Program Management Analyst A12-002 Job in Reston, Virginia US
WBB is a technical and management consulting company that provides innovative products and services that solve government and commercial customer’s toughest problems. For more than 30 years, WBB has set the standard for excellence in consulting services, while providing its employee-owners with an outstanding work environment with ample opportunities for growth and success. WBB continues to enjoy impressive growth, which is directly attributed to the company’s hiring practice of always hiring the very best professionals from government, military and industry.
MINIMUM CLEARANCE REQUIRED: None Required.
Description
The Program Management Analyst position works in the Program Management Organization (PMO) and directly supports WBB consultants by conducting Project Management Reviews (PMRs), responding to ad-hoc requests for program status information, and supporting other business operations processes. This position also supports various management levels by developing data and providing status reports of individual programs as well as a variety of aggregated reports of program status, consultant hiring and productivity, business development, and backlog data. Strong algebraic, logic, and communication skills are required.
This is an entry or mid-level position whose responsibilities will develop to include the following:
- Lead Project Setup Meeting (PSM) events to establish new projects in project management software systems including Costpoint, Unanet, and QlikView
- Lead Project Management Reviews (PMRs) to evaluate a project’s status and identify any actions needed
- Initiate and record project closeout actions
- Produce and analyze data and reports for monthly and quarterly corporate performance reviews
- Send notice of PoP extension/close and take resultant actions
- Take actions as necessary from monthly project status reviews
- Produce and analyze summary reports to advise Sector VPs on sector projects and status
- Produce and analyze summary reports to advise the PMO for all projects in a group
- Periodically analyze various ‘exception reports,’ research areas of concern, identify cause of problems and propose and/or implement corrective action as needed
- Conduct periodic reviews of special interest projects’ execution status
- Perform project performance analysis in response to ad-hoc PM requests
- Perform project/sector analyses in response to ad-hoc requests from Sector VP
- Perform consultant costing analyses in response to Sector VP requests
- Perform ad-hoc analyses as directed by PMO VP or Director
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Must have a basic understanding of FFP, CPFF, and TM contract types and how they affect project management.
- Must have or be prepared to develop a strong understanding of the business functions of contracting, finance, and program management with firm understanding of their interaction.
- Must be able to communicate complex issues effectively and clearly to those of all levels of understanding using either verbal, email, or group presentation forums.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills that permit collegial and professional discussion of negative trends in program performance while reinforcing the PMO’s core value of service to the Program Managers.
- Must be able to handle and prioritize multiple tasks and projects, act independently, and meet deadlines.
- Must have strong MS Office skills, with key priority on solid MS Excel skills.
- An exceptional candidate would additionally have strong database understanding and reporting writing skills using an industry standard package such as Crystal Reports, MS Access, SQL Server Reporting Services or Cognos.
- An exceptional candidate would additionally understand how to create and analyze SQL queries and stored procedures.
Additional Qualifications:
- Experience with QlikView or other Business Intelligence systems is very positively viewed
Job Title: Program Management Analyst
Key Words: Project Management, PMO, Project Control, Project Analyst, Database, Developer, SQL, Cognos, QlikView
Primary Location: United States- Reston, VA
Travel: Occasional local travel possible.
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