Ascension LLC is seeking a highly analytical and collaborative Business Process Analyst / RTM & Workshop Support professional to support a strategic Oracle EBusiness Suite (EBS) Process Assessment & Future-State Design initiative for WSSC Water. This role is critical to helping WSSC evaluate current-state Oracle EBS business processes, document operational workflows, support cloud readiness activities, and design optimized future-state processes aligned with ERP/HCM Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) capabilities and utility-industry best practices.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong blend of business process analysis, stakeholder engagement, workshop facilitation support, and requirements traceability expertise within enterprise ERP transformation environments. Candidates should have demonstrated experience supporting Oracle EBS, Oracle Cloud, Workday, SAP, or comparable ERP/HCM modernization initiatives involving process documentation, workflow analysis, fit-gap support, and business requirements management.

This position plays an important role in supporting stakeholder interviews, workshop coordination, requirements traceability matrix (RTM) development, process mapping, and cross-functional documentation activities spanning Procurement, Inventory, Accounts Payable, iSupplier, HRMS, Payroll, and General Ledger modules. The successful candidate will help ensure business requirements, workshop outcomes, decisions, risks, dependencies, and process changes are accurately captured and aligned throughout the engagement lifecycle.

Ascension is seeking a candidate who is detail-oriented, organized, proactive, and capable of operating effectively in a collaborative consulting environment supporting executive leadership, functional SMEs, technical teams, and client stakeholders. The ideal professional will possess strong communication skills, exceptional documentation discipline, and the ability to anticipate stakeholder needs while supporting multiple concurrent activities in a fast-paced project environment.

Position Summary

The Business Process Analyst / RTM & Workshop Support professional will support the planning, coordination, documentation, and analysis activities associated with WSSC Water’s Oracle EBS Process Assessment & Future-State Design initiative. This role will directly support process discovery workshops, requirements gathering sessions, current-state and future-state documentation efforts, fit-gap analysis activities, and requirements traceability management.

The successful candidate will assist in documenting As-Is business processes, capturing workshop outputs, organizing stakeholder feedback, maintaining requirements traceability matrices, and supporting governance and communication activities throughout the engagement. The analyst will work closely with project leadership, functional leads, technical architects, SMEs, and client stakeholders to ensure alignment between business objectives, operational requirements, and future-state cloud transformation goals.

The ideal candidate should be a highly organized planner with demonstrated experience supporting ERP transformation projects, business process reengineering initiatives, and enterprise application modernization efforts. Candidates should be self-driven and capable of working independently with minimal supervision while effectively balancing competing priorities, deadlines, and stakeholder expectations.

This position requires strong written and verbal communication skills, process-oriented thinking, and the ability to translate workshop discussions and operational concepts into structured documentation, requirements artifacts, workflow narratives, and traceability records. Experience using collaboration and documentation tools such as Microsoft 365, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Visio, Lucidchart, DevOps, or comparable platforms is highly desired.

Key Responsibilities and Day-to-Day Activities

• SUPPORT stakeholder interviews, process discovery sessions, and business process workshops across functional areas including Procurement, Inventory, Accounts Payable, HRMS, Payroll, iSupplier, and General Ledger.
• COORDINATE workshop logistics, schedules, agendas, attendee communications, meeting materials, and follow-up action tracking.
• DOCUMENT As-Is and To-Be business process workflows, operational narratives, dependencies, risks, and process pain points.
• DEVELOP and MAINTAIN Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) linking business requirements to workshops, process flows, deliverables, fit-gap findings, and future-state recommendations.
• CAPTURE detailed meeting notes, workshop decisions, action items, assumptions, risks, and stakeholder feedback.
• ANALYZE business processes, operational workflows, and functional requirements to identify improvement opportunities and process optimization recommendations.
• SUPPORT Fit-Gap analysis activities comparing current Oracle EBS functionality with ERP/HCM SaaS platform capabilities.
• ASSIST with documenting process gaps, manual workarounds, customizations, integrations, reporting dependencies, and approval workflows.
• VALIDATE documentation accuracy with client stakeholders, SMEs, and functional leads.
• TRACK project deliverables, dependencies, open items, and documentation review cycles.
• PREPARE status updates, reporting materials, stakeholder communications, and project support documentation.
• ORGANIZE and MAINTAIN centralized project documentation repositories, version control processes, and governance records.
• FACILITATE collaboration between business stakeholders, technical teams, and project leadership.
• SUPPORT quality assurance and consistency reviews across process documentation and requirements artifacts.
• ASSIST with change management support activities, stakeholder communications, and transition readiness efforts.
• IDENTIFY potential project risks, process bottlenecks, stakeholder concerns, and documentation gaps requiring escalation.
• ENSURE compliance with project standards, documentation templates, governance processes, and customer expectations.

