Business Analyst (NWS 00745)

Job Title: Business Analyst (NWS 00745)

THIS POSITION IS SHORT TERM, MAX 1000 HOURS PER CALENDAR YEAR

North Wind Services, is actively seeking individuals who can contribute to national security within the science, technology, and engineering fields as part of our supplemental labor team at vital federal research and development installations supporting the Department of Energy. NWS has an established history of contributing to the success of their customer’s mission. Available employment opportunities may range from administrative and logistical support to advanced technical positions.

Qualified applicants must be a US citizen, at least 18 years of age, and able to meet pre-employment requirements including any required physicals, drug screen, and/or background investigation to satisfy clearance requirements from the Department of Energy.

Successful candidates will be employees of NWS, a premier government contractor charged with employing highly-motivated and well-qualified personnel who can advance the missions of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, CA. Though employed by NWS, the employee will take day-to-day direction from technical personnel employed directly by the research laboratories. Pay, benefits, Human Resource, and Employment Management functions are provided by NWS.

Z-Program within the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory’s (LLNL) Global Security Directorate has an opening for a Business Liaison. The successful candidate will support Z-program senior leadership in an advisory role and be responsible for reviewing ongoing analytic as well as research and development portfolios to identify areas where LLNL can more effectively support partner organizations within the intelligence community. Further, this individual will also be responsible for providing quarterly training seminars for early-career Z-program staff members to share his or her career experiences and perspectives.

The successful candidate will be required to pass various on-site training modules to pursue work assignments.

Essential Duties
- Participate in strategic planning, gap analysis, and proposal development of new approaches to address a broad spectrum of national security threats.
- Provide historical perspective of projects and relationships with external partner organizations to help guide existing programmatic efforts as well as proposals for new work.
- Collaborate with LLNL Z-program senior leadership to develop training seminars and provide mentorship for early-career staff members.
- Work with LLNL national security professionals to learn and adopt processes and procedures required by USG sponsors for participating in sensitive and/or classified research and development programs.
- Maintain and ensure timeliness, quality standards for tasks and deliverables.
- Maintain required security in classified environments.
- Perform other duties as assigned.

Marginal Duties
- Assist in crafting proposal and development plans to meet objectives of Z-program within Global Security

Essential Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- Ability to secure and maintain a U.S. DOE Q-level security clearance, which requires U.S. citizenship.
- B.S. or M.S. degree in relevant field, or the equivalent combination of education and prior relevant experience.
- Significant experience and knowledge in developing and executing technical research proposals within academic, industry, or USG communities of interest
- Ability to devise solutions for unique and complex problems in situations that may not be well defined.
- Ability to build technical teams as well as mentor junior team members.

Desired Skills, Knowledge, and Abilities
- M.S. or PhD degree in related fields, or the equivalent combination of education and prior relevant experience.
- Experience working with multi-disciplinary teams of scientists and technical personnel.
- Experience supporting teams to accomplish complex goals, and in assessing project risk and developing controls for managing project risk.
- Experience leveraging existing work, internal resources, and partnerships that resulted in successfully developing new project portfolios.

Special Requirements
Pre-Placement Medical Exam: A job-related pre-placement medical examination may be required.
Pre-employment drug test: External applicant(s) selected for this position will be required to pass a post offer, pre-employment drug test.
Anticipated Clearance Level: Q and SCI (position will be cleared to this level). Applicants selected will be subject to a Federal background investigation and must