Senior Programs and Planning Specialist

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The Defense Manufacturing Program Office (DMPO) within the National Security Sciences Directorate (NSSD) invites candidates to apply to join our team as a Senior Programs and Planning Specialist with a focus on financial management and reporting. This role will play crucial role in collating requirements from the program managers for the project subcomponents and ensuring the projects expenditures and schedules align with budget allocations and their expiration dates.

In addition, this role will focus on reporting financials accurately and in compliance with sponsor’s requirements. This will require communications and interpersonal skills to collaborate with several budget analysts, program managers, and procurement specialists both within ORNL and with federal sponsors.

Join ORNL and help enable world-class science and innovation by supporting projects in support of National Security. This is your opportunity to work alongside global leaders in several disciplines including datacenters and computing in the development of new infrastructure supporting our National Security Missions.

As part of our team, you will be joining a vibrant group of professionals eager to provide premier customer service to ensure people and information technology remain secure. The team is collaborative and strives to ensure security practices and procedures are understood, implemented, and enforced. All team members deliver ORNL’s mission by aligning behaviors, priorities, and interactions with our core values of Impact, Integrity, Teamwork, Safety, and Service.

As a U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Office of Science national laboratory, ORNL has an impressive 80-year legacy of addressing the nation’s most pressing challenges. Our team is made up of over 7,000 dedicated and innovative individuals! Our goal is to create an environment where a variety of perspectives and backgrounds are valued, ensuring ORNL is known as a top choice for employment.

These principles are essential for supporting our broader mission to drive scientific breakthroughs and translate them into solutions for energy, environmental, and security challenges facing the nation.

• Program budget analysis and management:
  • Lead program discussions regarding budget, costs, and programming to ensure management and the sponsor are routinely informed on budget/program execution.
  • Prepare analysis of the programs and budget to prepare management for program reviews with the federal sponsor.
  • Prepare analysis for the sponsor in support of their reporting requirements to DoD and Congress.
  • Ensure all funding control requirements are met.
• Stakeholder Engagement:
  • Ensure all stakeholders are informed on potential schedule and budget issues.
  • Ability to work independently with all stakeholders with equities in the project.
  • Analyze, troubleshoot, and resolve issues identified by stakeholders including senior program managers and federal sponsors.
• Research
• Prepare and coordinate federal reporting deliverables (monthly, quarterly, annual)
• Ensure accuracy and timeliness of submissions
• Support audits, reviews, and compliance tracking

• A BS/BA degree and 5-7 years of accounting experience preferred.
• Practical experience in utilizing the following software SAP, Ariba-SAP, Business Intelligence

• Demonstrated ability to identify requirements, define system solutions, and deliver results with minimal supervision.
• Proven skills in project management, task prioritization, and effective time management in dynamic environments.
• Strong communication and leadership skills with the ability to interface confidently with technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proficiency at PowerBI and Advanced Excel (Power Pivot, Power Query)
• Understanding of Federal Strategic Partnership Projects and associated funding documents.

• Visa sponsorship:
  Visa sponsorship is not available for this position.
• Security, Credentialing, and Eligibility Requirements: Q clearance with SCI:
  This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Compartmented Information (SCI)…