XLA is looking for multiple Administrative Security Assistant to support our government customer in Farmers Branch, TX. Please note that all applicants must be eligible to obtain a US Government Security Clearance.
The Administrative Security Assistant will initiate, receive, review and determine the accuracy and completeness of personnel security forms.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Manages the security application process and assist applicants through the process.
- Supports the development of contract deliverables.
- Conducts database checks, inquiries, and performs data entry using a variety of U.S. Government database systems.
- Prepare personnel security files (PSF).
- Receive, review and determine the accuracy and completeness of applicant forms required for Background Investigations (BI).
- Determines the accuracy and completeness of the personnel security questionnaire.
- Runs credit reports, processes fingerprint cards, conducts agency checks, and evaluates results.
- Identifies potential reciprocity and previous investigations, issues on security forms and obtains any missing information from applicant.
- Verifies the appropriate level of background investigation being requested.
- Processes requests for clearances, withdrawal letters, declination letters, and prepares email notifications.
- Performs general clerical functions to include: data entry, database and file maintenance.
- Provides customer service to internal and external customers via email and phone.
- Maintains the PSU file and mailrooms.
- Ensures all documents required for suitability processing are included, completed and ready for EOD (Entry on Duty).
- Assists other teams (Investigations, Intake, EOD, File Room, etc.) on special projects as needed.
XLA is looking for a Jr. Contract Specialist to support a federal agency. The job site is in a niche area in Arlington, VA that is close to restaurants, shops, and public transportation.
Here is what you need to know about the responsibilities:
- Supports the analysis of acquisition plans and procurement milestone schedules
- Attends meetings related to the development of a procurement package
- Supports oversight and compliance of procurement packages, including requirements documentation (e.g., Statements of Work (SOWs), Statements of Objectives (SOOs), Statement of Need (SON), Performance Work Statement (PWS)), market research documentation, independent government cost estimates (IGCEs), draft evaluation factors, applicable pre-award determinations and findings, and applicable pre-award clearances and reviews (e.g., Small Business Set-Aside Review and Information Technology Checklist)
- Provides recommendations concerning the selection of contract type and method of acquisition
- Supports oversight and compliance reviews of Justifications for Other-Than-Full- and- Open-Competition (JOFOCs)
- Assists compliance experts in reviews of Determinations and Findings
- Drafts or assist in drafting and issuing applicable pre-award documentation analyses
- Presents or assists in presenting oversight and compliance for acquisition planning documentation for higher level reviews and approvals
- Reviews acquisition requirements documents
- Reviews and improves customer statements of work and other pre-award documentation.
- Participates in working groups
- Reviews and participate in training development and delivery
- Develops briefings and position papers, review drafts, and finalize documentation
XLA is looking to fill a Legal Specialist position to support our government client in the Assets and Forfeiture division in Washington DC.
This person will be responsible for working alongside a team of Legal Specialist to review, analyze and draft documentation related to the seizure and forfeiture of assets involved in fraudulent and/or financial crimes. This position will require a strong sense of urgency, a willingness to meet tight deadlines, and the appreciation for the utmost of confidentiality.
Specific duties include:
- Preparing correspondence and/or legal documentation with a 97% error free rate
- Reviewing information for legal sufficiency, timeliness, accuracy, and completeness
- Reconciling and resolving matters with discrepancies, outstanding issues, or lack of information
- Recording pertinent information for case files and make note of deficiencies
- Contacting appropriate field offices to obtain most recent status of seizures
- Generating weekly status reports and reconciling seizure tickler reports
- Also included are general filing, copying, and administrative duties.
XLA is seeking a highly qualified individual to serve as a Senior Acquisition Specialist with an active Secret Clearance performing the full range of acquisition services in support of the Department of State (DOS) Bureau of Consular Affairs, Office of Consular Systems and Technology. These services include, among other things, developing acquisition packages, supporting source selections and providing post-award contract support. Must have an active SECRET Clearance.
Responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Providing advanced acquisition guidance to federal agencies, and in particular, to DOS;
- Working with program offices to develop requirements for Statements of Work (SOWs);
- Facilitating meetings, including working with stakeholders to develop agendas;
- Conducting market research;
- Providing cost and price analysis;
- Developing acquisition documentation that includes requirements documents, acquisition strategies, independent government cost estimates, determination and findings, evaluation criteria, and milestone plans;
- Advising Technical Evaluation Teams;
- Assisting Contracting Officer’s Representatives (CORs) in ensuring their contracts comply with applicable laws and terms and conditions and that deliverables meet contractual requirements;
- Assisting CORs with submitting timely Contractor Performance Assessment Reports (CPARs);
- Assisting CORs with contract close-out;
- Interacting and communicating effectively and professionally with government officials;
- Reporting on project status in internal and client meetings;
- Reviewing contracts, and preparing award modifications; and
- Performing other job-related responsibilities as assigned.
XLA is looking for an Industry Management Manager (IMM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The IMM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The IMM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
The ideal candidate will have experience with mass filings of claims, compliance, inspections, flood insurance. Will serve as the liaison between NFIP and insurance companies.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for an Insurance Appeals Manager (IAM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The IAM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The IAM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for an Underwriting Manager (UM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The UM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The UM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for a Claims Manager (CM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The CM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The CM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for an Assistant Program Manager to work onsite at our customer's offices in Farmers Branch, TX. The Assistant Program Manager (APM) will oversee and continually improve the efficiency, effectiveness, and productivity of contractor personnel assigned to perform under the contract. This individual must possess the expertise and capability to manage multiple teams, knowledge of project management best practices, lead client communications and stakeholder management, and implement a quality management system (QMS) that allows the team to evolve into a more efficient and robust component of the client program.
The APM will lead a team of contractors supporting the Personnel Security Unit (PSU) for an agency within the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). PSU has the responsibility to provide service-wide policy and procedures designed to ensure that people desiring to work as Federal or contract employees, or who require access to National Security Information (NSI) are suitable. Daily responsibilities of the team include processing personnel security actions for Entry-On-Duty (EOD), fitness determinations, suitability and/or eligibility for access to NSI.
Duties:
- The APM is expected to apply project management principles, tools, and expertise to execute and monitor daily operations of the team, maintain consistent and accurate reporting to client PMs and the COR, and mitigate risks and issues.
- Knowledge of operational management and practices in order to improve the long-term performance of the team are applicable.
- The team faces a continually growing back-log of open cases to process and finalize. With limited resources the APM will identify business process improvement methods to address the back-up and to, all the while, maintain a high level of accuracy.
- Assessing the current QMS used to monitor performance of the team beginning with security packet intake through notification of EODs.
- Leading the development of a more comprehensive QMS to include survey methods, key performance indicators, criteria, tools and templates.
- Other improvement initiatives may include the development of standard operating procedures, working in close professional partnership with the PSU Federal staff to optimize support and jointly overcome the challenges inherent in the context of this mission.
XLA is looking for a Travel Specialist to sit onsite at our customer's offices in Washington, D.C.
- Knowledge of Federal Travel Regulations.
- Prior experience with a web-based travel system.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office, with advanced knowledge of Excel.
- Excellent communications and interfacing with various levels of management.
- Strong written and oral communication skills, preferably in a helpdesk type environment.
- Detail-oriented.
XLA is looking for a Business Analyst to work onsite at a federal agency located Arlington, VA and/or Lorton, VA, Vienna, VA, Washington, D.C. or Fairfax, VA.
