Junior Management Analyst, Projects

Location: St. Inigoes, MD Area

Position Type: Full-Time

Clearance: Secret

Position Summary

Dfuse Technologies is seeking a Junior Management Analyst – Projects to provide day-to-day project coordination, documentation, tracking, reporting, and administrative analysis throughout the project lifecycle. The IC2&IS Division operates in a fast-paced environment with projects typically lasting 6 to 24 months and multiple projects executing concurrently across DoD and Non-DoD customers.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist Government Project Leads with day-to-day planning, coordination, execution, and monitoring of assigned projects.
• Maintain project schedules, milestones, action-item trackers, risk and issue logs, deliverable trackers, and project documentation.
• Collect and consolidate project status information from technical, acquisition, financial, logistics, and administrative stakeholders.
• Track project actions, deadlines, dependencies, and deliverables and follow up with responsible personnel to support timely completion.
• Prepare recurring project status reports, briefing materials, meeting agendas, meeting minutes, and other management products.
• Support project and IPT meetings by coordinating schedules, preparing materials, recording decisions, and tracking resulting action items.
• Assist with monitoring project scope, schedule, cost, resources, and performance.
• Identify potential schedule delays, missing information, overdue actions, or other project issues and elevate them to senior analysts or Government Project Leads.
• Assist with acquisition activities by tracking requirements for project hardware, software, services, and related procurement actions.
• Support financial tracking by maintaining information related to project funding, commitments, obligations, expenditures, and resource requirements.
• Enter, update, review, and validate information within Government-approved project management, financial, acquisition, and knowledge-management systems.
• Maintain organized electronic project files and repositories to ensure project documentation remains current and accessible.
• Assist with developing dashboards, spreadsheets, reports, and other tools used to communicate project status.
• Support project closeout by tracking completion of outstanding actions, documentation, deliverables, acquisition activities, and financial requirements.
• Perform data collection, research, analysis, and administrative tasks in support of senior analysts, GPLs, and Division leadership.

Project Management Support

The Junior Management Analyst supports the Government’s integrated project management environment by helping maintain the reporting and management artifacts needed to keep stakeholders informed of project execution.

Requirements & Tech Stack

Education:

• Relevant Bachelor’s Degree

Experience:

• Entry- to junior-level professional experience supporting project management, program management, management analysis, business operations, or related functions.
• Candidates should demonstrate experience or academic preparation applicable to:
• Project coordination and tracking
• Schedule and milestone tracking
• Data collection and analysis
• Status reporting
• Meeting and action-item management
• Documentation and records management
• Microsoft Office/Microsoft 365 applications
• Working with multiple stakeholders and priorities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience supporting DoD, Department of the Navy, NAVAIR, NAWCAD, or another federal organization is preferred.
• Experience with Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, SharePoint, Teams, Power BI, and project-management or task-tracking tools is desirable.