Founded in 2007, Markon is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

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Description:

Seeking an experienced Policy and Strategy Analyst for our client’s operational requirement on a mission focused program within a challenging, dynamic setting located in Bethesda, MD.
Primary Responsibilities: Requirements, Cost and Effectiveness
• Performing formalized annual study planning
• Executing individual studies which includes developing Terms of Reference, collecting, normalizing, and preparing data, analyzing quantitative and qualitative data, forming well-supported alternatives to support senior-level decisions, writing long-form narrative reports and executive-level briefings.

• TS/SCI with Poly required.
• Experience with the planning and conduct of formal studies.
• Experience with gathering normalizing and analyzing qualitative and quantitative data required.
• Experience designing, administering, analyzing surveys, and request for information.
• Knowledge of statistical methods and analytic software toolsets such as Excel and Tableau required.
• Knowledge of/experience with the analytic methods used by the Intelligence Community.
• Experience in designing executive-level decision analytics, papers, and studies.
• Strong writing skills required.
• Bachelor’s degree and 12 – 15 years of prior relevant experience or Masters with 10 – 13 years of prior relevant experience