Mission Assurance Specialists perform cross-discipline tasks supporting day-to-day and long-term mission assurance (MA) strategies and operations within NGA. They manage, plan, exercise, and administer readiness, response, recovery and reconstitution directives and plans at the project level. They ensure mission assurance policies are applied to projects, standards, and plans. They prescribe, a

Duties

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: This position requires day-to-day management of testing and development activities supporting four continuity-related Mission Assurance Support Toolkit (MAST) systems: Continuity Planning Tool (CPT); Location Information Tool (LIT); NGA Risk Management and Opportunity Management (NROM); and Enhanced Master Scenario Event List (EMSEL). This position provides direct support to track, manage, mitigate, and prioritize risks, both internal and joint. This position works with the Branch Chief to manage team deliverables for the branch, which include MAST and Risk deliverables and provides routine and ad hoc updates to NM leadership. Key responsibilities include: responding to Help Desk tickets, answering questions/capturing metrics to identify trends, conducting MAST training/demos to interested stakeholders and ensuring the accuracy of User Guides, capturing and tracking requirements for Tool enhancements, leading scrum meetings, leading requirements discussions on MAST systems, conducting and leading testing activities, and coordinating sprint cycles with a team of developers in both East and West locations. Also includes: reviewing NGA risks, working with Risk SMEs across the Agency, updating records in NROM, preparing for Working Group and Committee meetings (internal and joint), assessing internal controls processes, and facilitating risk mitigation activities.This position will work with the Technology and Risk/Resiliency Branch Chief to manage the product delivery efforts of contractor team members across two different teams (Technology and Risk/Resiliency).Additional Application Requirement: You may be asked to complete one or more assessments in addition to the application you submit on this website as part of your application to NGA. These assessments may include but are not limited to: 1) Online questionnaires or assessments that require you to describe your job-related knowledge, skills, abilities, or other characteristics that are aligned with the mandatory and desirable qualifications of this job posting. The information you provide in the application you submit must support the response you provide to this questionnaire. You will receive an email to describe any additional assessments required. Please monitor your emails and complete any required assessments as soon as possible.

Requirements

• Security Investigation

Qualifications

MANDATORY QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: For this particular job, applicants must meet all competencies reflected under the Mandatory Qualification Criteria to include education (if required). Online resumes must demonstrate qualification by providing specific examples and associated results, in response to the announcement's mandatory criteria specified in this vacancy announcement: 1. Demonstrate ability to successfully coordinate and collaborate across multiple teams and organizations to produce deliverables in a timely manner.2. Demonstrate an understanding of agile development or use of agile methodology on a project.3. Demonstrate ability to identify, track and manage risks on project.4. Demonstrate ability to brief status updates to team leadership on various project deliverables. 5. Demonstrate a basic level of understanding of business continuity concepts. 6. Demonstrate ability to facilitate identification, prioritization, and/or management of requirements.EDUCATION REQUIREMENT: A. Education: Bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university in Continuity Planning, Emergency Management, Information Assurance, Information Security, Strategic Planning, or a related field. -OR- B. Combination of Education and Experience: A minimum of 24 semester (36 quarter) hours of coursework in any area listed in option A, plus experience in the performance of disaster planning and emergency response duties, or a related area that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work. As a rule, every 30 semester (45 quarter) hours of coursework is equivalent to one year of experience. Candidates should show that their combination of education and experience totals 4 years. -OR- C. Experience: A minimum of 4 years experience in the performance of disaster planning and emergency response duties, or a related area that demonstrates the ability to successfully perform the duties associated with this work.DESIRABLE QUALIFICATION CRITERIA: In addition to the mandatory qualifications, experience in the following is desired: 1. Possession of SCRUM and/or Agile certification.2. Experience working with a team of IT developers.3. Experience with the JIRA tool.4. Experience with MS Teams, OneNote, or similar systems. 5. Experience facilitating meetings and providing guidance on next steps. 6. FEMA Level 1 Certification.

Contacts

• Address NATIONAL GEOSPATIAL-INTELLIGENCE AGENCY Mailstop: S44-HDR 7500 GEOINT Drive Springfield, VA 22150 US
• Name: Recruitment
• Phone: 571-557-1999
• Email: [email protected]