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Location Springfield, VA Virtual Office/Telecommute? (Things you should know about Virtual Office) Virtual Work Not Available Shift First Business Unit Integrated Defense Sys Division Networks & Space Systems Program Intelligence&Security Systems Occupation Title Information Management Skills Management Title Intelligence Analysis Job Classification PASXP5 Job Type Non-Management Experience Level Senior Level (15+ years of experience) Exemption Status Exempt Union No Security Clearance Required? (Security Clearance definitions) Current SSBI/Special Programs Access - US Citizenship Required Work Eligibility Required? Yes US Person Status Required? Yes Export Control Required? Yes Relocation Money Available? Yes Date Posted 07/30/2008 Closing Date (Things you should know about closing dates) 10/27/2008 Position Description Provide direct support to senior-level managers in assisting in the execution of complex and fast reengineering or business expansion efforts. Work closely with the Chief, Afghanistan-Pakistan Counterterrorism Division (PTA) to develop programmatic guidance and budget execution plans for the CTAAC. Write a CTAAC CONOPS, to include NGA goals and objectives as well as SOCOMs ISR Way Ahead. The CONOPS will describe one CTAAC operating with nodes at Langley, Virginia, and St Louis, Missouri. This requires understanding NGAs counterterrorism roles within the DoD and IC. Track and manage CTAAC projects from concept refinement to implementation--including: Providing recommendations and suggestions to the government program manager on program goals, schedules, and deliverables; Interacting with project leads to document, track, and update milestones; Identifying discrepancies and risk; Suggesting mitigation options; Building briefs and other documents to communicate status and efforts to senior leadership; The following skills and abilities are necessary to achieve success in this mission requirement: Demonstrated ability to interpret NGA facility requirements, acquisition, and space planning processes; Demonstrated ability to convey technical topics both verbally and in writing to senior leadership and staff members to effect decisions; Demonstrated ability to work in a very dynamic and demanding work environment, working effectively under pressure; Expertise in Microsoft Office Software applications; Demonstrated ability to formulate problem analysis and resolution; Manages employees performing activities to plan, gather, analyze and interpret intelligence and imagery data. Develops and executes project and process plans, implements policies and procedures and sets operational goals. Acquires resources for projects and processes, provides technical management of suppliers and leads process improvements. Develops and maintains relationships and partnerships with customers, stakeholders, peers, partners and direct reports. Provides oversight and approval of technical approaches, products and processes. Manages, develops and motivates employees. Competencies General/Leadership [ + ] Adaptability Fully understands and usually helps shape changes in own and fellow team leaders' work and situations; is frequently called upon to explain the logic or basis for change to other team leaders and/or interorganizational teams; is seen as an expert on information about changes affecting own and fellow team leaders' jobs; frequently mentors fellow employees and team leaders around the change. Treats changes and new situations as opportunities for learning or growth; focuses on the beneficial aspects of change; speaks positively about the change to fellow team leaders and external customers. Quickly modifies behavior to deal effectively with changes in the work environment; readily tries new approaches appropriate for new or changed situations; does not persist with ineffective behaviors. [ + ] Build Positive Relationships Leads efforts to consistently and proactively build effective working relationships with other team leaders, managers and internal employees. Probes for and provides information to clarify situations. Consistently and proactively seeks and expands on original ideas from fellow team leaders, managers and other internal employees enhances others' ideas, and contributes own ideas about the issues at hand. Places higher priority on team, project, and/or organization goals than on own goals. Is called upon to mentor others in gaining agreement from fellow team leaders, managers and internal employees to support ideas or take partnership-oriented action; uses sound rationale to explain value of actions. Establishes good interpersonal relationships by helping people feel valued, appreciated, and included in discussions. [ + ] Communication Consistently and proactively clarifies purpose and importance; stresses major points; follows a logical sequence. Guiders others in keeping their audience thoroughly engaged through use of techniques such as analogies, illustrations, humor, an appealing style, body language, and voice inflection. Frames highly complex and or advanced information in line with audience experience, background, and expectations; uses terms, examples, and analogies that are meaningful to the audience. Regularly seeks input from audience; checks understanding; presents