SENIOR BUSINESS ANALYST (DOD/OSD Experience Required)

Arlington, Virginia

Top Secret Clearance Required with ability to obtain an SCI

@Orchard LLC has been retained by one of our clients, a Federal Prime Contractor, to help then find an experienced Senior Business Analyst to provide expert support to a government customer in the Arlington, VA area. The Senior Business Analyst must have current OSD experience in order to support the government client, the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC), in Arlington, VA.

This opportunity offers the chance to work with some of the best and brightest IT minds in the Department of Defense and US Industry to develop and implement a Defense-Wide approach to infusing Artificial intelligence/Machine Learning (AI/ML) technologies across the Department.

The Senior Business Analyst will provide substantive support to the organization’s Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution organizational business processes. This support will include duties such as drafting and refining Issue Papers, building spend plans, working with the technical staff to define budget needs, POM, developing and implementing organizational processes, and coordinating the actions with other staff members. Because of the nature of the required duties, this position requires an individual with an understanding of DoD Acquisition and the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) environment.

Essential Functions:

• Drafts Program Objective Memorandum issues on behalf of the Government Leadership for review/approval.
• Drafts and refines Issue Papers on behalf of the Government Leadership for review/approval.
• Drafts correspondence on behalf of the Government Leadership for review/approval.
• Responsible for the creation of Spend Plans for review and approval by the Government Leadership.
• Work with the Engineers, Data Scientists, and other technical staff, plus the non-technical staff to collect and present the JAICs needs to the government, i.e. the early phase of a spend plan.
• Prioritizes conflicting needs; handle matters expeditiously, proactively, and follows-through on projects to successful completion often with deadline pressure
• Establish, document, and assist with implementation of organization wide business operations processes.
• Assist the Government leadership in coordinating tasks and information across the discrete work streams to ensure each work stream remains informed and aligned to the overall strategic vision and schedule.
• Coordinate joint efforts with other groups and offices and maintain accountability of all assigned tasks.
• Perform technical writing/editing, editorial consultation, proofreading, or overall documentation review for various documents, including acquisition, other program document, and technical papers, and correspondence.
• Ensure documents are prepared in the appropriate format and are free from grammatical errors.
• Assist other team members in other specialties as needed to accomplish the overall mission.

Requirements

• 8+ years related experience.
• Bachelor’s Degree required in a relevant field.
• Strong knowledge of the Program, Planning, Budget, and Execution process highly desired.
• Experience with the creation of Program Objective Memorandums and Issue Papers is highly desired.
• Experience supporting a Chief of Staff for an OSD organization or as an executive officer to a Military Flag Officer or member of the Senior Executive Service is highly desired.
• Highly motivated professional and capable of managing demanding workload while prioritizing and managing competing priorities
• Demonstrates excellent communication skills, a high level of integrity, critical thinking, and leadership courage.
• Strong organizational management and problem-solving skills with impeccable multi-tasking abilities
• Advanced MS Word and PowerPoint skills; proficient Excel and Outlook application skills
• Ability to organize an office and establish operating rules and help inforce them.
• Ability to organize and manage large amounts of data, files, tasks, schedules, and information
• Ability to work independently on projects, from conception to completion
• Familiarity with the Defense Acquisition System highly desired
• Must be a US Citizen, hold a current DoD Top Secret Clearance, and have the ability to obtain a DoD Top Secret/SCI Clearance

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC, also known as, Talent Orchard has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.