Space Protection Program Analyst

SAIC is seeking a Space Protection Program Analyst to join the Air Force, Space and Intelligence Business Group providing systems engineering and technical advisory services to a rapidly expanding Government Intelligence Community (IC) customer. The customer is developing the next generation of space and ground systems, architectures, and hardware and software solutions.
The Space Protection Program Analyst will serve as a subject matter expert (SME) and System Program Office (SPO) representative that coordinates with the development contractor and stakeholders (including end user operators) to enable deployment of new protection capabilities into space operations. The Space Protection Program Analyst engages program leadership, technical leads, mission engineers, and acquisition specialists to provide analytical, financial, and administrative support that ensures effective execution of cost, schedule, and performance objectives while also identifying strategies that maximize collaboration, streamline decision-making, and optimize processes to increase team performance.

The Space Protection Program Analyst responsibilities include, but are not limited to:

• Supports day-to-day program management activities across cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Collects, analyzes, and synthesizes program data from multiple sources (technical, schedule, financial) to support metrics, dashboards, and decision briefings.
• Executes Knowledge Management strategies to ensure SPO’s information is captured, stored, structured, and available to the right stakeholders at the right time to propel efficiency and maximize performance.
• Liaises with stakeholders to identify team process or communication bottlenecks and recommends workflow adjustments, as required, to optimize cross-functional collaboration and boost team productivity.
• Provides basic acquisition support in executing Requests for Proposal (RFP) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECP) contracting efforts to maximize software development and ensure capability delivery goals.
• Works directly with SPO’s senior leaders to allocate and disposition formal NRO information/action requests via NRO’s enterprise task management and response tool.
• Provides meeting support for various SPO governance/decision forums, including real-time slide/confluence page management and recording meeting minutes and action items.

Required:

• Bachelor’s and two years’ experience or master’s and zero years’ experience in relevant field.  
• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Poly.
• Experience using Confluence, Jira, and SharePoint or similar tools.
• Ability to perform in a program analysis, project control, financial analysis, or related program support role.
• Familiarity with process improvement strategies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) or similar strategic frameworks.

Desired:

• Familiarity with process improvement strategies such as Lean, Six Sigma, Kaizen, Business Process Reengineering (BPR) or similar strategic frameworks.
• Experience supporting Space Protection or Space Domain projects, programs, or acquisitions.
• Experience with program management of government acquisitions within DoW or IC (NRO preferred).
• Expert administration and/or operations proficiency with Confluence and Jira, or similar tools.
• Familiarity with Federal, Department of War (DoW), or Intelligence Community (IC) Acquisition processes.
• Familiarity with agile software development methodologies.