Project Analyst

SkyePoint Decisions

1d • Remote

About The Position

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Project Analyst to provide project management, analytical, reporting, and coordination support for the Department of Education’s Federal Student Aid (FSA) cybersecurity and information technology initiatives. This contingent position depends on a contract win and is remote. The analyst supports project leadership by planning, tracking, analyzing, and reporting project activities, helping manage milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items. The role works with Government stakeholders, project managers, cybersecurity professionals, technical teams, and contractor personnel to maintain project visibility, identify execution risks, coordinate activities, and provide accurate information for program and management decisions.

The Project Analyst supports project planning and controls, status reporting and metrics, risk and issue management, meetings and stakeholder coordination, and documentation and deliverable management. The work includes maintaining plans, schedules, trackers, registers, and repositories; analyzing project information; preparing reports, dashboards, briefings, and presentations; coordinating deliverable reviews and approvals; and tracking decisions, corrective actions, and follow-ups.

The position also supports FSA cybersecurity and IT activities involving security assessments, RMF/A&A, risk management, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, IT operations, development, and automation. The analyst helps achieve reporting, transparency, customer-experience, and stakeholder-coordination metrics and supports continuous improvement of project-management processes and workflows.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• At least 5 years of relevant experience supporting project/program management, project controls, business analysis, IT, cybersecurity, or Federal programs.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as Copilot and USAi.
• Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity or IT programs.
• Experience maintaining project schedules, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items.
• Experience developing project status reports, metrics, dashboards, briefings, and management presentations.
• Experience coordinating activities involving multiple technical and nontechnical stakeholder groups.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within assigned responsibilities while effectively collaborating with project leadership and technical teams.
• At least an active Secret clearance.
• Must be a U.S. citizen.

Responsibilities

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdowns, and deliverable calendars.
• Coordinate project activities across cybersecurity, technical, operational, and business teams, including Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Track project tasks, dependencies, deadlines, deliverables, and action items through completion; obtain status updates from owners and follow up on outstanding actions.
• Monitor progress against schedules and identify potential delays, dependencies, resource concerns, and competing requirements.
• Support project managers and technical leads with planning and execution of FSA initiatives.
• Maintain project trackers, schedules, risk and issue registers, decision logs, and action-item repositories.
• Analyze project information to identify schedule risks, trends, dependencies, execution issues, and potential impacts; communicate concerns to leadership.
• Maintain traceability among requirements, activities, deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, and corrective actions.
• Support change control by documenting proposed changes, impacts, decisions, and resulting actions; help identify and track mitigation and corrective actions.
• Collect, analyze, and consolidate project status information from technical and functional teams.
• Develop recurring status reports, dashboards, metrics, briefings, management presentations, and clear summaries of accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support Government reporting requirements and presentations, ensuring project information and metrics are accurate, consistent, and supported by source documentation.
• Track mitigation and corrective actions through resolution; identify aging, recurring, overdue, or unresolved actions and elevate them to project leadership.
• Monitor dependencies between project teams, activities, systems, and deliverables and coordinate with stakeholders to obtain status information and supporting documentation.
• Facilitate or support project meetings, working groups, status reviews, and technical coordination sessions.
• Develop meeting agendas, presentation materials, meeting notes, decision records, and action-item summaries; track decisions and follow-up actions to completion.
• Develop, review, edit, format, and maintain project plans, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, procedures, and other program documentation.
• Coordinate development, review, approval, and delivery of Government and contractual deliverables; conduct quality reviews for completeness, accuracy, consistency, and compliance with requirements.
• Maintain project repositories, document version control, and organized project records.
• Support audit, assessment, quality-control, and management-review activities by compiling and organizing project evidence and documentation.
• Support project activities involving cybersecurity, security assessments, RMF/A&A, risk management, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, IT operations, development, and automation.
• Support reporting and transparency metrics, including compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.
• Support customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment.
• Support continuous improvement of project-management processes, reporting practices, documentation, and workflows.

Benefits

• Certification incentive program
• Paid time off (PTO)
• Floating federal holiday options
• Health insurance options, including HMO and High Deductible Health plans with Health Savings Accounts
• Flexible Spending Accounts
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Short- and long-term disability insurance
• Life insurance
• 401(k) with matching
• Flexible work environment

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level