Project Analyst

Position overview

Planning and project controls

• Support project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdowns, and deliverable calendars.
• Coordinate cross-functional activities and track tasks, dependencies, deadlines, deliverables, and action items through completion.
• Monitor schedule progress, identify potential delays and resource concerns, and support prioritization of competing requirements.
• Maintain project trackers, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, decision logs, and action repositories.
• Analyze project information and maintain traceability among requirements, activities, deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, and corrective actions.
• Document proposed changes, impacts, decisions, and resulting actions; support mitigation and corrective-action tracking.

Reporting and stakeholder coordination

• Collect and consolidate status information; develop recurring reports, dashboards, metrics, briefings, and management presentations.
• Prepare summaries of accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, and dependencies, and support government reporting.
• Facilitate or support project meetings, working groups, status reviews, and technical coordination sessions.
• Prepare meeting agendas, presentation materials, notes, decision records, and action-item summaries; track follow-up to completion.
• Communicate status, risks, issues, dependencies, and milestones to technical and nontechnical audiences.

Documentation

• Develop, review, edit, format, and maintain project plans, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, procedures, and other program documentation.

Requirements

• Support cybersecurity and information technology initiatives for the Department of Education's Federal Student Aid program.
• Coordinate effectively with government stakeholders, project managers, cybersecurity professionals, technical teams, and contractor personnel.
• Provide project management, analytical, reporting, and coordination support to project leadership.