IT Business Analyst

$120,000 - $120,000/Yr

Cherokee Nation - Silver Spring, MD

Full-time - Mid Level

Silver Spring, MD

Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

About the position

The IT Business Analyst will play a crucial role within the Project Management Office (PMO) at Cherokee Federal, focusing on the preparation, implementation, monitoring, and management of project plans and documentation. This position requires an active SECRET clearance and involves acting as a liaison between business needs and IT solutions, ensuring effective communication and project execution.

Responsibilities

• Acts as a liaison between the business and IT Team in translating complex business needs into requirements realization
• Facilitates meetings, manages meeting agendas and meeting minutes
• Implements, maintains, and manages planning tools/products in support of planning processes
• Monitors project activities and tracks status in relation to the WBS
• Establishes and coordinates business rhythms required to accomplish program control, analyses and forecasting objectives
• Works with the Service Owners and Project Managers to review identified schedule and resource risks and issues across the projects, programs, and enterprise
• Communicates schedule impacts and proposes corrective actions to applicable stakeholders
• Assists the client in developing departmental and Command level SOPs, and Desktop Procedure Manuals as required
• Assists in maintaining a formal Project Management Office staffed with PMP certified Project Managers
• Performs project management activities including planning, scheduling, reporting, organizing, coordinating, and directing internal resources
• Maintains and continuously updates a repository of all enterprise level projects, local level projects, and major activities
• Possesses communication and organizational skills, works well under pressure, and handles multiple projects at once
• Engages with and delivers presentations of work to sponsors and other external stakeholders
• Advanced knowledge of Visio, Excel and other tools used to create and track workflow/process documentation
• Experience with workflow requirements gathering and analysis and building/implementing workflows in ServiceNow
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree is preferred or five (5) plus years of related experience, and three (3) years of general computer systems experience
• Three to five years of IT Project Management Experience
• PMP or CAPM certification
• Familiarity with DoD lifecycle management, DoDD 5000.1, DoDI 5000.02, and Defense Acquisition Guidebook
• Secret clearance required
• Skilled with managing complex, integrated work plans
• Advanced skills with Microsoft Office Suite programs such as Word, Excel, Access, Project, PowerPoint, and Visio
• Skilled in assembling technical documents and providing detailed analysis of various business system functions
• Skilled in developing executive-level briefings and presentations
• Must be a US citizen
• Demonstrated multitasking ability, problem-solving skills
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills and proven ability to ask probing questions to business team members
• Must pass pre-employment qualifications of Cherokee Federal.

Benefits

• Medical
• Dental
• Vision
• 401K
• Other possible benefits as provided