Program Analyst Jobs

About The Position

Requirements

• Project Management Professional (PMP) certification.
• Bachelor's degree in Business or a related discipline.
• Active Public Trust clearance or ability to obtain one.
• Strong leadership, organizational, and client relationship management skills.
• Experience with project tracking tools such as MS Project, Jira, Smartsheet, or SharePoint.
• Familiarity with Marine Corps manpower, personnel, or reserve affairs programs.
• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Project and Planner, including developing, maintaining, and updating integrated project schedules, milestones, and deliverables.
• Ability to collaborate and communicate across diverse teams, including internal delivery teams, external service providers, and subcontractors, to define scope, schedule, cost, and quality management plans.
• Experience bridging business and technical teams.
• Experience executing, monitoring, and managing projects to successful, high-quality, on-budget completion.
• Strong technical writing skills and experience creating user guides, SOPs, or training materials.
• Ability to work full-time onsite at Quantico, Virginia.
• Strong analytical, Excel, and data visualization skills, such as Power BI or Tableau.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Responsibilities

• Partner with the Program Manager to align deliverables with program goals.
• Develop detailed project plans and schedules covering tasks, milestones, resources, and deliverables based on scope, budget, and personnel.
• Plan, organize, coordinate, track, and report on the full project lifecycle, including planning, design, development, testing, and implementation.
• Oversee projects from initiation through formal closeout, including planning, execution, monitoring, and controlling.
• Identify project needs and align personnel, tools, budget, and other resources for program execution.
• Monitor program and schedule performance across multiple ongoing tasks; identify risks and delays, assess their impact, and provide recommendations and mitigation strategies to leadership.
• Work with the Government Program Manager, Lead Engineer, and Contracting Officer Representative to accomplish the program mission.
• Lead requirements-gathering sessions, interviews, and workshops with functional managers to capture user needs, pain points, and desired outcomes.
• Document and validate functional and technical requirements, including user stories, use cases, and requirements traceability matrices, with business and development stakeholders.
• Create and maintain end-user documentation and how-to guides for tools, processes, and system changes.
• Support process documentation, including standard operating procedures, workflows, and requirements traceability matrices.
• Translate technical changes into plain-language instructions for non-technical staff.
• Assist with quality assurance reviews of deliverables before submission to the USMC client.
• Participate in onsite client meetings at Quantico, capture action items, and track follow-ups.
• Clarify requirements and answer developer questions during development sprints or builds, and confirm delivered functionality meets the functional manager's intent.
• Document current-state operational workflows and data flows and support definition of future-state requirements.
• Translate business, regulatory, and stakeholder requirements into technical and process documentation.
• Support the enterprise/solutions architect in evaluating technology options and documenting architecture and design decision implications.
• Identify dependencies, risks, and gaps between requirements and delivered work, and help resolve them.
• Coordinate with design, research, and engineering stakeholders to keep requirements accurate and current.