Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Sr. Director, Business Development Support Systems, this position leads comprehensive proposal efforts through the full proposal development life cycle ensuring high quality, compliant and compelling proposal submissions. Responsible for leading multi-functional teams in the preparation of proposal and project deliverables in a strategic way by providing leadership and mentoring to contributors with a focus on process improvement.

Education/Experience

Master’s degree and 8+ years’ directly related work experience or compatible combination of education and experience.

Unique Requirements

Ability to travel as needed to secure business growth.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required.
• Ability to interpret and define customer requirements, articulate to team members and produce an integrated proposal
• Ability to develop and execute contingency plans to identify and rectify potential gaps or delays in proposal development and production.
• Ability to mentor team members and proposal contributors in all areas of proposal development and production.
• Excellent people skills and ability to lead in an encouraging and diplomatic demeanor with strong focus on internal and external customer service.
• Strong verbal communication skills and demonstrated ability to work with all levels of people across functional areas within the company, external team partners, and government clients.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Must have extensive direct experience in Federal Proposal Management.
• Must have direct experience reading and analyzing Federal procurements to include RFPs, RFQs and task order requests to ensure compliant and responsive proposals in accordance with all sections of the solicitation document.
• Must have direct experience with various types of acquisitions to include full and open, GSA schedule, IDIQ vehicles, BPAs, set asides, and sole source.
• Must have experience in working in collaboration with capture manager and budget / pricing groups in overall proposal formulation and submission.
• Proven track record with Federal proposals and project deliverables with significant experience managing multi volume proposal efforts and extensive leadership and participation on proposal teams for government contracts with short turn-around time.
• Excellent understanding of contracting mechanisms to include RFP, RFQ, GSA schedules, IDIQ task order vehicles, grants and commercial efforts.
• Capability to assess the quality of content as well as form; and be able to work with the capture manager/proposal leader in articulating how the win strategy is carried out in each section’s story board and writer’s package.
• Skilled in proposal writing disciplines and mechanics including presenting information clearly and succinctly, knowing where and how to obtain information, and be willing to work smart as well as the hours necessary to complete proposals on-time.
• Ability to lead graphic and illustration exhibits with focus on effective integration in support of proposal narratives.
• Ability to organize multiple projects and assignments simultaneously; to organize tasks, determine priorities and meet established deadlines; to exercise initiative and independent judgment; to work independently and with a team; ability to identify and resolve moderately complex problems.
• Accomplished user of Microsoft Office Suite, Adobe Creative Suite, project management tools and opportunity tracking databases.
• Proficient use of internet technology and telecom equipment, including email applications, web browsers, network remote-access and collaborative workspace environment (e.g. SharePoint).
• Strong supervisory and management experience.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Vice President, Program Management and Evaluation, this position provides general support to PME, oversight of contracts and grants, conducts research and evaluation design, implementation, and other activities as required, and supports business development activities.

Education/Experience

Ph.D. degree and 10+ years’ directly related work experience or compatible combination of education and experience.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Strong project management experience in a federal contracting environment.
• Strong research and evaluation experience.
• Extensive experience developing and writing reports and other project-related material.
• Strong management experience.
• Experience with Business Development.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Sr. Manager, Review Scheduling, this position is responsible for the development of the National Schedule and providing customer service to review team leaders, grantees, OHS staff and other stakeholders. This position also provides effective customer service for Review Team Leaders (RTLs), Grantees, and other Office of Head Start staff who participate in monitoring reviews by utilizing excellent, in-depth knowledge of the Head Start review process as well as internal and external policies and procedures. This position ensures the timely preparation and delivery of all reports related to scheduling and tracking review changes.

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree and 4+ years’ experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Unique Requirements

Incumbent must be available to work emergency after-hours.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required.
• Strong organizational skills.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Strong supervisory skills.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Sr. Director of Business Development, this position is responsible supporting the development and implementation of various programs for the company, specifically as this growth relates to the federal government.

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree and 2+ years’ experience or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Strong Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information, and organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
• Teamwork: Demonstrates ability to work in cooperation with others and communicates effectively with coworkers, supervisors, subordinates, clients, and other outside contacts.
• Initiative: Seeks out new assignments and undertakes additional duties on his or her own when appropriate.
• Professionalism: Stays focused on the situation, issue, or behavior related to work and resolves work-related problems in a constructive and collegial manner.
• Reliability: Can be relied on to be available when needed, completes assigned tasks, and conducts necessary follow-up independently.
• Compliance with Policy, Law, and Regulation: Complies with safety regulations, rules of conduct, other applicable laws and regulations, and company policies.
• Organizational ability: Must have highly developed organizational, planning and management skills with the ability to handle multiple projects simultaneously.
• Deadlines: Ability to work under pressure with tight deadlines.
• Demonstrates good judgment.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to job requirements. Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one’s job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job.
• Information Technology: Demonstrates Proven skills in the effective use of information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, PowerPoint, etc.
• Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas orally in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Written Communication: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Review Scheduling Associate, this position monitors changes to the Early Head Start (EHS) National Schedule and provides quality assurance control on internal processes.

