Job Title: Resource Analyst (NOAA)
Location: MD, DC, VA Preferred - Remote
Clearance Required: Public Trust Eligible
Salary: $90k-$100K Based on Years of Experience
Application Deadline: September 30, 2026

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Overview

IBSS is seeking highly qualified candidates to potentially provide Agile program and project management services for NOAA's Modeling Moonshot Initiative. The work supports multi-organization scientific R&D programs with substantial software components and is distinct from IT program management.

The multi-year NOAA Modeling Moonshot Initiative advances U.S. leadership in Numerical Weather Prediction (NWP) through GPU-accelerated modeling, continuous data assimilation (DA), AI-augmented ensemble prediction, and NOAA's transition to the Model for Prediction Across Scales (MPAS) dynamical core.

Its Research-to-Operations (R2O) focus prioritizes moving advanced capabilities into NOAA's operational forecast suite through coordination among NOAA offices, federal laboratories, and scientific partners.

The Moonshot encompasses four interconnected technical focus areas:

• MPAS integration into the Unified Forecast System (UFS) for the next-generation Global Forecast System (GFS).
• Continuous DA using a global km-scale Joint Effort for Data Assimilation Integration (JEDI)-MPAS system.
• GPU acceleration and UFS refactoring for advanced hardware, cloud, and high-performance computing.
• AI for NWP (AI4NWP), including emulation, hybrid physics/AI models, and training datasets.

The services will operate across all four areas, providing WPO with program visibility, dependency and risk management, R2O tracking, deliverable coordination, and stakeholder engagement. Although not performing scientific or software development, personnel must understand NWP, scientific computing, and Agile development to engage technical staff and coordinate effectively.

Position summary

Provides quarterly capacity, resource, and financial-data analysis across the Moonshot portfolio. Reconciles Government-provided workforce, milestone, funding, obligation, and expenditure data to focus areas and capabilities and presents auditable trends and decision options.

Roles and responsibilities

• Ingest and validate Government-provided FTE/personnel allocations, project assignments, specialized-skill data, milestone schedules, and approved platform-capacity data.
• Reconcile resource supply to roadmap demand; identify capacity bottlenecks, timing conflicts, uncertainty, and practical resequencing or coverage options.
• Where data are provided, analyze CPU/GPU, storage, data-movement, queue, environment, and specialized-skill constraints affecting planned work.
• Validate and ingest Government financial reports; crosswalk planned amounts, obligations, and expenditures to funding source, including JTTI/PPGC, focus area, capability, milestone, period, and responsible owner.
• Perform basic trend and variance analysis, identify material divergence or data gaps, and describe schedule/resource consequences without making Government budget decisions.
• Maintain source lineage, assumptions, corrections, reconciliation status, and Government financial-owner confirmation for auditability.
• Produce quarterly capacity/resource and financial analyses and provide concise inputs to monthly status reports, quarterly executive briefings, risk reviews, and the KPI Tracker.
• Build and maintain clear dashboards and scenario views that show baseline, forecast, actual, confidence, tradeoffs, and decisions needed.
• Assist other task areas with structured data calls, KPI definitions, reporting automation, quality checks, and cross-project analysis.

Required qualifications

• BA/BS degree (or accepted equivalent).
• 4-8 years of related experience reviewing business systems, user needs, budgets, financial reports, resource plans, or program-performance data.
• Demonstrated ability to review budget proposals/reports for completeness and accuracy, monitor spending against plan, estimate future needs, and perform complicated analytical tasks.
• Working knowledge of relational-data concepts, client/server concepts, data validation, reconciliation, and structured reporting.
• Advanced spreadsheet, quantitative-analysis, dashboard, documentation, and written/oral communication skills.

Preferred qualifications

• Experience with NOAA/OAR, NWS financial, workforce, program-control, or resource-management processes and funding crosswalks.
• Experience analyzing planned funding, obligations, expenditures, burn rates, capacity, milestones, and forecast variance for Federal programs.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel, Google Sheets, Smartsheet, and business-intelligence/dashboard capability; scripting or SQL is a plus.
• Experience with scientific-software portfolios, HPC/GPU capacity planning, NWP programs, or research-to-operations investments.
• Ability to translate incomplete or decentralized source data into transparent assumptions, traceable reconciliations, and decision-ready visuals.