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Ascension is seeking a highly experienced Senior Data Strategy & Analytics Advisor to provide enterprise-level guidance in transforming organizational data into actionable intelligence that supports mission outcomes. This role is designed for a senior analytics professional who can bridge the gap between business strategy, data architecture, analytics capabilities, and technology modernization.
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker with deep expertise in data strategy, enterprise analytics, business intelligence, data governance, and digital transformation. The successful candidate will help clients define analytics strategies, establish performance measurement frameworks, improve data-driven decision-making, and identify opportunities to leverage modern technologies such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, automation, and cloud-based analytics platforms.
This position supports complex federal mission environments where leaders require trusted analytical insights, enterprise reporting capabilities, and scalable data solutions to improve operational performance.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Senior Data Strategy & Analytics Advisor will serve as a senior technical and functional advisor supporting enterprise data transformation initiatives. The contractor will analyze business challenges, evaluate existing data capabilities, develop data-driven strategies, and recommend solutions that improve organizational performance.
The role will support clients in establishing data governance practices, developing enterprise reporting frameworks, creating executive dashboards, defining key performance indicators (KPIs), and implementing analytics solutions that improve transparency and decision-making.
The ideal candidate will help solve complex organizational challenges including:
- Fragmented data environments
- Limited visibility into organizational performance
- Inefficient reporting processes
- Lack of standardized metrics
- Data quality and governance challenges
- Need for modernization of analytics capabilities
The position may support activities involving:
- Enterprise data strategy development
- Data governance implementation
- Business intelligence development
- Analytics roadmap development
- AI/ML adoption strategies
- Dashboard and visualization development
- Process improvement through data-driven insights
The role requires familiarity with tools and platforms such as:
- Microsoft Power BI
- Tableau
- Microsoft Power Platform
- SharePoint
- SQL-based analytics environments
- Cloud analytics platforms
- Data visualization tools
- AI/ML-enabled analytics solutions
Ascension’s experience supporting federal organizations includes data analysis, visualization development, KPI development, dashboards, SharePoint solutions, Power Platform automation, and data governance activities.
Position Day-to-Day Activities
The contractor may:
- Lead enterprise data strategy assessments to identify business objectives, data challenges, and modernization opportunities.
- Develop data strategy roadmaps aligned with organizational mission priorities.
- Analyze business processes and recommend data-driven improvements.
- Design enterprise analytics frameworks, including KPIs, performance measures, and reporting structures.
- Develop executive dashboards and visualization products using tools such as Power BI and Tableau.
- Evaluate data sources, data quality issues, and integration opportunities.
- Establish data governance approaches, including data ownership, standards, policies, and stewardship practices.
- Translate business requirements into analytics solutions and technical recommendations.
- Conduct stakeholder interviews, workshops, and discovery sessions to identify mission needs.
- Prepare executive briefings, analytical reports, recommendations, and decision-support materials.
- Support AI/ML strategy development and identify opportunities for automation and advanced analytics.
- Collaborate with technical teams, business owners, and leadership stakeholders.
- Review existing systems and recommend modernization approaches.
- Mentor analysts and support knowledge transfer activities.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in: | Data Science | Information Systems | Computer Science | Business Analytics | Mathematics/Statistics | Engineering | Related discipline |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 10 years of professional experience supporting analytics, data strategy, business intelligence, or enterprise transformation initiatives. | Experience leading data-driven improvement initiatives across complex organizations. | Experience engaging senior leadership and translating mission requirements into analytics solutions. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Required experience with several of the following: | Data analytics and visualization | Business intelligence solutions | Dashboard development | KPI development and performance measurement | Data governance principles | Data modeling concepts | Business process analysis | Requirements analysis | Data quality assessment | Reporting automation |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Preferred candidates will have: | Experience supporting federal government programs. | Experience with enterprise modernization initiatives. | Experience developing executive-level dashboards and analytics products. | Experience with cloud data platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud. | Experience implementing AI/ML analytics solutions. | Experience with data governance frameworks such as DAMA-DMBOK. | Experience supporting Zero | Trust, cybersecurity, or mission-critical environments. | Experience integrating multiple enterprise data sources. | Experience with Agile delivery methodologies. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Preferred candidates should be able to obtain: | Public Trust suitability | Moderate Risk Public Trust (if required) | Secret clearance eligibility (preferred for applicable DoD assignments) |
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Ascension is seeking an experienced Cybersecurity & Zero Trust Subject Matter Expert to support the design and implementation of secure, cloud-native enterprise solutions focused on Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM), identity governance, and Zero Trust security principles.
