Job Description:
George Consulting is seeking a CPD Program Analyst to support NIPO at the Washington Navy Yard.
Roles and
Responsibilities:
Our Program Analysts support different
groupsand whereeach will have different focuses. As this supports an Echelon
2 Activity, Program Analysts are expected to be able to contextualize
information in terms of how they support strategic and regional national
security objectives, such as those in Combatant Commander Theater Security
Cooperation Plans or Department of State regional initiatives.Additionally,
information needs to be presented to different audiences, to include SES and
Flag Officer level, and various DoD and Department of State officials, to
obtain buy-in and concurrence.
The Program Analyst
responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:
* Support Department of the Navy (DoN) and
Department of Defense (DoD) Security Cooperation (SC), Security Assistance (SA)
and Foreign Military Sales (FMS) assessments, staff organization, and
administrative requirements.
* Able to work independently with limited
direction and be self-motivated.
* Able to work with other contractor teammates
and customers daily.
* Able to work closely with customers to ensure
deliverables meet their expectations and arrive in a timely manner.
* Attendand activelyparticipatein team
meetings.
* Country Program Directors (CPDs) at BPC Leads
at Navy IPO are Navy Officers and Civil Servants that act as official Points of
Contact for the US Navy to foreign governments for FMS and BPC. Our CPD and BPC
Supporting Program Analysts support their work. The CPD support team provides
administrative, analytic, and management support specific to internal and
enterprise-wide FMS case development, management, and administration.
* Provide direct support to specific country
program directors, managing the case portfolio and responding to executive
level issues and concerns.
* Assist CPDs and BPC leads in the Case
development process, from receipt of Letter of Request (LOR) to issuance of an
Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA), Pricing and Availability (P&A) or
Lease Agreement. This includes both entering individual requests in the system
and tracking their progress against target metrics at both individual and
aggregate levels, and coordinating with case managers at Case Administering
Offices (CAOs) on their completion.
* Develop and provide insight for CPDs and
regional divisions on case execution performance at the portfolio-level
(Country and Region) and case closure targets for completed cases.
* Support the development and maintenance of
analytic products, including country summary papers, engagement sheets,
information papers, and briefs.
* Provide statistics and metrics to support
analysis and management of security assistance activities.
* Provide advice, analysis, counsel,
coordination, and prepare technical papers and briefs regarding areas such as
meetings and conferences (i.e., Program Management Reviews (PMRs), Security
Assistance Management Reviews (SAMRs), Case Management Reviews (CMRs), and Case
Reconciliation Reviews (CRRs)).
* Provide advice and support regarding DoN level
reporting requirements and prepare assigned reports (i.e., monthly Chief of
Naval Operations (CNO) reports, internal Navy IPO products, annual FMS Forecast
Reports, and other related quantitative and qualitative reports.
* Support Navy IPO customer engagements,
presentations and client meetings, as required.
* Daily interface with the Navy IPO client to
support the completion of specific tasks of a project within estimated
timeframes and budget constraints.
* Attend and maintain minutes for FMS enterprise
activities and high-level meetings for the CPD.
* Provide inputs to strategic plans, regional
and country summaries, command briefs, process desk guides and other handbooks,
metrics reporting, and other internal and external communications
documents.
* BPC Specific
* Support BPC case planning, administration,
management, logistics, training, and financial matters.
* Analyze enterprise-wide BPC programs, and make
policy, program, and performance recommendations.
* Routinely assess overall BPC program status
and provide advice on progress and relevant timelines.
* Provide advice, analysis, coordination, and
prepare technical papers regarding strategic goals, meetings and symposiums,
and conferences.
* Support BPC data calls.
THIS POSITION REQUIRES
THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN AN ACTIVE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SECRET SECURITY
CLEARANCE.
Required Skills &
Experience:
* Portfolio Management Skills
* Project Management Skills
* Excellent communication skills to
include
* Professional communication requesting inputs
from dotted-line entities and following up on them
* Ability to learn and apply cross-cultural
understanding when present and participating in engagements with other
countries
* Comfort working across different IT systems to
move a product through different parts of a complex process, and connecting the
dots across them to track progress of single product
* Skill in crafting presentations to senior
government decision makers
* Familiarity and/or Experience with FMS or
BPC
* Willingness to be on-site at Washington Navy
Yard (WNY) 2 to 3 days per week, and travel to other government offices,
including DSCA, OSD and echelon 2 and 3 activities; Occasional travel to
supported foreign countries.