Senior Management Consultant – U.S. Coast Guard C5I Program

The Senior Management Consultant will provide senior-level management, acquisition, program operations, and process improvement support within a complex U.S. Coast Guard technology and mission-support environment.

This is a highly hands-on position requiring direct experience supporting the U.S. Coast Guard and a strong understanding of Coast Guard organizational structures, acquisition and lifecycle processes, C5I/C4

ISR environments, operational support, and stakeholder coordination.

As part of a small senior-level delivery team, the Senior Management Consultant will independently manage major work streams, develop high-quality deliverables, support senior Government stakeholders, coordinate technical and operational activities, and drive assigned initiatives from planning through execution.

• Provide senior-level management consulting and program support across technology acquisition, lifecycle management, business operations, strategic planning, and organizational improvement initiatives.
• Support operational, functional, system, and technical requirements development for Coast Guard technology and C5I/C4
  
  ISR capabilities.
• Support lifecycle management of technology, systems, equipment, and capabilities across Coast Guard operational environments.
• Assist with the development and review of operational, system, and technical architectures, system specifications, support plans, acquisition artifacts, and program documentation.
• Support acquisition planning, acquisition strategy implementation, requirements development, technical documentation reviews, logistics planning, and transition activities.
• Support the transition of systems and capabilities from acquisition and implementation into operational support and sustainment.
• Identify and address cross-organizational process, policy, acquisition, operational, and program-management gaps.
• Research, collect, consolidate, analyze, and track information related to systems, programs, requirements, schedules, resources, risks, and performance.
• Develop and maintain processes for managing projects, tasks, resources, milestones, dependencies, risks, issues, and deliverables.
• Develop, maintain, and reconcile Integrated Master Schedules (IMS) and supporting project schedules.
• Monitor schedules, milestones, dependencies, and assigned activities across multiple technical and operational stakeholders.
• Develop program metrics, KPIs, dashboards, readiness measures, and reporting mechanisms to support Government decision-making.
• Prepare executive-level reports, briefings, presentations, status updates, decision-support materials, and consolidated program reporting.
• Support Microsoft Share Point and enterprise project management activities, including content management, collaboration, information organization, and reporting.
• Develop and improve business processes related to project management, data management, configuration control, document review and approval, resource management, and program integration.
• Develop process maps, workflows, standard operating procedures, governance processes, and repeatable management frameworks.
• Support strategic roadmap development, organizational planning, action planning, and continuous process improvement initiatives.
• Support budget planning, resource proposal development, workload analysis, and resource management activities.
• Identify program risks, issues, dependencies, and operational constraints and develop practical mitigation strategies.
• Support coordination of major system installations, technical design reviews, operational readiness activities, and Operational Test & Evaluation activities.
• Support C5I/C4
  
  ISR system transitions and coordination between acquisition, engineering, logistics, operational, and sustainment organizations.
• Coordinate activities supporting System Support Agents and other technical and operational stakeholders.
• Support development and tracking of system readiness, deployment readiness, and sustainment metrics.
• Coordinate and prepare materials for executive governance meetings, program reviews, risk-management meetings, and other senior-level forums.
• Facilitate working groups, stakeholder meetings, program reviews, and management meetings.
• Develop agendas, capture decisions and action items, assign and track follow-up activities, and drive actions through closure.
• Provide recommendations to Government leadership regarding opportunities to improve program execution, efficiency, governance, processes, reporting, and operational…