The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in cybersecurity architecture, identity management, cloud security, and enterprise access control strategies to support modernization initiatives involving large-scale document management platforms, data repositories, and mission-critical information systems.
This role is intended for a senior cybersecurity professional who understands how to translate security requirements into practical technical architectures that protect sensitive information while enabling authorized users to efficiently access mission data. The successful candidate will have experience designing identity-centric security models, implementing least-privilege access controls, supporting authentication and authorization frameworks, and advising stakeholders on cybersecurity risk mitigation.
The candidate should be comfortable working in complex environments requiring collaboration among cybersecurity teams, enterprise architects, system developers, data engineers, and mission stakeholders. The successful candidate will be self-driven, analytical, and capable of developing security solutions in environments where requirements evolve as modernization activities progress.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Cybersecurity & Zero Trust Subject Matter Expert III provides specialized cybersecurity architecture and advisory support for enterprise technology modernization efforts. The SME will support the development of secure cloud-based platforms by applying Zero Trust Architecture principles, ICAM frameworks, identity governance practices, and cybersecurity engineering methodologies.
For this effort, the SME will help ensure that enterprise document management capabilities incorporate appropriate security controls for authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, role-based access control, privileged access management, and protection of document-level and metadata-level information.
The successful candidate will support activities such as cybersecurity architecture development, security requirements analysis, identity management strategy development, technical design reviews, security control assessments, and collaboration with enterprise architecture and cloud engineering teams.
The SME will help customers establish secure processes and technologies needed to manage access to enterprise information while supporting scalability, interoperability, and future system migration efforts.
The position supports requirements associated with developing a secure, multi-tenant enterprise document management environment utilizing cloud-native capabilities, ICAM services, and Zero Trust security principles.
Day-to-Day Activities and Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate Zero Trust security architectures supporting enterprise cloud environments.
- Design and recommend ICAM solutions supporting authentication, authorization, identity lifecycle management, and access governance.
- Analyze cybersecurity requirements and translate mission objectives into technical security solutions.
- Develop security architecture documentation, diagrams, standards, and technical recommendations.
- Evaluate identity management approaches including:
- Role-Based Access Control (RBAC)
- Attribute-Based Access Control (ABAC)
- Least privilege access
- Privileged access management
- Identity federation
- Support implementation of cloud security controls across enterprise platforms.
- Collaborate with cloud architects, system engineers, application developers, and mission stakeholders to ensure security requirements are incorporated into designs.
- Conduct cybersecurity architecture reviews and identify security risks, vulnerabilities, and mitigation strategies.
- Support security engineering activities related to:
- Authentication mechanisms
- Authorization models
- Encryption approaches
- Data protection controls
- Audit logging
- Security monitoring
- Develop cybersecurity recommendations, briefings, technical reports, and decision documents for government leadership.
- Participate in technical meetings, architecture working groups, and Integrated Project Teams (IPTs).
- Review technical designs for compliance with cybersecurity frameworks and federal security requirements.
- Support documentation of security policies, procedures, standards, and operational processes.
- Provide subject matter expertise during system modernization, migration, and integration activities.
- Assist with evaluating security impacts associated with enterprise application integration and API-based architectures.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree in Cybersecurity, Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or related technical discipline. | Strong written and verbal communication skills. | Ability to communicate cybersecurity concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 10 years of cybersecurity, information assurance, identity management, or security architecture experience. | Demonstrated experience designing and implementing cybersecurity solutions for enterprise environments. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Experience supporting cloud environments such as: | Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Microsoft Azure | Google Cloud Platform | DoD cloud environments |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Master's degree in Cybersecurity, Information Systems, Computer Science, or related discipline. | Experience supporting Department of Defense (DoD), federal civilian, or national security environments. | Experience supporting IL4/IL5/IL6 cloud environments. | Experience with enterprise document management, records management, or data governance solutions. | Experience implementing Zero Trust capabilities across large organizations. | Experience supporting FedRAMP, FISMA, NIST 800-53, or DoD cybersecurity compliance requirements. | Experience with Security Technical Implementation Guides (STIGs). | Experience supporting application modernization, cloud migration, and API-first architectures. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Active Public Trust eligibility or higher. | DoD Secret clearance. |
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Ascension is seeking a Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect (Cyber, Data & Cloud) to provide strategic technical leadership in designing, evaluating, and guiding enterprise-scale technology solutions that support mission-critical modernization initiatives. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise in cloud architecture, cybersecurity, data platforms, enterprise integration, and digital transformation to help organizations transition from fragmented legacy environments into secure, scalable, and mission-aligned technology ecosystems.