Ascension LLC is seeking a highly experienced and client-focused Lead Business Process / Documentation Analyst to support a mission-critical Oracle EBusiness Suite (EBS) Process Assessment and Future-State Design initiative for WSSC Water. This role is essential to helping WSSC prepare for a successful transition from its current Oracle EBS environment to a future Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) / Human Capital Management (HCM) Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform.

The ideal candidate is a strategic business process professional with demonstrated experience leading enterprise-wide process discovery, process mapping, workshop facilitation, requirements traceability, and documentation efforts supporting ERP modernization or cloud migration initiatives. The selected individual will work closely with functional stakeholders, technical teams, project leadership, and subject matter experts across finance, procurement, inventory, payroll, HRMS, and related operational areas to capture current-state workflows, identify operational pain points, and document future-state business processes aligned with SaaS best practices.

Ascension is seeking a professional who thrives in highly collaborative environments and possesses the ability to communicate effectively with both executive leadership and operational personnel. The successful candidate must be analytical, detail-oriented, organized, and capable of translating complex business operations into clear, actionable process documentation and deliverables. This role is critical to ensuring the customer receives accurate process maps, workshop outputs, requirements traceability matrices (RTMs), narratives, gap analysis support documentation, and executive-ready deliverables that support informed migration planning and organizational transformation.

The ideal candidate will bring:

• Deep experience documenting enterprise business processes supporting Oracle EBS or ERP modernization initiatives
• Strong facilitation and stakeholder engagement skills
• Experience developing BPMN process flows, business narratives, and workflow diagrams
• Familiarity with ERP/HCM SaaS migration planning and fit-gap activities
• The ability to work independently in ambiguous and evolving environments
• Strong written communication and technical documentation capabilities
• Experience supporting utility, public sector, infrastructure, or regulated environments preferred
• The ability to manage multiple priorities while maintaining documentation quality and consistency

Position Summary

The Lead Business Process / Documentation Analyst will support the planning, assessment, documentation, analysis, and future-state process design activities associated with WSSC Water’s Oracle EBusiness Suite modernization initiative. The role will focus heavily on business process discovery, workshop facilitation, process mapping, requirements documentation, and production of high-quality project deliverables.

This position will collaborate directly with project leadership, ERP functional consultants, technical architects, and client stakeholders to document current-state operations across procurement, inventory, accounts payable, HRMS, payroll, general ledger, supplier management, and other enterprise business functions. The analyst will support the identification of business process inefficiencies, manual workarounds, data dependencies, integration touchpoints, approval workflows, and operational gaps impacting cloud migration readiness.

The successful candidate will play a leading role in developing structured As-Is and To-Be documentation packages, including process maps, workflow narratives, requirements traceability matrices, workshop summaries, decision logs, fit-gap support documentation, and stakeholder validation materials. The role requires exceptional communication skills, organizational discipline, and the ability to synthesize large amounts of business and technical information into clear, standardized documentation.

The ideal candidate will be highly self-driven and capable of operating effectively with minimal supervision while maintaining alignment with project schedules, governance standards, and customer expectations. This individual should be comfortable engaging with cross-functional business units, facilitating working sessions, asking probing operational questions, and documenting findings in a manner that supports executive decision-making and downstream implementation planning.

Tools and technologies commonly used within this role may include:

• Microsoft Visio
• Lucidchart
• BPMN modeling tools
• Microsoft Office 365 Suite
• SharePoint
• Jira or Azure DevOps
• Collaboration and workshop platforms such as Microsoft Teams
• Requirements Traceability Matrix (RTM) tools and templates
• Process documentation repositories and version control platforms

Day-to-Day Activities

• Lead business process discovery sessions, stakeholder interviews, and working group workshops across functional departments
• Facilitate As-Is and To-Be process mapping sessions for Oracle EBS modules and related business operations
• Develop detailed BPMN diagrams, workflow maps, swimlane diagrams, narratives, and operational documentation
• Capture business requirements, process pain points, manual workarounds, and operational constraints
• Produce Requirements Traceability Matrices (RTMs) supporting process assessment and migration readiness activities
• Analyze current-state business operations and identify process improvement opportunities
• Collaborate with ERP functional consultants and technical architects to align documentation with cloud migration objectives
• Support Cloud Fit-Gap analysis activities by documenting process gaps, functional limitations, and redesign opportunities
• Document approval workflows, data dependencies, integration touchpoints, reporting requirements, and security considerations
• Validate documentation with stakeholders and incorporate feedback into finalized deliverables
• Prepare workshop agendas, meeting materials, action item trackers, and meeting summaries
• Maintain project documentation repositories and ensure version control standards are followed
• Support development of executive briefings, status reports, and presentation materials
• Coordinate with project leadership to ensure documentation aligns with project timelines and deliverable expectations
• Identify risks, issues, dependencies, and documentation gaps requiring escalation or resolution
• Assist in the development of future-state operational models aligned with ERP/HCM SaaS best practices
• Support change management and organizational readiness documentation activities
• Ensure documentation quality, consistency, traceability, and compliance with project standards
• Collaborate with client stakeholders to support deliverable reviews and formal acceptance activities

