Counterproliferation Program Analyst

Responsibilities

• Support the CPSP Director with the entire development process: resource allocation, acquisition, implementation, technical oversight, and advocacy.
• Advise DASD(TRAC) on CPSP strategy, mission and vision, investment priorities, and investment analysis and selection criteria.
• Facilitate, articulate, and communicate strategic guidance across the DoD and USG.
• Advise DASD(TRAC) and ASD(NCB) on counterproliferation strategies and guidance, specifically concerning capability OAIs nested under the National Defense Strategy, the DoD CWMD Strategy, the CWMD Functional Campaign Plan, and other national strategies.
• Design investment strategies to develop and deliver offensively oriented capabilities to disrupt WMD proliferation networks to detect, disable, or defeat WMD and delivery systems.
• Forecast long-term funding requirements. Draft, coordinate, and present long-range plans and Budget documents, including Program Objective Memorandum (POM), President’s Budget Request, Budget Estimate Submission (BES), and R-Doc Exhibits.
• Track and maintain cognizance of the congressional appropriations process.
• Develop ASD(NCB)-approved and DASD(TRAC)-directed campaign to build a requirements-based CPSP outyear budget that aligns with strategy and ensures the operational end users gaps are addressed at the speed of relevancy.
• Design and implement innovative measures of effectiveness (metrics) to ensure CPSP is efficiently and effectively achieving RDT&E goals, meeting OSD financial performance benchmarks (obligations / expenditures), and delivering capabilities that advance the CWMD mission.
• Solicit project proposals from throughout the DoD and USG CWMD enterprise, review submissions against strategic goals, validate requirements, and verify cost estimates.
• Engage closely with program management offices to develop formal project plans, which form the basis of the CPSP annual Spend Plan and recommend resourcing commitments.
• Manage and oversee the CPSP acquisition and resourcing process: Military Interdepartmental Purchase Requests (MIPRs); intergovernmental support agreements (7600s); the Defense Agencies Initiative (DAI); the Defense Finance Accounting Service (DFAS).
• Develop Requests for Proposals (RFPs); and facilitating Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) functions.
• Engage with project managers and technical subject matter experts from DoD and U.S. Government organizations funded by the CPSP program, including the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Defense Intelligence Agency, Geographic and Functional Combatant Commands, Department of Energy and National Labs, Warfare Centers, Service Labs, Joint Program Executive Offices, and private sector and academic performers.
• Provide direction to project team personnel, ensuring timelines and project goals are met.
• Organize and manage formal periodic reviews for a portfolio that oversees 30-75 active projects at any given time.
• Oversee funded OAIs to ensure progress toward meeting performance goals and measures in accordance with objectives.
• Ensure OAIs are executed within established financial and time constraints.
• Engage with US Special Operations Command, the CWMD Coordinating Authority under the Unified Command Plan, to plan and ensure unity of effort and track development of the DoD CWMD Functional Campaign Plan.
• Participate on DoD’s global CWMD Unity of Effort Council Strategy, Policy, Plans, Operations and Doctrine (SPPOD) Subcommittee, managed by the Joint Staff and USSOCOM. Represent TRAC and NCB at the semi-annual USSOCOM CWMD Coordinating Conferences.
• Cultivate strategic partnership network across the DoD and U.S. Government (USG) CWMD enterprise.
• Establish partnerships with operational units, capability developers, program management offices, government and private performers, and resource managers.
• Manage execution oversight of current investments and development and maintenance of annual Spend Plans.

Qualifications

• Active DoD TS/SCI clearance
• Bachelor's Degree
• 7+ years of relevant experience , including experience designing, planning, budgeting, and executing programs and projects
• Previous experience within the Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) community
• Knowledge of foreign nuclear, chemical, biological, and radiological weapons and delivery systems, and foreign WMD development, production, acquisition, and deployment pathways
• Expertise in U.S. WMD Pathway Defeat and WMD Device Defeat operations, activities, and investments (OAIs)
• Previous experience in the DoD Programming, Planning, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process
• Experience managing DoD IT acquisition programs preferred