Operations & Compliance Director

$80,000 - $146,000/Yr

Amentum - Juneau, AK

Full-time - Senior

Remote - Juneau, AK

5,001-10,000 employees

Professional, Scientific, and Technical Services

About the position

The Operations & Compliance Director at Amentum is responsible for overseeing a team that provides programmatic support, ensuring operational and contractual compliance throughout the program lifecycle. This role involves leadership in managing contracts, finance, HR, and communications, while also serving as a liaison between project teams and HQ functional support. The ideal candidate will have extensive experience in government contracting and strong leadership skills, working in a dynamic environment to meet customer expectations and achieve programmatic results.

Responsibilities

• Provide operational and contractual compliance leadership through the entire life of the program, from start-up through close-out.
• Develop procedures to increase performance by implementing sound quality management processes.
• Review/develop operational best practices and support oversight of overall business operations and contract reporting requirements.
• Ensure necessary resources are provided to meet program requirements, directing, controlling, and ensuring procurements are made in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
• Monitor program's progress against the contract and organizational goals and objectives, ensuring they are consistently and adequately met.
• Provide coaching, training, mentorship, and leadership to the contracts team, communications and monitoring and evaluation team, and finance and HR team.
• Resolve staffing and resourcing challenges through creative and cost-effective approaches that are within budget.
• Provide financial, operational, and contractual direction to ensure on-time delivery of the contract scope of work and seek opportunities for continual improvement.
• Support development of program deliverables and perform high-level reviews and quality control to ensure timely reporting.
• Oversee and ensure quality control of all financial management functions, including preparation of budgets and forecasts, monitoring costs, and program financial reporting.
• Lead contractual compliance assurance efforts, implementing systems and best practices for risk mitigation.
• Lead contractual negotiations in coordination with HQ contracts, legal, and contracts team.
• Ensure compliance with Federal and international contractual and export regulations and advise Project Director on solutions to contractual matters as they arise.
• Ensure strategic alignment of project activities with those of the customer and the organization.
• Develop and conduct customer engagement strategy, including participating in face-to-face meetings and attending industry events.
• Support strategic supplier relationship development and maturation.
• Participate in strategic planning, annual reporting, monitoring and evaluation reporting, quality-related reporting, and other planning and reporting activities as directed by the Project Director.
• Perform other duties and special projects as required.

Requirements

• At least thirteen (13) years of professional experience in a management role performing similar duties as those outlined in this job description.
• Some experience working on programs with monitoring and evaluation and quality standards requirements and components.
• High level understanding of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and agency supplements.
• Ability and willingness to travel to austere environments as and when needed (approximately 10%) is required.
• A Bachelor's degree, Master's degree preferred, in international development, business, global health, or other related field from an accredited college.
• Proficiency in written and oral English language.
• Strong leadership and interpersonal skills, very detail-oriented, flexible, and possess strong organizational and time management skills.
• Proficient financial and operational management, personnel management, and contractual management skills.
• Strong communication and business writing skills with demonstrated experience drafting professional, concise, and persuasive messages.
• Ability to effectively collaborate, cooperate, and interface with multiple levels of stakeholders to achieve results.

Nice-to-haves

• Experience working with USAID and/or in the global health arena preferred.