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Scientific Research Corporation

Engineering, integration, testing for defense systems

Division Action Officer - SETA Support

Project & Program ManagementUpdated on Nov 5
Full-timeAlexandria, VA, USA$90k - $150k /yr

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in defense or public policy, business administration, systems management, communications, program management, or a related field is required.
  • At least 5 years of progressively responsible experience in Department of Defense action officer work, executive staff operations, tasker coordination, briefing development, program integration, or similar front-office support environments is required.
  • Experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers, data calls, or response packages across organizations is required.
  • The candidate must be able to draft concise, executive-ready written products with limited supervision.
  • Experience managing action-tracking systems, suspense management, and follow-through in a high-tempo environment is required.
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills are required.
  • Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint, is required.
  • An active Secret clearance is required.
  • U.S. citizenship is required.

Responsibilities

  • Coordinate high-priority taskers, data calls, and special requests spanning multiple TR-I portfolios or originating from higher headquarters.
  • Identify required contributors, gather inputs, and maintain clear ownership, suspense, and follow-through across participants.
  • Drive actions to closure and elevate unresolved issues, bottlenecks, or late responses when needed.
  • Draft executive-level correspondence, decision packages, briefing materials, read-ahead materials, background memoranda, and transmittal packages for senior leadership use.
  • Translate programmatic, technical, and acquisition material into clear, concise written products aligned to leadership intent.
  • Support development of products that enable timely leadership review and decision-making.
  • Maintain the TR-I Division central action tracker across taskers, requests, and follow-on actions.
  • Track progress against suspense, identify stalled or overdue actions, and maintain current visibility into action status.
  • Provide the Deputy Division Support Lead and front office with a reliable picture of pending, active, and completed actions.
  • Identify offices and stakeholders with equities in tasking or response.
  • Coordinate staffing and consolidate fragmented inputs into coherent response packages.
  • Help ensure actions are sufficiently coordinated before elevation for front-office review.
  • Support preparation for executive meetings, reviews, and engagements by coordinating action status, assembling materials, and capturing follow-on requirements.
  • Record key leadership guidance, decisions, and resulting actions during executive sessions.
  • Convert direction from executive sessions into tracked follow-up actions and assigned tasks.
  • Use approved collaboration and workflow tools to improve action visibility, task routing, and front-office efficiency.
  • Support disciplined use of templates, trackers, repositories, and workflow practices across front-office activities.
  • Help improve the consistency and usability of action-management processes over time.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience serving as a primary Action Officer within OSW, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a Program Executive Office, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment.
  • Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, defense acquisition frameworks, and congressional action timelines.
  • Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar task-management platforms.
  • Experience preparing executive decision packages, memoranda, transmittals, and read-ahead materials for senior leadership.
  • Experience working across multiple portfolios, staff elements, or higher-headquarters tasking channels.
  • Experience improving action-management workflows, tracker discipline, or front-office tasking processes.

About the Company

Scientific Research Corporation

Engineering, integration, testing for defense systems

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced engineering company that provides engineering, integration, testing, support, and research and development services to the U.S. government, private industry, and international markets. Its work spans information, communications, intelligence, electronic warfare, simulation, training, and instrumentation systems. SRC designs and builds complex systems, integrates them into clients’ environments, conducts rigorous testing, and offers ongoing field support through laboratories and facilities that replicate real-world operation. The company differentiates itself through its broad, end-to-end capabilities across multiple disciplines, its long history since 1988, and its extensive network of engineering offices and state-of-the-art test facilities for both defense and commercial applications. SRC’s goal is to help customers meet emerging challenges by delivering high-quality products and technical services that perform in real-world conditions.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Atlanta, GA
Founded
1988

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