Multidisciplinary Specialist Job Listing at SPA in Chantilly, VA (Job ID 2025-19702)

Description

Qualifications

Required:

• Active TS/SCI with CI Poly clearance
• Master's degree in a STEM discipline or a Bachelor's degree in a similar discipline with minimum 8 years of related experience
• Minimum 10 years of working experience in government or industry in relevant work areas including: DoD/IC system acquisition and development processes, front office operations, or similar commercial or private industry environments
• Demonstrated domain expertise in a relevant discipline, such as systems engineering, intelligence analysis, Imagery Intelligence (IMINT), Measures and Signatures Intelligence (MASINT), Signals Intelligence (SIGINT), Human Intelligence (HUMINT), space systems, space system operation, or space system ground operations, launch, and communications
• Excellent oral and written communication skills

Desired:

• Additional training or certifications in space-system-related focus areas
• 15+ years of relevant experience in an Intelligence Community organization's front office
• Domain knowledge of advanced system acquisition processes
• Domain knowledge of federal budgeting and planning process
• Domain knowledge of Quality Assurance procedures, tools and techniques
• Domain knowledge of Systems Engineering principles, tools, and techniques
• Advanced proficiency in MS Office Suite applications

Multidisciplinary Specialists (Administrators) provide expert-level support to senior executives in a government front office to help them address their roles and responsibilities accurately, responsively, and in a timely manner.  Shall be highly knowledgeable in the myriad technical aspects of designing, developing, building, deploying, and operating significant and complex intelligence collection platforms. Shall be prepared to provide support in a dynamic operational environment with short turnaround cycle times and often involving complex issues, concepts, and processes. Must have domain knowledge in one or more of the following areas:

• Budgeting:
  • Serve as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) on the acquisition and budget formulation processes and interrelationships
  • Edit and produce budgetary documentation
  • Create and track funding documentation, e.g., Intelligence Program Budget Submission (IPBS) and the Congressional Budget Justification Book (CBJB), and the Intelligence Program Objective Memorandum (IPOM)
• Financial Services:
  • Track the commitment, obligation, and expenditure of funds throughout the life of an acquisition program
  • Create, update, and analyze the execution of spend plans
  • Analyze cost performance reports and contract financial status reports
• Records Keeping and Document Management:
  • Create and manage program records
  • Implement, maintain, and audit file plan structures
  • Administer online data repository tools
  • Develop and maintain a records management website
• Knowledge Management:
  • Maintain and update a Business Management Plan
  • Schedule, coordinate, and track new hire registration and training
  • Develop and update a periodic Front Office operation training course
• Strategic Communications:
  • Develop, implement, and update an organizational communications plan
  • Prepare and coordinate program status and health reports
  • Plann and facilitate outreach events and venues
• Senior Advisory Services:
  • Review Intelligence Community (IC) policy and guidance documentation and briefing senior leadership
  • Evaluate, task, consolidate, and deliver action responses
  • Provide technical support during action item reviews
  • Track, file, close, and archive actions
  • Produce and deliver technology and analysis reports