Program Analyst (Senior)

DecisionPoint | Cortek; United States; Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

DecisionPoint | Cortek seeks a Senior Program Analyst to support ENLIST program management, reporting, governance, and documentation for USMEPCOM. You will collect and analyze status across ENLIST Tasks 1-8, develop Monthly Status Reports, and maintain artifacts and portals with precision for government contracts.

The role is remote with preference for candidates in or near Chicago. You will work closely with leadership, task leads, technical teams, and stakeholders to deliver actionable

Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.
• Experience in program analysis, management analysis, project coordination, PMO support, or a related discipline.
• Experience collecting, validating, analyzing, and consolidating status information from multiple teams or technical workstreams.
• Experience developing executive-level status reports, governance packages, presentations, meeting materials, and decision-support products.
• Experience developing Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Review materials, project status reports, or comparable Government deliverables.
• Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Experience preparing accurate meeting minutes and maintaining formal program records.
• Experience maintaining program artifacts in document repositories, collaboration platforms, or related systems.

Responsibilities

• Collect, validate, consolidate ENLIST Tasks 1-8 status information.
• Develop and maintain Monthly Status Report content and related materials.
• Prepare Program Management Review agendas, presentations, minutes, and action-item records.
• Support technical and project status meetings and integrated project team sessions.
• Prepare meeting minutes with attendance, discussions, decisions, actions, owners, and due dates.
• Track milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, and actions through closure.
• Maintain program-management artifacts, logs, templates, and schedules.
• Coordinate with task leads to resolve reporting gaps and inconsistencies.
• Develop and update PM plans, WBS, IMS, SOPs, risk management, and communications processes.
• Assist with kickoff activities and security coordination.
• Support biweekly status reporting covering sprints, incidents, changes, and contractual activities.
• Support Quality Management Plan and process-improvement documentation.
• Prepare travel reports and travel information when requested.
• Support transition-in/out planning and knowledge-transfer activities.
• Monitor deadlines and coordinate reviews and approvals.
• Identify reporting trends and communicate findings to leadership.
• Protect sensitive Government information and comply with security requirements.

Skills

Clearance: Active Secret

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business Administration / Management / Public Administration

Job description

Overview

DecisionPoint seeks a Senior Program Analyst to support program management, reporting, governance, and documentation activities for the USMEPCOM ENLIST program. This role collects and analyzes status information across ENLIST Tasks 1-8, develops Monthly Status Report and Program Management Review materials, tracks milestones and action items, and maintains accurate program artifacts and Task Order Management Portal content.

The Senior Program Analyst will work closely with program leadership, task leads, technical teams, and Government stakeholders to consolidate complex information into clear, timely, and actionable program-management products. The successful candidate will support recurring meetings, maintain reporting and governance records, monitor deliverable status, and help ensure that program documentation remains current, complete, and aligned with task order requirements.

This position is remote, with preference given to candidates located in or near Chicago.

Note: By applying to this position, you acknowledge and consent to having your resume included in an active competitive government contract bid.

Duties & Responsibilities

The Senior Program Analyst will:

• Collect, validate, consolidate, and analyze program status information across ENLIST Tasks 1-8.
• Develop and maintain Monthly Status Report content, including task-level progress, milestones, outages and availability information, staffing changes, risks, issues, corrective actions, Government actions, schedules, and travel summaries.
• Prepare Program Management Review agendas, presentations, briefing materials, minutes, and action-item records.
• Support technical status meetings, project status meetings, integrated project team sessions, document reviews, and contract status reviews.
• Prepare meeting minutes that accurately capture attendance, discussions, decisions, assigned actions, owners, and due dates.
• Track program milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, opportunities, and action items through closure.
• Maintain program-management artifacts, logs, templates, reports, schedules, and supporting documentation.
• Maintain accurate and current content within the Task Order Management Portal and other approved document repositories or collaboration platforms.
• Coordinate with task leads to identify reporting gaps, validate submitted information, and resolve inconsistencies before program materials are delivered.
• Support development and updates of the Project Management Plan, Work Breakdown Structure, Integrated Master Schedule, standard operating procedures, risk-management approach, communications processes, and quality-management documentation.
• Assist with project kick-off activities, including agenda development, staffing status, transition planning, security coordination, and meeting documentation.
• Support biweekly project status reporting covering sprints, service levels, incidents, problems, changes, maintenance activities, contractual activities, issues, and ticket summaries.
• Support preparation and maintenance of the Quality Management Plan and related process-improvement documentation.
• Prepare, consolidate, and track trip reports and associated travel information when requested.
• Support travel-authorization and purchasing-request workflow tracking, documentation, and approval status.
• Support transition-in and transition-out planning, including knowledge-transfer activities, points of contact, document locations, schedules, milestones, and open Government actions.
• Monitor deliverable deadlines and coordinate reviews, approvals, revisions, and final submissions.
• Identify reporting trends, emerging issues, and process-improvement opportunities and communicate findings to program leadership.
• Protect sensitive Government and program information and comply with applicable document-handling, privacy, and security requirements.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications

• Active Secret clearance or higher.
• Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Management, Public Administration, or a related field.
• Minimum of 8 years of relevant professional experience.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience in program analysis, management analysis, project coordination, PMO support, or a related discipline.
• Experience collecting, validating, analyzing, and consolidating status information from multiple teams or technical workstreams.
• Experience developing executive-level status reports, governance packages, presentations, meeting materials, and decision-support products.
• Experience developing Monthly Status Reports, Program Management Review materials, project status reports, or comparable Government deliverables.
• Experience tracking milestones, deliverables, dependencies, risks, issues, decisions, and action items.
• Experience preparing accurate meeting minutes and maintaining formal program records.
• Experience maintaining program artifacts in document repositories, collaboration platforms, or m