Remote AI Data Analyst & Program Lead

GovCIO; Lincoln (NE); Remote; USD 140,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Corporate Discounts

Learning & Development platform

Training, Education and Certification

Referral Bonus Program

Internal Mobility Program

Pet Insurance

Flexible Work Environment

Job summary

GovCIO is seeking an AI Data Analyst & Project Manager to support the VA Chief AI Officer (CAIO) with data analytics, project management, and operational support across CAIO’s AI initiatives.

You will collect, analyze, and report data on AI adoption, performance, and impact while coordinating planning and execution across CAIO leadership, initiative leads, and VA stakeholders. Fully remote within the United States.

Qualifications

• Experience performing data analysis, business intelligence, performance measurement, program analysis, or a related analytical function.
• Experience providing project or program management support for complex initiatives involving multiple stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to manage projects, deliverables, dependencies, risks, action items, and deadlines.
• Demonstrated ability to collect, clean, validate, analyze, and interpret data from multiple sources.
• Experience developing metrics, KPIs, dashboards, scorecards, or recurring performance reports.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to translate complex technical, analytical, or program information into clear recommendations and materials for leadership.
• Experience coordinating across technical, business, operational, and executive stakeholders.
• Ability to independently manage multiple priorities and shift between analytical, project management, and operational responsibilities.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills.
• Proficiency with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, SharePoint, and project management or collaboration tools.
• Experience with data visualization or business intelligence tools such as Power BI.

Responsibilities

• Collect, organize, analyze, and validate data from multiple AI programs, products, platforms, and initiatives across VA.
• Develop and maintain standardized metrics and KPIs for AI adoption, utilization, performance, outcomes, and organizational impact.
• Develop dashboards, scorecards, reports, and visualizations that provide leadership with visibility into AI initiatives and performance.
• Analyze quantitative and qualitative data to identify trends, opportunities, risks, and areas requiring leadership attention.
• Partner with initiative owners to establish consistent metric definitions, reporting standards, methodologies, and data-collection processes.
• Evaluate data quality and identify gaps, inconsistencies, or limitations affecting reporting and decision-making.
• Translate complex data and technical findings into clear insights and recommendations for executive and non-technical audiences.
• Support ad hoc analysis and data requests associated with executive reporting, congressional inquiries, strategic planning, and other CAIO priorities.
• Provide project management support for priority CAIO initiatives, projects, and workstreams.
• Partner with CAIO leadership and initiative leads to develop project plans, milestones, deliverables, schedules, and measures of success.
• Track actions, decisions, dependencies, risks, issues, and deadlines across assigned initiatives.
• Coordinate activities across technical, policy, governance, communications, data, and operational teams.
• Facilitate working sessions, project meetings, and stakeholder discussions and ensure decisions and action items are documented.
• Identify project risks, barriers, and dependencies and elevate issues requiring leadership attention.
• Develop and maintain project trackers, status reports, roadmaps, briefing materials, and other program-management artifacts.
• Support leadership with recurring portfolio and initiative status reporting.
• Provide cross-functional support to CAIO leadership and staff on emerging AI priorities and initiatives.
• Support planning, research, coordination, documentation, and implementation activities for AI programs that may extend beyond data responsibilities.
• Assist initiative leads with developing business requirements, implementation plans, measurement strategies, stakeholder engagement approaches, and other program needs.
• Coordinate across internal and external stakeholders to advance CAIO priorities and resolve outstanding actions.
• Support development of CAIO processes, workflows, governance structures, and operating procedures.
• Conduct research and analysis related to emerging AI technologies, policies, use cases, and federal requirements as needed.
• Support development of executive briefings, presentations, decision materials, and other leadership products.
• Adapt to evolving organizational priorities and provide analytical, project management, and operational support where needed across the CAIO portfolio.

Skills

Data analysis

Business intelligence

Performance metrics

Program analysis

PM support

Project management

Data cleaning

KPIs

Dashboards

Communication skills

Stakeholder management

Multitasking

Excel

PowerPoint

Power BI

SQL

Python

Tableau

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Power BI

Excel

PowerPoint

Teams

SharePoint

Project management tools

SQL

Python

Tableau

Job description

GovCIO is seeking an AI Data Analyst & Project Manager to support the VA Chief AI Officer (CAIO) with data analytics, project management, and operational support across CAIO’s AI initiatives.

You will collect, analyze, and report data on AI adoption, performance, and impact while coordinating planning and execution across CAIO leadership, initiative leads, and VA stakeholders. Fully remote within the United States.