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Ascension is seeking an Operations Analyst / Management Analyst II to support a federal strategic communications modernization effort focused on improving communications workflows, performance measurement, content operations, and organizational capability. This role is aligned to the Defense Finance and Accounting Service Corporate Communications requirement, where the customer is seeking to move from a traditional, reactive public affairs model toward a proactive, data-driven strategic communications organization.

The ideal candidate will help the customer organize work, analyze operational performance, support requirements definition, develop performance metrics, facilitate Integrated Project Teams, and identify practical process improvements. The requirement emphasizes integrated communications management tools, advanced analytics and reporting, social media/content innovation support, and skills development for communications staff.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Operations Analyst / Management Analyst II will provide operational analysis, program support, performance measurement, and process improvement support to help the customer strengthen strategic communications capabilities. The customer’s current pain points include manual processes, duplicative work, limited performance measurement, gaps in modern communications tools, and skills gaps in analytics, AI integration, digital media production, and campaign management.

This role requires a detail-oriented analyst who can work across communications, program management, data, and process improvement functions. The candidate should be comfortable translating customer needs into action plans, trackers, dashboards, meeting materials, process maps, risk logs, and recommendation briefings. The GSA labor category requires a bachelor’s degree and 6 years of experience, with responsibilities that include operational advisory support, analysis and reporting, program/project management support, requirements elicitation, budgeting/reporting support, performance metrics, market research, cost estimation, presentations, risk mitigation, and IPT facilitation.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze current communications workflows, reporting processes, stakeholder touchpoints, and project tracking practices to identify duplication, bottlenecks, and improvement opportunities.
• Support requirements definition for integrated communications management tools, dashboards, editorial calendars, project trackers, and reporting workflows.
• Develop and maintain performance metric trackers, KPI dashboards, action item logs, risk registers, issue logs, and decision records.
• Facilitate or support Integrated Project Teams, working groups, stakeholder meetings, and requirements sessions.
• Prepare meeting agendas, briefing materials, read-ahead packages, notes, summaries, and follow-up action trackers.
• Conduct research on communications operations, content workflow practices, analytics approaches, tool requirements, and process improvement options.
• Support market research and alternatives analysis for tools that may support content management, analytics, project management, social media monitoring, and reporting.
• Document current-state and future-state workflows, standard operating procedures, process maps, and job aids.
• Coordinate with communications, analytics, training, technology, and leadership stakeholders to gather input and validate recommendations.
• Develop executive-level presentations that summarize findings, risks, recommendations, implementation status, and performance trends.
• Support development of training-related materials, adoption plans, and knowledge transfer tools for customer staff.
• Identify project risks, develop mitigation recommendations, and escalate issues that may affect schedule, quality, stakeholder adoption, or reporting accuracy.
• Support dashboard inputs and data storytelling by helping connect communications activities to measurable business outcomes.
• Maintain organized files, version-controlled work products, and repeatable templates for customer use.

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Ascension is seeking a Business Intelligence Analyst / Data Analytics Specialist to support a federal strategic communications and organizational transformation effort. This position is designed for a data-driven professional who can help a communications organization move from reactive reporting to proactive, measurable, insight-based decision-making.

The customer’s need is centered on improving how communication activities are planned, measured, reported, and connected to mission outcomes. The requirement specifically calls for advanced analytics and reporting that can connect communication efforts to measurable business outcomes, integrate external business data, and create dashboards that correlate campaign activity with behavioral adoption rates.

This role is important because the customer is trying to modernize strategic communications through better tools, integrated workflows, performance measurement, and skills development. The analyst will help transform raw data, campaign activity, audience behavior, workflow status, and performance indicators into clear insights that leadership can use to make decisions.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Business Intelligence Analyst / Data Analytics Specialist will support data analysis, KPI development, dashboard creation, performance reporting, and decision-support activities for a strategic communications modernization effort. The ideal candidate will be analytical, organized, detail-oriented, and comfortable working with communications, program management, training, and technology stakeholders.

This role requires someone who can translate business questions into measurable analytic use cases, collect and integrate data from multiple sources, identify trends, build dashboards, and explain findings in a way that non-technical stakeholders can understand. Ascension’s GSA labor category for Business Data Analyst III includes analytical support for mission-oriented projects, data entry, aggregation, reporting, client interaction, workflow improvement, dashboards, and possible low-code/no-code automation.

The analyst should be self-driven, comfortable working in an evolving environment, and able to anticipate data quality issues, reporting gaps, workflow bottlenecks, and performance measurement risks. The customer’s problem statement identifies gaps in process/workflow, performance measurement, content/tools, and modern expertise, especially data analytics, AI integration, and strategic campaign management.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze campaign, communications, workflow, stakeholder, and business performance data to identify trends, risks, gaps, and opportunities.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards, KPI trackers, and visual reports that connect communications activity to measurable outcomes.
• Translate customer business questions into analytic requirements, data models, reporting logic, and decision-support products.
• Collect, clean, validate, and integrate data from internal and external sources to support reporting accuracy.
• Create executive-ready briefings, visuals, and narrative insights that explain data findings in plain language.
• Support the development of performance measurement frameworks for strategic communications campaigns and modernization initiatives.
• Maintain data trackers, reporting logs, dashboard update schedules, and documentation of assumptions, sources, definitions, and business rules.
• Identify workflow inefficiencies, duplicative reporting steps, and opportunities for automation or process improvement.
• Collaborate with project managers, communications specialists, training leads, and customer stakeholders to align analytics with mission needs.
• Support knowledge transfer by documenting reporting processes, dashboard use instructions, and repeatable analytic methods.
• Provide recommendations to improve data quality, dashboard usability, reporting cadence, and leadership visibility into performance.
• Participate in meetings, working sessions, and reviews to capture requirements, clarify metrics, and present findings.

