KNOWLEDGE MANAGER

LOCATION: Huntsville, AL / Redstone Arsenal
JOB STATUS: Full-time
CLEARANCE: Secret
TRAVEL: As Needed
Astrion is seeking a Knowledge Manager to support the Integrated Fires Directorate.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS / SKILLS

• Bachelor’s degree is required, preferably in Information Management, Information Technology, Education or other related field with 8 years of experience.
• In lieu of a degree, 9+ years of professional experience is required.
• This position requires the ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense Secret clearance.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS, AND ABILITIES

• Advanced knowledge and skill with MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint, MS Teams, SharePoint, Power Apps
• Demonstrated ability to build teams, re-engineer business processes, and motivate others to attain new and unfamiliar goals and objectives.
• An inherent working knowledge of the Department of Defense Acquisition process
• Proven ability to assess complex problems and to synthesize assessments into a coherent position.
• Demonstrated strong oral and written communication skills.
• Work well within a team and interact professionally with senior civilian and military leadership.

TRAINING REQUIREMENTS:

• Able to attain Certified Knowledge Manager (CKM) or other widely recognized KM Certification

WHO WE ARE

At Astrion, we innovate, elevate, and shape the world of tomorrow. At our core is our purpose to “Be the Difference”. This means we encourage our employees to take action and be the driving force for positive change. We foster an environment where innovative solutions flourish, and our company continuously evolves.
We have a culture of care, empathy, and making a tangible difference within our organization and communities. We embrace continuous learning, growth, and innovation, and pushing the boundaries of what’s possible. We promote collaboration and empowering our teams is at the core of our success.

• Work collaboratively across programs, providing coordination and oversight for daily operations, short- and long-range planning, and acquisition systems management for Foreign Military Sales (FMS) activities throughout their states of maturity.
• Present findings, research, and recommendations to Government customers for decision and action.
• Develop white papers, executive summaries, informational and decision briefs, and other correspondence across the programmatic, technical, and logistics domains.
• Provide Knowledge Management (KM) process and tool development, implementation, training and maintenance, develops tools/applications for process improvement.
• Develops and establishes program policies, processes, and systems to capture, harness, and exploit intellectual capital from across an organization as well as its stakeholder, peer, and higher headquarters communities.
• Leverages technologies to disseminate knowledge products and maintain connectivity between people and information to ensure a timely, and informed decision-making capability for the organization.
• Serves as transformation/change agent by identifying, sharing and implementing best practices for internal/external tool development and administration.
• Continuously develops and maintains organization’s website/portal to ensure knowledge dissemination to users. Develops Power Applications using Power Apps within MS Teams.
• Assists the leadership in directing and fostering a cultural KM change in the organization while providing recommendations and options to institutionalize processes and tools.
• Educates employees about KM processes and tools and their benefits.
• Must effectively and efficiently meet the organization’s business objectives and be proficient in gathering business requirements, as well as designing, developing, testing, maintaining, and optimizing the use of KM sites and software applications integrated.
• Promotes KM and builds knowledge teams for the purpose of developing and implementing a content migration plan.
• Maintains the continuous development of new organizational and online communities.
• Develops and implements change management program to assist in moving the organization toward a knowledge-centric culture.
• Provide detailed assessments and recommended changes to program, technical, logistics, and administrative documentation.
• Maintain configuration control and archival of administrative and program documentation.
• Analyze, complete or sub-task, and track to completion assigned requirements from parent organizations.
• Maintain required office schedule, organize, and lead meetings with stakeholders as required.
• Coordinate directly with key stakeholders to ensure supported efforts remain properly aligned both internally and externally to the organization.
• Provide advice on difficult problems that require knowledge of the subject matter and any dependencies.
• Prepare reports, studies, presentations and related documentation to support the leadership team.
• Develop charts and graphs to record results, present critical information, and document decisions.
• Other duties as assigned.