Business Consultant

Title:   Business Consultant III

Location:  Springfield, VA (HYBRID – 3 days on site)

Min Education Requirement:  Bachelor’s Degree (or higher) in a related field, with at least 5-7 years of experience supporting US Government acquisition programs.  If candidate(s) do not possess a related degree, an additional nine (9) years of experience may be substituted.

Clearance Required:  Active TS/SCI

About the Opportunity

Inalab has an immediate opening for Business Consultant III to support the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA). Enterprise Contract Support Services (ECSS).  The ECSS Business Consultant III will provide business leadership support in understanding and tailoring data into decision level deliverables and visuals as well as have a solid understanding of common acquisition functions for Program Management Offices (PMOs) in the Enterprise Contracts Office (TCC).

The ideal candidate will have an active TS/SCI and the necessary, proven analytical skills and acquisitions subject matter expertise, along with a history of strong collaborative relationship building with key technical members and cross functional project team members to assure creation and delivery of clear, concise, and actionable tasks that would be related to the operational efforts of the agency.  

Required Experience:

Support business leadership for management, organizational, or business improvement projects such as strategic consulting, surveys, business process, reengineering activities, change management, training, facilitation, and program management. 

• Demonstrated experience developing and analyzing user business problems to be solved with automated systems employing proven industry standards. 
• Demonstrated experience developing dashboards to effectively convey metrics to non-technical audiences, to include communicating caveats and limitations depicting current state and providing insight to improvement plan implementation strategies and milestone achievement.
• Demonstrated experience analyzing data sets, to include developing, manipulating, or maintaining databases.
• Analyze business or operating procedures to devise the most efficient method of accomplishing the work with emphasize on experience with analytics processes that provide better insight into ongoing strategic plans including analytic/data visualization activities.     
• Gather financial information, analyzes it, and makes recommendations with the ability to summarize cost and schedule data for briefing internal/external leadership or senior stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to conceptualize acquisition program strategy improvements and present findings to senior management audiences.
• Demonstrated experience supporting services-based acquisition programs providing Contractor Full-Time Equivalent (CFTE) support to external organizations.
• Demonstrated specialized experience in supporting a range of contract types such as Cost Plus Fixed Fee (CPFF), Cost Plus Incentive Fee (CPIF), Cost Plus Award Fee (CPAF), Firm Fixed Price (FFP) including Level of Effort (FFP/LOE), Time and Materials (T&M), and Multi- Award (MA) Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ).
• Demonstrated experience supporting US Government pre-acquisition activities such as market research and drafting artifacts including Acquisition Strategies and Source Selection Plans.
• Demonstrated experience improving the quality of Government acquisition artifacts, such as Statements of Work (SOWs), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs), or Acquisition Plans.

 Required Proficiency:   

• Advanced proficiency with commercial off the shelf (COTS) statistical software or tools for data visualization (i.e., SPSS, SAS, MatLab, Tableau, etc.).  
• Microsoft SharePoint Site Administration
• Advanced Proficiency of Microsoft Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Access), including relational data techniques. 

Desired Education/Experience:

• Knowledge of Microsoft SharePoint enabling technologies, such as Nintex Forms, HTML, CSS, and jQuery/JavaScript.
• Knowledge of process improvement methodologies such as Robotic Process Automation, Lean Six Sigma, Kaizen, Total Quality Management, or similar.
• Related certifications such as Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA), Project Management Professional (PMP), or similar.