Resource Analyst

Resource Analyst – Full Performance

***Per client requirement, candidates must possess an active TS/SCI clearance with a full scope polygraph***

Short Summary
This is full performance work and entails providing input to strategic/programmatic guidance to Sponsor customers, preparing supporting documentation for budget exercises, conducting briefings on programmatic activities, performing trend analyses, and employing program analysis techniques to highlight critical budget, schedule, and performance risk factors.


Duties/Tasks and Responsibilities
Resource planning:
Collecting necessary resource information and comparing it with available historical data to develop or validate current and future component or group resource requirements.
Participates in discussions to identify specific actions and timelines to achieve goals in the plan.
Developing a working knowledge of relative performance measures associated with the goals and objectives of the strategic plan.

Perform analysis on programs:
Analyze moderately complex information to draw conclusions about its value, importance, or
accuracy.
Recognize the relevance of analytic results, including historical trends and significant findings, in constructing budget submissions and assessing budget execution; draws inferences, extrapolates, and generalizes as appropriate.

Advocacy of programs:
Contribute to documentation, briefings, and discussions that represent, explain, justify, and defend program directions and resource requirements.
Under minimal direction, explain moderately complex data and results to non-expert internal customers, conveying language clearly and concisely.
Conduct research to help respond to ad hoc taskings such as those arising from Congressionally Directed Actions (CDAs) and Questions for the Record (QFRs).
Develop negotiation strategies to gain consensus, agreement, or resolutions that benefit involved parties.
Assess impact of developing trends and potential problems using terms of reference or selection of methodology to guide and assessment process.
Participate in analytic studies to evaluate proposed or ongoing Sponsor programs and activities that are highly sensitive or complex.
Assist in the building of customized decision support models, simulators, and prototypes using the appropriate syntax and language.
Prepare charts, talking points, papers and memoranda to present findings that clearly and concisely communicate complex information.
Collaborate with appropriate Agency components to ensure the integrity of corporate resource information. Identify and utilize existing methods to verify and validate data.
Identify a variety of sources of accurate information to identify the appropriate tools to mine, evaluate, and present data culled from corporate repositories.
Develop effective strategies to implement innovative, effective procedures and processes to solve difficult problems and cost equations; identify and resolve data discrepancies
Follow established standards for the design, implementation, and use of corporate repositories.
Use and assist in the development of databases to facilitate analysis, develop complex information repository systems/methods and standard reports for use across the work unit, office and Directorate or Mission Center.

Resource planning and guidance:
Demonstrate an understanding and support the annual budget build by contributing to the development of the Program Budget Submission.
Evaluate whether program execution is proceeding within available resource constraints and is remaining consistent with goals; collaborates in implementing resource realignment (including from multiple sources) as required or in response to unplanned circumstances. Seek guidance as deemed necessary to ensure sound decision practices are employed.
Demonstrate an understanding of physical, technical, human and financial resource requirements and availability for all of a component’s programs.
Construct background documentation as directed on programmatic and resource analyses, discussions, thinking, and decisions to aid the component's resource management continuity.
Provide supervisors or managers or senior leaders with periodic status updates

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
Analytic abilities required to evaluate programmatic data, resolve inconsistencies, and propose innovative solutions to challenging problems.
Demonstrate excellent writing skills to clearly express the program and request appropriate resources in the CBJB, reprogrammings, and answers to CDAs and QFRs.
Demonstrate oral communication skills sufficient for responses or briefings on substantive research topics and issues.
Subject matter expertise knowledge of the component issues relative to their mission.
Working knowledge of tools (e.g., Sponsor Finance and Acquisition Systems) to assist in analysis of programs.
Ability to obtain working knowledge of Sponsor regulations, policies and unique authorities.
Ability to interact with people who have different values, cultures, or backgrounds.
Ability to interact with customers, employees, and managers at all levels in order to contribute to and influence decision-making and resolve conflict.
Ability to adapt quickly to emerging issues, priorities, and a changing work environment and respond to tasking under short and changing deadlines.
Proven track record in both independent and team environments.
Strong interpersonal skills necessary to elicit cooperation and support from others and to interact tactfully and effectively with co-workers, supervisors, and other Sponsor employees.
Basic knowledge of the concepts and principles of Contracting Officer’s Technical Representative (COTR) responsibilities.
Basic knowledge of Project Management concepts and principles.

***Depending upon assignment may also require:
Demonstrated knowledge in the use of business resource planning practices and ability to obtain knowledge of Sponsor’s budgeting practices and procedures.
Demonstrated knowledge of quality assurance procedures to ensure data integrity and timeliness of the data.
Knowledge of management science, operations research or cost analysis methodologies.
Ability to apply analytic and diagnostic techniques and quantitative techniques sufficient to identify, evaluate, and recommend to managers substantive solutions to resolve interrelated quantitative analytical problems and issues.

Minimum Qualifications
Experience:
Five (5) years progressively responsible professional work experience in project/program management, quantitative analysis, financial analysis, or structured approaches to analysis to include data manipulation comparable to a component plans analyst.
Candidates must have demonstrated excellent interpersonal skills, strong written and oral communications skills.

Education:
A Bachelor's Degree is required. A Bachelor’s Degree in business administration or a closely related field with a concentration in financial management or financial analysis is preferred.