Consortium Operations Manager

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.

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 workload evolves and recommend adjustments to priorities, assignments, processes, or staffing.
• Track contractual billing milestones and coordinate with responsible parties to ensure invoices are submitted promptly when billing requirements are met, including any required deliverable acceptance.
• Monitor expenditures against amounts invoiced and coordinate resolution of billing delays or discrepancies.
• Coordinate with contracting, subcontracting, finance, billing, and other RTI business partners to support effective program execution and compliance with applicable requirements.
• Support operational planning for new or expanded sponsored activities, including anticipated staffing, operational, financial and other internal resource requirements.

Operational Improvement and Scaling

• Identify and implement opportunities to simplify, standardize, automate, or otherwise improve recurring Genesis Mission Consortium processes and workflows.
• Develop and implement scalable operating approaches for supporting growth in consortium membership, programs, working groups, and federal sponsorship.
• Assess operational implications of additional initiatives and sponsoring agencies and develop appropriate implementation approaches in coordination with functional and sponsor leads.
• Support longer-term workforce, capacity, and operational planning in coordination with the Consortium Lead and functional leads to ensure the Genesis Mission Consortium can scale efficiently while maintaining program quality and sponsor responsiveness.

What You'll Need

Required

• Bachelor's degree and 8 years of experience, Master's degree and 6 years of experience, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
• US Citizenship required.
• At least 4 years relevant experience managing the day-to-day operations and delivery of complex federal programs.
• Demonstrated experience leading program execution across multidisciplinary or cross-functional teams, including establishing clear ownership, securing commitments, and driving follow-through where contributors may not directly report to the position.
• Demonstrated experience managing workplans, schedules, deliverables, risks, staffing requirements, and competing priorities.
• Demonstrated experience managing project budgets and forecasts, monitoring expenditures and labor utilization.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively with U.S. government sponsors and senior program stakeholders.
• Strong judgment and demonstrated ability to independently resolve operational issues while recognizing matters requiring leadership or sponsor escalation.
• Outstanding critical thinking skills and proven ability to identify issues and opportunities, provide solutions, and build consensus among multiple stakeholders.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including experience preparing concise program updates, briefings, and decision-support materials for senior audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment with evolving priorities, stakeholders, and requirements, navigate ambiguity, and translate incomplete information into clear next steps while meeting deadlines.
• Experience developing or implementing scalable program management processes, operating models, workflow improvements, or automation.
• Experience with workforce planning, resource allocation, and management across multidisciplinary teams or multiple workstreams.
• Periodic domestic travel may be required based on program needs.
• Some assignments may require the ability to meet applicable U.S. Government access, suitability, or security requirements.

Preferred

• Experience managing multi-stakeholder initiatives, research programs, consortiums, partnerships, or comparable activities.
• Experience supporting consortium, public-private partnership, research collaboration, or ecosystem-based program models.
• Experience managing programs involving multiple federal agencies or sponsor organizations.