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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 groups and where each 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. 
• Attend and actively participate in 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 (PA) 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.

Established in 2003, George Consulting is a public and private sector-focused small business successfully supporting Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) customers.

We offer innovative Command, Control, Communications, Computers, Cyber, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (C5ISR) Engineering, Information Technology (IT) and Cyber Security services including Information Assurance (IA), software development, systems engineering, security engineering, and IT support services.

George Consulting offers a wide range of engineering and programmatic services targeted at improving our clients' ability to execute their mission and realize their goals and objectives.

Our expertise and unbiased perspective allows us to look at the full life cycle of our clients requirements ultimately providing them with mission success. With operations in Washington DC, Norfolk, VA, Pax River, MD and Charleston, SC we have employees supporting our customers worldwide.