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Ascension is seeking a Senior Business Intelligence and Strategic Communications Analytics Lead to support a federal strategic communications modernization effort for DFAS Corporate Communications. This role is intended for a senior analytics professional who can help transform communications operations from reactive reporting into proactive, data-driven decision support.

The ideal candidate will lead enterprise analytics, develop KPI frameworks, build executive dashboards, integrate multi-source data, and help connect communication activities to measurable business outcomes. This role is important because the customer has identified a major gap in performance measurement, workflow integration, modern communications tools, and data analytics skills. The requirement specifically calls for advanced analytics that can connect communication efforts to business outcomes and behavioral adoption rates, such as measuring whether a targeted campaign increases paperless enrollment.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Senior Business Intelligence and Strategic Communications Analytics Lead will support DFAS Corporate Communications as it evolves into a proactive, data-driven strategic communications organization. The customer’s challenge is not simply producing communications products; it is building a sustainable measurement system that shows whether communications activities are changing behavior, improving adoption, reducing confusion, and supporting agency objectives.

This role requires a senior analyst who can work with communications leaders, program stakeholders, tool owners, and technical teams to define what should be measured, determine what data is available, identify gaps in data quality or process maturity, and design dashboards that translate campaign activity into decision-ready insights. The candidate should be comfortable working in an ambiguous environment where the analytics model, data sources, workflow process, and reporting expectations may need to be built or refined during execution.

The ideal candidate will be self-driven, detail-oriented, and comfortable advising senior stakeholders. They should be able to anticipate data and reporting problems, develop practical solutions, and explain findings clearly to non-technical audiences. The role will likely require strong use of Microsoft Power BI, Excel, SharePoint, Power Platform, Microsoft 365, data visualization tools, KPI development methods, requirements gathering, dashboard design, data quality review, and business process analysis.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Lead analytics discovery sessions with communications, program, and business stakeholders to identify reporting needs, data sources, performance questions, and decision points.
• Develop KPI frameworks that measure campaign reach, engagement, workflow performance, audience behavior, adoption outcomes, and communication effectiveness.
• Build executive dashboards and recurring reports that connect communication activities to measurable business outcomes.
• Integrate multi-source data from communications platforms, campaign trackers, SharePoint lists, web/social analytics, survey results, internal business data, and program performance datasets.
• Translate business questions into analytic use cases, data models, measures, and visual reporting structures.
• Assess data quality, completeness, consistency, and availability across communication and business systems.
• Recommend practical approaches for improving data collection, reporting workflows, data governance, and performance measurement.
• Support development of dashboard requirements, reporting templates, data dictionaries, metric definitions, and standard operating procedures.
• Create visual narratives, briefing decks, and analytic summaries for senior leadership review.
• Identify trends, risks, gaps, and performance patterns that affect communications planning, campaign execution, and organizational decision-making.
• Collaborate with project managers, communications specialists, content creators, trainers, and technical staff to align analytics with the broader modernization solution.
• Support knowledge transfer by documenting analytic methods, training users on dashboard interpretation, and helping build sustainable in-house measurement capability.
• Advise on data visualization best practices, dashboard usability, reporting cadence, and executive-level communication of findings.

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Ascension is seeking a part-time Strategic Communications Transformation Subject Matter Expert to support a federal strategic communications modernization effort. This role is intended for a senior communications, marketing technology, analytics, and organizational capability-building professional who can advise a government communications directorate on how to evolve from a reactive public affairs function into a proactive, data-driven strategic communications organization.

The client’s stated need is to improve integrated communications management, analytics and reporting, social media monitoring, content innovation, and staff skills development. The requirement specifically calls for a centralized communications platform, campaign performance dashboards tied to business outcomes, AI-enabled content tools, social media monitoring, graphic/video design support, data visualization, and hands-on training for communications staff.

This role is important because the client is not only looking for tools; they need expert guidance on how to align people, processes, platforms, data, and training so the communications function can become more strategic, measurable, and self-sustaining.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Strategic Communications Transformation SME will provide senior advisory support to help assess the client’s current communications capability gaps and recommend practical solutions for modernizing workflows, content production, analytics, campaign management, and staff development. The ideal candidate will understand how federal communications teams operate and will be able to translate strategic communications goals into actionable tools, workflows, performance measures, dashboards, training curricula, and implementation recommendations.

The successful candidate should be a self-directed consultant who can work in an ambiguous environment, quickly understand the client’s operating model, identify process and technology gaps, and provide recommendations that are realistic for a federal/defense environment. This person should be comfortable advising senior stakeholders, facilitating working sessions, evaluating communications tools, drafting strategic recommendations, and helping build sustainable in-house capability through knowledge transfer.

Ascension’s SME III labor category requires a Bachelor’s/Master’s degree and 10 years of experience. The LCAT is designed to provide domain and business process expertise, develop business requirements, support process reengineering, solve process and system-related problems, facilitate collaboration, and align solutions to agency mission needs and technical strategy.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Assess current communications workflows, tools, content development processes, analytics practices, and skills gaps.
• Advise on an integrated communications management approach that supports multi-channel content creation, editorial calendaring, project management, and workflow coordination.
• Recommend practical toolsets or configurations for communications planning, social media monitoring, AI-assisted writing, graphic/video design, dashboarding, and campaign performance tracking.
• Develop business requirements, process maps, use cases, capability gap findings, and implementation recommendations.
• Support the design of dashboards that connect communication activities to measurable outcomes, such as audience engagement, behavioral adoption, campaign reach, and leadership decision support.
• Facilitate stakeholder discussions with communications staff, leadership, tool owners, data owners, and implementation partners.
• Translate communications objectives into measurable KPIs, reporting structures, and management routines.
• Review or develop strategic campaign management practices, editorial governance processes, content approval workflows, and reporting cadences.
• Support training needs assessment and curriculum design for data analytics for communicators, AI integration in public relations, advanced digital media production, social media best practices, and campaign management.
• Prepare briefing materials, recommendations, decision papers, capability assessments, and implementation roadmaps.
• Provide knowledge transfer so the client can sustain new processes, tools, and measurement practices after implementation.
• Identify implementation risks, including tool adoption risk, data quality risk, workflow disruption, security/compliance constraints, and skills gaps.
• Coordinate with Ascension leadership and project team members to ensure recommendations remain aligned with scope, contract expectations, and client mission needs.

