Program Analyst III

Location:

VA Stafford, 525 Corporate Drive, Suite 201, Stafford, VA 22554, USA

Patricio Enterprises is seeking a Program Analyst III to assist the team lead with the planning, development/refinement, initiation, and execution of new requirements, projects, procedures, and guidelines.

• Assist the team lead with the planning, development/refinement, initiation, and execution of new requirements, projects, procedures, and guidelines.
• Maintain awareness of program execution and milestones, as well as their strategic impacts.
• Support risk‑loaded integrated master schedule (IMS) for a complete engineering development program involving hardware and software development, multiple sub‑component integration, and system testing.
• Support project management, engineering management, Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition, or another related subject of comparable complexity and responsibility; apply acquisition processes and policies as outlined in the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02, relating it to life cycle management (product development, production, and sustainment).
• Consider affordability, technology maturity, and responsiveness to assist in the formulation of broad, time‑phased operational goals and initial capabilities.
• Assist in development, design, and implementation of annual and long‑range plans to realize the product development components of strategic goals.
• Facilitate milestone planning by preparing, reviewing, and updating technical briefing materials, documentation, and program schedules; and developing and implementing technical and programmatic plans and measures to track programs.
• Apply relevant skills to review, analyze, and evaluate program development, status/progress, and performance (i.e., acquisition strategies and documentation, acquisition phases and decision levels, and timing and scope of decision reviews), and make recommendations for tailoring an acquisition approach which best fits program conditions. Recommendations shall minimize the time it takes to satisfy the validated need, consistent with common sense, sound business management practice, applicable laws and regulations, and the time‑sensitive nature of the users’ requirement.
• Review and assess technical, cost, and schedule data and work with Government staff to identify shortfalls and potential corrective actions.
• Assist in identifying, assessing, developing, and mitigating program risk.
• Work at a senior level to stimulate customer alliances for portfolio, program, and project support, maintaining personal and organizational interactions to enhance stakeholder relations and actively promote rapport with customers.
• Draft, review, staff, file, and update a variety of documents, to include acquisition documentation, memorandums, information and issue papers, briefings, executive summaries, milestone review packages, e‑mails, and meeting minutes. When applicable, documents shall be prepared in accordance with DoD policies and procedures for the research, development, test and evaluation, and procurement of materiel and shall be sufficiently complete, accurate, and timely to establish program goals, objectives, and milestones.
  
  These activities require Primavera and Microsoft Project, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Maintain a list of required documents for assigned programs with corresponding projected need dates.
• Lead an integrated product team (IPT) and/or participate and provide input to program functional IPTs, Interim Program Reviews (IPRs), milestone decisions, and required program updates.
• Coordinate both internal and external conferences, meetings, and reviews for relevant stakeholders, ensuring that locations, phone, and video teleconference lines are properly booked for use; scheduling speakers; developing and providing meeting materials (e.g., day‑to‑day schedules, agendas, presentations and displays, etc.); and tracking action items as needed. The contractor shall support each event in person and/or via teleconference, video teleconference, and web conference.
  
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