Project Management Analyst

Ignite Digital Services is seeking a Project Management Analyst for an exciting opportunity to support the Unmanned Naval Innovation Team at Naval Information Warfare Center - Atlantic. This opportunity features a growing team of motivated and technically-skilled contributors, the potential to travel to domestic and international locations, and experience integrating cutting-edge technology like unmanned systems, AI/ML, and data compilation. This role will bring significant job satisfaction to anyone interested in ensuring the seamless deployment, scaling, and management of applications in a cloud environment to support the Department of Navy's fleet operations and exercises.

Responsibilities:

Provide project management support to client to include managing project schedules and providing recommendations on policy, project briefs, and risk management.

• Assist with development of Integrate Master Schedule (IMS).
• Collaborate with data lead, cloud architects, and systems engineers to complete items on the Integrated Master Schedule.
• Evaluate current processes and procedures and initiate process improvement actions.
• Translate ideas from whiteboard discussions to formal briefs to VIPs.
• Coordinate, schedule, and attend meetings, reviews, working groups and conferences. Capture meeting minutes; assign and track action items; coordinate and facilitate working groups to meet project objectives.
• Act as extension of client at weekly meetings, working groups, conferences, etc. Communicate notes and action items from meetings to the client.
• Assist with business analyses and reporting for assigned project.
• Establish and maintain knowledge management best practices utilizing a common workspace for team projects on SharePoint, for simplified document retrieval, correlation, and analysis of completed tasks.
• Coordinate briefs, agenda preparation, travel, clearance submissions, visit requests, video conferences, meeting minutes, and action items for regular and as required meetings.
• Gain and maintain sufficient knowledge of all enterprise tools and team structure to direct personnel to correct points of contact.
• Augment the primary and secondary duties of client.

Required Qualifications:

• Security Clearance: Able to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance
• Proficient with Microsoft Office products (i.e., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and SharePoint)
• General familiarity with NAVWAR Enterprise
• Comfort around highly technical concepts and discussions
• Ability to multi-task and meet deliverable deadlines
• Excellent oral and written communication skills
• Strong analytical skills

Preferred Qualifications:

• 3+ years of experience in project/program management
• Familiarity with Microsoft Project, Power Apps
• BA/BS in Engineering, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Management Information Systems, Project Management or Business
• Knowledge of C4I systems and NAVWAR processes and procedures

Applicants selected will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Pay rate: $65k+ dependent on education and experience