Cpd Program Analyst
George Consulting is seeking a CPD Program Analyst to support NIPO at the Washington Navy Yard. Roles and responsibilities include supporting different groups and having 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.
- Attend and actively participate in team meetings.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 and experience include :
Portfolio Management SkillsProject Management SkillsExcellent communication skills to include professional communication requesting inputs from dotted-line entities and following up on themAbility to learn and apply cross-cultural understanding when present and participating in engagements with other countriesComfort 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 productSkill in crafting presentations to senior government decision makersFamiliarity and / or Experience with FMS or BPCWillingness 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.