Operations Assistant

Job ID 2415632

Location ARLINGTON, VA, US

Date Posted 2024-12-09

Category Program Management

Subcategory Project Analyst

Schedule Full-time

Shift Day Job

Travel Yes, 10 % of the Time

Minimum Clearance Required Secret

Clearance Level Must Be Able to Obtain TS/SCI

Potential for Remote Work No

Description

Description

A trusted leader in cloud, digital engineering, data, and Artificial Intelligence, the nation looks to SAIC to integrate emerging technology to modernize critical missions and enable its national imperatives. To address the growing demands within the Department of Defense, SAIC is seeking a highly skilled and dynamic Project Analyst to be the Operations Assistant to support our Digital and AI Team as we embark on a large initiative to lead the design and operate integrated Enterprise IT solutions that deliver AI-enabled capabilities and enable data-driven decision making to missions across the Department, Services, and Combatant Commands.

The Ideal candidate will be adept at managing customer relationships, driving operational excellence, and fostering continuous improvement across all service areas.

Core Responsibilities 

• Oversees and manages the operational aspects of ongoing projects and serves as liaison between project management and planning, project team, and line management.
• Reviews status of projects and budgets; manages schedules and prepares status reports.
• Assesses project issues and develops resolutions to meet productivity, quality, and client-satisfaction goals and objectives.
• Develops mechanisms for monitoring project progress and for intervention and problem solving with project managers, line managers, and clients.
• Responsible for ensuring contract requirements and subcontractor responsibilities are being accomplished including working on the definition and implementation of project planning techniques to provide visibility on the contract.
• Responsibilities may include developing budgets and schedules to meet contractual/project requirements for an assigned portion of a program, participating in and establishing and defining program plan requirements, and monitoring and reporting performance against plans to ensure that contractual, cost and schedule objectives are met.
• Uses standard, well-defined processes, procedures, techniques, or tools that require program-specific modifications.
• Provides input on performance reviews, compensation-related actions, and staffing and hiring recommendations.
• This is not intended to be a detailed nor comprehensive description of any individual employee’s job content.
  
  

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors and six (6) years or more of related experience; Masters and four (4) years or more experience; PhD and 0 years related experience.
• PMI-PMP Certification.
• Agile Scrum Master Certification.
• Excellent interpersonal skills.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.
• U.S. Citizenship and an active secret clearance with the ability to obtain a TS/SCI.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Intermediate ITIL training.
• Lean Six Sigma.
  
  

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.