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Your role:

Assistant Program Analyst (APAs) are critical members of the test management team who assist the Government Program Analyst manage the cost, schedule, and budget of test programs thereby enabling the engineers to focus on their respective specialties. This is clearly one of the most critical Accounts within RTC as the account includes high priority Army (RCCTO) and USAF (JATM) projects. The APA responsibilities for Air and Missile Defense programs are crucial to keeping the entire portfolio funded, documented, and properly reported to RTC leadership and to ATEC.

What you’ll do all day:

As a part of the test management team, Assistant Program Analyst take program direction from the Test Program Integration Directorate and assists in coordination of the planning, management, and oversight of Test and Evaluation (T&E) activities for their programs and projects within the RTC. The Assistant Program Analyst creates, monitors and maintains the programs integrated master schedule, workload projection report and financial execution report. The Assistant Program Analyst reviews and edits proposals for grammar and format and assists Test Engineers and Test Coordinators with bottom-up cost estimation and creating detailed cost and schedule proposals. Assists with customer communication and documentation of scope changes and amended project proposals. Provides key input for program management reviews and may represent the account at Customer Business Reviews.

You will love this job if you:

• Are a self-starter and require little oversight to complete given tasks
• Enjoy a fast-paced work environment
• Love working with diverse groups of individuals, including engineers and technicians
• Are good at communicating with people
• Have a positive attitude
• Enjoy multitasking

Minimum requirements for this position:

• BA/BS in management, finance, business, engineering, or related discipline from accredited* college/university; or a BA/BS a technical, science or business discipline from an accredited* college/university 
• 3-6 years of applicable experience in program finance or project management, including experience developing plans, budgets and schedules to meet project requirements; providing project status with regard to funding, schedule, and milestones; providing comparative analysis for budget and actual costs; validating costs; establishing and updating forms in multiple software packages to ensure customer has complete and accurate project information at all times; coordinating administrative, financial, and logistical aspects of project management to track the cost and schedule of tests; ensuring labor, flights, material, and travel charges are correct; communicating funding status to customers; monitoring and reporting performance against plans to ensure cost objectives are not exceeded; and reporting, analyzing and interpreting financial data from multiple sources; or 3-6 years of experience in one of the following areas, as related to the respective job required: Communication, Logistics, Operations, Finance, Personnel/Human Resource Management, Program Management, Process Improvement, Safety, Security, and Environmental specialties;

Desired skills and experience for this position:

• Be Management analyst III and IV labor category requirements are acceptable for this requirement. Master’s degree and knowledge of different types of government funding are pluses. 

What we offer:

• Competitive salaries.
• Continuing education assistance.
• Professional development allotment.
• Multiple healthcare benefit packages.
• 401K with employer matching.
• Paid time off (PTO) along with federally recognized holiday schedule.