Ascension LLC is seeking an experienced Engagement Project Manager / PMO Lead to oversee and coordinate a high-visibility Oracle EBS Process Assessment and Future-State Design engagement supporting WSSC Water’s transition planning from on-premises Oracle EBS to a future ERP/HCM SaaS environment. This role serves as the operational backbone of the engagement and is responsible for maintaining schedule integrity, coordinating cross-functional workstreams, managing risks and dependencies, facilitating stakeholder communication, and ensuring deliverables progress through review and approval cycles efficiently.

The ideal candidate is an organized and proactive project management professional with demonstrated success leading enterprise application assessment or transformation initiatives involving ERP, HCM, financial systems, or business process modernization. This individual must excel in structured coordination, executive communication, issue resolution, and multi-stakeholder facilitation within fast-paced consulting environments.

This role is especially important to the success of the engagement because it serves as the primary coordination point between Ascension LLC, functional and technical SMEs, executive leadership, and WSSC stakeholders throughout all project phases identified in the Statement of Work, including project initiation, As-Is assessment, Cloud Fit-Gap analysis, To-Be process design, migration readiness planning, and final executive presentations.

Position Summary

The Engagement Project Manager / PMO Lead will lead day-to-day project coordination activities for a complex Oracle EBS business process assessment and future-state design engagement. The selected candidate will support governance activities, maintain the integrated project schedule, coordinate workshops and stakeholder sessions, manage project documentation, oversee risk and issue tracking, and ensure all deliverables are reviewed, version-controlled, and submitted in accordance with project timelines and quality standards.

The successful candidate will be a detail-oriented planner with exceptional organizational and communication skills and the demonstrated ability to coordinate multidisciplinary teams across functional, technical, and executive workstreams. The ideal individual must be self-directed, capable of operating in ambiguous or evolving environments, and comfortable managing multiple priorities simultaneously while maintaining professionalism and responsiveness.

The PMO Lead will support all project phases and collaborate closely with functional leads, business analysts, architects, QA personnel, and executive stakeholders to ensure the engagement remains aligned to WSSC expectations, contractual obligations, and project objectives. The role requires strong facilitation skills, executive-level communication capabilities, and familiarity with enterprise system modernization initiatives, especially ERP/HCM transformation or cloud migration planning efforts.

The PM role is exempt from ERP/HCM certification requirements under the solicitation.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Lead day-to-day project coordination activities across all workstreams supporting the Oracle EBS assessment engagement
• Develop, maintain, and continuously update the integrated project schedule and milestone tracking documentation
• Coordinate stakeholder meetings, workshops, interviews, and executive review sessions
• Facilitate weekly project status meetings and prepare detailed status reports, action logs, and meeting summaries
• Track project risks, issues, dependencies, assumptions, and mitigation strategies
• Monitor deliverable progress against project milestones and contractual timelines
• Coordinate review cycles and approval checkpoints for all project deliverables
• Maintain centralized project documentation repositories and version control procedures
• Collaborate with functional leads and technical SMEs to ensure alignment across modules and deliverables
• Support escalation management and facilitate issue resolution with internal and client stakeholders
• Prepare executive briefings, dashboards, and project performance summaries for leadership review
• Coordinate resource scheduling and support workload balancing across project team members
• Ensure project governance processes and communication protocols are followed consistently
• Assist with workshop preparation, stakeholder outreach, agenda development, and logistics coordination
• Support quality assurance activities related to deliverable completeness and documentation standards
• Monitor contractual deliverables and support compliance with WSSC reporting expectations
• Coordinate final presentation preparation and executive delivery activities

Ascension LLC is seeking a senior DoD Acquisition / Nuclear Enterprise Subject Matter Expert to support a high-visibility Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center initiative focused on ICBM Target Operating Model optimization, governance redesign, organizational health, and mission execution improvement.

This part-time advisory role is ideal for a seasoned defense acquisition professional with deep experience in ACAT/SCAT programs, nuclear enterprise operations, sustainment governance, major weapon systems, decision-rights frameworks, and executive-level advisory support. The SME will be used selectively for governance reviews, senior workshops, leadership briefings, and final recommendations.

Role Summary

The DoD Acquisition / Nuclear Enterprise SME will provide expert guidance to ensure Ascension’s recommendations are credible, mission-aware, and aligned with the realities of complex defense acquisition and sustainment portfolios. The role supports development and review of the Target Operating Model, Unified Governance Framework, Transformation Playbook, Human Capital Strategy, and Mission Execution Improvement Package.

