Policy Analyst III

Overview

Come join a company that strives for Extraordinary People and Exceptional Performance! Chenega Enterprise Systems & Solutions, LLC, a Chenega Professional Services’ company, is looking for a Policy Analyst III to provide policy expertise, identify gaps, and develop policies. Candidate will lead consultations and coordinate multiples activities, develop strategic policy development skills and experience, and have political acuity to understand critical issues and concerns faced by a variety of partners/stakeholders. 

Our company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, and innovative solutions for our clients

Work Location:

• Remote, but must attend meetings in office as required

Responsibilities

• Develop responses to congressional inquiries and requests for hearings, briefings, letter responses and information from congressional members,  federal agencies, and the public
• Develop AR documents such as one-page fact sheets, talking points and other related materials for distribution to congressional members, congressional staff, and other federal agencies, public health organizations, and other partners; work with communication staff to coordinate internet based content for AR and other relevant partner resources
• Interpret and translate scientific data into easily understood materials or responses to public or congressional inquiries
• Develop and execute antimicrobial resistance partnership strategies
• Perform environmental scanning on topics related to AR and on information by and related to relevant partners and policymakers and contribute to drafting a weekly summary of this scan for dissemination throughout AR programs at CDC
• Provide consultation to CDC staff unit track AR policy requests/responses and implementation activities for regular reporting to internal and external stakeholders, including CDC, HHS, and White House leadership
• Draft and clear responses to policy requests from CDC OD and other federal agencies with ARX, division and Center leadership
• Coordinate and participate in monthly calls and activities with partners performing the associated tasks for the meetings including: developing agendas, sending invitations to participants, obtaining the meeting room, identifying conference call numbers, drafting and disseminating meeting minutes, supporting follow-up actions, and drafting supporting documents that could include task lists, summary documents, white papers, etc.
• Coordinate data and information collection from internal and external stakeholders on ARX funded work, implementation activities and impact (e.g. cooperative agreements, broad agency announcement, ELC, EIP, SHEPheRD awardees, CARB National Action Plan targets, 21st Century Cures Act).
• Work closely across ARX and other CDC teams to collect, track, draft and disseminate information related to CDC’s AR programmatic impact through internal and external projects (e.g. AR Investment Map, AR Innovation Portfolio, interagency reporting)
• Provide logistical support at approved program meetings in relations to communications and antimicrobial resistance activities.
• Attend CDC approved non-commercial trainings required to learn new government systems to complete required tasks.
• Maintain and track up to date information for ARX Policy and Partnership databases including a congressional tracker, partnership database, innovation portfolio funding information and database, the AR Investment map database, and AR activity reporting databases as required for policy reporting processes through CDC and HHS

• Support the operations of the TATFAR Secretariat, including email inbox management, meeting planning coordination, correspondence with TATFAR members, support for working groups, participation in virtual and in-person

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.)

• Master’s degree in public policy, public administration, or political science
• Or a minimum of 5 years’ experience in public policy, policy analysis, or public administration

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Excellent written and oral communication skills
• Well‐developed problem-solving skills, and a fine eye for detail

Physical Demands: (The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.)

• While performing the duties of this Job, the employee is regularly required to sit and talk or hear. The employee may use repeated motions that include the arms, wrists, hands and/or fingers. The employee is occasionally required to walk, stand, climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, or crawl. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 25 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision.

Teleworking Permitted?