This role is critical to supporting enterprise modernization efforts requiring the design of secure cloud-native architectures, data-driven platforms, API-enabled integrations, and technology solutions aligned with cybersecurity, governance, scalability, and operational objectives. The successful candidate will serve as a trusted advisor to government stakeholders, translating complex mission requirements into actionable technical strategies and architectural solutions.
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who can operate across business and technical domains, communicate effectively with executives and technical teams, and lead architecture decisions in complex environments involving cloud platforms, cybersecurity frameworks, enterprise data management, and emerging technologies.
Candidates should possess demonstrated experience developing enterprise architectures, evaluating technology solutions, supporting cloud adoption strategies, and advising organizations on secure technology transformation initiatives.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect will provide senior-level architecture expertise supporting enterprise technology modernization, cloud transformation, cybersecurity, and data-driven solutions. The position will analyze current-state environments, define future-state architectures, develop technology roadmaps, and recommend solutions that improve scalability, security, interoperability, and mission effectiveness.
The contractor will support activities associated with enterprise architecture, cloud adoption, cybersecurity engineering, data architecture, application modernization, integration strategy, and technology governance. The role requires the ability to evaluate complex technical challenges, develop solution alternatives, and communicate recommendations to both technical teams and senior leadership.
The successful candidate will support customers in areas such as:
- Enterprise cloud architecture and migration planning
- Cloud-native platform design
- Cybersecurity architecture and Zero Trust implementation strategies
- Data architecture, governance, and analytics enablement
- Enterprise application modernization
- API-first integration approaches
- Technology capability assessments
- System interoperability and scalability planning
- Technical risk identification and mitigation
- Architecture governance and technical documentation
The candidate should be comfortable working in ambiguous environments where requirements evolve, possess strong analytical abilities, and demonstrate the ability to independently develop solutions while collaborating with multidisciplinary teams.
This role aligns with Ascension’s capabilities in data management, technology innovation, Agile development, business process automation, SharePoint/Power Platform solutions, ServiceNow implementation, and enterprise transformation support.
Expected Position Activities
The Senior Enterprise Solutions Architect will:
- Lead enterprise architecture assessments to evaluate current-state technology environments and identify modernization opportunities.
- Design future-state enterprise architectures supporting cloud adoption, cybersecurity, data management, and application modernization initiatives.
- Develop technical architecture documentation, including solution designs, reference architectures, system diagrams, integration models, and implementation roadmaps.
- Evaluate cloud service offerings and recommend scalable, secure, and cost-effective technology solutions.
- Develop cloud migration strategies supporting Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS), and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments.
- Define cybersecurity architecture approaches supporting identity management, access controls, encryption, security monitoring, and Zero Trust principles.
- Analyze enterprise data environments and recommend data architecture strategies supporting analytics, reporting, artificial intelligence, and machine learning capabilities.
- Develop API integration strategies that enable interoperability between legacy systems and modern platforms.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, data engineering, software development, and infrastructure teams to ensure architecture alignment.
- Conduct technical reviews and architecture governance sessions with stakeholders.
- Evaluate technical risks, dependencies, and implementation challenges and develop mitigation recommendations.
- Support development of technical requirements, statements of work, capability assessments, and acquisition documentation.
- Facilitate discussions with executive stakeholders to communicate technical strategies, tradeoffs, and recommendations.
- Provide technical mentorship and guidance to engineers, analysts, and project teams.
