Task Order Manager Veterans Health Administration

Overview

The Task Order Manager serves as the primary point of contact to the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and provides overall leadership, coordination, and execution oversight for a large Veterans health Administration (VHA) contract. This role is responsible for managing a complex, enterprise-wide healthcare transformation initiative that includes organizational restructuring, workforce alignment, financial modernization, and change management. The Task Order manager establishes governance structures, manages stakeholder engagement across VHA offices, and ensures alignment with enterprise priorities while driving execution across multiple concurrent workstreams.

The role requires strong leadership, strategic direction, and the ability to operate effectively within a within a complex federal healthcare environment with senior‑level executive level engagement.

Ansible is a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) providing Federal customers with solutions in many arenas. Our customers face wide-ranging challenges in the fields of national security, health care, and information technology. To address these challenges, we employ intelligent and committed staff who take care of our customers’ success as if it is their own.

Responsibilities:

• Serve as the designated Task Order Manager and primary interface with the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR), ensuring timely communication, responsiveness, and adherence to task order requirements
• Provide overall leadership, coordination, and execution oversight for the task order, including management of contractor resources and performance across all task areas
• Execute formal project initiation processes, including development and delivery of scoping letters aligned to task order objectives, deliverables, and timelines
• Establish, maintain, and govern a PMBOK‑aligned program management framework, including development, update, and execution of the Contractor Project Management Plan (CPMP) with Government approval
• Oversee integrated task order reporting, including bi‑monthly progress reports, executive briefings, dashboards, and required artifacts in accordance with VHA standards
• Manage task order financial oversight, including labor hour tracking, reconciliation, and budget reporting in a hybrid LH/FFP contract environment
• Coordinate execution and dependencies across VHA program offices, including Workforce Management, Finance, and senior leadership offices, to support enterprise alignment and delivery
• Identify, track, and elevate risks, issues, and schedule impacts through established governance and escalation protocols
• Ensure quality assurance for invoicing, onboarding compliance, and deliverable submission in accordance with task order and PWS requirements
• Adapt task order execution to shifting priorities or executive direction while maintaining compliance, documentation, and performance accountability

Qualifications:

• Minimum of 10 years of experience providing task order, program, or enterprise program management support within federal healthcare or large government organizations
• Master’s degree
• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification required; additional certifications such as Prosci, Lean, or equivalent preferred
• Demonstrated experience serving as a primary interface with a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) and managing task order execution
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams, to produce required reports, dashboards, and executive briefings
• Proven ability to establish and maintain PMBOK‑aligned program management frameworks, including development and execution of a Contractor Project Management Plan (CPMP)
• Experience overseeing task order reporting, including bi‑monthly progress reports, budget trackers, and executive‑level status briefings
• Demonstrated capability managing labor hour tracking, reconciliation, and financial oversight in a hybrid labor hour and FFP contract environment
• Strong experience coordinating across VHA program offices, including Workforce Management, Finance, and senior leadership
• Ability to identify, manage, and escalate risks, issues, and dependencies through established governance and escalation protocols
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with demonstrated comfort engaging senior government stakeholders and executive leaders
• Highly organized, proactive, and accountable, with strong follow‑through and performance discipline
• Demonstrated ability to operate independently, adapt to shifting priorities, and maintain compliance and documentation rigor
• Experience producing high‑quality scoping letters, decision papers, briefings, and task order deliverables in accordance with VHA standards

All candidates must be able to:

• Sit, stand, walk, lift, squat, bend, twist, and reach above shoulders during the work shift
• Lift up to 50 lbs from floor to waist
• Lift up to 20 lbs
• Carry up to 40 lbs a reasonable distance
• Push/pull with 30 lbs of force

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or status as a protected veteran.