escalate schedule variances before they impact key milestones.

• Produce daily, biweekly, and monthly status reports and executive dashboards.

• Facilitate lessons learned sessions and lead structured knowledge transfer to government personnel.

• Enforce confidentiality, evidence handling, records retention, and public records compliance across the delivery team.

• Manage change control and ensure work does not proceed without required written client approval.

Required Technical Skills

• Experience managing large scale cybersecurity, independent assessment, IT audit, or compliance validation engagements.

• Deep working knowledge of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework and internal audit standards, including the IIA Global Internal Audit Standards and GAO Yellow Book.

• Working familiarity with Agreed Upon Procedures engagements or equivalent factual findings reporting disciplines, including the distinction between reporting observations and rendering opinions.

• Experience directing vulnerability assessments, penetration testing, adversary emulation, control validation, and risk based testing programs.

• Expertise developing project governance structures, communication plans, risk logs, resource plans, and executive reporting packages.

• Experience managing evidence collection, documentation review, confidentiality requirements, and secure handling of sensitive government data.

• Proficiency with Microsoft Project, Jira, ServiceNow, ClickUp, Confluence, SharePoint, and Microsoft 365 collaboration tools.

• Demonstrated ability to coordinate access requests, testing windows, and communications across multiple independent client organizations simultaneously.

• Experience delivering audit grade work products, including memoranda, testing strategies, compliance matrices, and executive briefings.

• Ability to lead lessons learned sessions and facilitate formal knowledge transfer to government staff.

Minimum Qualifications

• 8+ years of experience managing complex cybersecurity, IT audit, compliance, or cyber risk engagements.

• Minimum 3 years of experience leading multi agency, multi stakeholder, or enterprise wide programs.

• Minimum 2 years of experience delivering in a government environment at the state, local, or federal level.

• Demonstrated experience delivering firm fixed price or deliverable based contracts subject to formal client acceptance criteria.

• Experience managing programs spanning 20 or more distinct client organizations or business units.

• Must reside in the state of Florida.

Certifications

Required:

• PMP (Project Management Professional)

Preferred:

• CISSP
• CISA
• CISM
• CRISC
• GCIH
• CEH

Preferred Qualifications

• Prior experience supporting a state or federal Office of Inspector General or equivalent independent oversight function.

• Familiarity with Florida Rule 60GG-2, F.A.C., and Chapter 119, F.S. public records requirements.

• Experience delivering under GSA Multiple Award Schedule task orders, particularly SIN 54151HACS.

Working Conditions

This is a remote position; however, candidates must reside in Florida. The role requires significant client interaction, multi agency coordination, executive communication, and the ability to manage complex cybersecurity and compliance programs across multiple organizations.

About Emerging Tech

At Emerging Tech, we’re focused on solving complex challenges for government and public sector customers through technology, cybersecurity, and mission driven solutions. We’re a growing SDVOSB, 8(a), and HUBZone company where your work has a direct impact and you’ll have the opportunity to work closely with leadership, clients, and talented teams across the organization.

We’re big enough to take on meaningful federal and state missions, but still small enough that your ideas, expertise, and leadership actually make a difference. If you enjoy owning your work, solving challenging problems, and helping build something that’s growing, you’ll fit right in at Emerging Tech.