[Contingent] Senior Program Analyst - Requirements Management

Role overview

Requirements and portfolio support

• Maintain an intake log for unfunded requirements and produce traceability artifacts with problem statements, operational impacts, and preliminary cost and schedule considerations.
• Prepare read-ahead reports, scoring inputs, and decision-support materials for prioritization boards; publish minutes within two business days.
• Maintain historical decisions, dependencies, and rationale in a repository; issue monthly portfolio health summaries highlighting bottlenecks, gaps, dependencies, and trends.

Scheduling, analytics, and acquisition

• Build and maintain an enterprise IMS in MS Project aligned to an approved WBS; integrate stakeholder schedules and conduct monthly critical-path and schedule-risk assessments.
• Deliver monthly IMS update packages with variance narratives and trend charts; maintain performance dashboards, quarterly health metrics, and a risk, issue, and opportunity register.
• Identify cost savings and avoidance through portfolio rationalization.
• Research technical tools and equipment, assess readiness and lead times, refine purchase descriptions, recommend acquisition strategies, and draft justification documents.

Change and communication

• Manage process and system change lifecycles and proactively communicate risks, issues, and opportunities to leadership.
• Synthesize complex information into timely, decision-quality analysis for senior leadership.

Required qualifications

• Specialized experience leading large, complex projects for government customers.
• Hands-on experience developing and managing schedules in MS Project; knowledge and experience with Earned Value Management and project controls.
• Experience managing the full change lifecycle and program management across requirements and capability development, acquisition, procurement, and resource management.
• Ability to prepare comprehensive reports that inform senior-level decisions.
• Bachelor's degree and 8+ years of relevant experience, master's degree and 6+ years, or PhD and 3+ years.
• Active Secret clearance required; must be TS/SCI eligible.

Preferred skills

• PMP, EVM, or similar project controls certification; PPBE cycle experience; dashboard-building experience in Power BI, Tableau, or advanced Excel; or support for requirements prioritization or investment review boards.

Work location and schedule

• On-site at the customer facility in Central Maryland, in the Baltimore/Washington corridor; situational telework requires customer pre-approval.
• Full-time, Monday through Friday, core hours 8:00 AM–5:00 PM ET, 40 hours per week.
• Occasional local and CONUS travel may be required.

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