• Conduct active, ongoing outreach and discovery calls with sellers and M&A advisors • Perform deal qualification and complete historical financial underwriting on opportunities • Develop and maintain relationships with lower middle market bankers, business brokers, and professional advisors • Run structured outreach to stay top of mind with potential acquisition opportunities • Prepare deal summaries, screening memos, and financial workbooks for investment committee review • Communicate findings clearly and flag key risks, opportunities, and open items to the broader transaction team and C-Suite

• Analyze requirements: gather, analyze and document business needs for AI applications. • Develop AI strategy and implementation: define functional requirements and collaborate with data scientists, engineers and developers to implement AI solutions. • Optimize processes: identify areas where AI can improve efficiency, reduce costs and enhance the user experience. • Validate AI models: work with technical teams to ensure AI models meet business requirements and provide actionable insights. • Train and support users: assist end users in understanding AI-driven processes and tools.

Role Description Chevo is hiring two experienced Governance & IRB Analysts to join our expanding firm. This position provides the opportunity for significant client interaction by learning the client’s business and becoming a trusted advisor. Ideal candidates will demonstrate the versatility to understand and perform work overseeing the scheduling, documentation, and management of the Investment Review Boards (IRBs), supporting governance training, and SharePoint repository to include development and maintenance of workflows required for Farm Production & Conservation (FPAC) governance support. NOTE: This position is completely remote, staff supporting this contract may be located in the Kansas City and Washington DC metropolitan areas and/or surrounding areas. Duties and Responsibilities: - Develops agendas, maintains the agenda backlog, drafts meeting minutes, tracks action items, and prepares other technical documentation. - Maintains Charters, Policies, Processes, Procedures, and Templates. - Facilitates Out-of-Cycle votes and coordination of budget reviews. - Supports business units in defining, compiling, and submitting IT budget requests. - Attends Investment Review Board (IRB) meetings and tracks approved, denied, and on hold IT spend-items. - Reviews MS Excel reports from budgeting groups and compares multiple iterations of Spend Plan reports. - Maintains KPI reports. Qualifications - Completed Bachelor’s degree within related field. - Minimum 5 years of experience supporting federal governance boards, USDA experience preferred. - In depth knowledge of budgeting, forecasting, and IT Governance-related disciplines. - Expertise with MS Office, governance documentation, and SharePoint administration. - Excellent oral and written communication skills, including the ability to adapt communication style to effectively work with multiple levels within an organization. - Experience preparing high visibility, executive level presentation materials. Requirements - Previous experience supporting USDA. Benefits - SALARY RANGE: $75K - $90K (subject to change). - ELIGIBLE FOR PERFORMANCE BASE BONUS. - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage. - Paid leave, observes all 11 federal government holidays. - 401K plan with matching. - Monthly SMART card employer contribution for commuting expenses. - Tuition assistance and more! Company Description Chevo, a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), has made Consulting Magazine’s 2023 and 2024 “Best Firms to Work For” list and is a 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 Elev8 GovCon honoree. Chevo is a nine-time awardee of the Alliance for Workplace Excellence award; ranked one of the best Small Business Strategy firms by Consulting Magazine; made the Washington Technology Fast 50 list; and has earned multiple Program Management Industry awards. Chevo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.

Role Description Chevo is hiring two experienced Capital Planning Analysts to join our expanding firm. This position provides the opportunity for significant client interaction by learning the client’s business and becoming a trusted advisor. Ideal candidates will demonstrate the versatility to understand and perform work that ensures Capital Planning & Investment Control (CPIC) processes are accurate and compliant and supports the assessment of Farm Production & Conservation (FPAC) IT portfolio health scores. Note: This position is completely remote, staff supporting this contract may be located in the Kansas City and Washington DC metropolitan areas and/or surrounding areas. Duties and Responsibilities: - Develops and validates business cases, artifacts and data supporting investment health, performance and departmental reviews. - Analyzes spend plan and contract data to correctly align investment projects. - Ensure EVM approaches align with traditional and agile development models. - Drafts AAR Cover Memos and completes AAR shells in AgMAX 2.0. Qualifications - Completed Bachelor’s degree in related field. - 2+ years of CPIC experience with federal programs. USDA experience preferred. - Possess the ability to communicate with all levels of IT and Business (SME to senior-level) within an organization to capture information for IT Portfolio business cases and develop work products such as investment charters, operational analyses, analysis of alternatives, risk management plans, and technical studies in support of the USDA Capital Planning process. - Experience developing corrective action plans to address USDA OCIO investment business case feedback and partner with clients to remediate items identified. - Experience in Acquisition Approval Request process (USDA experience highly preferred): Drafting Cover Memos; performing detailed analysis of spend plan to identify AAR requirements; analyzing details of Spend Plan to identify AAR requirements; maintaining AAR SharePoint libraries and daily submittal of AAR status report for leadership; and, creating and completing AAR shells in AgMAX 2.0. - Knowledge of Earned Value Management (project performance measurement, forecasting, and variance analysis). - Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including business and technical writing skills. Requirements - Previous experience supporting USDA. Benefits - SALARY RANGE: $60K - $90K (subject to change). - ELIGIBLE FOR PERFORMANCE BASE BONUS. - Comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental and vision coverage. - Paid leave and observes all 11 federal government holidays. - 401K plan with matching. - Monthly SMART card employer contribution for commuting expenses. - Tuition assistance and more! Company Description Chevo, a Women-Owned Small Business (WOSB), has made Consulting Magazine’s 2023 and 2024 “Best Firms to Work For” list and is a 2023, 2024, 2025, and 2026 Elev8 GovCon honoree. Chevo is a nine-time awardee of the Alliance for Workplace Excellence award; ranked one of the best Small Business Strategy firms by Consulting Magazine; made the Washington Technology Fast 50 list; and has earned multiple Program Management Industry awards. Chevo is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, disability, military status, national origin, or any other characteristic protected under federal, state, or applicable local law.