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PROGRAM ANALYST (CYBER)

Joint Activities

Department of the Army

Fresh

Salary

$121,785 - $166,440

per year

Closes

April 6, 2026More DOD jobs →

SES Pay Grade

Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900

Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.

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

Job Description

Summary

This job involves monitoring and managing tasks related to cyber operations, creating plans for actions and milestones, and preparing reports and briefings for senior leaders in a military cyber command setting.

It requires coordinating with teams to ensure clear and accurate communications on priority issues.

A good fit would be someone with experience in project management, analysis, and working in secure environments, especially those familiar with government or defense operations.

Key Requirements

  • One year of specialized experience in managing classified and unclassified taskers for senior leaders
  • Skill in coordinating priority issues through email triage and recommending responses
  • Ability to analyze information and present it via reports, briefings, and displays
  • Experience maintaining professional relationships to track cyberspace program trends
  • Proficiency in monitoring multiple sources for new action items and project planning
  • Capability to review and refine preparatory materials like presentations and draft messages
  • Knowledge of analytical methodologies and ensuring clear, concise documentation

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is a DOD Cyber Excepted Service (CES) personnel system position in the Excepted Service under 10 USC 1599f.

Employees occupying CES positions are in the Excepted Service and must adhere to U.S. Code, Title 10, as well as Department of Defense Instruction 1400.25. This position is located at the U.S.

Cyber Command - J0CS USCYBERCOM Chief of Staff Office at Fort Meade, Maryland. CYBER EXCEPTED SERVICE POSITIONS ARE NOT SUBJECT TO THE TWO-PAGE RESUME LIMIT.

YOUR FULL RESUME WILL NEED TO BE UPLOADED TO YOUR USAJOBS PROFILE USING THE DOCUMENT TYPE "OTHER DOCUMENTS".

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Army CES positions apply Veteran's Preference to preference eligible candidates, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Volume 3005, "CES Employment and Placement".

If you are a veteran claiming veterans' preference, as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 U.S.C., you must submit documents verifying your eligibility with your application package.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and/or experience requirements described below.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. This position is in the Professional Work Category at the Full Performance Work Level within the CES Occupational Structure.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe one year of specialized experience that demonstrates the possession of knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position.

Such experience is typically in or directly related to the work of the position to be filled.

Specialized experience would be demonstrated by 1) Managing incoming classified and unclassified taskers that may require actionable responses from senior leaders.

2) Coordinating priority issues through email triage to make recommendations as to the nature and form of responses.

3) Analyzing information to ensure presentation through reports, briefings, and displays, and 4) Maintaining working relationships with professional peers within and outside of an organization to stay well-informed of cyberspace program trends.

Major Duties:

  • Monitors multiple sources (classified and unclassified) to identify new taskers and action items.
  • Captures these project planning elements in a comprehensive plan of action and milestones (POA and M) that documents participant roles/responsibilities, key milestones, work products, and means of assessing their adequacy.
  • Provides guidance on analytical methodologies to be employed and the form of inputs
  • Monitors status/progress of response development activities and documents/reports progress.
  • Review all prep materials, presentations, briefings, draft messages and decision packages with a critical eye.
  • Coordinating with originators to ensure they are clear, concise, complete and accurate. Develop draft messages for the Deputy Chief of Staff requiring command support.
  • As assigned, supports the executive team’s presentation of resulting white papers, reports, and briefings to the Commander and higher-echelon cyberspace program authorities by providing back-up analytical support.
  • Collaborates with other project participants to frame quick-turn-around responses and reclamas during the review process to assure these analyses contribute to the executive team’s, Commander’s, and higher echelon authorities’ decision making.

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Posted on USAJOBS: 3/27/2026 | Added to FreshGovJobs: 3/28/2026

Source: USAJOBS | ID: DAKB-26-12922657-CES