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Ascension is seeking a Project Manager to support a potential strategic communications capability enhancement effort for a federal defense client. This role is intended for a highly organized, client-facing project professional who can manage scope, schedule, cost, deliverables, communications, stakeholder coordination, risks, and compliance while supporting a broader transformation from reactive public affairs support to proactive, data-driven strategic communications.

The ideal candidate will understand how to manage consulting projects that involve communications workflows, digital tools, performance measurement, training, change management, and stakeholder engagement. This person should be comfortable working with communications teams, technical tool implementers, analysts, trainers, and government leaders to keep project activities organized, documented, and moving toward measurable outcomes.

This position is important because the client’s stated challenge is not just a lack of tools; it is a multi-part capability gap involving manual workflows, limited performance measurement, content and tool limitations, and skills gaps in data analytics, AI integration, and strategic campaign management.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Project Manager will help Ascension plan, coordinate, and manage work associated with modernizing strategic communications capabilities. The effort may include implementing an integrated communications management tool, supporting analytics and reporting, coordinating social media/content innovation support, and managing a structured skills development program for government communications staff.

The successful candidate will help translate project goals into organized tasks, schedules, trackers, meeting cadences, risk logs, action items, deliverable calendars, and status reports. The Project Manager will ensure that project activities remain aligned with client expectations, required deliverables, communications priorities, and contract requirements.

This role requires a detail-oriented, organized planner who can operate in a changing environment, anticipate risks, coordinate multiple stakeholders, and communicate clearly with both technical and non-technical audiences. The candidate should be self-driven, responsive, and comfortable supporting workstreams involving communications strategy, digital platforms, dashboards, training, workflow improvement, and organizational change.

The Government’s requirement emphasizes the need for a centralized platform for content creation, multi-channel distribution, editorial calendaring, and project management; analytics that connect communications activity to business outcomes; content creation and social media monitoring tools; and a structured hands-on training curriculum.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage project scope, schedule, cost, deliverables, risks, issues, and action items.
• Develop and maintain project plans, schedules, workstream trackers, meeting agendas, decision logs, and status reports.
• Coordinate with Ascension leadership, government stakeholders, communications staff, analysts, trainers, and technical team members.
• Track progress across strategic communications, analytics, workflow, content, and training workstreams.
• Facilitate project meetings, capture meeting notes, document decisions, and follow up on assigned actions.
• Support implementation planning for integrated communications management tools, editorial calendars, project management workflows, and reporting dashboards.
• Monitor project risks, dependencies, and schedule concerns and recommend mitigation strategies.
• Prepare client-ready briefings, progress updates, project summaries, and executive-level materials.
• Support development and review of communications process documentation, standard operating procedures, training plans, and implementation artifacts.
• Coordinate deliverable reviews to ensure quality, accuracy, timeliness, and alignment with government expectations.
• Help ensure that project activities support sustainable knowledge transfer and in-house capability building.
• Maintain organized project documentation in Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Teams, or other approved collaboration environments.
• Support compliance with applicable federal, DoD/DoW, DFAS, Section 508, records management, and information security expectations as directed by the client.

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Ascension is seeking a Technical Writer & Training Specialist to support a federal activity-based costing and financial analytics effort. This role will help document business processes, prepare user-facing materials, support training development, and assist the project team in helping federal staff understand and use ABC-related tools, coding practices, reports, and financial analytics outputs.

This position supports a BSEE requirement focused on maintaining and improving the agency’s current ABC structure and related financial tools, including CostPerform cost models, ABC coding and cost-allocation processes, Tableau dashboards, staff support, ABC code usage review, workforce/position-costing analysis, and optional training material development. The RFI also specifically identifies the need for expertise in activity-based costing, cost modeling, CostPerform, Tableau or similar reporting tools, federal financial/timekeeping systems, and training development and delivery.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Technical Writer & Training Specialist will support the development, editing, formatting, and maintenance of documentation and training products for ABC and financial analytics support. The contractor will work with subject matter experts, analysts, and project leadership to capture technical and business process information and convert it into usable materials for federal staff.

This role should bring strong writing discipline, excellent attention to detail, comfort working with financial/business terminology, and the ability to work in a fluid project environment. The candidate should be self-driven, responsive, and able to manage multiple documentation tasks with minimal supervision.

The role directly aligns with Ascension’s Documentation / Media Specialist I LCAT, which includes drafting, editing, proofreading, formatting, preparing documents through approval chains, coordinating with project teams, and supporting digital and print communication products. Ascension’s past performance also supports this role through work preparing communication products, technical editing, proofreading policies and memoranda, assembling reports, creating training materials, and educating users.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Draft SOPs, job aids, user guides, FAQs, desk guides, quick-reference sheets, and training materials related to ABC, cost modeling, coding, dashboards, and reporting processes.
• Translate technical input from financial analysts, cost modelers, Tableau developers, and client SMEs into clear user-facing documentation.
• Edit and proofread reports, briefings, memoranda, process documents, and training materials for clarity, accuracy, consistency, grammar, and formatting.
• Support development of training materials, including slide decks, instructor notes, participant guides, exercises, examples, and knowledge checks.
• Maintain documentation libraries, templates, version histories, and approval trackers in SharePoint or another client-approved repository.
• Prepare meeting summaries, action item logs, and follow-up notes from working sessions with client stakeholders and project SMEs.
• Format deliverables in accordance with client style guides, accessibility expectations, and Ascension quality standards.
• Create or refine process flows, tables, screenshots, examples, and visual aids to help users understand ABC coding, system steps, and reporting outputs.
• Support user adoption by preparing help content for common ABC questions, reporting issues, and system-use scenarios.
• Coordinate with analysts and technical specialists to validate documentation against current processes, tools, and client decisions.
• Assist with updates to training and documentation when ABC codes, cost structures, dashboards, or procedures change.
• Track comments, edits, and client feedback through final delivery.