The candidate must be a Subject Matter Expert in requirements analysis, requirements management, and system configuration, for enterprise systems supporting mission critical records management and digital archiving. The lead Business/System Analyst will have overall responsibility for the execution of the tasks and overall HSI portfolio management. The lead will be responsible for envisioning and executing the long-term strategies while working closely with HSI subject matter experts and other stakeholders to find the best path that meets HSI mission objectives.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Minimum of Ten (10) years of experience in systems analysis, business process analysis, requirements analysis/gathering, and project management arena is required
- Experience in project management, CPIC, DHS SELC, ICE SLM, and governance processes throughout the IT investment life cycle
- A concentration in schedule management, financial/contract management, and a professional Project Management Certification is desired
- Possesses ability to manage, track, and report on all tasks assigned in a timely and professional manner
- Provide support for creating deliverables including Project documentation, Technical Implementation Plans, Project Management Plans, Lessons Learned, and Closeout artifacts for all assigned projects
- Ability to understand a project's technical details and uncover and assess project risks
- Knowledge and understanding of information technology, including web architecture, applications, databases, and cloud-based systems
- Familiarity with and able to address, research, elevate, provide feedback, and resolve issues related to IT portfolio management and IT program management
XLA is looking for a Quality Assurance Manager (QAM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The QAM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The QAM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The QAM must also establish field offices in the event of a flood disaster per FIMA’s concurrence. These offices are set up to expedite claims and coordinate WYO activities. The QAM must also support NFIP outreach efforts in close coordination with FIMA’s Communication Contractor. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
The work site will be at XLA’s Corporate Offices in Vienna, VA, and will be required to attend frequent meetings and planning sessions for coordination and planning purposes at: FEMA Headquarters, Office of Response and Recovery Doctrine and Policy Office in Washington, DC.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for a Project Manager (PM) to support insurance standard business operations, including insurance subject matter expertise, and daily business operations of the NFIP and Federal Insurance Directorate (FID). The PM will be providing support to FEMA and they will be in close coordination with the WYO insurance companies and the NFIP Direct Contractor as they work together to provide the information required by the NFIP. The PM will also engage in support activities that include tracking, collecting, disseminating, maintaining, and updating information on the NFIP and the WYO companies. The PM must also establish field offices in the event of a flood disaster per FIMA’s concurrence. These offices are set up to expedite claims and coordinate WYO activities. The PM must also support NFIP outreach efforts in close coordination with FIMA’s Communication Contractor. The work that the Contractor will perform will be UNCLASSIFIED. It should be noted that a substantial amount of data is considered Personally Identifiable Information and must be treated as such.
This is a proposal effort and the position is subject to contract award.
XLA is looking for a Financial Auditor to sit onsite at our customer's offices in Washington, D.C. The ideal candidate will display financial management systems and auditing knowledge.
- Knowledge of Federal Financial Management systems.
- Basic understanding of financial management evaluations and reviews.
- Support the development of recommendations related to financial audit reviews and the associated corrective action plans.
- Field and answer questions regarding finance, budget, and auditing matters.
- Assist/support strategic planning efforts for audit/financial plans.
- Proficient in Microsoft Office.
- Excellent communications and interfacing with various levels of management.
- Strong written and oral communication skills.
- Detail-oriented, with strong attention to detail.
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Conduct sample selection for obligations and supplemental testing.
- Prepare written audit reports.
- Good understanding of A-123 and A-133.
XL Associates, Inc. (XLA) has provided institutional support services to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for over twenty years. XLA is now seeking candidates to support the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) under a contract that is pending award. This is a great opportunity for those seeking to begin a career in international development to get their foot in the door and gain valuable experience supporting USAID. The primary work location is the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, DC. The anticipated start date is in July 2020.
The newly reorganized RFS will strengthen coordination across the technical areas of agriculture-led growth, resilience, nutrition, and water security, sanitation and hygiene and provide state-of-the-art services to the field. The Monitoring, Evaluation, and Learning (MEL) Assistants will provide a crucial service to coordinate and manage the increased information flow and analysis that will be necessary to support the function of Technical Centers, Support Offices, and a robust new field support model. Each MEL Assistant will be assigned a geographic and/or technical area of responsibility and work closely with their teams on assignments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Research and Analysis Work: Under the guidance of their supervisor, support the collection, aggregation, synthesis, analysis, and interpretation of data. Review research, surveys and/or evaluation reports to improve quality of analysis.
- Program Monitoring, Evaluation, and Assessment: Support the design and review of Mission program monitoring and evaluation studies or projects for international development activities, processes or policies. Assist in the review, evaluation, and assessment of designs submitted by implementing partners, contractors, and research partners.
- Presentation of Findings and Recommendations: Contribute to the synthesis of evaluation and monitoring results and their translation into written documents and/or oral presentations. Assist in the preparation of evaluation findings, reports, and articles for appropriate audiences/ stakeholders,
- Technical Assistance: Support efforts to provide technical assistance for assessing, measuring and/or evaluating programs, processes and/or policies.
- Collaboration: Collaborate with staff on Mission program, project, and activity monitoring and evaluation projects/studies and support efforts, as appropriate, with other program and technical staff.
