Project Analyst

This is a contingent position based upon contract win.

SkyePoint Decisions is seeking a Project Analyst to provide project management, analytical, reporting, and coordination support for DoED's Federal Student Aid (FSA) cybersecurity and information technology initiatives. The Project Analyst supports project leadership in planning, tracking, analyzing, and reporting project activities to help ensure milestones, deliverables, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items are effectively managed. The position works closely with Government stakeholders, project managers, cybersecurity professionals, technical teams, and contractor personnel to maintain project visibility, identify potential execution risks, coordinate activities, and provide accurate information supporting program and management decision-making. 

This is a remote position. 

Responsibilities:

Project Planning & Coordination 

• Support development and maintenance of project plans, schedules, milestones, work breakdowns, and deliverable calendars. 
• Coordinate project activities across cybersecurity, technical, operational, and business teams. 
• Track project tasks, dependencies, deadlines, deliverables, and action items through completion. 
• Monitor progress against established schedules and identify potential delays, dependencies, or resource concerns. 
• Coordinate with task owners to obtain status updates and resolve outstanding project actions. 
• Support project managers and technical leads with planning and execution of FSA initiatives. 
• Assist with prioritization and coordination of competing project requirements. 

Project Controls & Analysis 

• Maintain project trackers, schedules, risk registers, issue logs, decision logs, and action-item repositories. 
• Analyze project information to identify schedule risks, trends, dependencies, and potential execution issues. 
• Monitor milestones and deliverables and communicate potential schedule or performance concerns to project leadership. 
• Maintain traceability among requirements, activities, deliverables, decisions, risks, issues, and corrective actions. 
• Support change-control activities by documenting proposed changes, impacts, decisions, and resulting actions. 
• Assist leadership with identifying and tracking appropriate mitigation and corrective actions. 

Reporting, Metrics & Dashboards 

• Collect, analyze, and consolidate project status information from technical and functional teams. 
• Develop recurring status reports, dashboards, metrics, briefings, and management presentations. 
• Analyze project performance information and identify trends or areas requiring management attention. 
• Prepare clear summaries of project accomplishments, upcoming activities, risks, issues, and dependencies. 
• Support Government reporting requirements and presentations. 
• Ensure project information and metrics are accurate, consistent, and supported by appropriate source documentation. 

Risk & Issue Management 

• Maintain project risk and issue registers and support development of mitigation strategies. 
• Track mitigation and corrective-action activities through resolution. 
• Identify aging, recurring, overdue, or unresolved project actions and elevate them to appropriate project leadership. 
• Coordinate with stakeholders to obtain status information and supporting documentation. 
• Monitor dependencies between project teams, activities, systems, and deliverables. 
• Assist project leadership in assessing potential impacts of project risks, issues, and changes. 

Meetings & Stakeholder Coordination 

• Facilitate or support project meetings, working groups, status reviews, and technical coordination sessions. 
• Develop meeting agendas, presentation materials, meeting notes, decision records, and action-item summaries. 
• Track meeting decisions and action items through completion. 
• Coordinate follow-up activities across Government and contractor stakeholders. 
• Communicate project status, risks, issues, dependencies, and upcoming milestones clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences. 

Documentation & Deliverable Management 

• Develop, review, edit, format, and maintain project plans, reports, presentations, spreadsheets, procedures, and other program documentation. 
• Coordinate development, review, approval, and delivery of Government and contractual deliverables. 
• Perform quality reviews to verify documentation is complete, accurate, consistent, and compliant with established requirements. 
• Maintain project repositories, document version control, and organized project records. 
• Support audit, assessment, quality-control, and management-review activities by compiling and organizing relevant project evidence and documentation. 

FSA Cybersecurity & IT Program Support 

• Support project activities involving cybersecurity, security assessments, RMF/A&A, risk management, continuous monitoring, vulnerability management, compliance, IT operations, development, and automation. 
• Achieve reporting and transparency metrics, to include compliance reporting, dashboard accuracy, and communication responsiveness.  
• Achieve customer and stakeholder experience metrics, including stakeholder satisfaction, governance participation, and speed of access request fulfillment. 
• Coordinate project activities with FSA Government personnel, system owners, cybersecurity teams, technical personnel, and contractor stakeholders. 
• Support continuous improvement of project-management processes, reporting practices, documentation, and workflows. 

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Project Management, Information Technology, Cybersecurity, Management Information Systems, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant professional experience. 
• 5 years of relevant experience supporting project/program management, project controls, business analysis, IT, cybersecurity, or Federal programs. 
• Familiarity with Generative AI tools such as Copilot and USAi. 
• Experience supporting Federal cybersecurity or IT programs. 
• Experience maintaining project schedules, deliverables, milestones, risks, issues, dependencies, and action items. 
• Experience developing project status reports, metrics, dashboards, briefings, and management presentations. 
• Experience coordinating activities involving multiple technical and nontechnical stakeholder groups. 
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams. 
• Strong analytical, organizational, problem-solving, and documentation skills. 
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced environment. 
• Strong written and verbal communication skills. 
• Ability to work independently within assigned responsibilities while effectively collaborating with project leadership and technical teams. 
• At least an active Secret clearance.
• Must be a U.S Citizen.

Compensation: 

Salary Range: TBD

The SkyePoint Decisions salary range for this position is a general guideline only. It represents an estimated range for this position and is just one piece of our total compensation package. 

Salary at SkyePoint is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work schedule, the candidate’s combination of education, knowledge, skills, competencies, and experience, as well as contract-specific affordability, market data and business considerations.

In addition to a competitive salary, SkyePoint offers benefits including a certification incentive program, PTO, floating federal holiday options, several insurance options including HMO and High Deductible plans with Health Savings Accounts [HSAs], Flex Spending Accounts [FSAs], Full Dental Plans, Vision, ST/LT Disability, Life Insurance, and 401k matched.