The ideal candidate is strategic, discreet, mission-focused, and comfortable advising teams working with senior DoD leaders, including PEOs, General Officers, SES leaders, Program Managers, and acquisition executives.

Key Responsibilities

• Review governance frameworks through a DoD acquisition and nuclear enterprise lens.
• Assess decision-rights, escalation paths, accountability models, and governance forums.
• Advise on ACAT/SCAT program execution, sustainment governance, and mission risk.
• Validate recommendations for practicality, clarity, and executive usability.
• Support selected workshops, working groups, and leadership briefings.
• Identify implementation risks, dependencies, and mission execution impacts.
• Contribute to the TOM, governance framework, transformation playbook, and final recommendations.
• Review deliverables for acquisition credibility, compliance, and mission alignment.
• Prepare executive talking points, issue summaries, and advisory recommendations.
• Ensure recommendations remain advisory and avoid inherently governmental functions.

Ascension LLC is seeking a senior Organizational Diagnostic Methodologist to support a high-visibility Air Force organizational transformation effort focused on optimizing the ICBM Enterprise Target Operating Model. This part-time advisory role is ideal for an experienced organizational assessment, survey methodology, workforce analytics, or organizational effectiveness professional who can validate a defensible diagnostic framework and translate results into executive-ready insights.

The selected consultant will support baseline organizational health assessment, longitudinal measurement, benchmarking, governance adoption analysis, and interpretation of findings for senior leaders. This role requires strong expertise in organizational diagnostics, statistical methodology, survey design, human capital analytics, and change measurement in complex enterprise or federal environments.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate organizational diagnostic frameworks and assessment models.
• Advise on survey design, baseline methodology, sampling, and longitudinal measurement.
• Review data collection methods, including surveys, interviews, focus groups, and document reviews.
• Support benchmarking, trend analysis, and organizational health interpretation.
• Assess governance, decision-rights, communication, process maturity, and organizational friction indicators.
• Advise data analysts on reliability, validity, response bias, and data quality risks.
• Translate diagnostic findings into clear executive-level insights and recommendations.
• Review dashboards, charts, reports, briefings, and narrative findings for methodological soundness.
• Identify assessment risks and recommend corrective actions.
• Document assumptions, limitations, methodology decisions, and sustainment practices.
• Coordinate with project leadership, data analytics, governance, change management, and facilitation teams.

Ascension LLC is seeking a Transformation Playbook and Knowledge Management Specialist to support a high-visibility federal organizational transformation effort for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center’s ICBM Systems Directorate. This role is ideal for a skilled technical writer, knowledge management specialist, or consulting documentation professional who can turn complex governance, transformation, and change management concepts into clear, polished, Government-ready deliverables.

The selected candidate will help develop transformation playbooks, governance artifacts, executive briefings, meeting summaries, SOP-style materials, and sustainment documentation. This is a part-time 1099 role supporting a compressed 9-month engagement, with work expected to peak around workshops, leadership briefings, deliverable reviews, and final project milestones.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft and edit transformation playbooks, governance charters, SOPs, briefings, and final deliverables.
• Convert consultant and stakeholder inputs into clear, structured, Government-ready content.
• Prepare meeting summaries, action item logs, decision records, and executive materials.
• Support documentation for Target Operating Model, governance, decision rights, and change management activities.
• Maintain templates, file organization, version control, and document quality standards.
• Develop concise PowerPoint briefings, reports, trackers, and knowledge management products.
• Support SharePoint, Teams, and Microsoft 365-based documentation workflows.
• Review materials for consistency, formatting, grammar, accessibility, and professional presentation.
• Assist with Section 508-aware formatting for Government-facing documents.
• Package final deliverables with tables of contents, appendices, acronyms, and version histories.

Ascension LLC is seeking a Process Improvement and Implementation Specialist to support a high-visibility Air Force organizational transformation effort focused on Target Operating Model optimization, governance improvement, process modernization, and organizational health.

This role is ideal for a mission-driven analyst, process improvement professional, or management consultant who can turn strategy into executable implementation support. The selected candidate will help identify process friction, analyze risks and dependencies, support governance rollout, and develop practical tools, trackers, briefings, and playbook content for senior Government leaders.

Role Summary

The Process Improvement and Implementation Specialist will support current-state analysis, future-state planning, implementation sequencing, corrective action planning, and transformation playbook development. The role requires strong analytical thinking, executive-ready communication, stakeholder coordination, process improvement expertise, and the ability to work in a fast-paced federal consulting environment.

The successful candidate will bring experience in business process improvement, organizational transformation, management analysis, change management, operations research, governance support, implementation planning, KPI development, risk tracking, and federal client delivery.