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Ascension is seeking a Tableau BI Reporting Specialist to support a federal client’s activity-based costing, financial analytics, cost modeling, and reporting environment. This position is aligned to Ascension’s Technical Specialist II labor category and is intended for a hands-on technical professional who can build and maintain Tableau dashboards, support reporting tools, automate data visualization outputs, and assist users with business intelligence and reporting needs.

This role is important because the client requires support to maintain and improve its activity-based costing structure, financial tools, dashboards, and reports. The work includes improving Tableau dashboards and other reports, supporting ABC coding and cost-allocation processes, assisting staff with ABC-related questions, reviewing code usage, and helping with workforce and position-costing analysis.

Ascension is looking for a candidate who understands how to translate financial, operational, and workforce data into clear visual reporting products that help leaders make timely and informed decisions. The ideal candidate will be technically capable, detail-oriented, responsive, and comfortable supporting both technical reporting tasks and business users who need help understanding reports, data outputs, and dashboard functionality.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Tableau BI Reporting Specialist will provide technical execution support for dashboard development, reporting maintenance, data visualization, and business intelligence support in a federal financial analytics environment. The role will focus on building Tableau dashboards, maintaining reporting tools, supporting data visualization outputs, and helping client stakeholders use reports to understand cost, activity, workforce, and financial information.

The candidate should be comfortable working with structured data, financial or operational reporting datasets, Tableau dashboards, Excel-based analysis, and recurring reporting requirements. The role requires someone who can work independently on assigned technical tasks while coordinating with financial analysts, cost modelers, project managers, and government stakeholders.

The ideal candidate will bring strong attention to detail, the ability to organize data clearly, and the judgment to identify when reporting outputs may need validation, correction, or improvement. The candidate should be able to support customers who may not be technical users by explaining dashboard outputs, documenting reporting steps, and helping improve the usability of reporting products.

Tools and processes likely needed for the customer include Tableau, Excel, data quality checks, dashboard refresh procedures, reporting templates, data dictionaries, user guides, issue trackers, dashboard enhancement logs, and recurring reporting processes. Experience with CostPerform, federal financial systems, ABC structures, Quicktime, FBMS, or related timekeeping/accounting systems would be a strong advantage because the RFI specifically asks vendors to note familiarity with BSEE’s IT and accounting systems, including FBMS, Quicktime, ABC, and CostPerform.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

The Tableau BI Reporting Specialist will be expected to:

• Build Tableau dashboards, views, filters, calculations, and visualizations that support activity-based costing, financial analytics, workforce analysis, and cost reporting.
• Maintain existing Tableau dashboards and reporting tools to ensure reports remain accurate, current, and usable.
• Automate recurring data visualization outputs where feasible using Tableau, Excel, Power Query, scheduled extracts, or approved reporting workflows.
• Validate source data, dashboard calculations, and report outputs to identify inconsistencies, missing values, or data quality issues.
• Support ABC coding and cost-allocation reporting by developing visuals that show trends, patterns, exceptions, and code usage.
• Assist users with dashboard navigation, report interpretation, and recurring reporting questions.
• Document dashboard logic, data sources, field definitions, refresh processes, and known reporting assumptions.
• Create or update report templates, job aids, dashboard guides, and user-facing instructions.
• Coordinate with financial analysts, cost modelers, and project managers to convert business questions into reporting requirements.
• Review reporting requirements and recommend practical improvements to dashboard layout, data filters, drilldowns, and report usability.
• Support workforce and position-costing analysis through dashboard development, data tables, charts, and summary visuals.
• Prepare status updates on reporting tasks, dashboard enhancements, issues, and pending decisions.
• Participate in working sessions with client stakeholders to gather feedback, clarify reporting needs, and demonstrate dashboard updates.
• Maintain version control for dashboard files, data extracts, documentation, and reporting artifacts.
• Support ad hoc data analysis and reporting requests using Tableau, Excel, and other approved BI tools.

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Ascension is seeking a Senior Data Analyst (Financial & Cost Analytics / Tableau) to support a federal client’s activity-based costing, financial analytics, cost modeling, reporting, and business intelligence needs. This role is designed for a data-driven professional who can translate cost, financial, workforce, and operational data into clear insights, dashboards, reports, and recommendations that support leadership decision-making.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience with financial or cost analytics, Tableau dashboard development, data quality review, data modeling, and stakeholder-facing reporting. This position is important because the client needs contractor support to maintain and improve its activity-based costing structure, update cost models, support cost allocation and ABC coding processes, develop reporting tools, and help staff understand and use ABC-related data and systems. The RFI specifically identifies needs tied to activity-based costing, cost modeling, financial/business analytics, Tableau or similar reporting tools, training, and reporting support.

This is a strong fit for a candidate who enjoys working at the intersection of data analytics, financial management, business process improvement, and federal mission support.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Senior Data Analyst will support financial and operational decision-making by analyzing cost, workforce, position, timekeeping, coding, and financial data; developing and maintaining dashboards; reviewing ABC code usage; supporting cost model updates; and helping users understand how to apply ABC-related processes and tools. The analyst will work with client stakeholders to identify reporting needs, validate data, develop cost and business analytics products, and recommend improvements to coding, reporting, and cost-allocation practices.

