Program Analyst
The primary purpose of the Program Analyst position is to serve as the Project Manager (PM) serving as a senior professional contributor to the work of the EDU PP Division, particularly policy and legislative change implementation, leading complex and interconnected projects which are intended to guide and improve overall EDU operational results, and position EDU for future Program success and resilience on behalf of United States Veterans. Specific duties include:
- The incumbent executes plans, designs, leads, evaluates and recommends project-level and portfolio-level management and implementation activities typical in a structured project management office guided by Program Management Book of Knowledge (PMBOK) or similar framework, principles, tools, and techniques.
- The work requires expert application of analytical and evaluative methods to assess program risks, operational impacts, stakeholder requirements, policy implementation barriers, resource constraints, and long-range program outcomes.
- The incumbent develops project strategies, implementation frameworks, risk mitigation approaches, decision documents, and recommendations used by senior leadership to guide policy and legislative implementation across EDU.
- This work includes a high level of collaboration with the AD PP for goal alignment, and with stakeholders across the operational and/or goal areas.
- The PM performs duties that leverage process, technology, and human capital, with each prioritized against current needs and balanced upon strategic program and project objectives.
- The PM is responsible for execution of efforts that help achieve operational business results, and directs, leads, and facilitates initiative-based projects of short, intermediate, and long-term tenure within the policy project domain.
- The work performed and supervised addresses a combination of complex and/or confidential personnel and business information, project management, and ad hoc activities of importance to the PP Division, and is performed collaboratively with the other EDU Divisions, operational or goal stakeholders, and others.
- The PM leads or contributes to high-level projects and ensures completion of associated activities. Project management of these initiatives is considered 'full lifecycle', with the incumbent responsible for participating in, directing, managing, and/or performing all aspects under the very broad guidance of the AD PP, from intake through all steps necessary to achieve success.
Promotion Potential: None; this position is at the full performance level.
Work Schedule: Full-time, Monday through Friday
Compressed/Flexible: Available
Telework: This position is eligible for situational (ad hoc) telework only. The selectee is required to report to the official duty station each scheduled workday. Telework may be approved only on a case-by-case basis with supervisory approval. Routine or recurring telework is not authorized for this position.
Virtual: This is not a virtual position.
Position Description/PD#: Program Analyst; PD421800
Relocation/Recruitment Incentives: Not Authorized
Financial Disclosure Report: Not Required This position is not in the Bargaining Unit