Key Responsibilities

• Analyze current-state processes, governance workflows, decision forums, and escalation paths.
• Identify process gaps, bottlenecks, decision latency, duplication, and organizational friction.
• Develop process maps, action trackers, issue logs, risk registers, and dependency analyses.
• Support implementation roadmaps, corrective action plans, and governance rollout activities.
• Contribute to transformation playbooks, SOPs, job aids, templates, and sustainment materials.
• Prepare executive briefings, meeting materials, working group agendas, and status updates.
• Support stakeholder interviews, workshops, facilitation sessions, and implementation planning meetings.
• Track milestones, decisions, dependencies, risks, and corrective actions across workstreams.
• Support KPI development, performance metrics, dashboards, and governance adoption measures.
• Apply change management principles to support adoption, communication, and transition readiness.
• Ensure deliverables are clear, accurate, client-ready, and compliant with advisory support boundaries.

Ascension LLC is seeking a Human Capital and Change Management Lead to support a high-visibility Air Force organizational transformation effort focused on workforce alignment, change adoption, stakeholder engagement, and future-state Target Operating Model implementation.

This role is ideal for a strategic, organized, and mission-focused professional with experience in human capital strategy, organizational change management, workforce planning, communications, stakeholder facilitation, and federal management consulting. The selected candidate will help translate organizational health findings and workforce needs into clear, actionable recommendations for senior Government leaders.

Role Summary

The Human Capital and Change Management Lead will support development of human capital strategies, change management plans, stakeholder engagement approaches, communications products, adoption plans, and talent retention recommendations. The role will help the customer address organizational friction, improve workforce alignment, support governance adoption, and sustain transformation outcomes beyond the period of performance.

The ideal candidate is self-driven, detail-oriented, comfortable working in ambiguous environments, and skilled at managing multiple priorities under a compressed delivery schedule.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop human capital strategy inputs aligned to the future-state Target Operating Model.
• Assess workforce alignment, capability gaps, role clarity, and adoption barriers.
• Support stakeholder interviews, workshops, working groups, and leadership briefings.
• Facilitate discussions on change readiness, workforce impacts, and adoption planning.
• Translate organizational health findings into practical change management actions.
• Prepare executive-ready briefings, reports, talking points, and recommendation papers.
• Develop communications plans, stakeholder messages, and adoption support materials.
• Identify talent retention risks, dependencies, and implementation challenges.
• Support sequencing and prioritization of corrective actions and transition activities.
• Coordinate with governance, analytics, and transformation team members.
• Maintain action trackers, meeting notes, decision logs, and status materials.
• Support development of playbooks, templates, sustainment tools, and implementation guides.
• Perform all work in an advisory capacity without directing Government personnel.

Ascension LLC is seeking a Senior Organizational Diagnostic Methodologist / Organizational Health Analytics Consultant to support a high-visibility federal organizational transformation effort for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center’s ICBM Systems Directorate. This part-time role will help validate a defensible organizational health diagnostic approach, baseline methodology, survey strategy, benchmarking logic, and longitudinal measurement framework.

The ideal candidate is a senior organizational assessment, I-O psychology, workforce analytics, or transformation consultant with experience translating complex organizational data into clear, executive-ready insights. This role is best suited for a self-directed advisor who can support senior-level decision-making in a sensitive, mission-focused federal environment.

Role Summary

The consultant will provide senior methodology oversight for organizational diagnostics, governance adoption measurement, organizational health assessment, and mission execution improvement analysis. This position will work with Ascension’s analytics, governance, and change management team to ensure the diagnostic model is statistically defensible, repeatable, and useful for executive interpretation.

Key Responsibilities

• Validate organizational diagnostic frameworks, survey constructs, and scoring logic.
• Advise on baseline measurement, longitudinal analysis, and benchmarking methods.
• Review surveys, interview protocols, focus group guides, and data collection plans.
• Define measures for organizational friction, governance ambiguity, decision latency, and change readiness.
• Support repeat-measurement design to assess improvement over time.
• Interpret quantitative and qualitative findings for executive-level decision-making.
• Review dashboards, briefings, assessment reports, and improvement recommendations.
• Identify risks related to sample size, response quality, data limitations, and comparability.
• Recommend mitigation strategies for weak, incomplete, or inconsistent diagnostic data.
• Support development of Government-usable assessment and sustainment artifacts.
• Participate in selected working sessions, methodology reviews, and leadership briefings.
• Ensure all recommendations remain advisory and compliant with federal consulting boundaries.

Ascension LLC is seeking a Senior Governance and Target Operating Model (TOM) Architect to support a high-visibility organizational transformation effort for the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center’s ICBM Systems Directorate. This role will help design a unified governance framework, improve decision-making, clarify roles and authorities, and support implementation of a future-state operating model.

The ideal candidate is a senior management consultant, organizational transformation leader, or governance strategist with experience supporting federal, DoD, acquisition, sustainment, or mission-critical environments. This position requires strong executive facilitation, governance design, change management, process improvement, and strategic advisory skills.

