Senior Analyst - COMSUBFOR AUKUS Training and Personnel

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 Air Force, Army, DoD Agencies, DARPA, 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 AUKUS Group, within SPA's Sea, Land, and Air Division, provides timely, objective, analytic assessments that integrate technical, operational, programmatic, policy and business analysis to NAVSEA's AUKUS Integration and Acquisition Program Office and associated partner organizations.  Analysts and Engineers supporting AUKUS will continue SPA’s decades of support to the undersea force and assist in developing a trilateral submarine force for the future. This is a high-profile, major international program of significant importance to the future of the US Navy and its partners in an era of renewed strategic competition.

SPA is hiring a Senior Analyst to support as AUKUS training and personnnel management at COMSUBFOR in Norfolk, VA.#MC

Your role will be to serve as the AUKUS training and personnel coordinator within the COMSUBFOR AUKUS team.  Specific duties would include: developing process for training and personnel management of RAN trainees going through submarine pipeline training; coordinating with multiple RAN and US organizations to ensure seamless delivery of training; and assisting in personnel policy development for RAN personnel within US program.

This position is located in Norfolk, VA with potential for light telework.

Required Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree 
• 10+ years experience with submarine operations and training
• Experience with submarine training and/or personnel management
• Proficient in using Microsoft Office, including Word and PowerPoint, to 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 with TYCOM staff
• Experience/knowledge of Navy acquisition program office organizations and processes
• Experience working with international partners