Journeyman Business Analyst, TS/SCI

Harkcon Inc; Virginia (IL); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 133,000; Full time

Job summary

Harkcon, Inc. seeks a Journeyman Business Analyst, TS/SCI, for a hybrid role supporting CISA in the National Capital Region. The candidate will transform priorities into disciplined workflows and deliver timely, accurate executive reporting.

Responsibilities include developing briefing materials, coordinating international engagements, maintaining dashboards, tracking actions, and ensuring compliance with security requirements, with travel as needed.

Qualifications

• Experience in business analysis, program analysis, or operations planning in a federal or national-security setting.
• Strong writing, research, analytical reasoning, task management and stakeholder communication.
• Experience creating trackers, dashboards, visualizations, and decision-support reports.
• Ability to safeguard classified and sensitive information per DHS requirements.
• Willingness to travel domestically and internationally and work outside normal hours when needed.

Responsibilities

• Support CISA leadership in executing engagement and mission priorities.
• Research policy, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure developments and identify issues.
• Develop, write, edit, and clear executive briefing materials and reports.
• Plan and support bilateral and multilateral engagements with international partners.
• Prepare engagement schedules, travel, lodging, logistics, and required materials.
• Track taskers, clearances, milestones, and reporting to ensure timely completion.
• Coordinate with U.S. agencies, foreign governments, embassies, and stakeholders.
• Maintain stakeholder records, working groups, and information distribution.
• Analyze program data, identify trends, and prepare improvement recommendations.
• Develop trackers, dashboards, and reporting products for leadership decisions.
• Improve processes for tasking, clearance, engagement, and records management.
• Support projects and capacity-building by tracking expenditures and reports.

Skills

Business analysis

Program analysis

Process improvement

Data analysis

Dashboards

Executive writing

Stakeholder communication

Travel readiness

Education

Bachelor's degree in business, public policy, international affairs, cybersecurity, information systems, homeland security, or related field

Tools

Microsoft 365 tools

CRM platforms

Data visualization tools

Workflow-management apps

Job description

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Journeyman Business Analyst, TS/SCI

Full Time Professional DC, US

6 days ago Requisition ID: 1189

Salary Range: $120,000.00 To $133,000.00 Annually

Harkcon is seeking a mission-focused professional to support CISA in advancing cybersecurity, critical infrastructure security, resilience, and emergency communications priorities. The Journeyman Business Analyst provides analytical, operational, and program-management support to CISA. The role helps convert engagement priorities into disciplined workflows, actionable analysis, timely executive products, and accurate reporting.

Location: National Capital Region. Hybrid telework and work at DHS/CISA, 4200 Wilson Boulevard, Arlington, Virginia 22203.

Security and Suitability: Active Top Secret clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information access required and must be maintained throughout employment.

*** This position is contingent upon award of a contract to Harkcon***

Key Responsibilities

• Support CISA leadership and advisors in executing engagement and mission priorities.
• Research and monitor policy, economic, congressional, business, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure developments and identify emerging issues.
• Develop, write, edit, coordinate, and clear executive-level briefing materials, including issue papers, talking points, remarks, situation reports, readouts, decision memoranda, information memoranda, presentations, and technical reports.
• Plan and support bilateral and multilateral engagements, meetings, exchanges, exercises, training activities, and cooperative projects with international partners.
• Prepare detailed engagement and trip schedules and coordinate travel, lodging, ground transportation, interpretation, logistics, security and access requirements, and required materials.
• Track taskers, engagement requests, document clearances, milestones, follow-up actions, implementation activities, and reporting requirements to ensure timely completion.
• Coordinate with U.S. Government agencies, foreign governments, embassies, international organizations, academia, non-governmental organizations, and public and private-sector stakeholders.
• Support stakeholder records, working groups, contact data, agendas, notes, readouts, information distribution, and electronic and physical records management.
• Analyze program, engagement, and stakeholder data; identify trends; and prepare recommendations that improve mission effectiveness and operational efficiency.
• Develop and maintain trackers, visualizations, dashboards, and reporting products that support leadership decision-making.
• Analyze and improve tasker, clearance, engagement, records-management, and coordination processes in accordance with prescribed procedures and standard operating procedures.
• Support cooperative projects and capacity-building initiatives by tracking implementation, expenditures, and required reports.

Required Qualifications

• Demonstrated experience in business analysis, program analysis, process improvement, data analysis, or operational planning in a complex federal or national-security environment.
• Strong executive writing, research, analytical reasoning, task management, and stakeholder communication skills.
• Experience developing or maintaining trackers, dashboards, data visualizations, reports, or other decision-support products.
• Ability to safeguard classified, Privacy Act, Sensitive but Unclassified, and other sensitive information in accordance with DHS requirements.
• Ability and willingness to travel domestically and internationally and support engagements outside normal business hours when needed.

Preferred Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, public policy, international affairs, cybersecurity, information systems, homeland security, or a related field.
• Experience supporting international affairs, cybersecurity, critical infrastructure, foreign policy, or interagency programs.
• Experience with customer relationship management platforms, Microsoft 365 tools, data visualization tools, or workflow-management applications.
• This is a full-time position, estimated at 1,912 hours per contract year, unless otherwise stated in the posting.
• Work is generally performed Monday through Friday during core business hours. Support outside normal business hours, including weekends or holidays, may occasionally be required to support mission needs.
• Domestic and international travel may be required. Government-directed reimbursable travel requires advance approval.

Harkcon, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity-Affirmative Action Employer – Minority / Female / Disability / Veteran / Gender Identity / Sexual Orientation / Age