Key Responsibilities

• Design governance frameworks, decision-rights models, and escalation paths.
• Develop Target Operating Model artifacts, governance charters, and implementation roadmaps.
• Analyze organizational friction, decision latency, role ambiguity, and process inefficiencies.
• Facilitate executive workshops, stakeholder interviews, working groups, and leadership briefings.
• Define governance forums, operating boundaries, accountability structures, and sustainment practices.
• Translate findings into actionable recommendations, briefings, and transformation playbooks.
• Support change management, governance rollout, adoption planning, and implementation sequencing.
• Coordinate with human capital, organizational health, data analytics, and transformation teams.
• Prepare executive-ready deliverables using Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Teams, and SharePoint.
• Maintain compliance with advisory support boundaries, OCI restrictions, CUI handling, and federal consulting standards.

Ascension LLC is seeking a seasoned Senior Executive Advisor, Governance & Organizational Transformation to support a high-visibility Department of the Air Force organizational transformation effort. This part-time advisory role is ideal for a former senior military officer, SES-level advisor, executive consultant, partner-level management consultant, or senior acquisition leader with experience facilitating complex governance, alignment, and transformation discussions with senior Government stakeholders.

The selected advisor will provide executive facilitation, peer review, strategic advisory support, and quality assurance for leadership workshops, governance design sessions, milestone briefings, and final deliverables. This role requires strong executive presence, sound judgment, organizational transformation expertise, and the ability to help senior leaders address decision rights, accountability, governance friction, and mission execution challenges.

Key Responsibilities

• Facilitate executive-level workshops, working groups, and leadership briefings.
• Advise on governance design, decision rights, accountability, and escalation paths.
• Support organizational transformation, target operating model, and change management activities.
• Review governance frameworks, transformation roadmaps, playbooks, and executive briefing materials.
• Provide senior-level insight on organizational alignment, conflict resolution, and mission execution improvement.
• Identify risks, gaps, sensitivities, and leadership decision points.
• Recommend improvements to workshop agendas, facilitation plans, and executive messaging.
• Ensure all recommendations remain advisory and comply with Government decision-making boundaries.
• Support quality review of final deliverables for clarity, credibility, and executive usability.

Ascension LLC is seeking a senior executive-level Organizational Transformation Facilitator / Governance Advisor to support the Air Force Nuclear Weapons Center, ICBM Systems Directorate. The ideal candidate brings executive presence, defense or federal consulting experience, and proven expertise in governance design, decision-rights alignment, organizational transformation, conflict facilitation, change management, and senior stakeholder engagement.

Summary of Contractor Role

This part-time 1099 role will provide executive advisory and facilitation support for a high-visibility Target Operating Model optimization effort. The contractor will lead senior leadership sessions, support governance and decision-rights workshops, translate organizational friction into actionable recommendations, and help develop executive-ready transformation artifacts, including governance frameworks, implementation roadmaps, change management actions, and mission execution improvement recommendations.

Day-to-Day Activities

• Lead executive facilitation sessions with GO, SES, PEO, and senior directorate stakeholders.
• Facilitate governance alignment, decision-rights, and conflict resolution workshops.
• Translate stakeholder input into themes, risks, decisions, and recommended actions.
• Advise on executive engagement strategy, meeting design, and facilitation sequencing.
• Support governance charters, decision matrices, roadmaps, playbooks, and briefings.
• Review organizational health findings and shape executive-level insights.
• Clarify decision forums, escalation paths, accountability boundaries, and operating rhythms.
• Facilitate cross-functional alignment across acquisition, sustainment, engineering, test, logistics, and human capital stakeholders.
• Prepare executive-ready briefing materials, summaries, and recommendation packages.
• Coordinate with Ascension’s project team to align facilitation outputs with deliverables.
• Maintain advisory boundaries and avoid inherently governmental functions.
• Support rapid startup, executive kickoff, and baseline facilitation planning.

Ascension LLC is seeking a senior Program Manager / Project Manager III to support a high-visibility Air Force organizational transformation effort for the AFNWC ICBM Systems Directorate. The selected candidate will lead day-to-day contract execution, coordinate multiple workstreams, manage deliverables, support executive briefings, and help the team deliver a practical Target Operating Model optimization roadmap.

This role requires a confident, organized, detail-oriented leader who can operate in a fast-paced federal environment, support senior stakeholders, manage ambiguity, anticipate risks, and keep the team focused on schedule, quality, and mission outcomes. The work will focus on governance improvement, decision-rights clarification, organizational health assessment, implementation planning, change management, human capital strategy, and mission execution improvement.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead overall contract execution, schedule management, risk management, deliverable tracking, and team coordination.
• Serve as the primary day-to-day interface with Government stakeholders and Ascension leadership.
• Coordinate kickoff activities, working groups, stakeholder meetings, leadership briefings, and onsite sessions at Hill AFB.
• Develop and maintain project schedules, action item trackers, risk registers, issue logs, meeting summaries, and status reports.
• Support development of governance frameworks, decision-rights artifacts, implementation roadmaps, transformation playbooks, and human capital strategy products.
• Review deliverables for quality, accuracy, compliance, consistency, and readiness for Government review.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, read-aheads, talking points, reports, and decision support materials.
• Track workstream progress across organizational transformation, governance design, diagnostics, change management, and implementation planning.
• Ensure all support remains advisory and does not include inherently governmental functions or supervision of Government personnel.
• Use Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint to manage project documentation and collaboration.

