Chief Administrative Officer

Taxable Entity

AFOGNAK NATIVE CORP

Job Title

Chief Administrative Officer

Location

AL Huntsville Corporate - Huntsville, AL 35806 US (Primary)
CA San Diego Corporate - San Diego, CA 92123 US
DC Washington - Washington, DC 20226 US

Category

Executive Management

Job Type

Full-time

Typical Pay/Range

$350,000 to $400,000 Annually

Education

Master's Degree

Travel

Up to 50%

Security Clearance Required:
Secret

POSITION OVERVIEW AND PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES (ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS):

Afognak Native Corporation is seeking a Chief Administrative Officer (CAO) to join our executive leadership team and lead the design, optimization, and governance of our enterprise operating platform across government contracting and commercial services. Reporting directly to the CEO, the CAO also serves as President of Alutiiq Professional Consulting (APC), our centralized business development, contracts, and proposals subsidiary.

This is a highly visible, impact-focused role for a seasoned executive who can scale complex operations, drive transformation, and enable international growth in a heavily regulated environment.

Location: Major federal contracting hubs such as Washington, D.C. (National Capital Region), Huntsville, AL, Denver/Colorado Springs, or San Diego

Travel: Frequent travel to Anchorage, AK and other domestic and international locations.

Primary/Major Duties and Responsibilities (Essential Functions):

• Lead enterprise administrative operations, shared services, technology enablement, and risk management across all subsidiaries, joint ventures, and international operations.
• Build and mature a scalable shared services model for HR, payroll, and corporate card programs that arecost-effective, compliant, and service-oriented.
• Oversee enterprise IT, business systems, data governance, and cybersecurity, including large-scale ERP implementations and modernization of core platforms.
• Ensure that enterprise systems, processes, and procedures are designed to meet DCAA and DCMA requirements and remain audit-ready by design, while partnering closely with Finance and Contracts leadership.
• Serve as President of APC with full P&L accountability, leading business development support, estimating, capture, contracts, procurement, and proposal operations in a centralized model.
• Drive end-to-end process optimization across Procure to Pay (P2P), Contract to Cash (C2C), and Hire to Retire (H2R), leveraging automation and best practices to reduce cost, improve cycle times, and strengthen controls.
• Provide executive oversight for corporate operational functions within your span of control, including industrial security, export controls (operational execution), risk management, HSET, and quality management.
• Partner with the CEO and executive leadership on strategic planning, M&A due diligence and integration, and international expansion readiness.
• Design and implement compliant administrative, HR, payroll, IT, and enabling infrastructures to support multinational operations, foreign national workforces, and complex regulatory and export-control environments.
• Lead enterprise change management and culture transformation efforts, advancing a high-performance culture grounded in operational excellence, accountability, and continuous improvement.

Payrate:$350,000 to $400,000 Annually

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS AND EXPERIENCE:

Experience and expertise:

• Minimum 15 years of progressively responsible leadership in business operations, shared services, information technology, compliance, or human resources.
• Senior executive experience leading enterprise operations in organizations that span both U.S. government contracting and commercial services, with revenues exceeding $500M.
• Demonstrated success designing, building, and optimizing shared services organizations (HR, payroll, accounts payable, risk management, travel/P-card, expense management) using standardization, automation, and rigorous internal controls.
• Proven track record leading enterprise process transformation across P2P, C2C, and H2R, integrating HR, Finance, Contracts, Procurement, and Operations into standardized, system-enabled, auditable workflows.
• Deep expertise in FAR/DFARS execution, DCAA and DCMA requirements, CMMC, and CU1 environments.
• Executive experience supporting and enabling major government audit and certification regimes (e.g., DCAA accounting system and incurred cost audits, DCMA CPSR, property/asset management reviews).
• Extensive experience with Costpoint and major CRM/enterprise platforms (e.g., Salesforce), and advanced familiarity with platforms such as Maximo in support of procurement, subcontract management, payroll, and card programs.
• Demonstrated leadership in managing travel cards and purchase card programs in regulated environments.
• Significant international operations experience, including foreign military sales and allied-nation engagements; foreign national payroll and benefits; union and labor-law environments; and the design and governance of compliant administrative and enabling infrastructures across multiple jurisdictions.
• Proven ability to lead large-scale financial, operational, and compliance environments with multi-hundred-million to multi-billion-dollar spend.

Education and clearances:

• Advanced degree in Business, STEM, or a related field.
• Active U.S. Government Secret clearance, with the ability to obtain a Top-Secret clearance.

Leadership skills:

• Exceptional communication skills and executive presence, with the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organization.
• Strong stakeholder management skills and the ability to build trust across ownership, the board's designees, executive peers, and operational teams.
• Demonstrated success leading complex change, building high-performing teams, and developing leaders.

Why Afognak Native Corporation:

• Opportunity to architect and lead the enterprise operating platform for a growing, diversified organization with both government and commercial portfolios.
• Direct, strategic partnership with the CEO and executive team on growth, transformation, and international expansion.
• Mission-driven work supporting U.S. Government and allied-nation requirements, combined with the agility and innovation of commercial services.

How to Apply:

• If you are a proven executive operator who thrives in complexity, enjoys building scalable platforms, and is energized by global growth, we invite you to apply.
• Please submit your resume and a brief cover letter through our corporate career's portal. Indicate "Chief Administrative Officer / APC President" in your application.

Afognak Native Corporation and Afognak's direct and indirect subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and affiliates to include Alutiiq, LLC; Afognak Commercial Group, LLC; Alutiiq Professional Consulting, LLC; and each of their respective domestic and foreign, direct and indirect subsidiaries, partnerships, joint ventures and affiliates are equal opportunity employers that do not discriminate on the basis of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, citizenship status, age, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, related medical conditions and lactation), sexual orientation, protected veteran status, disability, genetic information, or any other characteristic protected by applicable federal, state or local laws (collectively, "Protected Status").

The pay range information provided is a general guideline. The pay rate offered will be determined based on the candidate's experience and qualifications, as well as geographic locations, market data, and other business considerations, as permitted by law.

Our full range of benefits include medical, dental, vision, disability protection, life insurance, prescription coverage, voluntary benefits, paid leave, and 401(k) retirement. Positions covered by the McNamara O'Hara Service Contract Act (SCA), Davis-Bacon Act (DBA), or a Collective Bargaining Agreement (CBA), or Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) will comply with the statute or CBA requirements as well as other client-customer contract requirements (all benefits are subject to eligibility requirements). For more information, please visit our Company's Career page.