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Program Analyst
Lexington Park, MarylandMust be U.S. Citizen
Clearance Required: SECRET Ability to obtain a TS/SCI
Education:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration or Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree, Project Management Professional (PMP), or relevant technical discipline. Allowable Substitution: Bachelor’s Degree or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), plus 2 years additional work experience; A.A./A.S. degree with an additional 3 years’ experience, or no degree and an additional five years’ experience.
Position Description:
Serves as a Program Analyst for the Level II Capabilities Systems Integrated Product Team (IPT), under the Level I Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band organization, in the PMA-234, Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Systems Program Office. PMA-234 is responsible for acquiring, delivering, and sustaining Airborne Electronic Attack systems and providing combatant commanders with Electronic Warfare capabilities that critically enable operational mission success. The Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) development effort is the next step in Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA). Naval Aviation needs to meet advanced and emerging electronic warfare (EW) threats and provide continuous expansion of the AEA mission area. One of the key functions of this analyst position is to support the NGJ Mid-Band Extended (MBX) non-recurring Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) effort for the Capabilities Systems IPT.
The analyst will assist the Level II Capabilities Systems Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) to manage, analyze and execute the IPT’s projects to achieve cost, schedule, and performance requirements in accordance with established program documentation and NAVAIR/DoD guidelines. Responsibilities include a wide range of data gathering and analysis, supporting the development, testing, production, acquisition, integration, and sustainment of multiple Capabilities Systems team projects. This will be a highly versatile position where the analyst will learn new terminologies, multiple, critical program support functions, and IT-enabled applications in short order to support a broad range of program activities.
The incumbent will utilize all NAVAIR Acquisition Management System (AMS) components, including Common Spend Plan Tool (CSPT), Procurement Management Tool (PMT), and the Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), to input data, assess performance to program objectives and milestones, and provide analysis and recommendations to the IPTL. The incumbent will collaborate with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) analysts to ensure recent budget, contract and CDRL impacts are reflected in IMS updates. The analyst will employ data analytics to show contract, CDRL deliverable and financial trends to provide the leadership team with key program performance indicators.
Required Experience:
Clearance Required: SECRET Ability to obtain a TS/SCI
Education:
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Business Administration or Bachelor of Business Administration (B.B.A.) Degree, Project Management Professional (PMP), or relevant technical discipline. Allowable Substitution: Bachelor’s Degree or Certified Business Analysis Professional (CBAP), plus 2 years additional work experience; A.A./A.S. degree with an additional 3 years’ experience, or no degree and an additional five years’ experience.
Position Description:
Serves as a Program Analyst for the Level II Capabilities Systems Integrated Product Team (IPT), under the Level I Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band organization, in the PMA-234, Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA) Systems Program Office. PMA-234 is responsible for acquiring, delivering, and sustaining Airborne Electronic Attack systems and providing combatant commanders with Electronic Warfare capabilities that critically enable operational mission success. The Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) development effort is the next step in Airborne Electronic Attack (AEA). Naval Aviation needs to meet advanced and emerging electronic warfare (EW) threats and provide continuous expansion of the AEA mission area. One of the key functions of this analyst position is to support the NGJ Mid-Band Extended (MBX) non-recurring Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) effort for the Capabilities Systems IPT.
The analyst will assist the Level II Capabilities Systems Integrated Product Team Lead (IPTL) to manage, analyze and execute the IPT’s projects to achieve cost, schedule, and performance requirements in accordance with established program documentation and NAVAIR/DoD guidelines. Responsibilities include a wide range of data gathering and analysis, supporting the development, testing, production, acquisition, integration, and sustainment of multiple Capabilities Systems team projects. This will be a highly versatile position where the analyst will learn new terminologies, multiple, critical program support functions, and IT-enabled applications in short order to support a broad range of program activities.
The incumbent will utilize all NAVAIR Acquisition Management System (AMS) components, including Common Spend Plan Tool (CSPT), Procurement Management Tool (PMT), and the Contract Data Requirements List (CDRL), to input data, assess performance to program objectives and milestones, and provide analysis and recommendations to the IPTL. The incumbent will collaborate with Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) analysts to ensure recent budget, contract and CDRL impacts are reflected in IMS updates. The analyst will employ data analytics to show contract, CDRL deliverable and financial trends to provide the leadership team with key program performance indicators.
Required Experience:
- Assist the IPTL with all research for projects.
- Assist IPTL with customer communications.
- Collect and distribute action items from program meetings after receiving government approval of the content and format of the documents. Maintain an issue and action item database to support the Integrated Product Team (IPT) in managing the lifecycle of product issues and actions. Track action items to closure.
- Review program progress and track status of vendor critical contract deadlines to identify and report potential problems and/or issues with prime contractor and/or USG schedule conflicts, resource scarcity, and proposed solutions.
- Input, track, and analyze Contractor Data Requirements List (CDRLs) Deliverables within the Acquisition Management System (AMS).
- Identify, and securely administer Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) for the IPT as required.
- Assess if hardware procurement and support contracts are awarded in a timely manner, and the impacts of identified risks and issues.
- Work with project and functional leads to write Statements of Work (SOW) and support overall Procurement Identification Package (PIDs) development for the IPT.
- Coordinate Procurement Planning Conferences in conjunction with project leads and contract specialists.
- Maintain IPT metrics ranging from Technical Performance Measures (TPMs) to AMS-related metrics from CDRL, CSPT or PMT tools.
- Utilize the Risk Issues and Opportunities (RIO) database to correlate RIO entries to CSPT, CDRL, and PMT indicators. Conduct RIO trend analysis for IPTL and individual project leads to forecast and assess impacts to program thresholds and objectives.
- Support project leads with Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) development, including documentation of Configuration Item (CI) change scope, plus cost and schedule impacts. Track ECP staffing and approval from initial Configuration Change Board (CCB) to Technical (or install/deployment) Directive.
- Work within Acquisition Team guidance to track document staffing and approval progress. Alert project and IPTL to delays that have a potential to impact program milestones.
- Support the IPTL, Operations and Administrative functions to optimize the program event schedule to ensure it is deconflicted and primed for success given stakeholder availability and requisite, program performance.