ANSER is hiring: Staff/Action Officer - Cybersecurity Emphasis in Arlington

Company Overview:

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.

Position Summary:

We are seeking a highly experienced cybersecurity staff/action officer to join our team in supporting the Department of Defense (DoD) Chief Information Officer (CIO). In this high-profile role you will support efforts to clearly communicate the DoD CIO’s Digital Modernization and Fulcrum vision/strategy and its approach for achieving cyber goals and objectives.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Prepare informational briefings for senior executives in their preparation for internal and external speaking engagements
• Draft talking points and correspondence that target specific DoD CIO issues, internal and external audiences, and/or topics
• Support project management framework and governance process implementation, operation, and development for DoD CIO offices such as Cybersecurity
• Develop project management process, tools, and best practices to support the monitoring and execution of DoD CIO programs, actions, and taskers and reporting mechanisms to ensure programs’, action’s, and tasker’s progress against established milestones
• Coordinate operations and with subject matter experts to identify, recommend enhancement, or the adoption of existing project management frameworks and strategic frameworks to effectively accomplish programs, actions, and taskers
• Assist in coordinating governance issuance, processes, and new legislation reviews with other departments and ASD Legislative Affairs
• Attend forums department wide; identify issues requiring higher level adjudication to Senior level CIO leadership; and assist the department in presenting issues through increasingly higher-level forums
• Track governance process issues/topics such as the execution of decisions and directives
• Periodically inform stakeholders on departmental progress towards achieving decisions, directives, and departmental digital modernization objectives
• Ensure all official correspondence (e.g., transmittal letters, memos, and presentations) conform to DoD requirements and standards
• Create, track, technically edit, and/or support Correspondence and Task Management System (CATMS) packages

Required Qualifications:

• Master's degree in a related field such as business administration, finance, organizational development or similar other related discipline.
• Active DoD Top Secret/SCI clearance
• 10 years progressive general experience working in/for DoD or federal agencies including operational and administrative experience.
• Prior experience working with or supporting cybersecurity, cyber policy and or cyber governance forums
• 3+ years of Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD)-level experience.
• Knowledge of DoD correspondence requirements
• Recent experience with correspondence and task management systems (CATMS)
• Prior experience working in senior level DoD front office

In compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act Amendment Act (ADA), if you have a disability and would like to request an accommodation in order to apply for a position with ANSER, please call 703-416-2000 or e-mail Recruiting@anser.org.

ANSER is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. We seek individuals from a broad variety of backgrounds with varying levels of experience who have a desire to do meaningful work. We recruit, employ, train, compensate, and promote regardless of race, color, gender, religion, national origin, ancestry, disability, age, sexual orientation, or any other characteristic protected by law.