Program Analyst

A&AS – Project Analyst

This position will function as the Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS) Project Analyst for the DTRA Cooperative Threat Reduction (CTR) Central/Global (CG) Department. The CG Department enables the Department of Defense (DoD) to work cooperatively with international and interagency partners to reduce or eliminate the threat of the proliferation of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) or WMD-related materials in the Central & Global AOR. The Directorate also facilitates the detection and reporting of diseases that could be used as an early warning mechanism for disease outbreaks that could affect the Armed Forces of the United States (U.S.) or its allies, regardless of the source of such diseases. To accomplish this, the Directorate will conduct several lines of effort including portions of the Biological Threat Reduction Program, the Proliferation Prevention Program, Global Nuclear Security, Chemical Security and Elimination, and Delivery System Threat Reduction. This is primarily a project management role that requires implementation of DoD acquisition strategies to carry out international threat reduction activities. 

The CG Project Analyst serves as lead Advisor and Assistance Support to the Government Project Officer and is directly responsible for ensuring all project level deliverables meet quality and schedule requirements. The successful applicant will be able to multi-task on a broad range of activities, client engagement; project management; financial management; quality assurance; knowledge management; acquisition life-cycle support, and generally supporting the Project Officer with a multitude of recurring and pop-up deliverables.  

DUTIES

• Provides project management support for the full range of CG deliverables across various missions and activities in one or more countries/projects;
• Develops and delivers briefings for senior DoD officials;
• Assists and advises the Project Officer(s) in project execution and supports planning, budgeting, monitoring, and evaluation of assigned country projects.;
• Supports the Project Officer(s) to prepare project milestone documents (Project Concept Notification (PCN), Requirements Validation Review (RVR), Project Plans, and others as required);
• Assists Project Officer(s) with requirements and end-state development;
• Provides recurring updates to the Directors Operational Imperatives and weekly activity reports;
• Assists Project Officer(s) to draft contract documents required for PR packages (Initial Strategy Session worksheets, Acquisition Strategy Review Documents, Market Research Reports, Statements of Work, Contract Data Requirement Lists, and others as required);
• Supports updates to quarterly project fact sheets and regional/country summaries for the Office of the Secretary of Defense;
• Supports development of project level inputs for Program Objective Memorandum, Project Management Reviews, Annual Report to Congress, Annual Spend Plans, and metrics reviews as required;
• Supports Project Officer(s) to review proposals for programmatic fit/logistics/cost realism/scheduling;
• Supports acquisition strategies through the entire lifecycle of the project;
• Supports prompt and thorough responses to short-fuse taskers;
• Supports country assessments and validating project metrics on a recurring basis;
• Gains access to, and becomes proficient in various systems to include, ATRIP, WAT, Mercury/TRLS, CAT, etc;
• Captures meeting minutes and lessons learned, and incorporates solutions to action items and process improvement methodologies;
• Supports Project Officer(s) by engaging with implementing contractors and other partners to ensure that contractual obligations are met; 
• Supports Project Officer(s) to manage regional and country portfolios (monitor cost/schedule/scope, budget, deliverables, expenditures, and other needs);
• Supports the Project Officer(s) travel planning and requirements (ATRIP submission, ATFP plans, logistics support requests, trip book development, trip report, and others as needed);

• Bachelor’s Degree with 3+ years of related experience
• Travel up to 25% of the time
• Secret Clearance required OR Ability to obtain 
  • US Citizenship
• Experienced with the Federal Acquisition Regulation
• Demonstrated ability to write for Senior Leaders

• Demonstrated proficiency with Microsoft Office tool suites
• Ability to work collaboratively or independently
• Strong attention to detail, communication, critical thinking, and problem solving skills

• Masters Degree

• 5+ years of related experience

• Top Secret/SCI Security Clearance

• Certified Scrum Master or PMP Certification

• DTRA CTR or Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) or Counter WMD experience

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