Action Officer

Responsibilities

This is for potential upcoming opportunities. We will review your resume and reach out when an opportunity is available. 

 

The Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) is a research funding agency that supports transformative biomedical and health breakthroughs to provide health solutions for all.

 

ARPA-H advances high-potential, high-impact biomedical and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. ARPA-H awardees are developing entirely new ways to tackle the hardest challenges in health. With a scope spanning the molecular to the societal, ARPA-H programs have the potential to radically improve everyone's health. Their streamlined awards process enables us to act quickly and catalyze cutting-edge biomedical and health research. ARPA-H creates an environment to support the best ideas from Program Managers that bring together dynamic teams to solve the toughest health challenges.

 

As an ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health) Action Officer for the Strategic Technical ARPA-H Talent Support (STATS) Program at Noblis, you will be part of our Health Solutions account team, where you will leverage your financial management, budget analysis, and acquisition experience providing planning, execution, monitoring, and oversight of research and development (R&D) programs throughout their lifecycle, directly supporting Federal PM and the ARPA-H leaders to deliver transformative, sustainable, and equitable health solutions for the Nation.

 

This is an opportunity for someone with experience in R&D and ARPA settings to work with an exceptionally talented and high-performing team on challenging and cutting-edge healthcare projects.  ARPA-H advances high-potential, high-impact biomedical, healthcare, and health research that cannot be readily accomplished through traditional research or commercial activity. Key focus areas of ARPA-H research portfolio will include Health Science Futures (expanding what’s technically possible), Scalable Solutions (reaching everyone quickly), Proactive Health (keeping people from being patients), and Resilient Systems (building integrated healthcare systems).

 

Noblis is seeking a detail-oriented and experienced Action Officer to join our team at ARPA-H (Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health). The successful candidate will support an ARPA-H Mission Office Director in the planning, coordination, and execution of related activities within the ARPA-H organization. This includes the day-to-day execution of projects and activities while anticipating and solving a broad range of financial, business, administrative, and/or program management challenges.

 

Responsibilities and Duties:

• Develop, organize, forecast, and maintain financial budgets and tracking financial milestones.
• Create and coordinate budget and, acquisition documents.
• Organize meetings
• Develop briefings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Interact daily with multiple internal and external personnel with excellent communication, project management, and organizational skills.
• Provide administrative support to the Mission Office through a variety of tasks and deliverables.
• Attend weekly Action Officer Meetings and report out to the team and stay apprised of work.
• Maintain access to SAAVI (HHS clearance software system) and process clearance requests at ARPA-H.
• Assist Mission Office Director and team with PowerPoint slide decks.
• Assist Mission Office Director with performance metrics and reporting
• Some scheduling duties as required.

• Provide Noblis-internal leadership, including:
  • Possible line management responsibilities.
  • Providing professional development and mentorship for teammates.
  • Development of new Business Development (BD) opportunities and related capture management, in close collaboration with Noblis’ BD team.

 

Hybrid role - up to 3 days on-site

Required Qualifications

• US Citizen and able to obtain a Public Trust Clearance
• A minimum of five (5) years past work experience in acting in a executive assistant, chief of staff, or project management role supporting Government clients for federal programs required, preferably for research or scientific organizations
• A Bachelor’s degree required, a degree in business, technical or scientific field preferred
• Experience monitoring deliverables, allocating resource needs, and project workplans required.
• Must be highly detailed-oriented with strong organizational skills and ability to track multiple tasks across multiple levels of the organization simultaneously.