- Support Agile delivery teams by providing architecture guidance throughout solution design, development, testing, and deployment activities.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Cybersecurity, Data Science, or related technical discipline. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 10 years of experience supporting enterprise technology solutions, systems architecture, cloud computing, cybersecurity, data architecture, or digital transformation initiatives. | Demonstrated experience designing or evaluating enterprise-level technology architectures. | Experience supporting complex government, defense, intelligence, law enforcement, financial, or enterprise mission environments preferred. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Required experience with several of the following: | Enterprise architecture frameworks (TOGAF, DoDAF, FEAF, Zachman, or similar) | Cloud architecture concepts and services | AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, or government cloud environments | Cloud security architecture | Identity and Access Management (IAM) | Zero Trust architecture principles | Cybersecurity frameworks (NIST Cybersecurity Framework, NIST Risk Management Framework) | Data architecture and governance |Enterprise integration patterns | APIs and microservices architecture |Application modernization strategies | System lifecycle development processes | Technical documentation and architecture modeling |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting Department of Defense, Federal Civilian, Intelligence, or Homeland Security environments. | Experience designing cloud-native platforms using Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) capabilities. | Experience with enterprise document management, records management, knowledge management, or content management platforms. | Experience supporting artificial intelligence, machine learning, natural language processing, or intelligent automation solutions. | Experience with ServiceNow platform architecture and implementation. | Experience supporting enterprise data platforms, dashboards, and business intelligence solutions. | Experience developing technical roadmaps and modernization strategies.| Strong written communication skills and ability to prepare executive-level technical briefings. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Preferred candidates should be able to obtain and maintain: | Public Trust suitability (preferred) | Moderate Risk Public Trust preferred | Secret clearance preferred for applicable assignments |
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Ascension is seeking a Technical Specialist II specializing in Robotic Process Automation (RPA), workflow automation, and low-code platform development to support enterprise modernization initiatives through the design, configuration, implementation, and sustainment of automated business solutions.
The ideal candidate will help organizations transform manual, paper-based, and inefficient processes into streamlined digital workflows by leveraging automation technologies such as Microsoft Power Platform, Power Automate, SharePoint, and other enterprise collaboration platforms.
This role is critical to helping clients improve mission support operations by analyzing business processes, identifying automation opportunities, configuring scalable solutions, and supporting users through technology adoption. The successful candidate will bring a combination of technical development skills and business process understanding, allowing them to translate operational challenges into practical technology solutions.
This position is best suited for a detail-oriented technology professional who enjoys solving complex workflow challenges, collaborating with business stakeholders, and delivering practical automation solutions that improve how organizations manage information, documents, approvals, reporting, and mission operations.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Technical Specialist II (RPA / Platform Support) provides technical expertise supporting the development, configuration, implementation, and maintenance of automation solutions and enterprise collaboration platforms.
The contractor will analyze business processes, document requirements, design workflow solutions, configure low-code applications, and support system enhancements that improve information management, reporting, and operational workflows.
The role requires an individual who can operate independently, communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders, and work within an evolving technology environment. The ideal candidate should be comfortable translating business requirements into technical solutions while maintaining attention to security, usability, governance, and long-term sustainability.
The contractor is expected to support activities such as:
- Developing robotic process automation solutions to reduce manual processing.
- Configuring workflow automation using Microsoft Power Platform technologies.
- Supporting SharePoint-based document management and collaboration environments.
- Performing requirements analysis and documenting system specifications.
- Enhancing existing applications, workflows, forms, dashboards, and automated processes.
- Supporting testing, validation, deployment, and user adoption activities.
This role aligns with Ascension’s capabilities supporting business process automation, SharePoint administration/development, Power Platform solutions, and technology-enabled process improvement. Ascension has supported federal mission organizations through workflow automation, SharePoint development, data analytics, and low-code solutions, including automation initiatives supporting acquisition, workforce management, reporting, and knowledge management functions.
Position Responsibilities / Expected Activities
The contractor may perform the following activities:
- Analyze existing business processes to identify automation opportunities, workflow improvements, and technology enhancements.
- Design, develop, configure, and maintain RPA solutions using appropriate automation platforms.
- Develop automated workflows using Microsoft Power Automate, Power Apps, SharePoint, and related Microsoft 365 technologies.
- Configure and maintain SharePoint sites, libraries, lists, permissions, workflows, pages, and collaboration features.
- Translate business requirements into functional and technical specifications supporting application development and enhancement.
- Develop process maps, workflow diagrams, user requirements, system documentation, and technical specifications.
- Configure automated approvals, notifications, data collection forms, and business rules.
