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.