Project Analyst w/Secret Clearance (Contingent)

A3 Consulting LLC; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, and vision benefits

FSAs/HSA

Group life and AD&D

Short-term and long-term disability

Paid time off

401k match

Paid parental leave

Professional development

Job summary

A3 Consulting LLC is seeking a Project Analyst to support schedule-integrated risk management, dependency tracking, bottleneck analysis, and resource feasibility assessments for a federal mission-support engagement.

You’ll identify emerging risks, structure complex information, and prepare concise decision-support products to help leadership understand tradeoffs, impacts, and recommended actions, with an active Secret clearance.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of federal management analysis, risk management, or PMO support.
• Experience maintaining risk registers, dependency trackers, or issue logs.
• Familiarity with schedule risk, resource planning, and federal governance.
• Ability to produce concise, well-structured decision-support materials.

Responsibilities

• Maintain integrated risk, dependency, bottleneck, action, and issue tracking.
• Link risks to milestones, owners, due dates, mitigation paths, and decisions.
• Analyze policy, staffing, funding, and governance risks.
• Prepare feasibility summaries, decision-support memoranda, and risk briefings.
• Coordinate with schedule and reporting teams to align risk and schedule posture.
• Support governance meetings with risk summaries and action updates.
• Maintain traceability of artifacts to approved source information.

Skills

Stakeholder coordination

Analytical writing

Briefing

Facilitation

Decision-support materials

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, Data/Analytics, Public Administration, or a related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

SharePoint

Jira

Confluence

Microsoft Project

Job description

A3 Consulting is seeking a Project Analyst to support schedule-integrated risk management, dependency tracking, bottleneck analysis, and resource feasibility assessments for a federal mission-support engagement. If you’d enjoy being responsible for identifying emerging risks, structuring complex information, preparing concise decision-support products, and helping leadership understand tradeoffs, impacts, and recommended courses of action, this role is for you!

In this role you will

• Maintain integrated risk, dependency, bottleneck, action, and issue tracking products.
• Link risks and blockers to affected milestones, schedule drivers, owners, due dates, mitigation paths, and decision points.
• Analyze policy, technical, staffing, funding, acquisition, governance, data, external dependency, and sequencing risks.
• Support acceleration, resequencing, tradeoff, and feasibility analysis for client consideration.
• Evaluate whether schedule assumptions align with available staffing, funding, technical, process, and acquisition inputs.
• Prepare feasibility summaries, decision-support memoranda, issue papers, and risk briefings.
• Coordinate with the schedule lead to ensure risk posture and schedule posture remain aligned.
• Coordinate with dashboard and reporting personnel to ensure executive reporting reflects current risks, blockers, and decisions needed.
• Identify gaps between reported schedule status and the underlying evidence, dependency status, or resource assumptions.
• Help categorize and prioritize risks by impact, urgency, ownership, dependency, and need for client action.
• Track mitigation actions, due dates, closure evidence, acceptance status, and escalation paths.Support governance meetings by preparing risk summaries, decision points, action updates, and issue-resolution materials.
• Maintain repository discipline and ensure risk, dependency, and feasibility artifacts are traceable to approved source information.
• Support transition and knowledge-management activities by documenting current risk registers, known blockers, open decisions, unresolved dependencies, and recurring reporting needs.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Information Technology, Engineering, Finance, Data/Analytics, Public Administration, or a related field preferred.
• 5+ years of federal management analysis, risk management, acquisition support, PMO support, resource analysis, or program integration experience.
• Experience maintaining risk registers, dependency trackers, issue logs, action trackers, or decision logs.
• Familiarity with schedule risk, resource planning, federal acquisition, funding constraints, and executive governance.
• Ability to analyze complex program information and produce concise, well-structured decision-support materials.
• Strong analytical writing, briefing, facilitation, and stakeholder-coordination skills.
• Experience supporting milestone reviews, governance forums, risk boards, executive briefings, or senior-leader decision meetings.
• Experience with Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint, Jira, Confluence, Microsoft Project, or similar tools.
• Ability to work across schedule, reporting, resource, and technical teams to align facts, assumptions, risks, and recommendations.

Security Clearance

• Active Secret clearance or higher required.

Location

• Remote (DC Metro Area)

Salary Range

• The salary range of this position is $115,000 - $130,000 commensurate with experience and achievement.

Benefit Information

A3 Consulting offers a robust benefits package to include but not limited to medical, dental, and vision benefits, flexible spending and health savings accounts, group life and AD&D, short-term and long-term disability, paid time off, 401k match, paid parental leave, professional development.

About A3 Consulting

A3 Consulting LLC is a leading management and technology firm that specializes in providing innovative solutions to solve the pressing challenges of our Federal government and Department of Defense customers. With a proven track record of delivering mission-critical solutions and exceptional performance, we are committed to ensuring that our intelligent automation and technology offerings remain competitive in the rapidly evolving defense marketplace.