Senior Program Analyst

Mandatory: Applicants must have an active Interim Secret DoD clearance at a minimum, with final Secret preferred.

Strategic Insight, Ltd., established in 1985, is committed to sustaining excellence and quality growth across our workforce as we strive to improve our clients’ services and products. Strategic Insight staff members enjoy growth opportunities and are provided with robust benefits, from healthcare and 401K to merit bonuses.

Primary responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• • Support an Echelon 1 organization and interacting directly with FO/GO/SES principals, with working knowledge of the ASN(RD&A) enterprise, PPBE, nontraditional acquisition, and public-private partnerships,
  • Substantive familiarity with defense industrial base policy spanning—infrastructure/energy, advanced manufacturing, supply chain resilience, workforce development, private capital, and performance assessment—sufficient to synthesize cross-cutting issues for leadership,
  • Develop high-level briefings, agendas, decision packages, read-aheads, talking points, and meeting minutes, and to run action-item tracking through DON tasker systems (e.g., ETMS2) under short, multiple deadlines,
  • Rigorous, defensible reasoning skills to frame options, conduct risk and trade-off analysis, and translate complex data into clear, executive-ready recommendations that inform leadership decision-making,
  • Build and interpret dashboards and metrics (e.g., Power BI, Advana/Jupiter portals), including establishing KPIs/KPPs and cadenced reporting,
  • Command of project management methodologies to coordinate multi-stakeholder efforts, manage deliverables, and sustain governance rhythms across a newly formed team,
  • World-class written and verbal communication, including advanced Microsoft Office proficiency (PowerPoint, Excel, SharePoint) and the ability to communicate complex concepts clearly to senior DON leadership and external partners, and
  • Other duties as assigned.

Education / Experience

• Bachelor's degree required (accredited institution) in business administration, operations research, economics, engineering, public policy, or a related quantitative/technical discipline; a Master's degree (MBA, MPP, MS in Operations Research/Systems Engineering) is strongly preferred to support executive-level analytic rigor.
• Minimum 7–10 years evaluating business operations and processes for effectiveness, applying data analysis, project management methodologies, and industry best practices to develop, implement, and monitor process-improvement initiatives.

Team Culture:

Diversity: All staff members are expected to accomplish their work in a businesslike manner and always be courteous toward all other staff members, clients, business associates, guests, and visitors. All staff members should be treated in a manner free from bias, favoritism, and any form of illegal discrimination.

Ethics: All members of Strategic Insight should be marked by a commitment to excellence, professional integrity, self-discipline, and wise judgment. Our employees reflect this through attention to detail, comprehensive staff work, and honorable behavior.

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees in this classification. It is not designed to contain or to be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of the employee assigned to this job.

Strategic Insight, Ltd. is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to providing equal opportunity to all applicants and employees in full compliance with all applicable state and federal laws prohibiting discrimination based on race, color, age, gender, religion, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other class protected by applicable state or federal law.