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This role emphasizes Congressional reporting, legislative tracking, and analysis of programmatic impacts arising from legislation. The analyst will develop decision-quality materials, coordinate congressional and legislative products, support senior-leader engagements, and manage cross-DoW correspondence and documentation. This hybrid Mark Center role requires on-site work, with at least one day per week in the office. The successful candidate will have very strong communication and analytical skills, five years of recent experience, a business degree, and a Secret clearance.\nWhat You’ll Do:\nAnalyze program plans, identifying risks, and recommend alternatives.\nCreate new processes and recommend business process improvements.\nDevelop decision-quality briefs, talking points, and written materials for various audiences.\nAggregate, review, and verify component inputs for congressional testimony and responses to questions for the record.\nTrack congressional marks and analyze legislative information.\nAssist in developing and coordinating responses to congressional inquiries and statutory reporting requirements.\nDevelop and disseminate implementation status reports and program metrics.\nSupport senior leader engagements and cross-DoW coordination, serving as a liaison between senior executives, technical directors, and key stakeholders.\nDevelop congressional correspondence, memos, white papers, briefings, reports, testimony, and responses to questions for the record.\nCoordinate inputs with subject matter experts, Legislative Affairs, General Counsel, and other offices.\nResearch and analyze legislation to assess programmatic and operational impacts to S&T efforts.\nRequired Qualifications:\nBachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a relevant technical field or business.\nMinimum of 5 years recent and relevant experience.\nSecret security clearance.\nExcellent written and oral communication skills, unstructured verbal interactions, briefings, and meeting moderation.\nExcellent Word, Powerpoint, and Excel skills.\nDemonstrated experience in conceiving and implementing new projects with no pre-existing process, and with limited to no direct guidance from the client or supervisor.\nDemonstrated ability to meet short turnaround timeliness and perform in high-pressure environments.\nAbility to develop decision-quality materials for leadership with internal and external audiences, ranging in sizes from a few individuals to hundreds.\nDemonstrated ability to analyze legislation and assess programmatic impacts.\nDesired Qualifications:\nMaster’s degree in Business Administration (MBA), or a graduate degree in: science, technology, engineering, mathematics, or other related field.\nTS/SCI clearance eligibility.\nExperience as a Congressional Affairs Analyst supporting senior level executives, technical directors, and staff assistants in accomplishing Congressional reporting requirements, streamlining communications, analyzing the impacts of legislation, and developing proposals.\nExperience coordinating, reviewing, and managing official correspondence.\nStrong business operations analytical skills, including reviewing program plans, identifying risks, and recommending alternatives.\nEditorial proficiency, including grammar, logic flow, formatting, and compliance with DoW standards.\nCompensation & Benefits: Pay Ranges: From $88,000.00 - $110,000.00 per year based on years of experience, degree and any special skills and knowledge that you may bring to the position. We mostly reserve the upper half of our compensation bands for internal growth. During all call with one of our recruiters or hiring managers, they can further clarify the salary range and total compensation. ARA offers competitive benefits that address our employees’ needs now and in the future. Learn more about each of our benefits at https://www.ara.com/benefits/\nCOMPANY INFORMATION:\nApplied Research Associates, Inc. is an employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2000 professionals. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.\nAt ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership generates greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take more active roles as owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employees are eligible for contributions which not only add to the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please visit our website at www.ara.com.\nPlease apply at www.careers.ara.com for the Business and Operations Management Support Program Analyst position.","description_format":"text","description_chars":5701,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":true},"security_clearance":true,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Engineering Services","Research Institutes"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-10-21T17:19:44Z"}],"visa":[{"country":"US","licensed_sponsor":true,"evidence":"H-1B filings in 12 months: 4 · green card filings: 3","filings_12m":4,"filings_prev_12m":5,"green_card_filings_12m":3,"median_offered_wage_usd":80357,"route":null,"cap_exempt":false,"checked_at":"2026-10-15T11:24:14+00:00","sources":["US Department of Labor: LCA disclosure data (H-1B, H-1B1, E-3)","US Department of Labor: PERM disclosure data (green cards)"],"filings_for_role_12m":0}],"liveness":{"score":63,"band":"ok","label":"Likely open","p_open":1,"p_active":0.632,"p_room":1,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":51,"reasons":["conf:0","stale_co","velocity","win:early"],"computed_at":"2026-10-27T05:46:45Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/applied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/applied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-27T20:14:11Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","about":"Alion is a live layer of people, companies and AI agents: who they are, whether they are real and active right now, what they do and how to work with them, readable by people and by agents and paid per call.","catalog":"https://alion.io/catalog.json","usage":{"tier":"crawler_verified","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":11287,"day_limit":null,"remaining_today":null,"minute_limit":300,"resets_at":"2026-10-28T00:00:00Z"}},"offers":[{"id":"company.slices","title":"One company in depth, by slice","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002,"plus_per_slice":{"credits":0.05,"usd":0.005}},"unit":"per company, plus each slice with data","note":"the employer in depth","call":{"mcp_tool":"get_company","arguments":{"id":2028479},"rest":"https://alion.io/mcp/rest/get_company?id=2028479"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.slices&for=job%2Fapplied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst"},{"id":"market.stats","title":"A market slice: pay, demand and time to fill","status":"live","price":{"credits":1,"usd":0.1},"unit":"per slice","note":"pay, demand and time to fill for this role and place","call":{"mcp_tool":"market_stats"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=market.stats&for=job%2Fapplied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst"},{"id":"job.search","title":"Open jobs by role, technology, place, pay and visa","status":"live","price":{"credits":0.02,"usd":0.002},"unit":"per posting in a list","note":"similar open postings","call":{"mcp_tool":"search_jobs"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=job.search&for=job%2Fapplied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst"},{"id":"company.verify","title":"Is this company real and active right now","status":"pilot","price":null,"unit":"per company","request":{"url":"https://alion.io/catalog/request","method":"POST","body":"{\"offer\": \"company.verify\", \"for\": \"job/applied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst\", \"note\": \"what you need it for\"}"},"human":"https://alion.io/catalog?offer=company.verify&for=job%2Fapplied-research-associates-business-and-operations-management-support-program-analyst"}]}