Program Analyst (Security Clearance) -Hybrid Work Schedule

at  ICF

Description
ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion , is simply who we are and what we do.
The Security and Resilience practice at ICF is seeking a cleared Program Analyst to support provide support to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Office of Industry Partnerships (OIP). This role has a hybrid work schedule, mostly remote with the requirement to attend client meetings in Washington, DC as needed.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree or Master’s + 3 years of relevant experience
• Position requires a minimum of 5 years of relevant experience
• Active US Government-issued Security clearance

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Excellent verbal, interpersonal, and written communication skills.
• Exceptional planning and organizational skills with a focus on timely completion and attention to detail.
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making capabilities.
• Ability to adjust work pace to match client priorities and competing demands, especially for quick turn needs.
• Professionalism in providing onsite support, including good judgment, discretion, tact, and diplomacy.
• Sound business ethics, including the protection of proprietary, confidential, and government classified information.
• Highly disciplined, self-starter requiring minimal guidance.
• Proficiency with the MS Office Suite (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

RESPONSIBILITIES

The Program Analyst will support S&T’s technology transfer activities by advising on federal technology transfer policies, developing technology transfer training curriculum, monitor technology transfer laws for federal laboratories, and review federal best practices. Recommend and advise on program development and administration, to include improvements and optimization, through review of materials and discussion with the Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) Program Manager (PM).

DUTIES INCLUDE:

• Update and maintain template documents
• Prepare internal and external program/project documents, including documentation for project sites, and correspondence
• Prepare draft programmatic and technical slide presentations, white papers, and other documentation to support meetings, briefings, technical reviews, and presentations to senior leadership
• Develop program documentation for unique S&T events and processes such as fact sheets/one pagers, as required
• Review and process DHS CRADAs in accordance with applicable policies and regulations
• Ensure compliance of research efforts with applicable policies and regulations, particularly with unique DHS S&T research requirements
• Attend program and technical meetings as required
• Assist in supporting the development of constructive relationships with program stakeholders across the Federal government
• Manage the tracking of CRADA requests, monitor progress toward document execution, and maintain filing systems and databases for CRADA-related documentation; and
• Assist in developing and tracking metrics for CRADA requests and developing reporting for various DHS stakeholders.
• Maintain organized and logical files for all necessary program, project and performer documentation, including electronic and hard copy
• Coordinate, organize, attend, and facilitate reviews and technical workshops as needed
• Assist with other OIP data call responses
• Occasional travel may be required.