Sr Management Analyst

The Alaka`ina Foundation Family of Companies (FOCs) has a potential need for a Senior Management Analyst to provide support for our government customer in the National Capital Region, Washington,

D.C.

• Conduct continuous process improvement using a framework that identifies a baseline of performance, moves to a period of assessment and adjustment of performance, to be followed by a period of sustained continuous process improvement. The framework shall be complementary to the Baldrige criteria to support the SPD organization in achieving organizational readiness to submit its application for examination and favorable feedback.
  
  The result should be an integration of processes that produce efficient, repeatable and measurable high performing products and services.
• Work with the baseline of standard operating procedures, workflows, and service level of agreements to improve efficiencies in operations, workforce capabilities, and support technologies.
• Assist with preparing for examinations and for sharing how their operations and strategies align and are measured to support workflow and or function creation, elimination, reduction, or enhancement.
• Facilitate several sessions with the workforce subject matter experts to gain input and ideas for proposing improvements to the leadership. The sessions shall be planned, coordinated with SPD leadership, and have agendas stating the specific outcome. During the sessions, the employee shall use interventions that stimulate thought and input and lead to the stated outcomes.
• Create minutes for all meetings, and those meetings shall be shared for verification and validation with the attendees. Once updated from attendee input, the minutes shall contribute to the creation, update, or elimination of final documents, not limited to standard procedures, policy, workflows, or process strategy.
• Prepare business requirements as the organization seeks technology solutions to improve functional operations.
• Coordinate information and data collection through joint sessions with all users and viewers of the new technology, which may include scheduling and collaborating system testing through requirements traceability, user acceptance testing, and metrics reports testing. Some IT outcomes can be, but not limited to, structured process for identifying the data elements and the key relationships when designing new databases, re-designing databases or data flows, and or developing clear understanding information or data.
• Evaluate workplace readiness for transitioning a new database into the environment.
• Determine whether the environment has the effective processes, understanding of impact to culture, overall operational structures, information technology capability, supporting policy, and required security to implement.
• Provide report documents that describe the requirements collected, traceability results to product selection, and user acceptance results.
• Identifying project requirements, providing governance, and overseeing improvement opportunities within SPD, as well as:
  Develop a process for soliciting and selecting improvement ideas;
  Ensure continuous improvement activities are linked to the Enterprise and Performance Metric improvements;
  Scope, prioritize, and evaluate improvement ideas;
  Improve work flow processes;
  Identify risks and risk mitigations;
  Capture and record the value of implemented improvements.
• Integrate contract requirements with program/project management and with Facilities Services Directorate (FSD) and SPD capital planning activities, as well as any WHS governance structure.
• Review and update processes and standard operating procedures as the processes evolve on a yearly basis.
• Report monthly on activities and program/implemented improvements.
• Conduct detailed research and analysis, and complete product development and compilations (reports, summaries, and policy memorandums) related to manpower studies, reviews, and restructurings.
• Provide research and analytic support for identification and characterization of alternative organizational and management arrangements applicable to SPD entities.
• Deliver an executive summary, briefing, or case study which summarizes any recommendations for organizational and management solutions, upon the conclusion of all studies, research, or analysis projects.

• Must have Master's Degree or above.
• Must have a PMI Professional in Business Analysis (PBA) Certification or Equivalent.

• Minimum of twenty (20) years of program management experience with demonstrated experience in a supervisory capacity for highly effective support in planning, developing, integrating, and executing major research, engineering, and development efforts, and technology development programs for defense agencies with extensive and diversified requirements.
• Skilled in managing multiple taskings from higher HQ.
• Skilled in the ability to manage PM activities and add value…