The successful candidate should be detail-oriented, organized, analytical, and comfortable working with imperfect or evolving data sets. The candidate must be able to operate with limited supervision, ask thoughtful questions, identify data issues, recommend practical solutions, and communicate findings to both technical and non-technical audiences. The role requires the ability to manage multiple priorities, support recurring reporting cycles, develop clear visualizations, and help the client improve the tools and processes used to manage activity-based costing and financial analytics.

Tools and processes expected to support this work may include Tableau, Excel, CostPerform or similar cost-modeling tools, Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Power BI or similar BI tools, federal financial/timekeeping data sources, data quality review processes, ABC coding structures, cost allocation models, dashboard development, requirements gathering, stakeholder interviews, data validation, and user support/training materials. Ascension’s Business Data Analyst III LCAT aligns with this role because it requires a bachelor’s degree, six years of experience, data analysis, aggregation, reporting, dashboard development, business workflow improvement, client interaction, and development of data-informed recommendations.

Position’s Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze activity-based costing, financial, workforce, position-costing, coding, and operational data to identify trends, gaps, inconsistencies, and improvement opportunities.
• Develop Tableau dashboards, reports, data visualizations, and executive-ready analytics products that support cost transparency and decision-making.
• Maintain and update cost models, data tables, coding structures, and related financial analytics tools as directed by the client.
• Review ABC code usage and cost-allocation practices to identify errors, inconsistencies, underused codes, duplicate structures, or opportunities for simplification.
• Validate data from financial, timekeeping, workforce, or business systems to support accurate reporting and analysis.
• Translate business and financial requirements into analytic use cases, reporting specifications, dashboards, and decision-support tools.
• Collaborate with client stakeholders, program staff, financial analysts, and technical users to understand reporting needs and improve usability of analytics products.
• Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports, briefings, and data summaries for leadership review.
• Support workforce and position-costing analysis by connecting staffing, labor, organizational, and financial data.
• Document data sources, assumptions, business rules, calculations, dashboard logic, and reporting procedures.
• Recommend improvements to ABC coding, cost allocation, dashboard design, reporting workflows, and user-facing guidance.
• Support end users by answering ABC-related data and reporting questions and helping staff understand how to use dashboards, reports, and tools.
• Assist in developing training materials, job aids, standard operating procedures, and user guides for ABC, reporting, and analytics processes.
• Identify data risks, reporting gaps, and process issues and propose practical mitigation steps.
• Participate in meetings, working sessions, and reviews with client stakeholders to confirm requirements, review findings, and refine deliverables.

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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented Activity-Based Costing and Financial Analytics Analyst to support a federal client’s activity-based costing, financial analytics, cost modeling, reporting, and workforce cost analysis needs. This role is aligned to Ascension’s Operations Research / Management Analyst II labor category and is intended for a mid-level analyst with experience supporting cost estimation, performance metrics, data validation, financial reporting, and business process analysis.

This position is important because the client needs support maintaining and improving its current Activity-Based Costing structure and related financial tools. The work includes updating cost models, supporting ABC coding and cost-allocation processes, improving dashboards and reports, helping staff use ABC-related tools, reviewing code usage, and assisting with workforce and position-costing analysis. The RFI specifically identifies activity-based costing, cost modeling and financial analysis, CostPerform, Tableau or similar reporting tools, federal financial or timekeeping systems, and training development/delivery as areas of needed expertise.

The ideal candidate will be comfortable working with financial, workforce, timekeeping, and operational datasets; translating business questions into analytic outputs; validating cost drivers and allocation logic; and preparing reports, dashboards, and recommendations that help federal leaders make better resourcing and financial management decisions.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Activity-Based Costing and Financial Analytics Analyst will provide analytical, operational, and financial support to help the client maintain, validate, and improve its ABC structure and related reporting environment. The analyst will support cost model updates, data validation, ABC code review, cost-driver analysis, workforce and position-costing analysis, reporting, dashboard development, process documentation, and user support.

This role requires a professional who is analytical, organized, self-driven, and comfortable working in a client-facing federal environment. The candidate should be able to work with limited supervision, ask the right questions, identify data issues, document assumptions, reconcile discrepancies, and explain findings in plain language to both financial and non-financial stakeholders.

The candidate will be expected to support tools and processes that may include CostPerform, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, Power BI, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, federal financial/accounting systems, timekeeping systems, data validation trackers, cost model documentation, ABC code review logs, issue/risk trackers, and recurring status reports. Ascension’s GSA labor category for Operations Research / Management Analyst II includes operational advisory support, analysis and reporting, performance metrics, cost estimation, risk identification, stakeholder facilitation, and production of cost models, metric trackers, data tables, meeting summaries, and risk matrices.

Expected Day-to-Day Activities

• Analyze financial, workforce, timekeeping, and operational datasets to support ABC cost modeling, cost allocation, and reporting requirements.
• Build, update, and maintain workforce cost models, position-costing models, and related analytical workbooks.
• Validate financial datasets, cost drivers, ABC codes, and allocation assumptions for accuracy, completeness, and consistency.
• Review ABC code usage and recommend coding improvements to strengthen cost allocation, reporting accuracy, and management visibility.
• Support updates to CostPerform or similar cost modeling tools, including data inputs, model assumptions, outputs, and documentation.
• Develop and maintain Tableau, Power BI, Excel, or similar dashboards and reports to communicate cost trends, workforce costs, activity costs, and variance drivers.
• Conduct variance analysis to identify changes in cost patterns, workforce costs, allocation results, and financial reporting outputs.
• Document data sources, business rules, cost drivers, assumptions, calculations, and recurring reporting procedures.
• Support client staff by responding to ABC-related questions, troubleshooting data or reporting issues, and explaining model outputs.
• Prepare briefing materials, analytical summaries, dashboards, data tables, and recommendations for federal stakeholders.
• Facilitate working sessions with finance, budget, program, workforce, and system users to clarify requirements and validate findings.
• Identify process gaps, data quality issues, and reporting risks; recommend practical corrective actions.
• Maintain issue logs, action item trackers, meeting notes, data validation trackers, and model update records.
• Support optional training material development, user guides, job aids, and demonstrations for ABC tools and reporting processes.
• Assist with process improvement recommendations related to ABC structure, coding practices, data governance, and financial analytics workflows.

