Senior Advisor

Description of Responsibilities

• Maintain an understanding of program acquisition strategies with emphasis on cost, schedule, and performance and attend organizational business reviews and meetings to support planning and execution of MST PMO programs and ensure early identification of execution risks.
• Assemble information on the budget, schedule, and performance of MST PMO managed customer efforts for MST PMO presentation to the Customer, proponent, and combat developer.
• Collect information from the Customer for MST PMO and disseminate authorized information to performing Contractors in a timely manner, in order to maintain the contracted cost, schedule and performance.
• Immediately identify any problems, when obtaining information from the customer, to the lead engineer and project director for the effort.
• Provide feedback to MST PMO Assistant Program Managers (APM) on the level of effort required to support the Customer.
• Aid MST PMO with liaison and attendance at conferences and meetings with DHA, JPC-6, TATRC, representatives from the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Health Affairs; STTC personnel; and other officials and groups.
• Aid MST PMO in the preparation, review and coordination of documentation for submission to the Services, OSD, OMB, JCS; Congress; other DoD agencies; and other Service Headquarters.
• Aid MST PMO in the preparation, justification, and coordination of funding requirements; program documentation in support of the budget process; and monitoring of programs for executability and compliance with established program decisions.
• Aid MST PMO with the preparation, justification, and coordination of Unfunded Requirement (UFR) requests and impact statements (approximately 3-4 annually).
• Aid MST PMO with the preparation of detailed briefings and information papers for government presentation to senior leadership, OSD, OMB, DHA and Congressional staff.
• Monitor acquisition policy, program and budget actions, and analyze trends, policies and actions for Congress, OSD, OMB, HQDA, DHA, other Service Headquarters and other DoD agencies for effects on the organization, and report pertinent developments.
• Recommend courses of action related to materiel acquisition.
• Aid the organization’s strategic planning efforts with recommendations and guidance pertaining to joint support activities across the full spectrum of DHA, Combatant Commands, Service, and OSD Staffs.
• Review existing strategic planning and related documentation and assist in the development of organizational goals and objectives.
• Identify strategic and operational requirements effecting Joint/Army Staff and provide analysis and recommendations concerning how MST PMO can most effectively meet strategic goals and objectives.
• Aid MST PMO with liaison between senior industry and organizational representatives.
• Provide expert advice, recommendations and other support as required to MST PMO Senior Leaders in developing, implementing and maintaining an enterprise level strategic plan aligned with DHA, Army and OSD strategies and priorities to ensure end-to-end planning and integration in meeting the needs of the Warfighter and medical community.
• Advise and assist the Government in the development of long-range strategic plans and roadmaps ensuring integration of programs/technology with validate current and future requirements and well-defined and accurate budget submissions that support the Defense Health Program Budget Submission and President’s Budget across the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP).
• Advise and assist the Government, both internally and beyond DHA, with formulating solutions and provide guidance regarding enterprise level management and operational issues.
• Aid MST PMO with best practices, samples/examples, and expert advisement on developing the multitude of key program documentation required by DoD 5000 and other Laws, Regulations, and Policies for the MST PMO portfolio.
• Analyze complex organizational issues, obtain the PM’s intent, and utilizing best practices.
• Define Courses of Actions and supporting initiatives to develop and improve organizational execution and effectiveness strategies.
• This activity also includes interfacing/coordinating with MST PMO, DHA Higher Headquarters staffs and leaders, and other DoD entities.
• Utilize best practice methods and techniques to understand critical issues that face MST PMO and DHA as DHA evolves its acquisition structure and policies.
• Apply expert analytical skills and abilities in evaluating and synthesizing a multitude of systems acquisition programs, projects, products, and initiatives, under the purview of the MST PMO.
• Perform regular analyses across the portfolio and provide complex proactive reviews of programs to ensure early identification of programmatic problem areas such as cost, schedule, performance risks and issues, and consistency of data/messaging across numerous pages or data entry in multiple tools.
• Identify those mission areas where product lines can be leveraged.
• Proactively facilitate and enable rapid responses to ad hoc queries in support of Organizational requirements with little to no guidance.
• Prepare, facilitate and document all Work Group / IPT meetings.
• Synthesize and coordinate information and decision briefings, track action items and coordinate resolution of action items and issues.
• Develop supporting documentation and provide direct feedback regarding Course of Action (COA) decision making efforts.
• Provide senior level correspondence to include Situation Reports, Ghost Emails, Information Papers, Decision Briefs and Analysis.
• Aid in providing briefings and presentation to General Officer, Senior Executive Service, senior level management of the Joint Staff, Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD), Headquarters Department of the Army (HQDA), DHA and Congress regarding MST PMO activities, programs and priorities.
• Serve as a communications interface between senior levels of Government (General Officers and Senior Executive Service) and industry.
• Advises and assists MST PMO in developing the organization’s annual Strategic Communications Plan.
• Aid the Government in identifying, developing, and preparing command strategic messaging presentations to various audiences and conduct continuous information gathering to stay abreast of command information as well as specific project, program, and product activities for inclusion in message preparation encompassing ongoing DHA and Army goals and objectives to maximize alignment with higher headquarters goals and messages.
• Draft and finalize speeches and presentations for the PM, write and edit articles for military/industry publications, update and maintain the MST PMO overview, and prepare material for MST PMO media interactions, such as journalist/reporter biographies and previous publications by the journalist/reporter.

  Desired Degree/Education/Certification

  Minimum of an Bachelor’s Degree is desired.

  Desired Skills and Experience

  • Must have experience supporting the application of studies and the interpretation of a broad knowledge of cross functional interrelated processes and functions, e.g., test and evaluation, logistics, programming and budgeting, system requirements development and documentation, system supportability and/or life cycle costing.
  • Minimum of eight plus (8+) years’ of experience preferred.
  • Government and/or DoD experience, highly preferred.

  Required Citizenship and Clearance

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen (Green Card and Visa holders, not eligible)
  • Must be able to obtain CAC card.

  Benefits

  • Competitive salaries
  • Medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage
  • Tuition reimbursement
  • Paid time off
  • 11 paid holidays

  About the Role

  Bering-Alaka`ina Holdings (BAH) is a fast-growing government service provider. Employees enjoy competitive salaries. Eligible employees enjoy a 401K plan with company match; medical, dental, disability, and life insurance coverage; tuition reimbursement; paid time off; and 11 paid holidays. We are an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer of individuals with disabilities and veterans. We are proud to state that we do not illegally discriminate in employment decisions on the basis of any protected categories. If you are a person with a disability and you need an accommodation during the application process, please click here to request accommodation. We E-Verify all employees.

  Qualifications

  • Must be a U.S. Citizen (Green Card and Visa holders, not eligible)
  • Must be able to obtain CAC card.