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Pay Rate:

The annual base salary range for this position $89,383 - $121,305. Please note that the salary information is a general guideline only. At Sawdey Solution Services, we recognize that attracting the best talent is key to our strategy and success as a company. We will consider several factors when extending an offer to an applicant. These factors include (but are not limited to) the position, associated responsibilities, work experience, education, related training, and related skills.

Position Location: Ft. Belvoir/Lorton, VA

Telework/Work-from-Home Authorized:

Yes – When Authorized/Hybrid

About the Role: This effort will assist in creating a network of likeminded allies and partners with increased threat reduction capabilities that contribute and advance the interests and security of the United States of America. It will assist in building strategic relationships with key international partners that enhance threat reduction on a global scale. It will also support the resilience of the global nonproliferation framework by building partner capacities to enforce the tenants of that framework.

The Work You’ll be Doing:

The CWMD (Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction) Project Manager II serves as lead Advisor and Assistance Support to the Government Project Officer and is directly responsible for ensuring all project level deliverables meet quality and schedule requirements.

Additional Responsibilities Include, but are not Limited To:

• Provides project management support for the full range of deliverables across various missions and activities in one or more countries/projects.
• Develops and delivers briefings for senior DoD officials.
• Assists and advises the Project Officer(s) in project execution and supports planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation of assigned country projects.
• Supports the Project Officer(s) to prepare project milestone documents (Project Concept

Notification (PCN), Requirements Validation Review (RVR), Project Plans, and others as required).

• Assists Project Officer(s) with requirements and end-state development.
• Provides recurring updates to the Directors Operational Imperatives and weekly activity reports.
• Assists Project Officer(s) to draft contract documents required for PR packages (Initial

Strategy Session worksheets, Acquisition Strategy Review Documents, Market Research

Reports, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirement Lists, and others as required).

• Supports updates to quarterly project fact sheets and regional/country summaries for the

Office of the Secretary of Defense.

• Supports development of project level inputs for Program Objective Memorandum,

Project Management Reviews, Annual Report to Congress, Annual Spend Plans, and metrics reviews as required.

• Supports Project Officer(s) to review proposals for programmatic fit/logistics/cost realism/scheduling.
• Supports acquisition strategies through the entire lifecycle of the project.
• Supports prompt and thorough responses to short fuse taskers.
• Supports country assessments and validating project metrics on a recurring basis.
• Captures meeting minutes and lessons learned and incorporates solutions to action items and process improvement methodologies.
• Supports Project Officer(s) by engaging with implementing contractors and other partners to ensure that contractual obligations are met.
• Supports Project Officer(s) to manage regional and country portfolios (monitor

cost/schedule/scope, budget, deliverables, expenditures, and other needs).

• Supports the Project Officer(s) travel planning and requirements (ATRIP submission,

ATFP plans, logistics support requests, trip book development, trip report, and others as needed).

• Assists with proposal development, if necessary.
• Performs other duties, as assigned.
• Perform other duties, as assigned.

Experience Requirements:

• Minimum of four (4) to nine (9) years’ related experience.
• Experience managing team performance, providing performance feedback, and resolving performance issues.
• Demonstrated knowledge of all U.S. government agencies and organizations engaged in proliferation prevention and complementary activities, and the extent of those activities.
• Demonstrated expert at developing requirements, establishing long-range plans, definingproject and program success factors, and implementing assessment methodologies for
  achieving consistent and systematic processes.
• Demonstrated expert at making recommendations, facilitating the identification of trends, and desired future state for program.
• International program experience desired.
• DoD or security cooperation program experience desired.
• Previous experience with DTRA or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) desired.
• Technical background experience desired.

Education Requirements:

• BA/BS required.
  • MA/MS desired.

Certificate, License, and Registration Requirements:

• PMP or equivalent certification desired.

Other Required Skills & Abilities:

• Must be able to travel up to 25% of the time.
• Must be able to effectively communicate with customer and fulfill all duties and responsibilities as listed in the contract.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office suite including, but not limited to: Word, PowerPoint, Excel, and Outlook.
• Must be able to multi-task on a broad range of activities including client engagement,
  project management, financial management, quality assurance, knowledge management,
  acquisition life-cycle support, and generally supporting the Project Officer with a multitude of recurring and pop-up deliverables.
• Strong attention to detail, communication, critical thinking, and problem-solving skills.
• Demonstrated ability to write for Senior Leaders.
• Ability to work collaboratively and independently.

Security Clearance Requirements:

Secret Clearance

• Top Secret Clearance (must be eligible for TS)

US Citizenship Requirements:

This position supports a U.S. Government Contract whose terms require Sawdey Solution Services to staff it only with U.S. Citizens.