- Administration: Support meeting/call management to include sending out invitations, following up with participants, and working with the Administrative staff to book lines and rooms.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
XL Associates, Inc. (XLA) has provided institutional support services to the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for over twenty years. XLA is now seeking candidates to support the Bureau for Resilience and Food Security (RFS) under a contract that is pending award. This is a great opportunity for those seeking to begin a career in international development to get their foot in the door and gain valuable experience supporting USAID. The primary work location is the Ronald Reagan Building in downtown Washington, DC. The anticipated start date is in July 2020.
The newly reorganized RFS will strengthen coordination across the technical areas of agriculture-led growth, resilience, nutrition, and water security, sanitation and hygiene and provide state-of-the-art services to the field. The Program Assistants will provide support to the RFS to assist in standing up Country Support Teams (CSTs) and provide programmatic and administrative support to each of the bureau’s Offices and Centers, as well as other Bureau functions as assigned. Program Assistants will provide a crucial service to coordinate and manage the increased information flow and analysis that will be necessary to support the function of Technical Centers, Support Offices, and a robust new field support model. Each Program Assistant will be assigned a geographic and/or technical area of responsibility and work closely with their teams on assignments.
Key responsibilities include:
- Research, Analysis, Informational Content Generation, and Knowledge Management
- Research, coordination and production of various information products, including fact sheets, strategic country narratives, and other spreadsheets, situational updates, briefers, briefing books
- Meeting notes / summaries of conclusions
- Management of online knowledge management portals
- Coordinate with other Program Assistants to link Office/Transition Team resources
- Information dissemination within and across CSTs, Transition Teams, and Leadership councils
- Assist in the production of success stories, strategic narratives, and other public documents
- Basic Project Management
- Provide basic project management assistance. Specific tasks will include documentation of project activities, milestones, challenges, opportunities, and lessons learned.
- Administration
- Provide basic administration of routine work done by the CSTs and Technical Teams.
- Setting up meetings/calls such as by sending out invitations, following up with participants, and working with the Administrative staff to book lines and rooms.
- Sending out routine requests for information, meeting/call readouts, and updates.
- Tracking and following clearances for bureau documentation and ensuring that such formal documentation is of a high-quality nature.
XLA is seeking experienced IT System Administrators to support the technology needs of our growing team in support of DHS/ICE. The ideal candidate shall be able to provide help desk for support requests, troubleshoot/diagnose, resolve to completion with proper follow up or escalate when necessary. The selected candidate should have excellent experience with maintaining servers, workstations, network configurations, and other electronic communication devices. The candidate will assist remote and field staff by phone and must have excellent communication skills.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Must have experience with Windows Server and Desktop Administration, and VMware Administration
- Experience monitoring and reporting network usage, troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshoot general hardware, software, and network issues
- Hands-on experience is required, with the ability to configure networking equipment such as routers, switches, and firewalls
- Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills. Take initiative and responsibility in exceeding customer expectations and manage time with competing priorities
- Assist in the planning, support, and extension of future IT needs
- Adding computer peripherals and new users, performing system backups and data recovery, resolving LAN/WAN communications problems
- Making and receiving trouble calls via phone and email to provide assistance to the field resources. Creating and resetting user accounts and troubleshooting workstations in the field remotely
- Good technical support skills to assist and troubleshoot non-technical users on a variety of operating systems, hardware, devices, software and environments
- Manage, configure and maintain multi-tiered environment
- Proactively monitor and address storage and backup alerts
- Experience with inventory, testing, and shipping of systems
- Hands-on experience with imaging of desktop computers
- Performance tuning, configuring and upgrading of backup environment.
