
Planning, Strategy Development, Economic Analysis, Design
BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION SKILLS

Skill Group: People Management
Skills include:
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Establishing focus of professional staff
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Providing motivational support to professional staff
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Fostering teamwork between groups of professional staff
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Empowering professional staff through a self-management philosophy
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Managing change in professional staffing make-up to induce additional and/or new competencies and experiences
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Mentoring of professional staff
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Assisting in development of personal goals and objectives
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Assisting in the alignment of personal goal and objectives with business goals and objectives
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Measuring professional staff performance

Sills Group: Program Management
Skills include:
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Developing program goals and objectives
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Determining size of program (organizational depth and width)
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Calculating program costs
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Developing participants and responsibilities
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Developing key performance metrics of program
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Developing reporting structure
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Gathering information, developing reports and disseminating reports
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Monitoring program results
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Developing program closure report and disseminating reports

Competency: Project Management
Skills include:
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Developing Project Charters (goals and objectives, stakeholders and approvers)
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Determining size of project
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Aligning with programs via Program Management (if applicable)
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Developing work breakdown schedule- (align with design – solutioning)
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Developing critical path
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Identifying required skills and potential participants
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Developing statements of work (for contracts)
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Developing statements of product requirements
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Developing communications plan
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Calculating project costs (initial estimates)
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Developing project budget
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Communicating project budget to decision makers
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Developing requests for information (RFI), requests for proposal (RFP), and/or request for quotes (RFQ) as required
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Issuing requests for information (RFI), requests for proposal (RFP), and/or request for quotes (RFQ) as required
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Selecting service providers
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Selecting product providers
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Reviewing business solution pursuant to RFI submissions – determine go/no go position of project
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Directing refinement to business solution as may be required
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Issuing statements of work to external service providers pursuant to successful proposal
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Securing contracted services supply and pricing (align with procurement)
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Managing the issuance of purchase orders to product suppliers pursuant to successful proposal
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Refining project budget as required (pursuant to RFP/RFQs)
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Communicating with internal project participants of tasks and timelines
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Developing key performance metrics of projects
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Developing reporting structure for project
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Gathering information, develop reports and disseminate reports
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Issuing reports pursuant to developed communication plan
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Reviewing project results
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Developing project closure reports

Deliverables
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Developed project charters
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Defined project plans
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Estimated project costs and project budgets
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Issued RFIs, RFPs, and/or RFQs as required
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Developed RFIs, RFPs, and/or RFQs as required Established budgets
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Developed and issued contracts for required products
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Developed and issued contracts for required services
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Executive presentations
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Business Unit presentations
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Developed key performance metrics
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Defined reporting formats
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Project reports

Skills Group: Vendor Management
Skills include:
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Determined appropriate vendors of products and services
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Developed initial RFI about specific products and services
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Developed final vendor list complete with descriptions of product and services offerings, pricing levels and contacts
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Established Master Products Supply Agreements
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Established Master Services Agreements
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Developed vendor performance reports
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Established vendor relationship to ensure high level of contractual performance