Ascension LLC is seeking an experienced and highly organized Program Manager / Quality Oversight Lead to provide strategic contract oversight, quality assurance, reporting management, and Integrated Project Review (IPR) coordination support for a federal audit support services engagement supporting the Department of the Navy.

This role is ideal for a senior-level federal program management professional with demonstrated experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), Department of Homeland Security (DHS), or other federal mission-support environments involving program oversight, audit readiness, compliance monitoring, acquisition support, operational reporting, and quality management.

The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented and proactive leader who thrives in dynamic and deadline-driven federal consulting environments. The successful candidate should possess strong executive communication skills, sound judgment, and the ability to independently manage competing priorities while maintaining alignment with contractual requirements, customer expectations, and organizational quality standards.

The selected professional will serve as a trusted advisor to both Ascension leadership and customer stakeholders by helping ensure the successful execution of contract deliverables, quality control procedures, risk mitigation activities, and reporting requirements. This individual must be comfortable working collaboratively across functional teams while maintaining accountability for program governance, schedule oversight, and quality assurance activities.

This position requires a professional who can anticipate risks, resolve issues proactively, facilitate executive-level discussions, coordinate Integrated Project Reviews (IPRs), and support continuous process improvement initiatives that strengthen operational efficiency and mission performance.

Position Summary

The Program Manager / Quality Oversight Lead will provide part-time executive oversight and quality management support for a federal audit support services contract. The role is responsible for overseeing contract performance, monitoring quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) activities, supporting reporting and governance processes, coordinating Integrated Project Reviews (IPRs), and ensuring overall alignment with contractual objectives and customer expectations.

The successful candidate will support program execution activities including schedule oversight, status reporting, risk management, stakeholder coordination, deliverable review, and quality validation processes. The role requires familiarity with federal program management methodologies, audit support environments, executive reporting processes, and quality management frameworks.

The ideal candidate should possess strong communication and facilitation capabilities, demonstrated experience managing federal consulting engagements, and the ability to support mission-critical initiatives with minimal supervision. The candidate should also demonstrate professionalism, adaptability, discretion, analytical thinking, and strong organizational capabilities.

The position may involve coordination with executive leadership, contracting officials, customer stakeholders, technical teams, and subcontractor personnel to ensure deliverables are completed accurately, on time, and in compliance with contractual and organizational standards.

Ascension seeks candidates who are self-driven, collaborative, solutions-oriented, and capable of maintaining operational excellence in a fast-paced federal consulting environment.

Key Responsibilities and Day-to-Day Activities

• LEAD contract management and quality oversight activities for assigned federal support services engagement.
• DEVELOP and maintain program management artifacts including schedules, trackers, status reports, and action item logs.
• COORDINATE weekly program reviews, Integrated Project Reviews (IPRs), executive briefings, and customer status meetings.
• MONITOR contract performance metrics and ensure deliverables align with contractual requirements and quality standards.
• REVIEW deliverables, reports, briefing materials, and supporting documentation for quality, accuracy, consistency, and compliance.
• SUPPORT quality assurance and quality control (QA/QC) processes across program activities.
• IDENTIFY project risks, issues, and dependencies and develop mitigation recommendations.
• TRACK program milestones, deadlines, and reporting requirements to ensure timely execution.
• FACILITATE communication between Ascension leadership, customer stakeholders, subcontractors, and project personnel.
• PREPARE executive-level reports, dashboards, briefing materials, and meeting summaries.
• SUPPORT process improvement initiatives that enhance operational efficiency and service delivery.
• ENSURE adherence to federal policies, contractual obligations, and organizational governance standards.
• MAINTAIN documentation repositories, reporting records, and project artifacts in accordance with customer and organizational requirements.
• ADVISE leadership on program performance trends, quality concerns, and operational improvement opportunities.
• SUPPORT audit readiness, compliance monitoring, and corrective action tracking activities.
• ASSIST with stakeholder engagement and coordination activities related to program execution.
• OVERSEE action item tracking and follow-up activities resulting from executive meetings and governance reviews.
• VALIDATE reporting accuracy and ensure alignment between operational activities and program objectives.
• SUPPORT continuous improvement efforts associated with reporting processes, governance structures, and quality management procedures.

