Kalman & Company is seeking a highly motivated, performance driven individual with strong analysis experience to work closely with our Government clients. Successful candidates will have prior experience supporting a government program, excellent communication, quantitative, research, and analytical skills and the ability to principally contribute to several of the largest and most significant studies in Kalman's portfolio. The compensation range for this position is $115K-$150K (salary offered will be commensurate with the candidate's level of experience, level of completed education, certifications, etc.).

A career with Kalman & Company, Inc. is both rewarding and challenging. Our clients require skilled, hardworking, innovative support service providers who can meet the demands of a dynamic and fast-paced workplace. As a Kalman Analyst, you will work with military leaders, engineers, developers, technicians, logisticians, and financial managers to collect, analyze, and communicate information that will help ensure the success of programs that are critical to the United States Department of Defense and our allies. You will work individually and as a team to help solve continuously evolving challenges across multiple academic domains and industries.

Benefits

• Engage with motivated and highly skilled teammates to solve the Government's most challenging analytical problems by developing decision analyses for military and civilian leaders.
• Support the Business Analytics team via a flexible working structure that balances each employee's lifestyle while providing opportunities for in-person client and team engagement.
• Join a diverse, inclusive, and growing team that fosters a supportive and encouraging environment to explore a variety of unique projects and clients for career success and fulfillment.
• Take advantage of a competitive salary, a generous benefits package, paid opportunities for learning and professional development, and on-the-job training and growth

Specific Duties

• Lead the development and maintenance of cost, affordability, and schedule analysis in support of Department of Navy (DoN)/United States Marine Corps (USMC) acquisition programs.
• Coordinate with a variety of stakeholders (senior government leadership, competency leads, etc.) to collect and communicate information to help ensure the success of priority programs.
• Conduct planning analyses, cost as an independent variable analysis, and Earned Value Management (EVM) analyses, implement estimating methodologies, and analyze data to support cost models build efforts.
• Document and defend cost analyses including Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs), Acquisition Program Baseline (APB) Section C, Business Case Analyses (BCAs), Economic Analyses (EAs), Analyses of Alternatives (AoAs), cost/risk uncertainty analysis, trend/variance analysis, and Program Objective Memoranda (POM) budget submissions.
• Develop Acquisition Strategies and other acquisition-related documentation to support program milestone decisions and gate reviews.
• Develop cost databases, cost estimating relationships, and cost factors.
• Build and defend budget requirements.
• Respond to congressional requests for information.
• Forecast future funding needs.
• Evaluate contracting courses of action.
• Assess sustainment costs associated with acquisition decisions.
• Lead the preparation of briefing materials and other communications packages and present analysis results to program leadership and outside agencies/organizations.
• Work autonomously and as part of a team to meet organizational and project goals.
• Possess a strong understanding of DoN acquisition processes.
• Understand the customer mission.
• Address business challenges with creative problem solving.

Required Education/Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in any field and successful completion of three semester hours of calculus and twenty-one semester hours in operations research, economics, math, chemistry, physics, or other sciences where the utilization of advanced math skills in geometry, trigonometry, statistics, probability, or quantitative analyses
• US Citizenship
• Five or more years of DoD/Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Cost Estimating, Integrated Program Management, EVM, and/or Scheduling experience
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Automated Cost Estimating Integrated Tools (ACEIT), and uncertainty/risk software packages (Crystal Ball, @Risk, SEER)
• Ability to lead detail-oriented tasks and multi-task under minimal supervision.
• Excellent analysis skills and experience working with large data sets.
• Experience supporting BCAs, AoAs, EAs, or other analytics studies.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to work in a fast-paced, team-oriented environment.

Preferred Education/Qualifications:

• An Active Secret Clearance or higher
• Experience supporting large-scale DoD IT or ERP programs.
• Certification in cost estimation, Integrated Program Management, and/or EVM by a recognized professional society or educational organization (CCEA, DAWIA level II, AACE EVP, PMI, PMP, etc.)