Senior Capital Budget Advisor

The Craddock Group, LLC, a Service-Disabled Veteran-Owned Small Business (SDVOSB), was established in 2010 to provide professional services to federal, state and local governments as well as other public sector clients. Our team delivers innovative and scalable solutions using the best public and private financial, organizational, real estate and business methods.

The Craddock Group specializes in capital planning, maximizing the value of real property, budgeting, and Federal budgetary scoring. Our team assesses real property, both individual assets and entire portfolios, to identify the most effective use of space, develop comprehensive re-investment strategies, and help clients reposition underutilized assets. For further information, visit  .

The Craddock Group’s capabilities include the following:

• Capital Planning:
  Strategic capital investment planning (transit, real estate, healthcare, financial) and space and equipment planning.
• Real Estate Services:
  Due diligence and financial analysis; transaction management; public-private partnership studies; and, transaction execution.
• Strategy/Management Consulting:
  Strategic program development and management; management and process improvement solutions; and training.

Members of our team have led the development and implementation of strategic capital planning and public-private real estate solutions for multiple federal agencies and other public sector clients, including the U.S. Departments of Veterans Affairs, Defense, Energy and Transportation, General Services Administration, and Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro), among others. Team members have supported transaction execution and portfolio and asset management efforts, in addition to performing real estate project due diligence, site analyses, market surveys and demographic studies to evaluate development opportunities nationwide.

We are currently seeking an experienced Senior Capital Budget Advisor to join our team located in the Washington, DC metro area (Clarendon, Virginia office). This position will work in a hybrid environment that will require onsite support for our Metro consulting team at a minimum three days per week and a day in the Clarendon office every week or two.

Since 2018, our team has helped define, develop, and deliver Metro’s Capital Program, increasing program efficiency, transparency and accountability, assessing project scope, cost and schedule, ensuring fiscal responsibility, and aligning investments to strategic goals and objectives.

The successful candidate will serve in a management consulting capacity working closely with senior client managers to use analytical processes and data gathering techniques to develop various capital budget scenarios for the Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) in support of modernizing transit infrastructure. They will join a team that assists with a wide range of Metro’s capital programming efforts, with a specific focus on developing defensible capital program alternatives and long-range plan models, as well as conducting in-depth analyses to support capital programming decisions.

Current engagements include analytical reviews of capital investments, financial management, program/project management, strategy and operations reviews, data management and analysis, and multi-year capital planning and portfolio development to optimize multi-year capital programs. These engagements serve to align funding for key projects and drive strategic investments to enhance regional mobility.

Typical responsibilities include:

• Understanding, researching and organizing disparate, and sometimes conflicting, types of data (procurement schedules, capital investment scopes of work and financial plans, cash flows, capital project budgets, etc.) to perform analyses and documenting findings
• Gathering and analyzing complex data sets and internal capital investment records to develop capital program assumptions to inform long-range capital budget and programming models
• Advising clients on best practices and crafting compelling, executive-ready materials that communicate insights and recommendations clearly
• Framing complex and often ambiguous problems, detailing assumptions, methodologies and information sources and translating data into actionable insights
• Researching and preparing written reports, detailed financial analyses of investments, executive presentations and other client deliverables with strong attention to detail and clear…