Assertive Professionals is seeking an Expert Strategic Business Consultant supporting our National Security customer in Springfield, Virginia.
This is an open and funded position, we are offering a salary of $160,000-$170,000 with a $2,000 sign-on bonus, or reimbursable relocation.
This is a great opportunity to work for an employee-centric, fast-growing small business. We offer an excellent benefits package, including PTO (accrual rates vary by contract and customer requirements), 401(k) Match at 5%, Profit Sharing, Company-paid Life Insurance, Dental, Vision, STD/LTD, and two options under a national medical plan with employee contribution. This position currently provides 140 hours of Paid Time Off (PTO) annually and 11 paid holidays. There is an additional $1,200 annual corporate bonus for time and attendance compliance!
Responsibilities Include:
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.
- 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.
Required Experience and Qualifications:
- Active TS/SCI with ability to pass CI Poly
- 20 years of total work experience
- 15 years of demonstrated specialized experience in program management, acquisition support, and strategic consulting
- 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.
Desired Experience and Qualifications:
- 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; brainstorming sessions; concept development, tabletop exercises or risk assessments.
- Demonstrated experience in recommending strategies and developing plans to effectively manage risk across the project or organization.