Acquisition SME/Data Analyst

Overview

Nakupuna Consulting seeks an Acquisition SME/Data Analyst to join our team of talented consultants providing professional services to a customer within the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD). The ideal candidate should be familiar with the military hierarchy and organization, have strong oral and written communication skills, understand contract structures and be able to find solutions quickly to contractual questions. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to communicate and collaborate across various acquisition disciplines.

Responsibilities

The following reflects management’s definition of essential functions for this job, but does not restrict the tasks that may be assigned.  Management may assign additional duties and responsibilities to this job at any time due to reasonable accommodation or other reasons.

• Analyze acquisition data and produce reports and briefs. Provide applicable acquisition reports to analyze timelines, performance, statistics, workload balancing, trend analysis, and forecasting.
• Build dashboards and data visualizations in Excel and Power BI to support tracking and reporting of data.
• Assist client in developing and maintaining a master task order list for tracking and staffing of contracts and agreements.
• Successful management of acquisitions and requirements through the organization’s management tool or system. Manage, schedule, training, assign, report, and track the organization’s acquisition packages using the applicable organizational operating instructions, training and instructions.
• Present findings or translate the acquisition data into useable formats by applying critical thinking. Findings will become part of government dashboard/briefings to support compliance findings, inspections, leadership decision making, and customer expectation management.
• Assist in establishing acquisition data collections from existing systems.
• Apply sound strategies for obtaining quality acquisition data from different sources, integrating, and developing actionable information to support quantitative analysis.
• Retrieve contracts data from various government sources and manipulate the data for informed management decisions.
• Assist in the design of processes, tools, or databases to ensure an effective and efficient way to manage the portfolio.

Qualifications

Education and Experience:

• This position requires a Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution and 5+ years of relevant professional experience in acquisition.
• The ideal candidate will have served in an acquisition environment within DoD, such as a Program Executive Office (PEO) or acquisition directorate, such as ASA(ALT) or ASN(RDA).
• Demonstrated experience with DoD is required. Experience with OSD is preferred.
• DAWIA certification in contracting is preferred. If not, the individual should have a background commensurate with the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Professional Certification standard for contracting.
• The ideal candidate has excellent technical skills, solid communication skills, attention to detail and accuracy, solid judgment, and the ability to multi-task and manage multiple priorities with minimum direction and supervision. Specifically, the ideal candidate will be familiar with, and have experience with the following skills:
• Experience working in Excel with large datasets or databases (including pivot tables)
• Strong quantitative ability and a keen eye for detail and accuracy.
• Understanding of data visualization and dashboard creation, to include Power BI and Tableau.

Location: Onsite at the Pentagon.

Clearance Requirements: This position requires an active Secret security clearance. Must be a U.S. Citizen.

Physical Requirements: The ideal candidate must at a minimum, be able to meet the following physical requirements of the job with or without a reasonable accommodation:

• Ability to perform repetitive motions with the hands, wrists, and fingers.
• Ability to engage in and follow audible communications in emergencies.
• Ability to sit for prolonged periods at a desk and work on a computer.