Ascension is seeking a Business Process Analyst with demonstrated experience analyzing, documenting, and improving public-sector procurement and administrative processes to support the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission’s Office of Supplier Diversity and Inclusion. This role is critical to translating policy and program design decisions into operationally feasible workflows, procedures, and implementation guidance that M-NCPPC staff can execute consistently across departments and counties.

The ideal candidate brings a strong understanding of how government procurement organizations function in practice, including internal controls, approval chains, documentation requirements, and system touchpoints. This position is well suited for a professional who excels at working behind the scenes to identify inefficiencies, clarify roles and responsibilities, and ensure that newly designed Local/Small Business and MBE Preference Programs are implementable, auditable, and sustainable.

This role is important to the overall success of the effort because it reduces implementation risk by ensuring that preference program requirements do not remain theoretical, but are instead embedded into clear, defensible business processes aligned with existing Commission operations.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Business Process Analyst supports both Local/Small Business Preference Program and MBE Preference Program by analyzing current-state procurement and administrative workflows and documenting future-state processes needed to support new preference program requirements.

Working under the direction of the Prime Contractor and in coordination with Ascension’s policy, data, and stakeholder engagement staff, the Analyst evaluates how vendor eligibility, preference application, compliance monitoring, and reporting activities are currently performed and identifies where changes, controls, or new steps are required.

The ideal candidate is methodical, detail-oriented, and comfortable operating in complex, regulated environments where processes vary across units and documentation quality is inconsistent. The Analyst must be able to work with partial information, reconcile differences between written procedures and actual practice, and clearly document assumptions and constraints.

This role is expected to solve and support the following:

• Reduce implementation risk by aligning new preference programs with existing procurement operations
• Prevent process breakdowns caused by unclear roles, undocumented steps, or inconsistent application
• Support legally defensible implementation through documented workflows and controls
• Provide M-NCPPC staff with clear process guidance they can operationalize and sustain

Tools and processes commonly used in this role include:

• Process mapping tools (Visio, Lucidchart, or equivalent)
• Microsoft Excel and Word for workflow documentation
• Structured interviews and working sessions with procurement and OSDI staff
• Review of procurement regulations, SOPs, and forms
• Change-impact analysis techniques

Position Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze current-state procurement, vendor management, and compliance workflows related to socio-economic programs
• Conduct structured working sessions with OSDI and procurement staff to validate how processes operate in practice
• Document end-to-end workflows supporting Local/Small and MBE Preference Program activities
• Identify process gaps, redundancies, control weaknesses, and implementation risks
• Develop future-state process maps aligned with approved program designs and regulatory revisions
• Define roles, responsibilities, handoffs, and approval points within revised workflows
• Support development of SOPs, process narratives, and implementation guidance materials
• Coordinate with policy, data, and technical staff to ensure workflows align with reporting and compliance needs
• Support change management by documenting process impacts and transition considerations