Program Analyst

Overview:
Systems Planning and Analysis, Inc. (SPA) delivers high-impact, technical solutions to complex national security issues. With over 50 years of business expertise and consistent growth, we are known for continuous innovation for our government customers, in both the US and abroad. Our exceptionally talented team is highly collaborative in spirit and practice, producing _Results that Matter_. Come work with the best We offer opportunity, unique challenges, and clear-sighted commitment to the mission. Objective. Responsive. Trusted.

SPA’s Sea Land Air (SLA) Division supports a diverse portfolio of national security government clients, including the Undersea Enterprise, the Navy Surface Community, the Navy MPTE Enterprise, the Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, OSD, international clients including the Canadian Navy and Australian Defense Force. Our primary objective is to provide timely, objective and analytic assessments that integrate the policy, operational, technical, programmatic and acquisition aspects of our clients’ challenges.

Leveraging both in-domain and cross-domain expertise to maximize our clients’ success, SLA Division acts as trusted agents to senior decision-makers and key leaders and excels at providing data driven analytic insights, systems engineering, strategies and plans that address current and emerging challenges to national security.

The Undersea Platform Analysis Group (UPAG), within the Sea, Land, Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA Team Submarine program offices and key stakeholders surrounding submarine platform construction. Team Submarine unifies submarine platform procurement activities, which includes the Columbia-class SSBN program (a Major Defense Acquisition Program and the Navy’s top acquisition priority), the Virginia-class SSN program and the new SSN-X program (developing the next generation attack submarine), to bring improved capabilities to our undersea forces. Analysts and Engineers supporting Team Submarine will continue SPA’s decades of support to the SSBN force, as well as supporting oversight of cutting-edge attack submarine construction, assisting in developing the design requirements for the SSN platform of the future, and helping plan and execute new and innovative strategies to strengthen the critical submarine shipbuilding industrial base. These are high-profile, major acquisition and manufacturing programs of significant importance to the future capabilities of the US Navy in an era of renewed strategic competition.

**SPA has a need for a **Program Analyst - Submarine Industrial Base Australia **#MC**

**Responsibilities**:
This position is located in Canberra, Australia, with some travel to client and stakeholder locations.

Qualifications:
**Required Qualifications**:

- Bachelor’s degree in engineering, operations, management or other relevant field.
- 10+ years supporting Navy programs, with a preference for shipbuilding, defense acquisition, or international engagement program initiatives.
- Expert level ability to navigate, coordinate, and communicate between government and private industry stakeholders.
- Proven ability to use Microsoft Office, including Excel, Word and PowerPoint, to perform complex strategic analysis and communicate to decision makers.
- Current DoD security clearance - minimum Secret, with the ability to maintain it throughout employment.

**Additional Qualifications Desired, but not required**:

- Experience developing or implementing supply chain, industrial base, or manufacturing/sustainment improvement and risk reduction initiatives.
- Advanced degree in engineering, operations, management or other relevant field.