Budget and Financial Analyst - Senior - TO41 PD1

Position 1: Program Manager - Acquisition (Senior-Lifecycle Acquisition) Overall Assignment Description: (U) Provide Acquisition Program Management to a Government lead and team that: • Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management. • Works across NGA directorates to help the Government coordinate development of new and/or modified/enhanced capabilities for operational use. • Provides technical guidance to the Government Point of Contact (GPOC) on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering. • Provides program management guidance in service frameworks and models, agile engineering processes, and industry best practices to achieve NGA’s GEOINT mission. (U) Duties may include: • Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management guidance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO). • Provide support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s. • Provide business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control. • Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results. • Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams. • Interface with NGA organizational areas, end users/customers including foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks, develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that ensure technical results and program performance. • Provide program management support to NGA Management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering. • Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the NGA Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities. • Support the development, coordination and governance management of Request for Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents. • Ensure the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents. • Support the preparation of briefing packages for the Acquisition Governance Process and other related governance boards. • Support the coordination of program management between the Engineering Divisions, CIO-T Offices, and NGA Directorates and Associate Directorates. • Support NGA and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards. • Support Enterprise Release Planning. • Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s) and / or Assessments. • Maintain PMO artifacts using NGA approved software, tools and processes. • Provide acquisition program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution; working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and applications. • Provide validation and verification of engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and traceability to requirements. Skills and Experience: (U) Required: • Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance. • 8 Years of demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management. • Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques. (U) Desired: • Demonstrated specialized experience in Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management. • Demonstrated specialized experience in Department of Defense (DoD) and or NGA acquisition processes. • Demonstrated specialized experience with the development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives. • Demonstrated knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community. • Demonstrated specialized experience in managing Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contracts. • Demonstrated specialized experience in lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results. • Demonstrated specialized experience tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations. • Demonstrated specialized experience with the identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts. • Demonstrated specialized experience in performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements. • Demonstrated knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes. • Demonstrated specialized experience with developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities. • Demonstrated specialized experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s).