Sr. Decision Scientist with Security Clearance

Prescient Edge; Charlottesville (VA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary with bonus

Healthcare benefits

No vesting retirement plan

Tuition reimbursement

Career development

Positive work environment

Job summary

Prescient Edge seeks a senior analyst to understand and improve judgment and decision processes across individuals and teams. You will apply psychological and analytic methods to business contexts, evaluating workflows, and designing robust research approaches.

The role involves independent work and collaboration with management to enhance productivity and outcomes. The position emphasizes rigorous analytic rigor, workflow redesign, and knowledge management to meet mission requirements.

Qualifications

• Understand and improve judgment and decision making of individuals, groups, and organizations.
• Apply psychology to business, analytics, and decision processes.
• Evidence-based evaluation of processes and outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality analytic work across labor-category tasks.
• Collaborate with management to design workflow modifications to boost productivity.
• Demonstrate mastery of qualitative and quantitative methodologies and research approaches.
• Review analytic products for rigor and cogent conclusions.
• Work independently with minimal oversight.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Decision making

Qualitative analysis

Quantitative analysis

Research methods

Policy planning

Education

Master's degree (related field)

Bachelor's degree + 5 years senior exp

Job description

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:

• Charlottesville, VA.