Education/Experience

Associate’s degree and 4+ years’ related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Strong Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information, and organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
• Teamwork: Demonstrates ability to work in cooperation with others and communicates effectively with coworkers, supervisors, subordinates, clients, and other outside contacts.
• Initiative: Seeks out new assignments and undertakes additional duties on his or her own when appropriate.
• Professionalism: Stays focused on the situation, issue, or behavior related to work and resolves work-related problems in a constructive and collegial manner.
• Reliability: Can be relied on to be available when needed, completes assigned tasks, and conducts necessary follow-up independently.
• Compliance with Policy, Law, and Regulation: Complies with safety regulations, rules of conduct, other applicable laws and regulations, and company policies.
• Ability to work with little to no direct supervision.
• Ability to multi-task.
• Ability to prioritize work assignments and meet tight deadlines.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to job requirements. Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one’s job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job.
• Information Technology: Demonstrates Proven skills in the effective use of information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, PowerPoint, etc.
• Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas orally in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Written Communication: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Review Planning Manager, this position will conduct hotel searches and perform related logistics assignments in preparation for Head Start Monitoring Reviews. This position also provides administrative support in the development and preparation of contracts.

Education/Experience

Associate’s degree and 2+ years’ related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Strong Attention to Detail: Is thorough when performing work and conscientious about attending to detail.
• Information Management: Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information, and organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
• Teamwork: Demonstrates ability to work in cooperation with others and communicates effectively with coworkers, supervisors, subordinates, clients, and other outside contacts.
• Initiative: Seeks out new assignments and undertakes additional duties on his or her own when appropriate.
• Professionalism: Stays focused on the situation, issue, or behavior related to work and resolves work-related problems in a constructive and collegial manner.
• Reliability: Can be relied on to be available when needed, completes assigned tasks, and conducts necessary follow-up independently.
• Compliance with Policy, Law, and Regulation: Complies with safety regulations, rules of conduct, other applicable laws and regulations, and company policies.
• Excellent customer service skills.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to job requirements. Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on-the-job experience to perform one’s job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job.
• Information Technology: Demonstrates Proven skills in the effective use of information technology, including word processing, spreadsheet, database, PowerPoint, etc.
• Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas orally in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Written Communication: Recognizes or uses correct English grammar, punctuation, and spelling.
• Experience with data tracking and management.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Senior Director of Information Management, this position will work with Danya's Information Technology (IT) staff and the IT staff of Danya’s subcontractors to ensure all IT systems that will be used by Danya to support services to its customers are well designed, flexible, highly functioning, timely, and cost effective and fully meet program needs.

Education/Experience

Master’s degree and 8+ years’ experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Ability to express complex IT issues in terms understandable to non-technical staff

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

Under the supervision of the Director, Review Scheduling and Planning, this position oversees the activities within Head Start scheduling area and the development of the National Schedule. This includes supervising the scheduling staff and implementing and monitoring schedules for Follow-Up, Triennial, 1st year and special reviews. Provides outstanding internal and external customer service to support the activities in the entire review cycle and coordinates with other Head Start units.

Education/Experience

Bachelor’s degree and 6+ years’ experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

Unique Requirements

Incumbent must be available to be on-call at all times for emergencies e.i., weekend review cancellations.

Some local and national travel may be required.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required.
• Strong supervisory skills.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Ability to apply the regulations, laws and policies to better serve Danya International and the clients we serve.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.

Summary of Responsibilities

The Vice President (VP) of ITSS reports directly to the President. The VP will be responsible for delivering quality technology-driven results for Danya’s customers, partners, operating units, program teams, and managing the ITSS unit. While managing a team of analysts, technical writers, and/or technology implementers, the VP will also have a fair share of individual operational deliverables, and be responsible for maintaining the billability of the entire ITSS team at 90%. The key responsibilities for this position are to:

• Ensure quality response to customer expectations on assigned programs.
• Develop ITSS team skills from a customer services and customer focus perspective.
• Place a high and continuous emphasis on collaboration with other VPs and business units.
• Oversee the precise and comprehensive delivery of requirements for implementation by the ITSS team or subcontractors.
• Create an ITSS environment and work process structure built on the Agile team approach methodology that provides rapid delivery of urgent IT changes in a fast-paced, cost-conscious, and customer-driven market.
• Deploy an integrated approach to business development to both build on Danya’s core competencies and pay careful attention to the relationship between cost, feasibility, and performance.

Education/Experience

Master’s degree and 12+ years’ related experience, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.

PMP certification or 12 years of project management and experience hiring and managing PMP project managers.

Unique Requirements

• Must be available for 24/7 response to needs via phone and e-mail.
• Available for national and International travel as needed.

