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LEAD PROGRAM ANALYST (BUSINESS SERVICES)

Military Sealift Command

Department of the Navy

Fresh

Location

Salary

$75,788 - $98,530

per year

Closes

January 13, 2026

GS-9 Pay Grade

Base salary range: $51,332 - $66,732

Typical requirements: 1 year specialized experience at GS-8. Master's degree or 2 years graduate study.

Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).

Job Description

Summary

This role involves leading a team in managing business support for the Military Sealift Command, focusing on ship readiness, logistics, and operational efficiency to support U.S.

military missions worldwide. You'll handle tasks like communicating goals, balancing workloads, improving processes, and analyzing financial and administrative procedures.

It's a good fit for someone with experience in team leadership, program analysis, and naval or logistics operations who enjoys strategic planning and problem-solving in a government setting.

Key Requirements

  • At least one year of specialized experience at GS-09 level or equivalent, including implementing technical and administrative responsibilities
  • Experience communicating projects, deadlines, and coaching team members in problem-solving
  • Skills in identifying, distributing, and balancing workloads, plus arranging training for team members
  • Ability to support program managers by analyzing and writing procedures, SOPs, and technical documents
  • Proficiency in transactional reconciliation, including reviewing, validating, and recording financial documents using systems like US Bank and ERP
  • Knowledge of life cycle management, ship readiness, maintenance, repair, and logistics for government-owned vessels
  • Experience in process improvement, standardization, strategic planning, and formulating program policies

Full Job Description

You will serve as a LEAD PROGRAM ANALYST (BUSINESS SERVICES) in the Military Sealift Command (MSC), Directorate Ship Management (DSM), and Directorate Ship Management Business Support Group (DSMB) in Norfolk, VA of MILITARY SEALIFT COMMAND.

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-09 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Experience implementing technical and administrative responsibilities and functions such as ensuring that the Directorate Ship Management Business Support Group (DSMB) strategic plan, mission, and values are communicated to the team and integrated into their strategies.

Experience communicating to the team about projects or problems to be solved and deadlines, coaching team members in problem solving methods and techniques, and providing advice on work methods.

Experience identifying, distributing and balancing workloads and tasks, adjusting to accomplish the workload, training or arranging for the training of team members, and providing or arranging for specific administrative or technical training.

Experience providing support to PMs/RMs in analyzing procedures such as writing procedures, SOPs, operating procedures, and technical procedures.

Experience handling transactional reconciliation and receiving, analyzing, validating, coding, and recording a variety of obligatory documents such as reviewing and matching all key support documents related to each transaction from the US Bank and ERP.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. Major Duties:

  • You will be responsible for life cycle management, ship readiness, maintenance and repair, and logistics in order to support the worldwide U.S. Armed Forces missions.
  • You will provide administrative, manpower, financial, operational, and business analysis capabilities required in determining the efficiency of any Director-directed indices within the organization.
  • You will direct process improvement and standardization of operations of the DSM directorate as it manages the TYCOM responsibilities for the government owned ships within MSC.
  • You will implement policies and processes for GO vessels; conduct strategic planning; formulate program policy; and craft long term plans for resource development and utilization.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 1/9/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 1/9/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: ST-12860945-26-RMM