Location: Arlington, Virginia
Work Schedule: Monday-Friday, generally 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m. ET
Clearance Required: Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility/access
Employment Status: Contingent upon contract award
Position Overview:
ITSC is seeking a Senior Business Management Analyst to support the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's council, advisory, and strategic
engagement programs. The analyst will provide senior-level program management, governance, research, analysis, and executive-engagement support for councils, advisory bodies, committees, workgroups, and stakeholder initiatives. This position requires exceptional analytical, organizational, project-management, and communication skills, along with the ability to support senior government officials in classified and unclassified environments.
Position Overview
ITSC is seeking a Senior Business Management Analyst to support the
Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency's council, advisory, and strategic
engagement programs. The analyst will provide senior-level program management,
governance, research, analysis, and executive-engagement support for councils,
advisory bodies, committees, workgroups, and stakeholder initiatives.
This position requires exceptional analytical, organizational, project-management,
and communication skills, along with the ability to support senior government officials
in classified and unclassified environments.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and maintain council charters, bylaws, membership structures, procedural documents, training materials, and governance records.
- Plan and support classified and unclassified meetings, including scheduling, logistics, registration, materials, attendance tracking, notetaking, and follow-up.
- Prepare agendas, pre-reads, executive briefings, decision-support materials, meeting summaries, memoranda, white papers, and strategy documents.
- Coordinate with senior government officials and internal and external stakeholders to gather input, obtain participation, and support engagement objectives.
- Track recommendations, votes, decisions, action items, risks, deliverables, and implementation activities through closure.
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis to support executive decisions, process improvements, and post-engagement assessments.
- Research critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, physical security, resilience, emerging threats, technology trends, and ICT-related issues.
- Analyze legislation, directives, policies, and executive documents and provide summaries, impact assessments, and recommendations.
- Identify policy gaps or inconsistencies and recommend improvements.
- Develop and maintain project schedules, Gantt charts, process flows, Plans of Action and Milestones, risk registers, dashboards, forecasts, and related project-management artifacts.
- Monitor project risks and implement mitigation strategies using recognized project-management and analytical methods.
- Maintain council records, membership information, logs, inventories, and documentation in accordance with federal records-management requirements.
- Apply quality assurance and quality control procedures to ensure products are accurate, consistent, timely, and compliant with government standards.
- Capture classified meeting discussions accurately and prepare formal notes for the record while following all security requirements.
Required Qualifications:
- Active Top Secret clearance with the ability to obtain and maintain SCI access.
- Bachelor's degree in business administration, management, public policy, cybersecurity, homeland security, or a related field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant experience.
- Senior-level experience in business analysis, program management, project management, strategic planning, policy analysis, or government advisory support.
- Experience supporting federal councils, committees, working groups, program offices, or senior government leadership.
- Demonstrated ability to manage multiple projects, deadlines, stakeholders, risks ,and deliverables.
- Strong research, analytical, technical-writing, briefing, and executive-communication skills.
- Experience preparing leadership-level reports, recommendations, meeting materials, decision documents, and project-management products.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and project-management or task-tracking tools.
- Ability to work onsite in classified environments and handle sensitive information appropriately.
Preferred Qualifications:
- 8+ years of relevant business analysis, project coordination, or federal program-support experience.- Experience supporting DHS, CISA, critical infrastructure, cybersecurity, national security, or emergency-management programs.
- Familiarity with the Federal Advisory Committee Act, DHS Directive 093-01, and federal records requirements.
- Experience using Microsoft Project, Power BI, SharePoint, task-management platforms, dashboards, or data-visualization tools.
- Project Management Professional or comparable project-management certification.
- Experience coordinating high-level classified meetings involving senior government officials.
- Knowledge of critical infrastructure security, cyber and physical threats, resilience, and federal policy.
Work Environment:
Work will primarily be performed at CISA facilities in Arlington, Virginia. Limited telework may be permitted with government approval; classified duties must be performed at an authorized government facility. Occasional travel may be required.
ITSC is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive
consideration for employment without regard to any status protected by applicable federal, state,
or local law.