About This Role
This Project Analyst role supports the planning, coordination, tracking, and reporting for developing CISA's acquisition-pathway processes, Acquisition Portfolio Management Construct, Portfolio Implementation Roadmap, and Acquisition Portfolio Performance Management Process. The analyst maintains integrated project-control information, monitors tasks and dependencies, coordinates deliverable inputs, and prepares accurate and timely status information for Government and contractor leadership.
Responsibilities
- Maintain the integrated project schedule, including activities, milestones, dependencies, responsible parties, review periods, and delivery dates
- Track tasks, risks, issues, decisions, action items, Government dependencies, and deliverable status; identify overdue or conflicting items requiring management attention
- Collect team inputs and prepare weekly status reports, milestone updates, briefing materials, meeting agendas, minutes, and action-item records
- Coordinate development, internal review, comment resolution, version control, and final production of project deliverables
- Support project risk management by documenting risks, impacts, mitigation actions, owners, target dates, and current status
- Monitor project performance for schedule, quality, reporting, customer support, and meeting-support requirements
- Support data requests and coordination activities associated with developing an enterprise inventory of acquisition programs, contracts, systems, and investments
- Maintain project records in approved repositories and comply with applicable information-security, privacy, records-management, and training requirements
Requirements
- DHS/CISA High-Risk Public Trust eligible
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, public administration, project management, operations management, acquisition management, finance, information systems, data analytics, or a related discipline, or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Minimum of three years of relevant project, program, acquisition, operations, administrative, scheduling, or analytical support experience
- Experience maintaining project schedules, milestone plans, risk registers, action-item logs, issue logs, decision logs, or deliverable trackers
- Experience preparing status reports, briefings, meeting materials, minutes, and project-control records
- Ability to organize and reconcile inputs from multiple contributors, identify missing or inconsistent information, and maintain accurate project records
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint
- Strong organizational, analytical, writing, and interpersonal communication skills
- Ability to manage multiple assignments and deadlines while maintaining attention to detail and effective version control
Nice to have:
- Certified Associate in Project Management (CAPM), Project Management Professional (PMP), PMI Scheduling Professional (PMI-SP), Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt, or a comparable project-management, project-controls, scheduling, risk-management, or federal acquisition credential
- Familiarity with federal acquisition, program management, portfolio management, or Government contracting
- Experience with Microsoft Project, Visio, Power BI, or comparable project-control tools
Benefits
- Top-tier benefits package which includes medical, dental, vision
Important Details
- Work location: Primarily remote at contractor facilities, with occasional onsite support within the National Capital Region when requested
About the Company
CISA is a growing team.
