Senior Congressional & Defense Policy Analyst (SCI-Eligible)

ACT1 Federal LLC.; Arlington (VA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 185,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

ESOP (Employee Stock Ownership Plan)

Health Insurance

Life Insurance

Short-Term Disability

Long-Term Disability

Flexible Spending Account

Health Savings Account

401K with employer match

Paid Time Off

Paid Holidays

Military Leave

Education, Training & Professional Dev

Voluntary Accident/Illness/Hospital

Pet Insurance, Legal Resources & ID保护

Job summary

ACT1 Federal LLC is seeking a Congressional and Legislative Principal to provide senior-level legislative research, analysis, drafting, coordination, and congressional-engagement support to the Director for Strategic Communications within the DASN (DIB) office. You will help communicate industrial-base priorities and respond to legislative developments.

The role requires deep experience in congressional affairs, defense policy, and executive-branch liaison, with the ability to monitor

Qualifications

• A bachelor’s degree in political science, public policy, communications, business, law, government affairs, international affairs, or a related discipline.
• At least 10 years of progressively responsible experience in congressional affairs, legislative analysis, legislative liaison support, Federal policy development, defense authorization or appropriations, executive-branch affairs, public policy, acquisition policy, or related fields.
• Demonstrated experience developing executive-level legislative analyses, congressional correspondence packages, hearing-preparation materials, questions for the record, issue papers, briefing books, and decision-support products.
• Demonstrated experience supporting Federal legislative affairs, congressional committee engagement, defense authorization or appropriations processes, or Department of War, Department of the Navy, or Federal agency legislative activities.
• Demonstrated ability to analyze legislation affecting acquisition, industrial-base programs, shipbuilding, manufacturing, supply-chain resilience, infrastructure, defense production, or comparable national-security issues.
• Demonstrated ability to coordinate complex products across policy, acquisition, financial-management, public-affairs, legal, and legislative-affairs stakeholders.
• Demonstrated ability to prepare accurate, concise, time-sensitive written products under short congressional and executive suspense requirements.
• The position may require support outside normal business hours to meet congressional deadlines, hearing requirements, legislative taskers, executive requirements, or major industrial-base initiatives.
• Current Top Secret. Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility required.

Responsibilities

• Monitor and analyze legislation, hearings, committee activity, authorization and appropriations developments, congressional correspondence, and other legislative matters affecting DON industrial-base priorities.
• Conduct legislative, policy, programmatic, budgetary, acquisition, and industrial-base research to identify potential impacts on shipbuilding, maritime industry, munitions, manufacturing, infrastructure, supply-chain resilience, energy, workforce, and Navy production capacity.
• Prepare draft congressional correspondence, legislative analyses, hearing-preparation materials, briefing books, questions-and-answers, questions for the record, issue papers, talking points, executive summaries, decision memoranda, and other legislative-support products for Government review and approval.
• Support Government-led preparation for congressional hearings, staff engagements, briefings, visits, meetings, and other approved engagements involving Members of Congress, congressional committees, congressional staff, or executive-branch stakeholders.
• Develop background materials, fact sheets, legislative trackers, congressional calendars, stakeholder profiles, issue matrices, and coordination packages in support of DASN (DIB) priorities.
• Maintain legislative taskers, correspondence-status trackers, action-item trackers, suspense calendars, and records of Government-led engagement activities.
• Support coordination of draft legislative products with DASN (DIB) directorates, ASN (RD&A) offices, DON acquisition organizations, legislative-affairs offices, public-affairs offices, legal offices, financial-management organizations, Department of War stakeholders, and other Government-approved points of contact.
• Identify legislative deadlines, policy issues, coordination dependencies, information gaps, and potential risks for Government review.
• Prepare summaries of relevant hearings, markups, congressional reports, committee activity, staff engagements, and legislative developments affecting the defense industrial base.
• Support development of approved strategic communications materials and engagement plans associated with industrial-base legislative priorities.
• Support surge requirements related to congressional deadlines, hearings, major legislative events, executive engagements, and time-sensitive Department of the Navy taskers.

Skills

Legislative research

Policy analysis

Stakeholder coordination

Written communications

Briefing materials

Education

Bachelor's degree in political science / public policy / related discipline

Job description

ACT1 Federal LLC is seeking a Congressional and Legislative Principal to provide senior-level legislative research, analysis, drafting, coordination, and congressional-engagement support to the Director for Strategic Communications within the DASN (DIB) office. You will help communicate industrial-base priorities and respond to legislative developments.

The role requires deep experience in congressional affairs, defense policy, and executive-branch liaison, with the ability to monitor