Major Duties (Job Description)

• You will develop, present and defend cost estimates of complex Software Development efforts, including breaking proposed efforts into new, modified and re-used Equivalent Source Lines of Code (ESLOC).
• You will develop, present and defends cost risk analyses by interfacing with program office engineers to identify sources of cost estimating, technical and schedule risk and performing Monte-Carlo simulations to develop cost-confidence "S-curves."
• You will advise program offices of Department of the Navy (DON) and Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition policy and regulations related to cost estimating and analysis.
• You will perform Earned Value Management analysis by reviewing and analyzing Cost Performance Reports (CPRs), calculating common EVM metrics such as Cost Performance Index, Schedule Performance Index.
• You will effectively represent the NA VWAR Cost Estimating and Analysis Division in cost estimating forums

Qualification Summary

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Develops, presents and defends complex life cycle cost models utilizing a wide variety of cost estimating tools and processes. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1500/operations-research-series-1515/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

NAVWAR is the Navy's systems command that designs, develops and deploys advanced communications and information capabilities from Seabed to Space.