About Us:

Totally Joined For Achieving Collaborative Techniques (TJFACT) is a minority owned, CVE verified Service Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business (SDVOSB) and HUBZone certified performance driven professional services government contracting company that provides a broad spectrum of services and solutions to the U.S government agencies and organizations.

About the Position:

TJFACT is seeking to hire a well-qualified Data Analyst – Level 5 to join our Team in support of The Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs INL’s Office at Washington, DC.

The Program Analyst serves as a member of a team responsible for financial management and contract administration for a specific region or country as well as functional contracts. Each team is responsible for managing the full post-award life cycle of assigned contracts to optimize INL’s accountability on these high visibility programs.

Duties and Responsibilities:

• Plans, develops, and conducts program analyses of substantial scale and impact regarding highly complex, multi-million dollar projects that significantly impact international programs.
• Supports program managers in complying with management policies and procedures, including those contained in the Foreign Affairs Manual, Federal Acquisition Regulation, and other regulatory sources.
• Assists with coordinating contract management activities between multiple contractors,
• Department offices and bureaus, INL’s program offices and posts, as well as with other government agencies.
• Assist with coordinating, tracking, and record keeping for INL assets.
• Assists senior MAPS Division and other Bureau program stakeholders in coordinating and planning contract management activities such as quality assurance programs for advising and mentoring services, life support, mission support, logistics operations, security operations, IT/communications support, contractor pre-deployment training and in-country program management.
• Conducts in-depth studies of the technical aspects of project requirements to ensure that they are taken into consideration when making recommendations to senior managers. May also be required to provide technical oversight, coordination, analysis, review, quality assurance and scheduling oversight of projects.
• Makes recommendations to senior staff, both in-country and at headquarters, on how best to implement changes to improve performance with respect to projects, and programs.
• Builds strong relationships with all stakeholders to achieve greater visibility on program and project implementation.
• Provides guidance to colleagues on management of complex projects.
• Works closely with other programs and analysts
• Reviews, analyzes, and makes substantive recommendations regarding the content and impact of policy documents, contracts, interagency agreements, grants, contractor proposals, project reports, and End Use Monitoring reports.
• Reviews and drafts position papers and reports presenting, defending, or justifying the Department’s policies relating to the management of INL implementing mechanisms (IMs). Assists with reviewing IM expenditures and reconciles differences between budget and project expenditure reports.
• Leads or participates in working groups, coordinates findings, and makes recommendations to senior level officers on appropriate course to follow.
• Drafts well-written information and decision memoranda and reports presenting, defending, or justifying management analysis and recommendations.
• Attends meetings with other divisions or bureaus. Recommends solutions and briefs senior managers, both within and outside the Bureau on outcome of meetings.
• Analyzes and evaluates, on a quantitative or qualitative basis, the effectiveness of programs or operations in meeting established goals and objectives. Evaluates programs against short and long-range objectives. Effectively manages assigned programs and serves as the initial point of contact for incoming actions from offices both within and outside the Bureau, posts abroad, and other USG agencies, or the private sector on all related issues.
• Create, administer, and analyze internal survey designed for all posts receiving INL funds.

 Required Skills and Experience:

• US. Citizenship
• A bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution
• A minimum of ten years’ experience in relevant field
• Demonstrated knowledge of Federal regulations in regard to area of specific need
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite
• Demonstrated experience facilitating organizational change.
• Demonstrated ability to carry out data analysis to facilitate executive decision making and identify trends, patterns and relationships emerging from data.
• Demonstrated exposure and proficiency extracting insights from data employing basic mathematical concepts.
• Demonstrated proficiency in performing survey analysis through effective use of charts, tables, graphs.
• Demonstrated knowledge and proficiency with data analysis tools such as MS Excel, and proficiency with Pivot Table and Power Pivot.

Preferred Skills and Experience

• Demonstrated extensive experience in the project management field, including mastery of concepts, principles, laws and regulations associated with the broad areas of international relations, particularly as it relates to the development and implementation of post conflict and emerging development programs. One year of this experience must be equivalent to the GS-12 level in the federal service.
• Demonstrated understanding of contract administration principles, regulations and procedures, including US Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and commercial procurement procedures.
• Demonstrated ability to communicate effectively, orally and in writing, as well as the ability to interact with individuals at all levels.
• Demonstrated ability to multi-task, working on and bearing responsibility for several simultaneous in-country projects while keeping the overall program and bureau goals in perspective.
• Demonstrated ability to operate both independently and as part of a team as an effective team member.
• Demonstrated general understanding and professional experience with survey design,
• Demonstrated familiarity with data analysis visualization tools such as Tableau, Excel, and Power BI.
• Demonstrated capacity to translate survey results into simple clear coherent analysis in non-technical language such that it can be shared with non-experts throughout INL.
• Demonstrated ability to present findings and analysis to leadership as well as different INL stakeholders both orally and through tools like PowerPoint.
• Demonstrated understanding of DOS Acquisition Regulations (DOSAR).

Benefits:

• Medical, Vision and Dental Insurance
• 401-K plus match
• Paid Vacation days
• Paid holidays
• Short Term and Long Term Disability
• Voluntary Term Life

TJFACT is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, protected veteran status or status as an individual with a disability. EOE/Minority/Female/Disabled/Veteran. We reserve the right to modify or revise the job descriptions in part or in its entirety. Reasonable accommodations will be made in accordance with governing law.