Project Analyst

SkyePoint Decisions; Virginia; Remote; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

SkyePoint Decisions seeks a Project Analyst to provide project management, analytical, reporting, and coordination support for DoED's Federal Student Aid cybersecurity and IT initiatives. The role emphasizes planning, tracking, and reporting milestones, risks, and deliverables in a remote, government-facing environment.

The ideal candidate collaborates with government stakeholders, cybersecurity professionals, technical teams, and contractors, maintains project visibility, and helps ensure

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent professional experience in a related field.
• 5 years of relevant experience supporting project/program management, project controls, business analysis, IT, cybersecurity, or Federal programs.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as Copilot and USAi.
• Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity or IT programs.
• Experience maintaining project schedules, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items.
• Experience developing project status reports, metrics, dashboards, briefings, and management presentations.
• Experience coordinating activities involving multiple technical and nontechnical stakeholder groups.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within assigned responsibilities while effectively collaborating with project leadership and technical teams.
• A t least an active Secret clearance.
• Must be a U.S Citizen.

Responsibilities

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdowns, and deliverable calendars.
• Coordinate project activities across cybersecurity, technical, operational, and business teams.
• Track project tasks, dependencies, deadlines, deliverables, and action items through completion.
• Monitor progress against established schedules and identify potential delays, dependencies, or resource concerns.
• Coordinate with task owners to obtain status updates and resolve outstanding project actions.
• Support project managers and technical leads with planning and execution of FSA initiatives.
• Assist with prioritization and coordination of competing project requirements.
• Develop recurring status reports, dashboards, metrics, briefings, and management presentations.
• Prepare clear summaries of project accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support Government reporting requirements and presentations.

Skills

Project management

Analytical skills

Documentation

Stakeholder communication

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, MIS, or related discipline

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Word

PowerPoint

Outlook

Teams

Job description

SkyePoint Decisions is a leading Cybersecurity Architecture and Engineering, Critical Infrastructure and Operations, and Applications Development and Maintenance IT service provider headquartered in Dulles, Virginia with operations across the U.S. We provide innovative enterprise-wide solutions as well as targeted services addressing the complex challenges faced by our federal government clients. Our focus is on enabling our clients to deliver their mission most efficiently and effectively – anytime, anywhere, securely. We combine technical expertise, mission awareness, and an empowered workforce to produce meaningful results.

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Project Analyst to provide project management, analytical, reporting, and coordination support for DoED's Federal Student Aid (FSA) cybersecurity and information technology initiatives. The Project Analyst supports project leadership in planning, tracking, analyzing, and reporting project activities to help ensure milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items are effectively managed. The position works closely with Government stakeholders, project managers, cybersecurity professionals, technical teams, and contractor personnel to maintain project visibility, identify potential execution risks, coordinate activities, and provide accurate information supporting program and management decision‑making.

This is a remote position.

Responsibilities

Project Planning & Coordination

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdowns, and deliverable calendars.
• Coordinate project activities across cybersecurity, technical, operational, and business teams.
• Track project tasks, dependencies, deadlines, deliverables, and action items through completion.
• Monitor progress against established schedules and identify potential delays, dependencies, or resource concerns.
• Coordinate with task owners to obtain status updates and resolve outstanding project actions.
• Support project managers and technical leads with planning and execution of FSA initiatives.
• Assist with prioritization and coordination of competing project requirements.

Project Controls & Analysis

• Maintain project trackers, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, decision logs, and action-item repositories.
• Analyze project information to identify schedule risks, trends, dependencies, and potential execution issues.
• Monitor milestones and deliverables and communicate potential schedule or performance concerns to project leadership.
• Maintain traceability among requirements, activities, deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, and corrective actions.
• Support change-control activities by documenting proposed changes, impacts, decisions, and resulting actions.
• Assist leadership with identifying and tracking appropriate mitigation and corrective actions.
• Collect, analyze, and consolidate project status information from technical and functional teams.
• Develop recurring status reports, dashboards, metrics, briefings, and management presentations.
• Analyze project performance information and identify trends or areas requiring management attention.
• Prepare clear summaries of project accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, and dependencies.
• Support Government reporting requirements and presentations.
• Ensure project information and metrics are accurate, consistent, and supported by appropriate source documentation.
• Maintain project risk and issue registers and support development of mitigation strategies.
• Track mitigation and corrective-action activities through resolution.
• Identify aging, recurring, overdue, or unresolved project actions and elevate them to appropriate project leadership.
• Coordinate with stakeholders to obtain status information and supporting documentation.
• Monitor dependencies between project teams, activities, systems, and deliverables.
• Assist project leadership in assessing potential impacts of project risks, issues, and changes.

