Position Description
If you love high profile and strategic initiatives supporting the Department of Defense Serco has a great opportunity for you! This Strategic Workforce Planner will be on a dynamic team at our Alexandria, Virginia location. Bring your expertise and collaborative skills to make an impact on our Department of Defense Cyber Workforce Strategy.
This position is contingent upon your ability to maintain/transfer a Secret clearance.
This position is contingent upon customer requirements and/or their approval.
In this role, you will:
Provide analytical and technical support relating to DoD CIO Cyber Manpower strategy and policy and cyber workforce initiatives.
Research, analyze, and identify DoD and federal IT skill gaps and root causes as well as recommend strategies to reduce gaps in cyber workforce positions.
Provide draft analysis and recommendation report to meet the functional community management lifecycle reporting requirements established by the Department of Defense.
Conduct research and analysis to identify cyber workforce trends; analyze data to assess the overall health of the DoD cyber workforce; develop strategic workforce documents; write cyber workforce reports for submission to the Secretary of Defense, the US Congress, or other federal entities; and provide documentation to support advocacy for legislation, regulations, policies, and tools necessary to sustain the cyber workforce.
Responsible for a broad spectrum of civilian workforce planning and analysis requirements, as well as overseeing overarching force management policies (e.g., recruitment, retention, compensation, professional development) career development, education, and training) for over 50,000 DoD civilians in 18 occupational series. Supportive efforts include research and analysis to identify workforce trends; development of strategic workforce documents; and advocating for legislation, policies, and tools which support workforce sustainment.
Analyze cyber personnel trends to support strategic human capital reporting requirements.
Understand the differences between manpower and personnel systems, and the type of human capital information that resides within them.
Ability to conduct data analytics using DoD canned reports and/or structuring data queries to obtain desired content. Other sources may include the Bureau of Labor Statistics, OPM's Fedscope.
Provide support, on an ad-hoc basis, for a variety of Congressional response requirements associated with cyber workforce management. These include analysis of draft legislation; creation and defense of legislative proposals; correspondence preparation; material support for meetings with Congressional member/staff visits; and responding to requests for information.
Monitor congressional positions and actions on matters affecting all aspects of cyber workforce management and recommends Defense positions.
Advise the DoD CIO regarding the need for new or modification to existing legislation, and congressional reporting requirements; develops timely responses to congressional responses including legislation, questions in specific areas of interest, questions and inserts for the record, hearing statements, and backup material preparation.
Prepare responses to media requests, write newsletter articles, and provide website content to share insight on DoD cyber workforce trends and the status of ongoing workforce initiatives.
Analyze workforce data and prepare cyber workforce reports to meet requirements imposed by the Secretary of Defense, the U.S. Congress, the GAO, OMB and OPM.
Provide written content for a variety of informational purposes to showcase cyber workforce initiatives.
Draft authoritative responses for GAO questions, succinctly conveying DoD's position and accomplishments and providing -artifacts- to back up comments/justifications.
Provide data to support OMB and OPM data requests.
Write briefings and large-scale reports (15-30 pages) to convey status of DoD cyber workforce.
Prepare oral reports on cyber workforce matters to the senior executives, managers, or other Defense/Federal Stakeholders.
Serve as trusted advisor to client on workforce matters.
Qualifications
To be successful in this role, you will have:
The ability to maintain/transfer a Secret clearance and can upgrade to a Top-Secret clearance
A bachelor's degree in a related field
A minimum of 10 years of relevant experience in manpower or workforce planning.
Experience in DoD canned reports and/or structuring data.
Experience with the understanding of legislative processes.
Knowledge of DoD and Federal Workforce Data Sources.
Knowledge of DoD organization.
Experience with creating/modifying Congressional briefings and position papers,
Extensive knowledge and understanding of the Department of Defense, the organization and structure of the Military Departments and Fourth Estate, and other government and non-government activities at the national level that have a substantial impact on the Department's cyber mission.
Proficiency knowledge in Microsoft Word and Microsoft PowerPoint.
Experience in research, Analysis, and workforce planning.
Experience leading and directing the work of others.
A wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected.
Additional desired experience and skills:
- Master's degree in a relevant field
- An active Top Secret clearance and the ability to obtain SCI Clearance
If you are interested in supporting and working with our DoD Cyber mission and a passionate Serco team- then submit your application now for immediate consideration. It only takes a few minutes and could change your career!
Company Overview
Serco Inc. (Serco) is the Americas division of Serco Group, plc. Serco serves every branch of the U.S. military, numerous U.S. Federal civilian agencies, the Intelligence Community, the Canadian government, state and local governments, and commercial clients. We help our clients deliver vital services more efficiently while increasing the satisfaction of their end customers. Headquartered in Herndon, Virginia, Serco Americas has over 9,000 employees and is part of a $4 billion global business that helps transform government and public services around the world. At Serco, our employees are our most valuable asset - we listen, respect and support them throughout their career at Serco. We invite you to become part of our dynamic team. Serco is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversifying our workforce (Race/ Color/ Sex/ Sexual Orientation/ Gender Identity/ Religion/ National Origin/ Disability/ Vets).
To review Serco benefits please visit: https://www.serco.com/na/careers/benefits-of-choosing-serco .
If you require an accommodation with the application process please email: careers@serco-na.com or call the HR Service Desk at 800-628-6458, option 1. Please note, due to EEOC/OFCCP compliance, Serco is unable to accept resumes by email.
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ID 49843
Recruiting Location : Location US-VA-Alexandria
Category Information Security/Cyber
Position Type Full-Time
Security Clearance Secret
Telework Yes - May Consider Occasional/Part Time Teleworking for this position