- Develop and maintain Power Platform applications supporting mission processes, reporting, and collaboration.
- Integrate data sources and enterprise systems to support automated workflows and information sharing.
- Conduct system testing, user acceptance testing support, troubleshooting, and defect resolution.
- Monitor automation performance, identify issues, and recommend improvements.
- Support deployment activities, including configuration management, release documentation, and user communications.
- Maintain technical documentation including system specifications, workflow designs, user guides, and operational procedures.
- Collaborate with project managers, analysts, business owners, and end users to ensure solutions meet mission needs.
- Provide technical recommendations related to platform upgrades, enhancements, and automation opportunities.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Business Information Systems, or related discipline. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of four (4) years of experience supporting technology solutions, automation development, workflow configuration, or enterprise application support. | Demonstrated experience developing or configuring automation solutions using RPA or low-code platforms. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Required experience with one or more of the following: | Microsoft Power Platform: | Power Automate | Power Apps | Power BI integration | Dataverse |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting federal government mission systems or enterprise business applications. | Experience implementing automation solutions in Microsoft 365 environments. | Experience with SharePoint migration, modernization, or governance. | Experience developing dashboards and reporting solutions using Power BI. | Understanding of Agile development methodologies. | Experience supporting business process improvement (BPI) or business process reengineering (BPR). | Ability to evaluate manual processes and recommend technology-based improvements. | Strong written communication skills and ability to prepare technical documentation. | Experience collaborating with business users, project managers, and technical teams. | Experience supporting document management, knowledge management, or records management solutions. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Ability to obtain and maintain a government suitability determination based on customer requirements. | Public Trust eligibility may be required depending on assignment. | Ability to complete government background investigations and security documentation. |
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Ascension is seeking a Systems Integration Specialist to support enterprise modernization initiatives by designing, configuring, integrating, and sustaining cloud-based systems, applications, and data services. The ideal candidate will have experience connecting enterprise platforms through APIs, automation workflows, and cloud-native technologies to improve information sharing, system interoperability, and mission effectiveness.
This position supports complex technology transformation efforts requiring professionals who can translate business and technical requirements into scalable integration solutions. The successful candidate will have hands-on experience with application integration, API development, cloud environments, automation technologies, and enterprise platforms while collaborating with project managers, business analysts, system owners, cybersecurity teams, and technical stakeholders.
The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented technical professional who enjoys solving complex integration challenges, troubleshooting system interactions, and developing practical solutions in environments where multiple systems, applications, and data sources must operate together securely and reliably.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Systems Integration Specialist provides technical expertise supporting enterprise application integration, cloud modernization, API connectivity, automation, and platform interoperability efforts. The contractor will support the design, development, testing, implementation, and sustainment of integrated technology solutions that enable organizations to connect existing applications with modern cloud platforms and enterprise services.
For this effort, the Systems Integration Specialist may support activities associated with cloud-native platforms, enterprise document management modernization, application migration, API-first architectures, workflow automation, and data integration initiatives. The role requires the ability to analyze existing systems, identify integration requirements, configure technical solutions, and support implementation activities.
The contractor will help customers improve how systems exchange information by developing and maintaining interfaces, APIs, workflows, and integration components. The position requires strong collaboration skills because the individual will work across business and technical teams to ensure solutions meet operational requirements, security standards, and mission objectives.
The Systems Integration Specialist should bring experience with:
- Enterprise application integration
- Cloud platforms and services
- API development and management
- Data exchange methodologies
- Workflow automation
- System configuration and testing
- Technical documentation
- Agile development practices
- Configuration management processes
Ascension’s Technical Specialist II labor category aligns with this role because it supports creation, implementation, configuration, and sustainment of technical solutions while serving as a liaison between users, technical teams, and enterprise platforms. Ascension’s MAS Technical Specialist II includes responsibilities related to technical solutions development, system requirements documentation, platform configuration, automation support, and collaboration between business and technical stakeholders.
Expected Day-to-Day Activities
The contractor will:
- Design and implement system integration solutions connecting enterprise applications, cloud platforms, and business systems.
- Develop, configure, and maintain APIs, interfaces, connectors, and integration workflows.
- Analyze system requirements and translate business needs into technical integration specifications.
- Support cloud-based application deployments and integration activities.
