Position 9: Consultant – Technology, Process and Business (Expert- Strategic Business)
Overall Assignment Description:
(U) Serve as a Consultant to the Government-led team that:
- Defines and implements strategies to identify commercially available solutions to enable the NGA efforts to provide an integrated customer service experience and deliver world-class geospatial knowledge, content and services to customers worldwide.
- Uses innovative approaches and non-traditional methodologies to solve customer problems and develop new capabilities in support of the NGA’s GEOINT online services.
- Identifies and exploits the innovations of others, including industry, partners and customer communities.
- Develops follow-on as well as new NGA acquisition strategies to obtain critical skills sets to augment the Government workforce.
(U) Duties may include:
- Support collaborative teams of multi-functional resources in the delivery of specific technical and/or process projects.
- Assist the Government in the preparation of Acquisition documents and briefings to meet
NGA Acquisition milestones.
- Provide expertise to align technical requirement with acquisition strategies.
- Provide technical and acquisition expertise to support the Government multi-functional team throughout the entire Acquisition process.
- Support the development of pre-acquisition documentation in preparation for a new NGA
acquisition.
- Research acquisition topics for use in acquisition strategies and documentation.
- Analyze and evaluate new emergent technologies and /or processes for opportunity and
application to NGA Initiatives.
- Provide advice on business case development for NGA strategic initiatives.
- Support to the management of multiple concurrent technology projects from problem
definition through new capability adoption.
- Support to the implementation of new strategies to expedite prototype testing and feedback quickly and spur agile acquisitions.
- Use knowledge of industry trends to influence NGA planning.
Skills and Experience:
(U) Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, Systems Engineering, or a
Business related field such as Economics, Finance, or Accounting.
- Project Management Professional (PMP), DAWIA Level III certification in Program
Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and
techniques.
(U) Desired
- MBA in Business or International Business.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with enterprise architecture and/or solutions architecture
- Demonstrated specialized experience in the development of pre-acquisition and acquisition documentation.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with acquisition strategies and approaches for follow-on or new enterprise contract vehicles, in the procurement of critical skills sets and staff augmentation for the government.
- Demonstrated experience with leading: value chain analysis; brain storming sessions; concept development, table top exercises or risk assessments.
- Demonstrated experience in recommending strategies and developing plans to effectively manage risk across the project or organization.