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Ascension is seeking a senior-level Activity-Based Costing and Cost Modeling Consultant to support a federal client’s ABC structure, cost allocation processes, financial analytics, and reporting environment. This role is ideal for a finance, economics, analytics, or federal cost management professional who understands how cost models, activity codes, labor/time data, cost allocation rules, and dashboards support leadership decision-making.

The consultant will help maintain and improve the client’s existing ABC structure, support CostPerform-related cost model activities, review ABC code usage, validate cost allocation logic, and recommend practical improvements to strengthen reporting accuracy, usability, and decision support. This position is important because the client relies on ABC and related financial tools to better understand the cost of programs, activities, organizational structures, and workforce resources.

The ideal candidate brings both technical and business judgment: the ability to work with cost model structures and data, explain issues clearly to non-technical stakeholders, identify process or coding weaknesses, and recommend improvements that can be adopted by federal staff.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Senior ABC and Cost Modeling Consultant will provide specialized advisory and analytical support for federal activity-based costing, financial/business analytics, cost modeling, and reporting. The consultant will help the client maintain ABC structures, update cost models, validate coding and cost allocation rules, support Tableau dashboards and reports, and respond to staff questions related to ABC processes and system use.

The consultant should be detail-oriented, organized, and self-driven, with the ability to work in an environment where requirements may evolve as the Government refines its ABC, BOEM, or MMA structure needs. The role requires someone who can quickly understand existing cost structures, identify gaps or inconsistencies, document findings, coordinate with client stakeholders, and propose practical improvements without overcomplicating the solution.

This consultant may also support optional work related to BOEM ABC structure development, training materials, coding improvement recommendations, and potential consolidation of BSEE and BOEM ABC structures into a new MMA structure. Because this work may involve multiple offices and leadership stakeholders, the consultant must be comfortable facilitating discussions, reconciling inputs, and translating financial and operational concepts into clear decision-support materials.

Expected tools and processes may include CostPerform, Tableau, Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, federal financial or timekeeping systems such as FBMS and Quicktime if available, ABC coding structures, cost allocation methodologies, data validation processes, dashboard review cycles, SOPs/job aids, and training materials.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Maintain and update ABC cost model structures, tables, assumptions, and allocation rules.
• Review ABC coding patterns and identify inconsistent, outdated, duplicative, or underused codes.
• Validate cost allocation logic and recommend improvements to strengthen accuracy and usability.
• Support CostPerform-related analysis, model updates, testing, documentation, and issue resolution.
• Analyze workforce, position-costing, activity, and financial data to support cost visibility.
• Create, review, or improve Tableau dashboards, reports, and management briefing materials.
• Respond to ABC-related staff questions and help users understand coding, reporting, or system processes.
• Document business rules, process steps, model assumptions, data sources, and recommended changes.
• Facilitate working sessions with finance, program, analytics, and leadership stakeholders.
• Develop training materials, job aids, quick-reference guides, and user support content.
• Support BOEM ABC structure design, coding recommendations, and training development, if requested.
• Assist with potential BSEE/BOEM ABC structure consolidation into an MMA structure, if requested.
• Prepare findings, issue logs, decision papers, crosswalks, and executive-ready recommendations.
• Coordinate with Ascension and client leads to track progress, risks, assumptions, and open decisions.

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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented Project Manager I to support the Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement’s Activity-Based Costing and Financial/Analytics Support effort. This role will help coordinate project activities across BSEE and, where applicable, BOEM stakeholders as the Government maintains and improves its ABC structure, cost models, dashboards, reporting tools, workforce and position-costing analysis, and related financial processes. The RFI specifically identifies support for CostPerform, ABC coding, cost allocation, Tableau dashboards, staff questions, code usage reviews, workforce costing, and optional BOEM/MMA structure development.

This position is best suited for a project professional who can manage schedules, track deliverables, coordinate stakeholder inputs, document risks and issues, and keep technical, financial, and analytics workstreams moving without adding unnecessary overhead. Ascension mapped this role to Project Manager I because the GSA MAS labor category aligns with task execution, schedule control, stakeholder coordination, deliverable tracking, and risk/issue management. The labor category requires a bachelor’s degree and five years of experience, and includes managing quality, schedule, cost, scope, deliverables, client meetings, risks, and project documentation.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Project Manager I will provide day-to-day coordination and project execution support for a federal financial analytics and activity-based costing environment. The successful candidate will work closely with ABC, financial, analytics, and program stakeholders to maintain project visibility, support timely completion of deliverables, document action items, and help ensure the Government receives organized, accurate, and decision-ready project information.

The ideal candidate is organized, responsive, and comfortable working in a technical business environment where financial data, cost allocation, reporting, dashboards, and stakeholder coordination intersect. This role does not require the individual to be the senior ABC or CostPerform expert; however, the candidate must be able to coordinate technical inputs from subject-matter experts, understand dependencies, maintain trackers, and communicate clearly with Government and contractor personnel.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Manage project schedules, milestone trackers, action-item logs, and deliverable calendars.
• Coordinate meetings with BSEE, BOEM, technical SMEs, financial analysts, and reporting/dashboard stakeholders.
• Track risks, issues, decisions, dependencies, and follow-up actions through resolution.
• Support status reporting, meeting summaries, briefing materials, and project documentation.
• Maintain visibility into ABC-related workstreams, including cost model updates, coding reviews, reporting improvements, and workforce/position-costing analysis.
• Coordinate inputs for dashboards, reports, training materials, code-usage reviews, and process improvement recommendations.
• Assist with documenting business processes, project assumptions, stakeholder feedback, and change requests.
• Support quality control reviews to ensure deliverables are complete, accurate, timely, and aligned with Government expectations.
• Escalate schedule, data, staffing, or stakeholder coordination risks before they affect delivery.
• Use Microsoft 365, Excel, Teams, SharePoint, project trackers, and reporting tools to support project execution and documentation.

