Senior Policy Analyst Job Listing at SAIC in Arlington, VA (Job ID 2501148)

Description

Description

SAIC is seeking a Senior Policy Analyst to support the Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in Critical Technologies (PDASD(CT) within the Office of the Under Secretary for Research and Engineering (OUSD(R&E)).  The Policy Analyst will support OUSD (CTO) by developing and maintaining work products that enable management decision making, strategy development, initiative definition, action tracking and monitoring, effective communications across a geographically distributed workforce, as well as meeting and workshop planning and execution.  The Policy Analyst must be skilled at interfacing, communicating, and collaborating with government personnel at all levels including senior leadership, both civilian and military. A successful candidate will have experience supporting senior level DoD government organizations (OSD, the Services and Defense Agencies).  

This position is hybrid remote.  When onsite work will be in Arlington, VA.

 Job duties include:

• Support detailed research and analysis in products related to international affairs issues and partnership.
• Support relationship building initiatives, strengthening existing partnerships and attracting new ones.
• Works independently and as a team in coordinating engagement activities and solving problems.
• Coordinate political, military, security cooperation, and interagency issues related to strategic policy and security activities, and its compliance with U.S. programs and requirements.
• Assist in the contribution to negotiate strategies and participates in the development of policy statements to protect and ensure DoD's interests.
• Support and deliver executive correspondence, such as decision memos, read-aheads, daily updates, and meeting minutes.
• Support the development of programmatic and technical material required for position papers, reports, briefings, testimony, and Congressional inquiries.
• Support development of correspondence and overview briefings on political, military, and security cooperation.
• Liaise and coordinate with counterparts at both internal and external organizations on political-military, security cooperation.
• Serve as a trusted advisor and action officer to provide actionable advice to the CTO Leadership, and other senior officials within OUSD(R&E), as appropriate.
• Organize and facilitate internal and external communications on a wide array of subjects. Examples include internal and external tasks; program reviews; congressional directives, engagements and events; workshop, conference and other speaking invitations and events.

Qualifications

Required Clearance: 

• Active TS/SCI 
• US citizenship required

Required Education:

• Bachelor's degree and ten (10) or more years' of relevant experience. Master's degree and  eight (8) or more years' of experience.

Required Qualifications:

• Strong leadership, problem identification/resolution skills, flexibility, initiative, and a proven ability to work with Senior Executives efficiently and effectively.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills.
• Experience writing and critically reviewing white papers, briefings, correspondence, and reports.
• Exceptional organizational and teambuilding skills and interpersonal skills.
• Experience in the Pentagon at OSD, Joint Staff, or other high-level organization.
• Extensive experience in the Pentagon at OSD, Joint Staff, or other high-level organization.

 Desired Qualifications:

• Master's degree.
• Fluent in Japanese and/or Korean.
• Political science, international affairs/relations.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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