- Configure and maintain integration components supporting enterprise platforms.
- Evaluate existing applications and recommend integration approaches to improve interoperability.
- Develop technical documentation including interface specifications, architecture diagrams, configuration guides, and implementation procedures.
- Perform system testing, integration testing, and validation activities to ensure solutions operate as intended.
- Troubleshoot integration issues involving applications, databases, APIs, and cloud services.
- Collaborate with cybersecurity, infrastructure, application development, and business teams to implement secure solutions.
- Support automation initiatives using workflow automation and low-code/no-code platforms.
- Participate in Agile ceremonies including sprint planning, demonstrations, technical reviews, and backlog refinement.
- Support configuration management, change management, and release activities.
- Monitor system performance and recommend improvements.
- Assist with migration activities involving legacy applications, cloud environments, and enterprise platforms.
Job Features
| Job Category | IT |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, Information Systems, or related technical discipline. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of four (4) years of experience supporting information technology systems integration, application development, system engineering, or related technical activities. | Experience designing, implementing, or maintaining enterprise system interfaces. | Experience supporting application integration, middleware, APIs, or data exchange solutions. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Required experience with several of the following: | RESTful APIs and web services | API integration concepts | JSON/XML data exchange | Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or similar) | Enterprise application integration patterns | System architecture concepts | Database integration concepts | Application configuration and troubleshooting | Version control tools (Git or equivalent) | Agile development methodologies | Technical documentation tools |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting federal government technology modernization initiatives. | Experience with cloud-native architectures and Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) environments. | Experience with ServiceNow integrations and workflows. | Experience supporting enterprise data platforms and analytics environments. | Experience supporting document management systems, records management systems, or enterprise repositories. | Experience with secure government environments and compliance-driven technology implementations. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
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Ascension is seeking a Technical Writer & Digital Content Specialist to support a mission-critical Department of Defense enterprise modernization initiative focused on transforming legacy document management capabilities into a secure, cloud-enabled Enterprise Document Management Platform.
The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented documentation professional who understands how to translate complex technical concepts, business processes, and system capabilities into clear, accurate, user-focused documentation. This individual will support the development, maintenance, and improvement of enterprise documentation, knowledge repositories, technical materials, process documentation, user guides, reports, and digital communication products supporting a large-scale document modernization effort.
The successful candidate will bring strong writing, editing, information organization, and digital content management skills combined with the ability to collaborate with technical teams, business stakeholders, analysts, and program leadership. The candidate should be comfortable working in a dynamic environment supporting cloud modernization, document management, knowledge management, and enterprise transformation initiatives.
This position is ideal for a professional who enjoys organizing complex information, improving how users access knowledge, and helping organizations transition from legacy processes to modern digital solutions.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Technical Writer & Digital Content Specialist will provide documentation, knowledge management, and digital content support for an enterprise document management modernization effort. The role supports the development and maintenance of technical documentation, operational procedures, user guides, training materials, system documentation, reports, and communication products required to support enterprise adoption.
The contractor will help ensure that documentation accurately reflects evolving system capabilities, business processes, workflows, security requirements, and user needs. The position requires the ability to gather information from subject matter experts, analyze technical materials, organize complex information, and produce clear documentation suitable for technical teams, business users, and leadership audiences.
The role supports activities associated with:
- Enterprise document management modernization
- Digital transformation initiatives
- Knowledge management
- Technical documentation development
- Process documentation
- SharePoint/document repository management
- User support materials
- Training documentation
- Reporting and communication products
The ideal candidate is proactive, organized, and capable of independently managing multiple documentation priorities while maintaining accuracy, consistency, and quality standards.
Position Day-to-Day Activities
The contractor will:
- Develop and maintain technical documentation, user guides, operating procedures, manuals, and reference materials supporting enterprise systems and business processes.
- Gather, analyze, and document information from technical teams, program managers, system owners, and subject matter experts.
- Translate complex technical information into clear, understandable documentation for both technical and non-technical audiences.
- Create and maintain Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), process workflows, job aids, quick reference guides, and knowledge management materials.
- Review existing documentation to identify outdated content, inconsistencies, gaps, and opportunities for improvement.
- Support documentation associated with enterprise document management workflows, metadata structures, indexing processes, and records management activities.
- Develop digital content including presentations, briefing materials, reports, templates, newsletters, and communications products.