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Ascension LLC is seeking a detail-oriented, user-focused Quality Assurance Specialist to support website testing, accessibility validation, defect tracking, and launch-readiness activities for a Drupal website redesign and implementation effort supporting Maryland Sea Grant.

This role is important because the redesigned website must function reliably across user roles, content types, templates, browsers, devices, and workflows. The Quality Assurance Specialist will help confirm that the website performs as intended before launch, supports Maryland Sea Grant’s content management needs, and provides a stable experience for website visitors, staff content contributors, editors, moderators, and administrators.

The ideal candidate will bring hands-on experience testing websites, CMS workflows, responsive design, accessibility features, search functionality, forms, media/content displays, and user permissions. The candidate should be comfortable working in a collaborative project environment where the prime contractor or technical lead owns final development decisions, while Ascension provides structured QA support, issue documentation, retesting, and acceptance-readiness input.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Quality Assurance Specialist will support testing and quality assurance activities for a redesigned Drupal website. The role will focus on confirming that website pages, templates, navigation, search, media features, content workflows, user roles, and responsive design elements operate as expected. The specialist will also support accessibility checks aligned to Section 508 and WCAG expectations, document defects clearly, coordinate with project stakeholders, and verify corrections after developers implement fixes.

This is a supporting QA role. The specialist will not serve as the final technical authority for the website build, but will provide disciplined testing support to help the project team identify defects, validate corrections, reduce launch risk, and support a smoother transition to production.

The selected candidate should be analytical, organized, practical, and comfortable translating technical findings into clear defect reports and user-facing observations. The candidate should be able to work independently with limited supervision, manage multiple test cycles, anticipate risk areas, and communicate findings in a way that helps developers, project managers, and client stakeholders make informed decisions.

Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities

• Review project requirements, user stories, site maps, templates, content types, and acceptance criteria to understand what must be tested.
• Develop QA checklists, test scenarios, and test scripts for Drupal webpages, content workflows, search, navigation, media displays, publications archive functionality, blogs, forms, ecommerce/bookstore workflows, and user permissions.
• Execute functional testing across approved website sections, templates, page types, and CMS features.
• Validate content moderation workflows, including draft, review, unpublished, and published states for different user roles.
• Test responsive behavior across desktop, tablet, and mobile screen sizes to confirm pages display and function properly.
• Check browser compatibility across commonly used browsers such as Chrome, Edge, Safari, and Firefox.
• Support accessibility testing using manual checks and available tools to identify potential Section 508 and WCAG-related issues, including heading structure, keyboard access, link clarity, color contrast, image alternative text, form labels, and logical reading order.
• Document defects, usability issues, accessibility concerns, and inconsistencies in a clear issue log with steps to reproduce, expected results, actual results, severity, screenshots, and affected pages or components.
• Coordinate with the Project Coordinator, Training and Documentation Specialist, prime contractor technical team, and client stakeholders to clarify defects and confirm testing priorities.
• Retest corrected items and update defect status after developers or technical leads implement fixes.
• Support user acceptance testing by preparing test guidance, collecting feedback, organizing findings, and helping distinguish defects from enhancement requests.
• Verify that CMS training materials and user guides accurately reflect tested workflows for creating, updating, publishing, and deleting content.
• Monitor post-launch issues during the maintenance and user support period and assist with triage, documentation, and resolution tracking.
• Prepare QA summaries, testing status updates, defect reports, and launch-readiness input for project leadership.

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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented Quality / Deliverables Coordinator to support a potential U.S. Marine Corps iNFADS professional services engagement. This role will help ensure that contract deliverables, monthly reports, meeting minutes, training attachments, and submission packages are accurate, complete, properly formatted, and ready for government review.

This position is important because the PWS allows deliverables to be rejected for spelling, grammar, formatting, content, completeness, accuracy, or contract nonconformance. The PWS also requires the Monthly Status Report to include work accomplished by task, accepted/rejected deliverables, planned work, reports, meetings, problem areas, recommended solutions, travel, and ODC status.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Quality / Deliverables Coordinator will support the Project Manager and technical team by maintaining a disciplined deliverable review and submission process. The ideal candidate is organized, responsive, and comfortable working with technical staff to convert inputs into polished government-facing work products. This person should be able to track due dates, review documents for clarity and consistency, capture meeting actions, prepare monthly reporting inputs, and maintain a clean document repository.

This role supports the overall iNFADS effort by helping the team maintain quality, reduce rework, and ensure that reports, briefings, training materials, meeting minutes, and other deliverables are submitted in the format required by the Government. The PWS specifically identifies deliverables such as reports, papers, PowerPoint briefings, slides, computations with backup information, training materials, manuals, databases, website-related items, graphics, visual aids, and meeting minutes.

Expected Day-to-Day / Recurring Activities

• Review draft and final deliverables for grammar, spelling, formatting, consistency, completeness, and compliance with PWS requirements.

• Format reports, briefings, meeting minutes, training materials, and attachments using Microsoft Office 365.

• Maintain the deliverable tracker, including due dates, review status, acceptance/rejection status, correction deadlines, and resubmission notes.

• Assemble monthly progress report inputs, including work accomplished by task, planned work, deliverables accepted or rejected, meetings, briefings, problem areas, recommendations, travel, and ODC inputs.

• Capture meeting minutes, action items, decisions, and follow-up assignments from kickoff meetings, status meetings, working groups, and technical coordination meetings.

