Sr. Decision Scientist

Prescient Edge Corp.; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 140,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonus

Comprehensive healthcare benefits

Retirement plan

Career development & training

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge seeks a Senior Decision Scientist to support a federal government client. Charlottesville, VA area experience preferred. The role emphasizes understanding and improving judgment and decision making across individuals, groups, and organizations, applying psychology to business and analytics to enhance processes.

It is contingent on contract award and requires TS/SCI/CI Poly eligibility. Prescient Edge, a veteran-owned small business, provides a collaborative environment with growth

Qualifications

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the labor category, with recent work in the last 2 years.
• Master’s degree in a related field; or Bachelor’s + 5 years senior experience as substitute for Master’s.
• Eligibility for TS/SCI/CI Poly or ability to obtain CI Poly.

Responsibilities

• Understand and improve judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations.
• Apply psychology to business and analytic decision processes to improve or evaluate them.
• Assist in policy planning, workflow testing, evaluation, redesign, training, and simulation modeling.
• Propose workflow modifications to boost productivity and analytic judgment.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies.

Skills

Qualitative analysis

Quantitative analysis

Decision making

Analytic methodologies

Education

Master's degree in related field

Bachelor's + 5 years senior experience

Job description

Prescient Edge is seeking a Senior Decision Scientist to support a federal government client.

Please note that the availability of this position is contingent upon contract award.

Benefits & Compensation:

At Prescient Edge, we believe that acting with integrity and serving our employees is the key to everyone's success. To that end, we provide employees with a best-in-class benefits package that includes:

• A competitive salary with performance bonus opportunities.
• Comprehensive healthcare benefits, including medical, vision, dental, and orthodontia coverage.
• A substantial retirement plan with no vesting schedule.
• Career development opportunities, including on-the-job training, tuition reimbursement, and networking.
• A positive work environment where employees are respected, supported, and engaged.

Description:

• Understand and improve the judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations.
• Apply principles of psychology to business, analytic and other decision-making processes to improve and / or empirically evaluate those processes.
• Activities may include assisting in policy planning; workflow procedures testing and evaluation, analytic workflow redesign, training, development, wargaming, scenario development, and simulation modeling.
• May work with management to prescribe workflow modifications that improve worker productivity and analytic judgment.
• Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
• Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative analytic methodologies and pursue developments in academia or other fields that affect tradecraft methodology. Demonstrates ability to define comprehensive, new, or unique research approaches that enable rigorous assessments to address and contribute to high-level tasks.
• Demonstrates in-depth analysis of analytic operations and knowledge management issues across organizational and intra-IC boundaries and clearly articulates key findings.
• Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal to no oversight.
• Demonstrated ability to review analytic products for cogent arguments, tradecraft standards, and adequate support for conclusions; routinely tests analytic rigor of analytic products.

Job Requirements

Experience:

• Minimum 12 years of experience related to the specific labor category with at least a portion of the experience within the last 2 years.

Education:

• Master’s degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education; or have Bachelor’s degree related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education and an additional 5 years of related senior experience, for a total of 17 years, as a substitute to the Master’s degree.

Security clearance:

• TS/SCI/CI POLY or the ability to obtain a CI POLY.

Location:

Prescient Edge is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) founded as a counterintelligence (CI) and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) company in 2008. We are a global operations and solutions integrator delivering full-spectrum intelligence analysis support, training, security, and RD&E support solutions to the Department of Defense and throughout the intelligence community. Prescient Edge is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EEO). All applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, or any other characteristic that is protected by law. We strive to foster equity and inclusion throughout our organization because we believe that diversity of thought is critical for creating a safe and engaging work environment while also enabling the organization’s success.