Budget and Financial Analyst - Senior

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).