ANSER - Arlington, VA
posted 16 days ago
About the position
ANSER enhances national and homeland security by strengthening public institutions. We provide thought leadership for complex issues through independent analysis, and we deliver practical, useful solutions. ANSER values collaboration, integrity, and initiative and we are client focused in all that we do. Because we were established for the purpose of public service and not for profit, we measure our success in the impact of our service. ANSER's Analyst Apprenticeship Program (AAP) offers exciting opportunities to recent masters program graduates who have limited work experience but want to focus on enhancing and applying their analytic, technical and business skills in support of critical National missions. During the apprenticeship, emphasis will be placed on developing critical professional competencies through execution of a range of technical and business-related tasks and activities; attendance to different technical trainings, lunch and learn sessions and other presentations; part-time support to appropriate client projects (if available); and one-on-one mentoring aimed at understanding ANSER's culture, corporate operations, and requirements of working in a professional environment with government clients. After 3 months of apprenticeship and mentoring, AAP analysts are transitioned to ANSER divisions that match their academic training and practical experience areas for full time client work in support of various government agencies and missions.
Requirements
- Ability to obtain and maintain a Department of Defense (DoD) Secret Clearance
- Masters degree in fields such as engineering (microelectronics, electrical, mechanical, manufacturing, systems, industrial, digital engineering), data analytics, policy sciences (political science, government, international relations), cyber security, industrial policy
- 2-4 years experience in academic, federal agency, military or corporate environment
- Demonstrated communication skills (written and verbal)
- Proficiency in conducting research and analysis using open-source resources
- Experience with various qualitative and quantitative analysis methods
- Experience with analytic and machine learning software (e.g., STATA, KUMU, VENSIM, Databricks, TensorFlow)
- Proficiency in standard Microsoft Office tools
Nice-to-haves
- Knowledge of national and international policy issues
- Experience with common data visualization tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, Infogram, Data Wrapper, and Qlik Sense
- Understanding of relational databases such as MS Access
- Understanding of HTML, XML and/or Java Applets
