Senior-Level Program Analyst – Project Management

Company Overview

We are a world-class team of professionals who deliver next generation technology and products in robotic and autonomous platforms, ground, soldier, and maritime systems in 50+ locations world-wide. Much of our work contributes to innovative research in the fields of sensor science, signal processing, data fusion, artificial intelligence (AI), machine learning (ML), and augmented reality (AR).

 

QinetiQ US’s dedicated experts in defense, aerospace, security, and related fields all work together to explore new ways of protecting the American Warfighter, Security Forces, and Allies. Being a part of QinetiQ US means being central to the safety and security of the world around us. Partnering with our customers, we help save lives; reduce risks to society; and maintain the global infrastructure on which we all depend.

 

Why Join QinetiQ US?

 

If you have the courage to take on a wide variety of complex challenges, then you will experience a unique working environment where innovative teams blend different perspectives, disciplines, and technologies to discover new ways of solving complex problems.  In our diverse and inclusive environment, you can be authentic, feel valued, be respected, and realize your full potential. QinetiQ US will support you with workplace flexibility, a commitment to the health and well-being of you and your family and provide opportunities to work with a purpose. We are committed to supporting your success in both your professional and personal lives.

Position Overview

Qinetiq US is looking for a Sr Program Analyst - Project Manager.  The selected candidate will provide management and operational support to senior OUSD(R&E) leadership.  This support will include developing and maintaining work products that support management decision making, strategy development, initiative definition, action tracking and monitoring, meeting and workshop planning and execution.  Candidate must be skilled at interfacing, communicating and collaborating with government personnel ranging from action officer to senior leader levels, including civilian and military.     Duties include:

Responsibilities

• Action and task tools, assignment, tracking. The contractor will:
  • Develop action and task management tools.
  • Integrate action and task management with office work package and correspondence workflow processes.
  • Coordinate action and task assignment to responsible parties and establish completion dates.
  • Track actions and tasks to timely closure; assist and escalate as needed when task owners fail to achieve timely closure.
• Project, initiative, major work effort planning and management. The contractor will:
  • Facilitate project, initiative and major work effort planning meetings.
  • Develop planning artifacts including but not limited to statements of work, charters, schedules, Gantt charts.
  • Facilitate integrated project and initiative teams including meeting preparation, scheduling, execution and follow up.
  • Develop executive level status and summary briefings.
• Decision support documents including business case analysis. The contractor will:
  • Develop and document frameworks for distilling complex issues and work functions into clear courses of action to support decision making; work functions may include but are not limited to: recruiting, hiring, personnel management, cost estimating, strategy formulation, technical, operational and business process initiatives.
  • Develop business case analyses that clearly, concisely characterize, quantify and assess costs, benefits and risk of relevant courses of action germane to the operation of the office.
• Meeting and workshop planning and execution. The contractor will:
  • Facilitate meeting and workshop goals and objectives formulation.
  • Plan meeting and workshop execution including scheduling and coordination of participant.
  • Prepare and distribute preparatory material with sufficient time (as agreed upon with government client) to ensure participants are prepared to support meeting and workshop objectives.
  • Facilitate meeting execution. For meetings and workshops of sufficient size and complexity to warrant addition facilitation support, prepare work scope and effort estimates for government client.
  • Document meeting and workshop outcomes including actions, decisions, agreements, assumptions and relevant discussion points; coordinate publication of meeting results consistent with meeting goals and objectives.
• Process design, implementation, execution and continuous improvement. The contractor will:
  • Facilitate development and refinement of office administrative and operational processes as needed to aid governmen