Budget and Financial Analyst - Expert - TO 41 Pos. 9

Position 9: Consultant – Technology, Process and Business (Expert- Strategic Business)

Overall Assignment Description:

(U) Serve as a Consultant to the Government-led team that:

• Defines and implements strategies to identify commercially available solutions to enable the NGA efforts to provide an integrated customer service experience and deliver world-class geospatial knowledge, content and services to customers worldwide. 

• Uses innovative approaches and non-traditional methodologies to solve customer problems and develop new capabilities in support of the NGA’s GEOINT online services.

• Identifies and exploits the innovations of others, including industry, partners and customer communities.

• Develops follow-on as well as new NGA acquisition strategies to obtain critical skills sets to augment the Government workforce.

(U) Duties may include: 

• Support collaborative teams of multi-functional resources in the delivery of specific technical and/or process projects.

• Assist the Government in the preparation of Acquisition documents and briefings to meet

NGA Acquisition milestones.

• Provide expertise to align technical requirement with acquisition strategies.

• Provide technical and acquisition expertise to support the Government multi-functional team throughout the entire Acquisition process.

• Support the development of pre-acquisition documentation in preparation for a new NGA

acquisition.

• Research acquisition topics for use in acquisition strategies and documentation.

• Analyze and evaluate new emergent technologies and /or processes for opportunity and

application to NGA Initiatives.

• Provide advice on business case development for NGA strategic initiatives.

• Support to the management of multiple concurrent technology projects from problem

definition through new capability adoption.

• Support to the implementation of new strategies to expedite prototype testing and feedback quickly and spur agile acquisitions.

• Use knowledge of industry trends to influence NGA planning.

Skills and Experience:

(U) Required:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a

Business related field such as Economics, Finance, or Accounting.

• Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program

Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and

techniques.

(U) Desired

• MBA in Business or International Business.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with enterprise architecture and/or solutions architecture

• Demonstrated specialized experience in the development of pre-acquisition and acquisition documentation.

• Demonstrated specialized experience with acquisition strategies and approaches for follow-on or new enterprise contract vehicles, in the procurement of critical skills sets and staff augmentation for the government.

• Demonstrated experience with leading: value chain analysis; brain storming sessions; concept development, table top exercises or risk assessments.

• Demonstrated experience in recommending strategies and developing plans to effectively manage risk across the project or organization.