- Assist with system disaster recovery requirements
XLA is seeking experienced IT System Administrators to support the technology needs of our growing team in support of DHS/ICE. The ideal candidate shall be able to provide help desk for support requests, troubleshoot/diagnose, resolve to completion with proper follow up or escalate when necessary. The selected candidate should have excellent experience with maintaining servers, workstations, network configurations, and other electronic communication devices. The candidate will assist remote and field staff by phone and must have excellent communication skills.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Must have experience with Windows Server and Desktop Administration, and VMware Administration
- Experience monitoring and reporting network usage, troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshoot general hardware, software, and network issues
- Hands-on experience is required, with the ability to configure networking equipment such as routers, switches, and firewalls
- Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills. Take initiative and responsibility in exceeding customer expectations and manage time with competing priorities
- Assist in the planning, support, and extension of future IT needs
- Adding computer peripherals and new users, performing system backups and data recovery, resolving LAN/WAN communications problems
- Making and receiving trouble calls via phone and email to provide assistance to the field resources. Creating and resetting user accounts and troubleshooting workstations in the field remotely
- Good technical support skills to assist and troubleshoot non-technical users on a variety of operating systems, hardware, devices, software and environments
- Manage, configure and maintain multi-tiered environment
- Proactively monitor and address storage and backup alerts
- Experience with inventory, testing, and shipping of systems
- Hands-on experience with imaging of desktop computers
- Performance tuning, configuring and upgrading of backup environment.
- Assist with system disaster recovery requirements
XLA is seeking experienced IT System Administrators to support the technology needs of our growing team in support of DHS/ICE. The ideal candidate shall be able to provide help desk for support requests, troubleshoot/diagnose, resolve to completion with proper follow up or escalate when necessary. The selected candidate should have excellent experience with maintaining servers, workstations, network configurations, and other electronic communication devices. The candidate will assist remote and field staff by phone and must have excellent communication skills.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Must have experience with Windows Server and Desktop Administration, and VMware Administration
- Experience monitoring and reporting network usage, troubleshooting network problems
- Troubleshoot general hardware, software, and network issues
- Hands-on experience is required, with the ability to configure networking equipment such as routers, switches, and firewalls
- Excellent listening, written and verbal communication skills. Take initiative and responsibility in exceeding customer expectations and manage time with competing priorities
- Assist in the planning, support, and extension of future IT needs
- Adding computer peripherals and new users, performing system backups and data recovery, resolving LAN/WAN communications problems
- Making and receiving trouble calls via phone and email to provide assistance to the field resources. Creating and resetting user accounts and troubleshooting workstations in the field remotely
- Good technical support skills to assist and troubleshoot non-technical users on a variety of operating systems, hardware, devices, software and environments
- Manage, configure and maintain multi-tiered environment
- Proactively monitor and address storage and backup alerts
- Experience with inventory, testing, and shipping of systems
- Hands-on experience with imaging of desktop computers
- Performance tuning, configuring and upgrading of backup environment.
- Assist with system disaster recovery requirements
XLA is looking for a Senior Business Analyst to work onsite at NARA in College Park, MD. The Senior Business Analyst will be responsible for developing requirements specifications to support custom development solutions or COTS acquisitions. The candidate must be a Subject Matter Expert in requirements analysis, requirements management, and system configuration, for enterprise systems supporting mission critical records management and digital archiving. Must be a team player and be able to work effectively work with various stakeholders across the agency to ensure system requirement artifacts adhere to the agency Enterprise Business Analysis Model and IEEE Software Quality Assurance Guidance.
Principle Duties and Responsibilities
- Eight (8) years or more of relevant hands-on experience in a predominantly Business Analyst (BA) role on one or more projects that utilized traditional requirements (i.e., "shall" statements) at business and stakeholder levels.
- Four (4) years or more hands-on experience facilitating requirements elicitation / discovery and review sessions with business stakeholders.
- Over three (3) years or more hands-on experience in a predominantly BA role on one or more projects that followed the Agile Scrum framework.
- Two (2) years or more hands-on experience documenting business processes based upon elicitation / discovery with business stakeholders.
- Hands-on experience developing Software Requirement Specifications
- Provide support for creating deliverables including Project documentation, Technical Implementation Plans, Project Management Plans, Lessons Learned, and Closeout artifacts for all assigned projects
- Participate, advise, contribute, preparing and/or presenting briefings to government stakeholders
- Experience conducting and documenting Fit-Gap Analyses for IT solutions.
- Demonstrated ability to apply analytical / critical thinking skills.
- Demonstrated ability to create clarity and work effectively in an ambiguous or changing environment.
- Possesses interpersonal skills to maintain communications and positive relationships with diverse stakeholders, including in a virtual setting.