• Package deliverables for submission to the COR in the required format, including MS Word, Excel, PowerPoint, PDF, email attachments, and supporting documentation.

• Coordinate with the Project Manager, data analysts, technical specialists, trainers, and SMEs to collect source materials and resolve missing information.

• Track government comments and verify that corrections, revisions, deletions, and additions are incorporated into final deliverables.

• Maintain version control, naming conventions, document folders, templates, review checklists, and quality control records.

• Support training deliverable packaging by attaching training trip reports, training evaluations, course materials, manuals, and related documentation when required.

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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented Training Materials / Training Support Specialist to support the development, formatting, editing, and quality review of training products for the Marine Corps iNFADS professional services effort. This role supports Task 5 by helping prepare annual training plans, training manuals, lesson plans, course evaluation forms, training materials, and training trip report inputs for iNFADS and related facilities planning system training.

This position is important because the PWS identifies user training as a key component of the contract and requires training support across classroom and virtual delivery environments. The broader requirement supports MCICOM’s use of iNFADS as the Department of Navy real property accountable property system of record, including data, audit, facilities, and real property management functions.

Summary of the Contractor Role

The Training Materials / Training Support Specialist will assist Ascension’s technical and training leads by preparing clear, accurate, user-friendly, and Government-compliant training documentation. The ideal candidate should be organized, responsive, and comfortable working with subject matter experts to turn technical system guidance into polished training products.

The PWS requires an annual training plan within 120 days of award, Government review and approval of training manuals before distribution, and adherence to approved course manuals and training materials during instruction. The PWS also requires six annual classroom or virtual end-user training sessions, lesson plans, training materials, course evaluations, and training trip reports documenting student feedback and training effectiveness.

This role is best suited for a candidate who can support formatting, editing, version control, course material updates, PowerPoint development, evaluation form preparation, and training documentation packages. The candidate should be able to work with Microsoft Office 365, Teams, SharePoint or similar document repositories, PDF tools, and basic accessibility/Section 508 review features in Microsoft Office.

Position Responsibilities

The Training Materials / Training Support Specialist will be expected to:

• Develop and format training manuals, student guides, instructor materials, lesson plans, and course handouts.
• Edit and proofread training materials for clarity, consistency, grammar, formatting, and compliance with approved templates.
• Support the annual iNFADS training plan by organizing draft content, training dates, locations, constraints, and delivery assumptions.
• Prepare course evaluation forms and compile student feedback for review by the training lead and project manager.
• Support training trip report inputs by organizing evaluation results, attendance information, lessons learned, and recommended improvements.
• Maintain version control for draft, review, revised, and final Government-approved training materials.
• Coordinate with SMEs to convert technical system guidance into user-friendly training content.
• Create and update PowerPoint presentations, job aids, quick reference guides, process visuals, and other training support materials.
• Ensure final deliverables are provided in Microsoft Office 365-compatible formats and are organized, accurate, and editable by the Government as required by the PWS.
• Apply basic accessibility checks to Word, PowerPoint, PDF, and SharePoint-ready materials before submission.
• Support virtual training preparation using Microsoft Teams or similar collaboration tools.
• Assist with organizing approved training files in a shared repository for easy retrieval, reuse, and audit support.

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Ascension is seeking a Policy and Working Group Analyst to support a potential U.S. Marine Corps iNFADS professional services engagement. The selected candidate will provide technical research, policy review, analysis, meeting support, and documentation support related to real property inventory, facilities, asset management, and supporting systems that use real property information.

This role is important because the customer requires contractor support to review changes to law, regulation, policy, directives, and procedural documents; support working groups; analyze possible impacts to real property management processes; and help document technical findings for Government review. The PWS makes clear that contractor support is technical and advisory only; the contractor will not vote, speak for the Government, draft discretionary policy, or make Government decisions. The role supports the broader iNFADS objective of improving the customer’s ability to manage, analyze, and use real property information across Marine Corps operations.

Summary of Contractor Role

The Policy and Working Group Analyst will support Task 2 and Task 4 of the PWS by helping the customer understand policy, procedural, and system-related changes that affect real property inventory reporting and related facilities processes. The ideal candidate will be a detail-oriented analyst who can read and summarize policy materials, compare requirements across documents, support working groups, prepare meeting notes and action items, and develop concise analysis that helps Government stakeholders make informed decisions.

The candidate should be comfortable working in an environment where the requirements are driven by ad hoc Government requests, working group schedules, and policy or system changes. This role requires strong judgment, professional writing, the ability to work with limited supervision, and the discipline to avoid making policy decisions on behalf of the Government. The PWS requires ad hoc request and working group support within two business days, and deliverables may be provided by email, MS Word, or MS Excel based on COR direction.

Expected Day-to-Day / Recurring Activities

• Review changes to real property law, DoW policy, DON policy, USMC policy, directives, and procedural documents.
• Summarize policy or procedural changes for Government review and follow-on action.
• Support DON, DoW, USMC, and NITC-related working groups involving real property asset management.
• Prepare data, analysis, issue summaries, meeting notes, and possible impact statements for working group discussions.
• Document working group action items, decisions, risks, dependencies, and follow-up items.
• Provide technical input on proposed Marine Corps policy and procedural documents without speaking for or representing the Government.
• Support ad hoc questions related to real property inventory, facilities planning, military construction, sustainment, restoration, modernization, and related systems.
• Coordinate with project staff and technical SMEs to gather facts, validate assumptions, and prepare accurate responses.
• Develop concise Word, Excel, and email-based deliverables that fully address the COR’s request.
• Support monthly status reporting by documenting assigned tasks, completed deliverables, issues, planned work, and working group activity.
• Participate in MS Teams meetings, technical discussions, and collaboration sessions as required.
• Track risks, open issues, action items, and response timelines to ensure the team meets PWS performance standards.