Program Analyst III (8636)

LOCATION: Stafford VA

STATUS: Contingent upon award

TRAVEL: Up to 25%

CLEARANCE: Secret

BENEFITS: 401K Life/Health/ Dental/Disability Insurance Flexible Paid Leave and Tuition Reimbursement.

Description:

Patricio Enterprises is seeking a Program Analyst III to Assist the team lead with the planning development/refinement initiation and execution of new requirements projects procedures and guidelines.

Primary duties will include (but not limited to):

• Assist the team lead with the planning development/refinement initiation and execution of new requirements projects procedures and guidelines.
• Maintain awareness of program execution and milestones as well as their strategic impacts.
• Support risk-loaded integrated master schedule (IMS) for a complete engineering development program involving hardware and software development multiple sub-component integration and system testing.
• Support project management engineering management Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition or another related subjects of comparable complexity and responsibility; apply acquisition processes and policies as outlined in the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02 relating it to life cycle management (product development production and sustainment).
• Consider affordability technology maturity and responsiveness to assist in the formulation of broad time-phased operational goals and initial capabilities.
• Assist in development design and implementation of annual and long-range plans to realize the product development components of strategic goals.
• Facilitate milestone planning by preparing reviewing and updating technical briefing materials documentation and program schedules; and developing and implementing technical and programmatic plans and measures to track programs.
• Apply relevant skills to review analyze and evaluate program development status/progress and performance (i.e. acquisition strategies and documentation acquisition phases and decision levels and timing and scope of decision reviews) and make recommendations for tailoring an acquisition approach which best fits program conditions. Recommendations shall minimize the time it takes to satisfy the validated need consistent with common sense sound business management practice applicable laws and regulations and the time-sensitive nature of the users requirement.
• Review and assess technical cost and schedule data and work with Government staff to identify shortfalls and potential corrective actions.
• Assist in identifying assessing developing and mitigating program risk.
• Work at a senior level to stimulate customer alliances for portfolio program and project support maintaining personal and organizational interactions to enhance stakeholder relations and actively promote rapport with customers.
• Draft review staff file and update a variety of documents to include acquisition documentation memorandums information and issue papers briefings executive summaries milestone review packages e-mails and meeting minutes. When applicable documents shall be prepared in accordance with DoD policies and procedures for the research development test and evaluation and procurement of materiel and shall be sufficiently complete accurate and timely to establish program goals objectives and milestones. These activities require Primavera and Microsoft Project Outlook PowerPoint Excel and Word.
• Maintain a list of required documents for assigned programs with corresponding projected need dates.
• Lead an integrated product team (IPT) and/or participate and provide input to program functional IPTs Interim Program Reviews (IPRs) milestone decisions and required program updates.
• Coordinate both internal and external conferences meetings and reviews for relevant stakeholders ensuring that locations phone and video teleconference lines are properly booked for use; scheduling speakers; developing and providing meeting materials (e.g. day-to-day schedules agendas presentations and displays etc.); and tracking action items as needed. The contractor shall support each event in person and/or via teleconference video teleconference and web addition for each meeting conducted the contractor shall develop meeting minutes and/or an executive summary.
• Review and provide input to acquisition documentation in support of program milestone decisions and IPRs.
• Provide input to support annual monthly and weekly recurring reports as needed.
• Brief leadership on the status of program reviews and recurring reports.
• Provide program status updates at regular senior staff meetings.
• Communicate programmatic issues concerns and information.
• Assist to develop and update top-level briefings for public presentation to be utilized at various conferences and events.
• Track the status of action items meeting minutes program milestones and monthly reports.
• Assist in determining appropriate assignments; setting priorities monitoring progress and reporting on progress to meet established milestones and deadlines.
• Ensure that product teams are aware of deadlines assignments and objectives.
• Assist in maintaining program management tools and processes.
• Obtain and maintain all information regarding the projects and events he/she is responsible for managing and provide updates on issues upcoming meetings briefings and taskers related to assigned projects both orally and in written form.
• Assist in the review preparation and submission of responses to formal taskers related to acquisition and program office operations.
• Monitor/protect acquisition-sensitive materiel.
• Meet assigned deadlines.
• Apply managerial and executive skills to construct and maintain a program schedule; review analyze and evaluate program development progress and performance; and provide on-going analytical acquisition and administrative support by managing and coordinating daily staff operations.
• Develop and maintain an IMS that synchronizes activities of all program management functional areas into a logically linked sequence of events from program initiation to program completion such that activity changes in any one functional area reveals effects on activities of all other functional areas and reflect risk at a defined confidence level.
• Support long term Five Year Development Plan (FYDP) and near term (current future year) budget support to include identification of requirements preparation of Obligations and Outlays (O&O) plans conduct of internal reviews and development of applicable reports.
• Migrate archive and maintain electronic program files in appropriate SharePoint locations.
• Develop implement and monitor information security policies instructions procedures and control systems for activities involving clearance/classification authority and guides.
• Implement and monitor training programs regarding physical information and operational security.
• Develop implement and monitor policies instructions procedures control systems and methods for the following functions:
  • Delegation and exercise of classification and declassification authority
  • Use of classification guides document marking and safeguarding
  • Personnel access controls
  • Need to Know criteria
  • Physical storage and control
  • Security education
  • Transmitting transferring reproducing downgrading and destroying information
• Provide information on new developments and advances in security processes methods and application to include resolution of unique time-sensitive issues and implementation of new techniques requirements and systems.
• Serve as the system domain administrator for the training development capability system. The contractor shall provide after-action reports for each training element to include a summary of the training and results.

KNOWLEDGE AND SKILLS:

• Knowledge of DoD Acquisition and Life-Cycle Management policies and procedures including DoD 5000 series and service-specific guidance.
• Must be able to work independently.
• Must be detail oriented and organized.
• Must be able to manage multiple projects at one time.
• Must be able toresearch analyze and evaluate information to provide multiple courses of action.
• Must be ableto express ideas effectively orally and in writing.
• Proficiencywith Microsoft Office.

EDUCATION / EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelors degree with 5 - 7 years of DoD acquisitions experience or a Masters and 3 to 5 years of experience.
• Experience working with the Federal Government.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

This job operates in both a professional office environment and a field role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers phones printers/photocopiers filing cabinets and fax machines as well as military equipment. While normally office working environment Test support may require extended periods outside under adverse climatic conditions.

The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this position has both sedentary andphysicalactive sedentary work requires the following physical activities:reaching sifting lifting finger dexterity grasping feeling repetitive motions talking hearing and visual physical work requires the following physical activities: walking bending carrying loadsdemonstratingthe use of military equipment reaching sifting lifting hand dexterity grasping feeling repetitive motions talking hearing and visual acuity.

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS: Up to 25% with travel by auto air and other means.

EOE. Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities.
Patricio Enterprises Inc. is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion sex national origin disability status protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

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