Meetings & Stakeholder Coordination

• Facilitate or support project meetings, working groups, status reviews, and technical coordination sessions.
• Develop meeting agendas, presentation materials, meeting notes, decision records, and action-item summaries.
• Track meeting decisions and action items through completion.
• Coordinate follow-up activities across Government and contractor stakeholders.
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and upcoming milestones clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Develop, review, edit, format, and maintain project plans, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, procedures, and other program documentation.
• Coordinate development, review, approval, and delivery of Government and contractual deliverables.
• Perform quality reviews to verify documentation is complete, accurate, consistent, and compliant with established requirements.
• Maintain project repositories, document version control, and organized project records.
• Support audit, assessment, quality-control, and management-review activities by compiling and organizing relevant project evidence and documentation.

FSA Cybersecurity & IT Program Support

• Support project activities involving cybersecurity, security assessments, RMF/A&A, risk management, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, IT operations, development, and automation.
• Achieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.
• Achieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment.
• Coordinate project activities with FSA Government personnel, system owners, cybersecurity teams, technical personnel, and contractor stakeholders.
• Support continuous improvement of project-management processes, reporting practices, documentation, and workflows.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience.
• 5 years of relevant experience supporting project/program management, project controls, business analysis, IT, cybersecurity, or Federal programs.
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as Copilot and USAi.
• Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity or IT programs.
• Experience maintaining project schedules, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items.
• Experience developing project status reports, metrics, dashboards, briefings, and management presentations.
• Experience coordinating activities involving multiple technical and nontechnical stakeholder groups.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams.
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and documentation skills.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work independently within assigned responsibilities while effectively collaborating with project leadership and technical teams.
• A t least an active Secret clearance.
• Must be a U.S Citizen.

Compensation:

Salary Range: TBD

The SkyePoint Decisions salary range for this position is a general guideline only. It represents an estimated range for this position and is just one piece of our total compensation package.

Salary at SkyePoint is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work schedule, the candidate’s combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, market data and business considerations.

In addition to a competitive salary, SkyePoint offers benefits as follows:

• certification incentive program
• PTO
• floating federal holiday options
• several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs]
• Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs]
• Full Dental Plans
• Vision
• ST/LT Disability
• Life Insurance
• 401k matched

What We Can Offer You:

• At SkyePoint, we go B.I.G. (beginning in GRATITUDE) by recognizing all we have and giving back to our employees, families, and communities. It instills a positive mindset that permeates all we do. By beginning in gratitude, SkyePoint can continue to spread living in gratitude each day.
• Great Benefits: Several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, floating federal holiday options, and 401k matched
• Certificate Incentive Program: To promote professional development, we recognize and reward employees who obtain new certifications aligned with business needs.

SkyePoint Decisions is an established ISO 9001:2015 and ISO/IEC 27001:2013 certified small business and appraised at CMMI Level 3 for Services and Development. We possess a common vision of excellence and foster a collaborative team culture built upon individual performance and accountability. We invest in our people and systems to create value for our clients. It is the SkyePoint Way. We are grateful for the opportunity to work with exceptional people and give back to the communities we serve. Our employees value the flexibility at SkyePoint that allows them to balance quality work and their personal lives.

SkyePoint Decisions is a participating E-Verify Employer.

U.S. Citizenship is required for most positions.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Veterans/Disabled.

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As set forth in SkyePoint Decisions’s Equal Employment Opportunity policy,we do not discriminate on the basis of any protected group status under any applicable law.

If you believe you belong to any of the categories of protected veterans listed below, please indicate by making the appropriate selection.As a government contractor subject to the Vietnam Era Veterans Readjustment Assistance Act (VEVRAA), we request this information in order to measurethe effectiveness of the outreach and positive recruitment efforts we undertake pursuant to VEVRAA. Classification of protected categoriesis as follows:

A "disabled veteran" is one of the following: a veteran of the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service who is entitled to compensation (or who but for the receipt of military retired pay would be entitled to compensation) under laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs; or a person who was discharged or released from active duty because of a service-connected disability.

A "recently separated veteran" means any veteran during the three-year period beginning on the date of such veteran's discharge or release from active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval, or air service.

An "active duty wartime or campaign badge veteran" means a veteran who served on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service during a war, or in a campaign or expedition for which a campaign badge has been authorized under the laws administered by the Department of Defense.

An "Armed forces service medal veteran" means a veteran who, while serving on active duty in the U.S. military, ground, naval or air service, participated in a United States military operation for which an Armed Forces service medal was awarded pursuant to Executive Order 12985.