Ascension LLC is seeking a highly analytical and detail-oriented Acquisition Compliance Auditor to support federal acquisition audit readiness, procurement documentation validation, contract compliance reviews, and quality assurance activities within a Department of Defense and Department of the Navy mission environment.

The ideal candidate is a seasoned federal acquisition professional with experience supporting procurement operations, contract administration reviews, audit preparation activities, acquisition lifecycle compliance assessments, and documentation quality validation. This individual will serve as a secondary reviewer and trusted advisor responsible for validating acquisition files, identifying compliance gaps, supporting corrective actions, and helping ensure adherence to FAR, DFARS, agency policy, and audit requirements.

This role is critical to helping the customer improve acquisition accountability, reduce procurement risk, strengthen audit readiness, and ensure the integrity and defensibility of acquisition documentation and business processes. The ideal candidate should be comfortable operating in a dynamic federal environment with competing priorities, evolving guidance, and compressed timelines.

The successful candidate will bring strong organizational skills, exceptional written communication abilities, sound professional judgment, and the ability to independently analyze procurement documentation while collaborating effectively with acquisition teams, CORs, program staff, and leadership stakeholders.

Position Summary

The Acquisition Compliance Auditor will provide acquisition audit support, procurement compliance analysis, secondary review services, and quality validation activities in support of federal acquisition operations. Responsibilities include reviewing acquisition packages, validating procurement documentation, assessing compliance with federal regulations and internal procedures, supporting audit response efforts, and identifying process improvement opportunities.

This role supports mission-critical acquisition operations by helping ensure that procurement activities are accurate, compliant, well-documented, and audit-ready. The consultant will participate in acquisition reviews across multiple stages of the acquisition lifecycle, including pre-award, post-award, contract administration, and contract closeout activities.

The ideal candidate is a self-driven professional who can anticipate issues, identify compliance risks, synthesize complex acquisition information, and provide practical recommendations to improve operational effectiveness. Candidates should possess experience supporting federal acquisition programs and demonstrate the ability to interpret FAR/DFARS requirements, analyze procurement documentation, and communicate findings clearly to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Candidates should also possess the ability to work independently with minimal supervision, manage multiple concurrent assignments, and adapt quickly to evolving customer priorities. Experience supporting audit remediation efforts, acquisition quality reviews, COR program oversight, or procurement operations within DoD or DHS environments is highly desirable.

This position may leverage tools and platforms such as:

• Microsoft 365
• Microsoft Teams
• SharePoint
• Excel
• Power BI
• Adobe Acrobat
• Procurement tracking systems
• Contract writing systems
• Audit tracking tools
• Data visualization and reporting tools

Ascension’s experience supporting acquisition lifecycle management, acquisition compliance reviews, business process improvement, dashboard development, audit support, and COR program oversight across DHS and DOE environments directly aligns with the responsibilities associated with this role. fileciteturn0file6L1-L35 fileciteturn0file8L1-L40

Day-to-Day Activities and Responsibilities

• Review acquisition and procurement documentation for completeness, accuracy, and compliance with FAR, DFARS, agency policies, and internal procedures
• Conduct secondary reviews and quality assurance checks of acquisition packages, contract files, modifications, procurement requests, and supporting documentation
• Analyze procurement actions to identify documentation deficiencies, inconsistencies, risks, or compliance gaps
• Support audit readiness efforts through acquisition file validation, documentation organization, and corrective action tracking
• Evaluate contract administration activities to ensure adherence to established acquisition policies and procedures
• Assist acquisition teams with resolving procurement compliance issues and documentation discrepancies
• Develop audit support materials, status reports, briefing documents, compliance summaries, and acquisition review findings
• Validate contract action trackers, milestone schedules, and procurement documentation repositories
• Support acquisition lifecycle activities including pre-award planning, post-award administration, and contract closeout reviews
• Collaborate with program managers, contracting personnel, CORs, legal stakeholders, and leadership teams to support acquisition compliance initiatives
• Track and document audit findings, recommendations, lessons learned, and remediation activities
• Support quality control reviews for acquisition deliverables and procurement documentation
• Identify opportunities to improve acquisition processes, workflows, and compliance monitoring procedures
• Assist with the development and refinement of standard operating procedures (SOPs), templates, checklists, and quality review frameworks
• Participate in meetings, working groups, audit reviews, and stakeholder coordination sessions
• Support surge activities associated with procurement reviews, compliance assessments, and audit response deadlines
• Maintain confidentiality and proper handling of procurement-sensitive information and government records
• Prepare and deliver concise written and verbal briefings to leadership and stakeholders

Ascension’s prior acquisition lifecycle management support has included acquisition planning support, procurement documentation development, KPI development, contract administration support, CPARS tracking, audit compliance monitoring, contract closeout support, and acquisition process improvement initiatives across DHS and DOE programs.