What are the responsibilities and job description for the CPD Program Analyst position at George Consulting, Ltd.?
Job Description:
George Consulting is seeking a CPD Program Analyst to support NIPO at the Washington Navy Yard.
Roles and
Responsibilities:
Our Program Analysts support different
groupsand whereeach will have 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.
* Attendand
activelyparticipatein team meetings.
* Country Program
Directors (CPDs) at BPC Leads at Navy IPO are Navy Officers and Civil Servants
that act as official Points of Contact for the US Navy to foreign governments
for FMS and BPC. Our CPD and BPC Supporting Program Analysts support their
work. The CPD support team provides administrative, analytic, and management
support specific to internal and enterprise-wide FMS case development,
management, and administration.
* 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. This includes both entering
individual requests in the system and tracking their progress against target
metrics at both individual and aggregate levels, and coordinating with case
managers at Case Administering Offices (CAOs) on their completion.
* 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.
* BPC Specific
* 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 &
Experience:
* Portfolio Management
Skills
* Project Management
Skills
* Excellent
communication skills to include
* Professional
communication requesting inputs from dotted-line entities and following up on
them
* Ability to learn and
apply cross-cultural understanding when present and participating in
engagements with other countries
* Comfort 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
product
* Skill in crafting
presentations to senior government decision makers
* Familiarity and/or
Experience with FMS or BPC
* Willingness 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.
