Program Analyst

Parsons; Norfolk (VA); On-site; USD 85,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Parsons is seeking a detail-oriented Program Analyst to support a federal civil works and infrastructure program in the United States. You will provide programmatic, analytical, administrative, and contract support across multiple task orders and projects.

You will work with Government leadership, project managers, schedulers, cost estimators, risk managers, environmental specialists, construction managers, and subcontractors to ensure timely, compliant delivery.

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance required or ability to obtain.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, PM, Public Admin, Engineering, or related field.
• Minimum 5 years of professional experience; DoD or federal program experience preferred.
• Proficient with Excel, Word, PowerPoint; data tracking and reporting experience.

Responsibilities

• Provide programmatic, analytical, administrative, and contract support across multiple task orders.
• Track activities, milestones, risks, issues, and action items.
• Develop and maintain procedures, trackers, templates, and management processes.

Skills

Active Secret clearance

Bachelor's degree

5+ years experience

MS Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint/CRM

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

SharePoint

CRM platforms

MS Office

Job description

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Job Description:

Parsons is seeking a detail-oriented Program Analyst to support a federal civil works and infrastructure program. The Program Analyst will provide programmatic, analytical, administrative, and contract support across multiple task orders and projects. This role will support Government leadership, project managers, schedulers, cost estimators, risk managers, environmental specialists, construction managers, contractors, and other stakeholders.

What You'll Be Doing

• Provide analytical and administrative support across the program and associated task orders.
• Track program activities, requirements, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, and action items.
• Support the development and maintenance of program operating procedures, templates, trackers, reporting tools, and management processes.
• Gather, organize, review, and maintain contract, proposal, project, research, and Government-furnished documentation.
• Support contract administration and verify that required deliverables are complete, accurate, timely, and compliant with contract requirements.
• Assist with task-order requirements, proposals, contract actions, RFP reviews, and coordination with internal teams and subcontractors.
• Maintain program and project databases, spreadsheets, document repositories, SharePoint sites, and other information-management systems.
• Prepare monthly, quarterly, annual, and ad hoc program reports, status updates, briefings, dashboards, data visualizations, and management summaries.
• Collect and analyze project-level data to identify trends, performance issues, risks, variances, and opportunities for improvement.
• Support program-level analysis of schedule, cost, risk, performance, and deliverable status.
• Assist with the Government's Integrated Master Schedule by collecting inputs, tracking milestones, identifying variances, and supporting schedule reporting.
• Support risk-management activities by maintaining risk registers, tracking mitigation actions, and preparing risk reports.
• Assist with cost-management activities, including tracking budgets, estimates, contract modifications, and program-level financial trends.
• Develop models, forecasts, metrics, and analytical products to evaluate program performance and potential impacts.
• Prepare recommendations and alternative courses of action based on quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Coordinate meetings, workshops, conferences, and program events; prepare agendas, briefing materials, attendance records, minutes, decisions, and action-item logs.
• Track and coordinate Government and contractor inputs for required reports, submissions, reviews, and approvals.
• Support training, travel, extended work-week, onboarding, resume, and personnel-tracking requirements.
• Coordinate with subcontractors and internal stakeholders to collect information for monthly status reports and other program deliverables.
• Review official documents for completeness, formatting, spelling, punctuation, grammar, and compliance before Government submission.
• Maintain accurate and accessible electronic project files and ensure information is controlled, organized, and available to authorized personnel.
• Support process improvements, automation initiatives, data analysis, CRM reporting, SharePoint development, and implementation of tools that improve program efficiency.
• Provide technical and operational support to Program Managers, Project Managers, and other program personnel.
• Support multiple concurrent projects and task orders with changing priorities and geographically dispersed teams.

What Required Skills You'll Bring

• Active Secret security clearance
• Bachelor's degree in Business, Project Management, Public Administration, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of related professional experience ; experience supporting Department of Defense or other federal programs is preferred.
• Demonstrated experience with program or project administration, contract support, document management, reporting, and data tracking.
• Working knowledge of contract requirements, task orders, deliverables, compliance, and proposal or RFP processes.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, and PowerPoint, including spreadsheets, data analysis, reports, and presentations.
• Experience with SharePoint, project management information systems, CRM platforms, or comparable business systems.
• Strong analytical, organizational, time-management, problem-solving, and attention-to-detail skills.
• Ability to interpret data, identify trends, develop recommendations, and support program decision-making.
• Ability to manage multiple assignm