Consortium Operations Manager

Responsibilities

The Consortium Operations Manager leads the day-to-day operational execution of the Genesis Mission Consortium by coordinating workstreams, managing budgets, and ensuring contractual compliance. They serve as a primary operational point of contact for federal sponsors and facilitate collaboration across multidisciplinary teams.

Requirements

Candidates must have a Bachelor's degree with at least 8 years of experience or a Master's degree with 6 years of experience, including 4 years in complex federal program management. U.S. citizenship is required, and candidates must demonstrate strong leadership, financial oversight, and stakeholder management skills.

Skills

• Program management
• Operations management
• Strategic planning
• Budgeting
• Financial forecasting
• Resource planning
• Stakeholder management
• Cross-functional leadership
• Contractual compliance
• Risk management
• Project delivery
• Critical thinking
• Communication skills
• Workforce planning
• Process improvement

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Life insurance
• Short-term disability
• Long-term disability
• Retirement savings program
• 401(k) plan
• Paid parental leave
• Financial assistance with adoption expenses
• Financial assistance with infertility treatments
• Financial reimbursement for education
• Employee assistance program
• Paid time off

About this role

Why RTI

RTI International is an independent, scientific research institute dedicated to improving the human condition. Our vision is to address the world's most critical problems with technical and science-based solutions in pursuit of a better future. Clients rely on us to answer questions that demand an objective and multidisciplinary approach—one that integrates expertise across social, statistical, data, and laboratory sciences, engineering, and other technical disciplines to solve the world’s most challenging problems.

We believe in the promise of science and technical solutions, and we push ourselves every day to deliver on that promise for the good of people, communities, and businesses in the US and around the world. If you are looking for the opportunity to make a real difference, RTI is the place for you.

About the Hiring Group

RTI/TechWerx supports the management and execution of the Genesis Mission Consortium under the programmatic direction of the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). The consortium brings together industry, academia, National Laboratories, and other partners to facilitate collaboration and resource sharing in support of the Genesis Mission, a whole of government initiative to harness artificial intelligence and advanced computing to accelerate scientific discovery, advance energy innovation, and strengthen national security.
The Consortium Operations Manager leads the day-to-day operational execution of the Genesis Mission Consortium, translating strategic priorities and contractual commitments into coordinated workplans, staffing and resource plans, and timely delivery. Reporting to the Consortium Lead, the Manager serves as the consortium’s operational lead and is responsible for integrating execution across workstreams, managing operational performance, and ensuring appropriate financial oversight, contractual compliance, and project delivery that meets RTI’s internal quality standards. This position has no direct reports and exercises operational leadership through coordination, priority-setting, and follow-through across project teams.
Within the approved project plans, budgets, and assigned authority, the Consortium Operations Manager establishes operational priorities, directs program coordination activities, coordinates project teams and RTI business partners, and resolves routine operations issues. The Manager serves as a key operational point of contact for federal sponsors and ensures the Consortium Lead has timely visibility into performance, risks, and decisions requiring escalation.
The Consortium Lead retains overall accountability for RTI’s delivery of consortium activities, including implementation strategy, governance support, strategic sponsor relationships, major programmatic decisions with RTI’s authority, and overall performance. The Operations Manager owns the processes and follow-through required to execute that direction, enabling the Consortium Lead to focus on overall project leadership and sponsor relationships.
To qualify, candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require, now or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status (e.g., H-1B visa status, etc.). Preference will be given to candidates located in the DC or RTP areas, with flexibility to consider remote candidates based on qualifications.

What You'll Do

Program Execution and Integration
Translate strategic direction and sponsor priorities into integrated workplans, ensuring activities and deliverables have clear owners, milestones, deadlines, and dependencies, and that workplans are updated regularly.
Coordinate execution across consortium functional leads, sponsor/agency leads, program and project coordination staff, and RTI business partners to ensure cohesive delivery and clear accountability.
Provide day-to-day direction and priorities to program/project coordination staff and coordinate delivery with workstream leads.
Oversee the integrated consortium workplan, schedules, deliverables, actions, decisions, risks, and status reporting, ensuring follow-through on agreed actions and timely completion of milestones and deliverables.
Maintain visibility across workstreams, dependencies, priorities, risks, and issues; work with functional leads to resolve execution challenges and escalate significant delivery, resource, strategic, governance, or sponsor matters to the Consortium Lead as appropriate.
Establish and maintain effective program management processes and operating rhythms appropriate to the size and complexity of the consortium.
Sponsor and Stakeholder Management
Serve as a primary day-to-day operational point of contact for federal sponsors, in coordination with the Consortium Lead and designated sponsor/agency leads.
Support the preparation and delivery of briefings, status updates, decision materials, and other program information for sponsor and RTI leadership audiences.
Support the Consortium Lead in the preparation of senior sponsor engagements, strategic discussions, and major programmatic decisions.
Support integration of additional federal sponsoring agencies, working with agency leads and functional teams to accommodate sponsor-specific requirements while leveraging common Genesis Mission Consortium services and processes.
Coordinate follow-up on sponsor requests and agreed actions, ensuring clear ownership and timely responses, and escalating matters requiring Consortium Lead direction or contractual review.
Financial, Staffing & Operational Management
Lead program budgeting, forecasting, staffing, and resource planning in collaboration with the Consortium Lead, Financial Analyst, and functional leads.
Monitor and manage program expenditures against the budget, supported by the Financial Analyst, and assess actual and forecast costs against the contract values to identify emerging financial risks.
Track labor charging and resource utilization against staffing plans and budgets; assess staffing needs as ...

About RTI International

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