Competencies – Behavioral

• Flexibility: Is open to change and new information, adapts behavior and work methods in response to new information, and adjusts rapidly to new situations warranting attention and resolution.
• Resilience: Maintains focus and intensity and remains optimistic and persistent, even under pressure. Recovers quickly from setbacks.
• Conflict Management: Manages and resolves conflicts and disagreements in a positive and constructive manner to minimize negative impact.
• Leveraging Diversity: Recruits, develops, and retains a diverse high-quality workforce in an equitable manner. Develops and uses measures and rewards to hold self and others accountable for achieving results that embody the principles of diversity.
• Team Building: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishments; develops and sustains cooperative working relationships.                      
• Decision Making: Exercises good judgment by making sound and well-informed decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; makes effective and timely decisions, even when data are limited or solutions produce unpleasant consequences; and is proactive and achievement-oriented.       
• Problem Solving: Identifies and analyzes problems, distinguishes between relevant and irrelevant information to make logical decisions, and provides solutions to individual and organizational problems. Develops reasonable options for solutions when required for decision making.
• Detail Orientation: Pays strong attention to detail and shows demonstrated experience in detail oriented work.
• Analytical Skills: Ability to use analytical skills to frame and facilitate substantive and focused discussions of monitoring reports and related issues is required, as well as analytical thinking that always presents the big picture and then dissects it into manageable chunks.
• Progressive senior management and leadership experience.
• Professional, calm, and polished management style and demeanor, with a leadership style that motivates teams and management for plan execution.
• Excellent ability to keep notes, minutes, logs, or other activity for auditing, and has a communication style where e-mails and phone calls are easily understood.

Competencies – Technical

• Technical Ability: Understands and appropriately applies procedures, requirements, regulations, and policies related to specialized expertise.
• Financial Management: Demonstrates a broad understanding of financial principles, justifies and/or administers the budget for the program area, and monitors expenditures in support of programs and policies.
• Human Resources Management: Using merit principles, ensures staff are appropriately selected, developed, used, appraised, and rewarded; takes corrective action when necessary.
• Excellent Written and Oral Communication: Expresses facts and ideas in writing in a clear, convincing, and organized manner.
• Program or Project Management: Has experience as a management lead for at least two Agile projects, with integration, communication, and education technologies, and has programming experience with LAMP or related open source technologies or compatible combination of education and experience.
• Successful track record in:
• Directing, conceptualizing, and writing requests for proposals and task orders.
• Managing federal contracts, strategic planning processes, and product development.
• Identifying, qualifying, capturing, and managing business with federal agencies, such as HHS.

• Prior experience in:
  • Conducting market surveys and market analysis.
  • Customer sales negotiations and defining Service-Level Agreements.
  • Managing Open Source, Java-based, and .NET-based technologies.
  • Metrics and alerts, dashboards, and related database technologies.
  • Managing subcontractor teams, from negotiation to closure on needs.
• Ability to align and clearly communicate the development of business requirements with customer needs.
• Proven ability to deliver result-oriented presentations to the highest corporate and federal government leadership levels.
• Experience with key technology approaches, including SOA and Cloud Computing; also with federal contracting and pre-sales to program delivery.
• Experience with international ventures or managing international teams, recruiting and hiring talent in an international (non-US) location, running a project in an international (non-US) location, and managing offshore teams in a 24/7 delivery setting.
• Experience with the Federal Segment Architecture Methodology and delivering on Federal Security Audits, Federal 508 requirements, and CPIC reporting to the federal government.
• Experience with multiple-project reporting directly to a CTO or CIO and with managing data center projects, including procurement and ensuring final quality checks on new data center initiatives.
• Experienced MS Office user (Word, PowerPoint, Excel) and BI applications.
• Experience leading business process re-engineering activities, including facilitating recorded interviews with non-technical key stakeholders.
• Able to define resource requirements and to recruit, hire, and train team members on time.
• Proven excellence in finding, understanding, and documenting, as needed, the customer’s hard and soft needs, particularly in a federal government entity setting.
• Prior experience with programming operating system internals or the ability to prove an equivalent measure of depth of technology understanding.
• Prior experience with at least one mobile application project.
• Must have operated a P&L technology operating budget of at least $15M.

Competencies – Corporate

• Integrity: Demonstrates a professional approach embedded with a high level of integrity, trustworthiness, and honesty in all relationships with staff, customers, contractors, consultants, and the general public.
• Quality: Implements and maintains quality control systems to meet company standards by developing policies and implementing procedures that ensure a high level of quality in all aspects of corporate activity and projects.
• Creativity: Demonstrates an ability to develop creative, original, innovative, or inventive solutions in support of Danya processes, services, interactions, or products. Maintains high-level creativity and innovation in the full spectrum of project development, implementation, and operation.
• Customer Service: Ensures customer’s needs are understood and that products and/or services demonstrate an understanding of customer’s needs and requirements. Continually strives to reduce variations in the existing process that cause failures to meet customer’s needs and requirements. Constantly looks for ways to provide new innovative products/services and processes to meet customer’s needs and requirements.

If you would like to apply for any of the current Silver Spring openings listed or submit your resume for future consideration, please send a cover letter and resume to: recruitment@danya.com.