Total 2 Business Management / Project / Planning job vacancies in Springfield, Virginia

• Manage the installation, testing, operation, troubleshooting, and maintenance of systems
• Provide guidance on guidance statements, business case analysis, and system design and development.
• Work with various agencies to identify and integrate business applications.
• Map systems, processes, organizations, gaps in capabilities, discovers bottlenecks, and other various system complications within the enterprise architecture.
• Inspect supplies and services to determine acceptability and reject those that do not meet the contract standards or requirements.

These positions are located in all Directorates, Offices, and Divisions across the NSF. As a Business Operations Specialist, you will perform the following duties:

Project Management:

• Plans, develops, implements, communicates, and tracks project plans, guidelines, budgets, procedures, and timetables.
• Organizes, implements, communicates, and tracks assigned project plans, guidelines, budgets, procedures and timetables including recommending changes in project policy and management activities.
• Assists with management studies to evaluate and measure the progress, and success of projects assigned and to identify and recommend ways to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of organizational programs and activities.
• Collects pertinent statistical data and narrative information from various sources within and outside NSF, and identifies opportunities for continuous improvements to databases, data gathering, analytical methods, and interactions with Principal Investigators (PIs)/reviewers.

• Works collaboratively with other team members to restructure work processes, standardize procedures, and manage changes across supported organizations.
• Assists Program Directors (PDs) and organizational leadership in technical aspects of preparing for Committee of Visitors (COVs) and other site visits including data collection, data analysis, literature searches, and web-based queries.
• Collects and formats data for analysis and information sharing; conducts moderately complex quantitative and qualitative analyses; presents data for program analysis; and drafts and submits required reports.

• Assists in identifying necessary resources, including funding, staff, and equipment, for providing administrative support to assigned projects.
• Performs a variety of assignments in the areas of budget analysis, formulation, monitoring, financial management and reporting, in accordance with federal budgeting regulations, procedures, and methods.
• Reviews requests for purchases to determine if all required financial accounting and justification information has been completed (i.e. justifications for expenditure of funds, verification of account number, object classification codes). May serve as a VISA Cardholder.
• Ensures compliance with financial management regulations and policies in all assigned areas.

• Conducts program analysis including Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA) reporting.
• Assists PDs and leadership in developing outreach plans by identifying target audiences, preparing materials (e.g., presentations, tutorials) for outreach and site visit activities, and evaluating their effectiveness.