Clearance Requirement: Must have an active Secret Clearance to be considered
Required Skills:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration field or 5 years of related experience
- Advise as Subject Matter Expert on business innovation, modernization, and transformation projects
- Leverage agile methodologies and data-driven insights to lead teams, execute innovation initiatives, deliver business solutions, and drive workforce culture change
- Facilitate workshops, trainings, and key sessions for strategic planning efforts and execution
Preferred Skills:
- Expertise in project management frameworks and methodologies, innovation and design thinking frameworks,
- Knowledge of change management methodologies, strategic communication plans, workshop facilitation, and skills coaching
- Lead and manage innovation projects, ensuring timely delivery and budget adherence, while evaluating emerging technologies to recommend potential applications for the customer
- Design and implement innovation frameworks and processes, and establish key performance indicators (KPIs) to measure and report the impact of innovation initiatives to senior leadership
- Work closely with cross-functional teams to integrate innovative solutions, and identify and mitigate risks to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements and organizational policies
- At least 10 years of experience in business administration, innovation, strategic planning, or engineering-related services
- Certifications:
- o Lean Six Sigma Black Belt Certification
- o PMP Certification
- Master’s Degree in Business Administration or at least 10 years of relevant experience
Day-to-day Responsibilities:
- The selected candidate will have several responsibilities from day to day drawn from a wide array of activities and experience working in the following areas:
- Providing comprehensive project management and support services for innovative business improvement projects. This includes ensuring that all personnel involved have the necessary qualifications and training to perform their tasks effectively
- Creating strategic communication products for senior leadership and workforce reporting
- Communicating with Program Managers and POCs from customer organizations when necessary
- Coaching and facilitation for innovation project owners to help them succeed. This includes reviewing, shaping, aligning, facilitating, providing pitch coaching, and incubating bottom-up innovation projects through various mediums such as innovation campaigns, open calls, and leadership-directed tasking
- Conducting research activities, draw connections between latest regulations/policies and acquisition management gaps, and formulate logical justifications for potential acquisition policy pilots
- Advising on and executing culture initiatives and drive organizational change management. This includes developing and facilitating organizational change workshops, introducing industry standard business practices, and facilitating best-practice knowledge sharing across program offices
- Building, testing, and maintaining various project management tools and templates on a routine basis, and support the decommissioning or updating of outdated tools or templates
Expected Deliverables:
- Inventory and Analysis of Innovation Projects Portfolio
- Year-in-Review Report
- Best Practices Guide
- Innovation Toolkit
- Strategic Initiative Framework
- MVPs/Program Pathfinders
- Scaling Plan
- Transition Out Plan
- 5-Year Roadmap
- Assessment Brief