Senior Program Management Analyst - Navy PPBE experience

Sr. Program Management Analyst

Navy PPBE experience required

Active or Interim Secret Clearance Required

Arlington, Virginia (Onsite at the Pentagon)

Do you want to apply your hands-on budget and planning skills, your strategic and consultative mindset, and ability to roll up your sleeves and deliver results, to support senior leadership within the Department of the Navy (DON)?

Are you ready to work across SES and GS-15 levels of the DON to gather information, analyze, and build briefing materials from scratch using departmental data?

Are you committed to ensuring taxpayer funds are best utilized to support the success of our military’s mission?

Does working for a growing firm with a collaborative, supportive mindset, ready to invest in your future, appeal to you?

@Orchard is seeking a Program Management Analyst to play a critical role in supporting the Department of the Navy (DON) Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Financial Management and Comptroller (OASN (FM&C)), Secretariat Comptroller & Resources Department (SCRD). You will join a valued and trusted advisory team, working directly with senior-level customers (SES, GS-15) and their staff to provide reporting and analysis to DON leadership up to the level of the Navy Secretariat.

You may be the perfect candidate for this role if you. 

• Have the ability and emotional intelligence to combine your hands-on budget and planning skills with strategic thinking and a consultative mindset when interacting with senior government staff. 
• Can visually and verbally distill and convey complex messages to an executive audience for their understanding and use in briefing materials. 
• Can create briefing materials to a standard acceptable to the Navy Secretariat/Ech 1/Pentagon client, leveraging Excel, PowerPoint, and Adobe. 
• Believe that every data call should be data capture.
• Can handle situational ambiguity and rapidly shifting priorities with a calm demeanor and exceptional work ethic. 
• Are intrinsically motivated to learn new things and to convert that knowledge into action. 
• Possess a working knowledge and understanding of DON Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (aka PPBE). 
• Have hands-on experience with PBIS, Navy ERP, and ideally, ADVANA. 
• Come to work ready to be a team player, happy to support colleagues, and pitch in with support.

Your responsibilities will be to:

Work directly with the Navy’s SCRD to advance the DON’s budget at the top echelon and be responsible for the following areas of work in close collaboration with the client and team members. 

• Provide program-level ownership of DON budget requirements, including such tasks as:
  • Analyze program execution and maintain accountability over KPIs.
  • Develop briefing packages for recurring program reviews.
  • Coordinate and prepare monthly Leadership All Hands meetings, including briefings, meeting logistics, and post-event wrap-up.
  • Develop fillable forms and templates to streamline data collection and reporting. 
• Collaborate closely with team members to ensure effective communication and shared accountability across tasks. This area of focus will include:
  • Track and manage incoming memos and critical documentation to ensure timeline review and action.
  • Maintain and organize SharePoint sites to support team collaboration and document accessibility.
  • Support data entry, validation, and occasional use of PBIS and ADVANA systems for data management. 
  • Record meeting minutes and key action items to drive progress and accountability across multifunctional groups. 
  • Gather and analyze funded and unfunded requests from departments and deliver guidance to senior leadership in the form of briefing materials and recommendations.

Your skills and experience will feature.

• Demonstratable knowledge and competence supporting the DON Budget and Planning phases of PPBE, with particular emphasis placed on mastery of PBIS. 
• Experience utilizing Navy ERP and ADVANA (preferred) within the budget and planning process. 
• Exceptional PowerPoint mastery, with the ability to communicate a strong message through clean, well-organized briefing slides. 
• Able to design and create fillable forms to streamline data collection and reporting using Adobe Acrobat. 
• A strong foundational knowledge of Excel with the ability to manage and manipulate data effectively, e.g., SUMIF, XLOOKUP, pivot tables, charts, etc.
• Able to manage and organize content for effective team collaboration in SharePoint.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills. 
• A Consulting or Communications background with prior experience supporting program or project management functions in a government or military setting.

Your background will include: 

• US Citizenship and possess and maintain an interim or active Secret Clearance.
• At least 5 years of experience in consulting, communications, or a similar background, with at least 3 years spent supporting the DON within planning and budgetary settings. 
• A Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or a relevant field.
• Must be willing to work 5 days/week at the Pentagon. 
• Dress Code: Business casual - wearing business meeting-appropriate attire 

Compensation for the role of Program Management Analyst will be determined based on experience and qualifications. The salary range is expected to be $90,000 - $150,000, plus benefits.

Established in 2010, @Orchard LLC has an exceptional reputation, providing staffing solutions to time-sensitive, talent scarcity issues to deliver better talent management ROI.  Our specialty lies in the critical area of program talent acquisition and resource management, not in one narrow skillset, but across many areas of technical and functional delivery. To learn more about our other exciting opportunities, visit our Jobs Page at www.atOrchard.com.