Program Analyst

Duties:

1.            Provide the PSEM Branch staff with recommendations and solutions for program planning, organizing, and control support for a variety of safety and security program initiatives and projects.

2.            Monitor progress toward meeting the operational and management goals and objectives of the Security Branch.

3.            Utilize process improvements and business reengineering methodologies and principles for modernization of projects.

4.            Develop plans to achieve performance-based objectives, while enhancing operations and services.

5.            Analyze operational activities to derive data to support decision-making and resource allocation and generate functional area strategies for enhanced operations within a cross-functional team.

6.            Review proposed plans for safety and security systems, processes, procedures, assessments, acquisitions, and operational changes requested by managers to ensure that the requests are cost effective and improve overall operational efficiency.

7.            Support budget-planning activities, create presentations on cost/benefits analysis, and provide risk management strategies for ongoing and new PSEM projects.

8.            Analyze and evaluate the effectiveness of internal audit procedures, recommending modifications, as required.

9.            Assist with building emergencies and OEP drills, as needed.

10.         Assist with Continuity of Operations (COOP) activations and drills, as needed.

Deliverables:

1.            Program plans that include cost, manpower, work breakdown structure, and schedule elements for review and approval by senior management.

2.            Documents such as hand books, white-papers etc. on topics including internal operating procedures, risk and performance management of security projects, recommendations for process/program improvement and/or reengineering for review and approval by senior management.

3.            Budget, cost, and schedule analyses on a variety of safety and security operations' programs.

4.            Cost/benefits analysis to support acquisition planning for security equipment and systems.

5.            Develop and provide to the PSEM Branch Chief (or designee) summary of analysis reports detailing the methodology used to conduct the evaluation, areas for improvement, and recommendations for modifications to the internal audit process.

Qualifications:

1.            US Citizen

2.            A Bachelor's degree and a minimum of two years of generalized experience or five years of project management support work experience on technical projects.

3.            Exceptional communications skills, oral and written, as well as strong interpersonal and analytical skills necessary to consult with senior level officials, define problems, and recommend policy solutions.

4.            Must have over three years of direct project and budget management experience along with a working knowledge of commonly applied concepts and principles of project and program management.

5.            Ability to make clear and convincing oral presentations and to express accurate facts and statistical ideas in documents that are extremely well written in a succinct, grammatically correct, and organized manner.

6.            Proficiency in basic software applications such as Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint.

7.            Experience in analyzing organizational program operations, identifying areas for improvement, and recommending sound solutions.

8.            Personnel Security Experience and HSPd-12 sponsorship experience preferred.