message in different ways to enhance understanding. Uses syntax, pace, volume, diction, and mechanics appropriate to the media being used. Attends to both direct and indirect messages from others; correctly interprets messages and responds appropriately. Mentors and advises fellow project leads and other internal employees on effective communication techniques. [ + ] Customer Focus Provides enterprise level modeling for making customers and their needs a primary focus of one's actions; develops and sustains productive, high-level customer relationships as they relate to complex and large scale projects; actively seeks information to understand customers' circumstances, problems, expectations, and needs; presents project level information to senior level customers to build their understanding of issues and capabilities; considers how complex project level decisions/actions/plans will affect customers; responds quickly to meet significant customer needs and resolve complex problems; provides enterprise level thought leadership on monitoring and evaluating customer concerns, issues, and satisfaction and to anticipate customer needs. [ + ] Information Monitoring Consistently and proactively determines which processes or areas within own work and throughout the organization need to be monitored; identifies what information needs to be obtained. Advises other in proactively establishing advanced systems to monitor activities or outputs that are easy to use and that provide timely and pertinent information. Advises other in effectively putting in place complex monitoring systems with minimal interruption for other organizational processes; collects and reviews data on a regular basis to determine progress, anticipate needs, and make necessary adjustments to personnel or processes within own work group, with other project leads and throughout the organization. [ + ] Project Management Recognized enterprise experience in creating comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant organization, enterprise and business unit projects identifying time frames for key project milestones and ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion. Directs and manages more complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities. Independently identifies project resource requirements, integrates and directs multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Collaborates with others on the most complex projects assigned. As an enterprise role model demonstrates ability to direct, delegate and ensure performance of assigned responsibilities and tasks as a project team leader in support of enterprise wide or extremely complex large-scale projects. Identifies and resolves any issues to ensure the successful completion of the project. Technical [ + ] Analytical Skills Skill and ability to: collect, organize, synthesize, and analyze data; summarize findings; develop conclusions and recommendations from appropriate data sources at the business unit level. [ + ] Government Interface Advanced/expert knowledge of relevant government agencies and processes as well as current issues (e.g., governmental, international, industrial) impacting functional responsibilities of the occupation. Has frequent contacts with external government agencies and interacts regularly with senior internal and external personnel on highly significant matters often requiring coordination between organizations. Possesses extensive historical knowledge regarding government agencies and processes to facilitate advising senior management regarding policy issues related to government matters. [ + ] Presentation Skills/Techniques Advanced/expert knowledge of and ability to employ innovative presentation techniques (e.g., posture, speaker's relationship to audience, use of intonation and props, use of visual aids and pacing) covering complex subjects to senior level audiences. Ability to use this Advanced/expert knowledge to coach other presenters. [ + ] Proj Sched & Resource Mgmt Advanced/expert ability to plan, organize and direct the creation of comprehensive multi-tiered project schedules for significant organization, enterprise, and business unit projects. Advanced/expert ability to identify time frames for key project milestones, ensure alignment of sub tier activities for overall project visibility, tracking and completion, direct and manage more complex project schedules requiring interfacing with multi regional or international activities, independently identify project resource requirements, and integrate and direct multi project elements into a single collective overall project plan. Advanced/expert ability to collaborate with others on the extremely complex projects assigned. Education and/or Experience Bachelor's degree and typically 14 or more years' related work experience or a Master's degree with typically 12 or more years' or a PhD degree with typically 9 or more years' related work experience or an equivalent combination of education and experience. Other Job related information Position will be based in Springfield, VA and will require on-site work at various locations throughout the DC Metro area. This position requires a TS/SCI clearance and customer approval pre start. Candidate must be willing and able to take and pass a polygraph.
