[Hiring] Senior Program Analyst @DecisionPoint | Cortek

Role Description

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Program Analyst to support program management, reporting, governance, and documentation activities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role collects and analyzes status information across ENLIST Tasks 1–8, develops Monthly Status Report and Program Management Review materials, tracks milestones and action items, and maintains accurate program artifacts and Task Order Management Portal content.

The Senior Program Analyst will work closely with program leadership, task leads, technical teams, and Government stakeholders to consolidate complex information into clear, timely, and actionable program-management products. The successful candidate will support recurring meetings, maintain reporting and governance records, monitor deliverable status, and help ensure that program documentation remains current, complete, and aligned with task order requirements.

This position is remote, with preference given to candidates located in or near Chicago.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Collect, validate, consolidate, and analyze program status information across ENLIST Tasks 1–8.
• Develop and maintain Monthly Status Report content, including:
  • Task-level progress
  • Milestones
  • Outages and availability information
  • Staffing changes
  • Risks and issues
  • Corrective actions
  • Government actions
  • Schedules
  • Travel summaries
• Prepare Program Management Review agendas, presentations, briefing materials, minutes, and action-item records.
• Support technical status meetings, project status meetings, integrated project team sessions, document reviews, and contract status reviews.
• Prepare meeting minutes that accurately capture attendance, discussions, decisions, assigned actions, owners, and due dates.
• Track program milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, opportunities, and action items through closure.
• Maintain program-management artifacts, logs, templates, reports, schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain accurate and current content within the Task Order Management Portal and other approved document repositories or collaboration platforms.
• Coordinate with task leads to identify reporting gaps, validate submitted information, and resolve inconsistencies before program materials are delivered.
• Support development and updates of the Project Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structure, Integrated Master Schedule, standard operating procedures, risk-management approach, communications processes, and quality-management documentation.
• Assist with project kick-off activities, including:
  • Agenda development
  • Staffing status
  • Transition planning
  • Security coordination
  • Meeting documentation
• Support biweekly project status reporting covering:
  • Sprints
  • Service levels
  • Incidents
  • Problems
  • Changes
  • Maintenance activities
  • Contractual activities
  • Issues
  • Ticket summaries
• Support preparation and maintenance of the Quality Management Plan and related process-improvement documentation.
• Prepare, consolidate, and track trip reports and associated travel information when requested.
• Support travel-authorization and purchasing-request workflow tracking, documentation, and approval status.
• Support transition-in and transition-out planning, including knowledge-transfer activities, points of contact, document locations, schedules, milestones, and open Government actions.
• Monitor deliverable deadlines and coordinate reviews, approvals, revisions, and final submissions.
• Identify reporting trends, emerging issues, and process-improvement opportunities and communicate findings to program leadership.
• Protect sensitive Government and program information and comply with applicable document-handling, privacy, and security requirements.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Management, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in program analysis, management analysis, project coordination, PMO support, or a related discipline.
• Experience collecting, validating, analyzing, and consolidating status information from multiple teams or technical workstreams.
• Experience developing executive-level status reports, governance packages, presentations, meeting materials, and decision-support products.
• Experience developing Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Review materials, project status reports, or comparable Government deliverables.
• Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Experience preparing accurate meeting minutes and maintaining formal program records.
• Experience maintaining program artifacts in document repositories, collaboration platforms, or management portals.
• Experience supporting complex programs with recurring reporting requirements and firm delivery deadlines.
• Experience supporting Department of Defense, federal civilian, or other large government programs.
• Experience supporting enterprise information technology, modernization, cybersecurity, infrastructure, software engineering, IT service management, or data-analysis programs.
• Experience supporting geographically dispersed teams and consolidating information across multiple task areas.
• Experience with Integrated Master Schedules, Work Breakdown Structures, transition plans, Quality Management Plans, and Project Management Plans.
• Knowledge of federal task-order management, deliverable-review, records-management, and approval processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Experience with SharePoint, Microsoft Project, Power BI, Jira, ServiceNow, or comparable reporting, scheduling, workflow, and collaboration tools.
• Experience maintaining program portals, dashboards, action trackers, risk registers, or deliverable repositories.
• Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, DevSecOps, ITIL, or hybrid program-delivery environments.
• CAPM, PMP, ITIL Foundation, or a comparable project or service-management certification.
• Strong analytical and critical-thinking abilities, including the ability to identify gaps, inconsistencies, trends, and emerging risks.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Strong organizational, documentation, and time-management skills.
• High attention to detail and commitment to data accuracy and document quality.
• Ability to coordinate multiple parallel assignments in a deadline-driven environment.
• Ability to work effectively with program leadership, task leads, technical personnel, subcontractors, and Government stakeholders.
• Ability to work independently while maintaining consistent communication, accountability, and follow-through.