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Supports JPL business development and strategic partnerships by building dashboards, trackers, lightweight applications, automated workflows, team sites, and portfolio analysis tools. The intern organizes data, improves opportunity-tracking processes, prepares proposal and briefing materials, and translates business needs into user-focused solutions using Microsoft collaboration, analytics, and low-code platforms. The role also involves stakeholder collaboration, process improvement, data visualization, and decision-support activities.

Leads complex, high-risk contract strategy, interpretation, negotiation, execution, compliance, and risk mitigation across JPL and Caltech. Advises executive leadership, manages relationships with NASA, sponsors, and institutional stakeholders, directs multidisciplinary teams, and oversees strategic process improvements, budgets, staffing, and contract records. Negotiates NDAs, OCI agreements, IPA agreements, MOUs, and other government and commercial contractual instruments while ensuring adherence to FAR, federal regulations, and organizational policies.

Leads complex government and commercial contract actions, proposals, modifications, negotiations, and contractual risk assessments. Interprets FAR, contract clauses, regulations, and organizational policies; provides guidance on rights and obligations; coordinates with Legal, Finance, Program Management, technical teams, and sponsors; negotiates NDAs, MOUs, IPAs, and other agreements; and maintains compliant contract records. The role requires advanced judgment, stakeholder influence, discretion, and active TS/SCI clearance.

Manages JPL’s NASA/Caltech prime contract and complex government, commercial, and intergovernmental agreements. Provides authoritative contractual guidance, leads negotiations, oversees compliance with FAR and federal regulations, manages relationships with NASA, Caltech, sponsors, and executives, and leads multidisciplinary teams while improving organizational efficiency, risk mitigation, and contract-record quality.

Support lifecycle management of complex Caltech‑NASA task orders: assist with modifications, funding actions, compliance, stakeholder coordination, contractual interpretation, risk mitigation, documentation, and cross‑functional issue resolution under senior guidance.

Provide project cost, pricing, and resource planning support across the project lifecycle. Maintain institutional reporting and tracking systems, support task order management and proposal cost estimates (including ProPricer and ad-hoc reporting), interface with NASA and stakeholders, and deliver analysis to inform funding, forecasting, and program cost controls.

Provides independent, high-level administrative and operational support for a classified project. Responsibilities include managing complex calendars, coordinating internal and external stakeholders, resolving sensitive issues, supporting cross-functional teams, improving processes, and making operational decisions with limited supervision. An active TS/SCI clearance is required.

Build, maintain, analyze, and report project schedules and related metrics using MS Project Server. Identify schedule anomalies, analyze critical path and logic, support change control, produce summary reports and "what-if" scenarios, and present schedule impact analyses to program stakeholders.

Manage and track communications projects for NASA/JPL science missions from request through delivery. Coordinate between mission leads and creative teams, produce and edit web/social content, translate technical milestones into compelling narratives, resolve production roadblocks, and report KPIs to demonstrate program impact.

Manage complex domestic and international multimodal shipments, ensure compliance with hazardous materials and export controls (EAR/ITAR), coordinate DoD/agency air transport of flight hardware, audit carrier performance and costs, recommend routing and vendor changes, lead cross-organizational projects, mentor staff, and develop training on logistics systems and regulatory requirements.