An Acquisition & Finance/Contracting Coordinator Lead must possess the ability to act as a liaison, managing the Acquisition & Finance pillar of the BAM Portfolio Loan Guaranty program on the PMO Support Team. This person will manage a Senior Budget Analyst and a Contract Specialist supporting the Portfolio Acquisition team, and Office of Information Technology (OIT) Product Line Director/stakeholders. Must have experience in the effective use of data provided by cost estimators to create overall cost versus actual spending analysis and modeling around cost or actual execution. while considering functional benefits, technical performance, risks, and schedule concerns and/or is experienced in effective contract/technical writing, technical writing consultation, and contract management.
Responsibilities: - Budget Tracking Tool (BTT) excel export analysis (ability to create pivot tables, graphs, custom formulas, and reports, and organize the excel data). Examples of the Acquisition BTT analysis:
- Status of BTT Strips (Planned, Submitted, Awarded) by Fiscal quarter
- Identify any BTT Strips not awarded by their program need date
- Identify BTT Strips that are approaching program need date
- Highlight and notify of newly awarded BTT Strips
- Ensure data accuracy of BTT strips (alerts of inconsistencies or errors)
- Reconciliation OSS Daily Status tool vs BTT Data (identify discrepancies of the two excel workbooks)
- PowerPoint/Graph/Chart Development for PowerPoint slides
- Notifications/alerts to Portfolio Acquisition team - of BTT Strips being marked Late, newly added, delayed, awarded etc.)
- Weekly/Monthly Forecasts/Projections of BTT excel data
- Stand-up MS Teams Channel(s) and lead the use it as a primary form of communication with stakeholders
- Oversee/gather required data and inputs to create written narrative and graphic documents of a technical and business nature, ensuring grammatical, format, style, and logic while using a variety of word processing, spreadsheet, graphics, and scheduling tools
- Act as first point of control to edit highly technical documents involving IT software and hardware systems and networks
- Support the development and coordinate high quality responses to data calls received from internal and external stakeholders, including talking points, web content, Congressional responses, PowerPoint presentations, white papers, formal testimony, and miscellaneous data calls.
- Maintain a knowledge management repository and historical record of responses to information requests
- Draft responses to recurring communication tasks and other mission-driven ad hoc requests for information
- Review and edit narrative and graphic products to identify and correct typographical and grammatical errors and to identify logical inconsistencies that will require author attention
- Assist COR in writing this up for QASP or deficiency letter and translate technical information from disparate sources into executive-level communications
- Maintain document and data repositories utilizing the existing program/project level tools (i.e. SharePoint)
- Generate, control, distribute, and maintain various program and project documents, data, processes, and artifacts in accordance with VA directives.
- Create routine and ad hoc reports, with the ability to produce alternate depictions of IT project performance data to identify and highlight issues
- Adhere to standard operating procedures for communication activities and identify process improvements
- Facilitate executive-level virtual meetings; prepare meeting agenda, capture meeting minutes, and track outcomes and action items
- Work proactively and independently to carry out assignments to completion within parameters of instructions given, prescribed routines, and standard accepted practices
- Plan, monitor, and control relevant tasks outlined in the contract and statement of work
- Function as part of an integrated team sharing products, best practices, and information across the portfolio
- Perform related duties as assigned by Product Line Supervisor and stakeholders across the Portfolio, Business and OIT
- Experience working as a contractor or an employee of the Federal government or the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)
- Experience working in a consulting environment and understanding of client/customer relations
- Knowledge of end-to-end systems, particularly with excellent industry knowledge and expertise (mortgage and loan guaranty)
- Experience managing teams
- Ability to work under pressure, coordinate multiple assignments at once, and meet deadlines, while maintaining a positive attitude and providing exemplary customer service
- Polished and professional verbal and written communication skills, including ability to effectively talk and write
- Expert command of the English language
- Experience in stakeholder management
- Financial-related experience (preferred)
- Familiarity with the Federal budget regulations and annual development cycle (preferred)
- Microsoft Excel: Expert (Functions, formulas, pivot tables, create planned vs spend analysis modeling tool
- Microsoft Office (PowerPoint, Word, etc.): Proficient
- Microsoft Teams: Advanced
- Strong Microsoft SharePoint experience
- High attention to detail
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills
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