Division Action Officer (SETA Support)

Scientific Research Corporation; Alexandria (VA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Scientific Research Corporation is seeking a seasoned Action Officer to coordinate high-priority taskers and multi-portfolio requests, delivering clear, executive-ready written products and precise briefing materials. You will manage cross-organizational inputs, maintain suspense, and ensure timely follow-through for senior leadership decisions.

The role requires five+ years in DoD front-office support, strong communication, and proficiency with MS Office; active Secret Clearance is required.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in defense/public policy or related field
• 5+ years of DoD action officer/front-office experience
• Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers across organizations
• Ability to draft executive-ready written products with limited supervision
• Experience with action tracking and suspense management
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, SharePoint)
• Active Secret Clearance

Responsibilities

• Coordinate high-priority taskers, data calls, and requests across portfolios
• Identify required contributors, gather inputs, and maintain ownership and follow-through
• Drive actions to closure and elevate unresolved issues
• Draft executive-level correspondence, briefing materials, and read-aheads
• Maintain the TR-I Division central action tracker and track status
• Coordinate staffing and consolidate inputs into coherent response packages
• Support executive meetings by coordinating status, assembling materials, and capturing follow-on requirements
• Converting leadership direction into tracked follow-up actions and tasks
• Use approved tools to improve action visibility and workflows

Skills

Tasker coordination

Executive writing

Briefing development

Communication

MS Office

Education

Bachelor's degree in defense/public policy

Tools

Jira

Confluence

Power BI

Job description

Salary Statement

Estimated Starting Salary Range: USD $90,050.00/Yr. - USD $150,000.00/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Description

Cross-Portfolio Tasker Resolution and Action Coordination

• Coordinating high-priority taskers, data calls, and special requests that span multiple TR-I portfolios or originate from higher headquarters
• Identifying required contributors, gathering inputs, and maintaining clear ownership, suspense, and follow-through across participants
• Driving actions to closure and elevating unresolved issues, bottlenecks, or late responses when needed

Executive Writing and Decision Support Product Development

• Drafting executive-level correspondence, decision packages, briefing materials, read-ahead, background memoranda, and transmittal packages for senior leadership use
• Translating programmatic, technical, and acquisition into clear, concise written products aligned to leadership intent
• Supporting development of products that enable timely leadership review and decision-making

Central Action Tracker Ownership and Workflow Visibility

• Maintaining the TR-I Division central action tracker across taskers, requests, and follow-on actions
• Tracking progress against suspense, identifying stalled or overdue actions, and maintaining current visibility into action status
• Providing the Deputy Division Support Lead and front office with a reliable picture of pending, active, and completed actions

Staffing, Equities, and Response Consolidation

• Identifying offices and stakeholders with equities in tasking or response
• Coordinating staffing and consolidating fragmented inputs into coherent response packages
• Helping ensure that actions are sufficiently coordinated before elevation for front-office review

Executive Engagement and Meeting Support

• Supporting preparation for executive meetings, reviews, and engagements by coordinating action status, assembling materials, and capturing follow-on requirements
• Recording key leadership guidance, decisions, and resulting actions during executive sessions
• Converting direction from those sessions into tracked follow-up actions and assigned tasks

Workflow Discipline and Tool Support

• Using approved collaboration and workflow tools to improve action visibility, task routing, and front-office efficiency
• Supporting disciplined use of templates, trackers, repositories, and workflow practices across front-office activities
• Helping improve the consistency and usability of action-management processes over time

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Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in defense or public policy, business administration, systems management, communications, program management, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in DoD action officer work, executive staff operations, tasker coordination, briefing development, program integration, or similar front-office support environments
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers, data calls, or response packages across organizations
• Demonstrated ability to draft concise, executive-ready written products with limited supervision
• Experience managing action tracking systems, suspense management, and follow-through in a high-tempo environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
• Active Secret Clearance

Desired Skills

• Experience serving as a primary Action Officer within OSW, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a PEO, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment
• Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, defense acquisition frameworks, and congressional action timelines
• Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar task-management platforms
• Experience preparing executive decision packages, memoranda, transmittals, and read-ahead materials for senior leadership
• Experience working across multiple portfolios, staff elements, or higher-headquarters tasking channels
• Experience improving action-management workflows, tracker discipline, or front-office tasking processes

Clearance Information

SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS WELL AS, A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL

Travel Requirements

• Travel requirement is approximately 10 percent annually, typically around five non-consecutive weeks, subject to Government priorities and scheduling

About Us

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals with amounts increasing based on role and years of service, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

EEO

Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

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