Program Analyst with Security Clearance

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Job description

Job Description:
George Consulting is seeking a 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. Additional, 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, security assistance and foreign military sales 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. Foreign Military Sales Focused Analysts
• Analyze enterprise-wide foreign military sales case development and execution data, identify indicator metrics, and make policy, programs, and performance recommendations.
• Identify FMS case development critical paths, assess trends, and analyze data.
• Recommend data informed changes to FMS case develop process and products.
• Through continuous process improvement, identify sources of friction or barrier and provide timely recommendations to managements.
• Routinely assess overall case/program status and provide advice on progress and relevant timelines. Provide quarterly Plan of Action and Milestones (POA&M) exhibiting actual case/program status against pre-defined expectations.
• Provide advice, analysis, counsel, coordination, and prepare technical papers regarding strategic goals, protocol issues, meetings and symposiums, and conferences.
• Employ Defense Security Assistance Management System (DSAMS), Security Cooperation Information Portal (SCIP), and related information management systems to support case management analysis.
• Support FMS case lifecycle metric data calls.
• Develop various reports and presentations for formal case reviews/meetings. Annotate such efforts in monthly report. Cooperative Programs Focused Analysts
• Provide International Cooperative programs support to include developing 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.
• Provide International Agreements (IAs) support to include preparing and coordinating IA staffing packages; tracking the status of international cooperative agreements; providing support for negotiations; reviewing, validating, updating, and documenting the status of potential, in-process, and concluded IAs in SharePoint; developing and submitting IA tracking and reporting summaries by country or program as required, development of related briefings and other presentation materials.
• Provide DoD International Agreements policy support, including International Agreements Generator support, DoD International Agreements Neighborhood Watch support, including providing input and promulgating guidance.
• Provide Information Exchange Program support to include coordination with U.S. Technical Project Officers; preparation and coordination of International Agreements and Information/Data Exchange Annex (I/DEA) staffing packages; reviewing, validating, updating, and documenting the status of identified, proposed, and established I/DEAs in SharePoint; and developing and submitting I/DEA tracking and reporting summaries by country or program as required; and development of related briefings and other presentation materials.
• Provide support and preparations for OSD-level and Navy engagements with foreign partners.
• Maintain the International Agreements Division SharePoint site with accurate and up-to-date libraries and records.
• Support the development, staffing, and coordination of documentation associated with the Engineer and Scientist Exchange Program(ESEP), as well as tracking of ESEP placement status in SharePoint.
• Support the OSD and Navy Coalition Warfare Program (CWP) by assisting program managers and international agreement negotiators in developing, reviewing, and presenting program presentations and supporting documents for the OSD and Navy CWP selection process. Technology Transfer/Disclosure/Export Licensing Analysts
• Support the justification, presentation, coordination and staffing of Disclosure Decisions, to include Exceptions to National Disclosure Policy (ENDP), Technology Transfer Security Assistance Review Board (TTSARB) decisions and Low Observable / Counter Low-Observable (LO/CLO) decisions.
• Support the processing of export licensing decisions, and any coordination necessary into higher-level policy frameworks, such as ENDP, TTSARB and LO/CLO.
• Understand major international frameworks that may impact the scope of security cooperation (e.g. Missile Technology Control Regime (MTCR and work with Navy IPO professionals to incorporate and explain them, regardless of security cooperation framework (e.g. FMS, Export Licensing, International Agreements, Exchange Program) THIS POSITION REQUIRES THE ABILITY TO OBTAIN AN ACTIVE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE.
Required Skills & Experience:
Qualifications
• Minimum qualifications
o Education:
Bachelor's degree or qualifying experience such as program analysis and evaluation, project planning and control.
o Experience:
Minimum of 4 years' of direct experience in Foreign Military Sales (FMS) programs and acquisition support required to offset a bachelor's degree.
This includes experience in areas such as international training, FMS sales, engineering and logistics support, equipment integration and procurement, case development and execution, technology transport and export control, and supporting strategic initiatives.
Telework may be available depending on the specific assignment and must be approved by the Program Manager/Contract.
• Desired Qualifications:
o Experience
Desired experience supporting service, joint, or OSD staffs.
Desired experience supporting program offices, PEOs.
Completions of the following formal courses are desired: DISCS SCM-FA-OL (SCM 101), DISCS SCM-OC-OL (SCM-201), and DISCS IPSR-OL.

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