- Assist with SharePoint and knowledge repository content management activities, including organizing libraries, updating pages, and maintaining document structures.
- Coordinate document reviews with stakeholders and incorporate feedback into final deliverables.
- Apply document control practices including version management, formatting standards, and quality reviews.
- Support development of training materials and user adoption resources for new systems and processes.
- Ensure documentation products meet organizational standards, accessibility requirements, and government documentation guidelines.
- Collaborate with program managers, analysts, developers, and business users to ensure documentation supports mission requirements.
Job Features
| Job Category | Technical Writing |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree in English, Communications, Journalism, Technical Writing, Information Systems, Business, or related discipline. | Ability to work collaboratively with technical and business stakeholders. | Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple assignments. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of two (2) years of experience supporting technical writing, documentation development, communications, knowledge management, or digital content development. | Demonstrated ability to create clear and concise technical documentation. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Experience working with Microsoft Office applications including: Word | PowerPoint | Excel | SharePoint |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting Federal Government or Department of Defense programs. | Experience supporting enterprise information systems, document management systems, or digital transformation initiatives. |Experience with SharePoint Online, Microsoft 365, or knowledge management platforms. |Experience supporting cloud modernization initiatives. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Ability to obtain and maintain a DoD security suitability determination. |
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Ascension is seeking a Junior Program Analyst (Project Support & Reporting) to support federal mission programs through structured analysis, reporting, documentation, and project coordination activities. This position is ideal for an early-career professional who enjoys organizing information, analyzing data, developing reports, tracking program activities, and supporting teams responsible for complex government initiatives.
The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented and organized analyst who can translate program information into clear reports, dashboards, briefings, and decision-support materials. The successful candidate will support program managers, government stakeholders, and technical teams by collecting information, monitoring activities, identifying trends, maintaining project documentation, and helping improve business processes.
This role is well suited for candidates who want to develop experience in federal consulting, program management support, business analysis, and data-driven decision support while contributing to mission-critical government programs.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Junior Program Analyst provides analytical and administrative program support throughout the program and project lifecycle. The contractor assists with collecting, organizing, analyzing, and presenting program information to support leadership decision-making, project execution, and performance monitoring.
The position supports activities such as requirements tracking, program reporting, performance metric development, meeting coordination, documentation management, research, and preparation of executive briefings. The analyst works with project managers, subject matter experts, and government stakeholders to ensure program activities, milestones, risks, and deliverables are accurately tracked and communicated.
The successful candidate should be self-driven, organized, adaptable, and capable of managing multiple priorities with limited supervision. The individual should demonstrate strong analytical thinking, professional communication skills, and the ability to work effectively in a collaborative government consulting environment.
Ascension’s experience supporting federal organizations includes program management support, data analysis, reporting, dashboard development, process improvement, SharePoint solutions, and stakeholder coordination. These capabilities align with the analytical and reporting responsibilities expected for this role.
Expected Day-to-Day Activities
- Support program managers with tracking project activities, milestones, risks, and deliverables.
- Collect, organize, validate, and analyze program data from multiple sources.
- Develop recurring status reports, briefings, presentations, and management updates.
- Maintain project trackers, action item logs, schedules, and documentation repositories.
- Conduct research using available resources, interviews, and stakeholder discussions.
- Assist with requirements gathering and documentation of business processes.
- Prepare meeting agendas, minutes, decision logs, and follow-up actions.
- Monitor performance metrics and assist with development of dashboards and reporting products.
- Analyze trends and summarize findings to support leadership decision-making.
- Assist with development and maintenance of Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs), templates, and process documentation.
- Support Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), working groups, and stakeholder meetings.
- Perform quality reviews of documents, reports, and presentation materials.
- Support process improvement initiatives by identifying opportunities to streamline workflows.
- Assist with SharePoint, Microsoft 365, and collaboration tool administration activities.
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Analysis and Analytics |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Management, Information Systems, Public Administration, Operations Research, Data Analytics, or related field. | Experience documenting processes, procedures, or requirements. | Strong written and verbal communication skills. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 2 years of professional experience supporting business operations, program management, project coordination, analysis, reporting, or consulting activities. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Experience developing reports, presentations, and business documentation. | Proficiency with | Microsoft Office Suite, including: | Microsoft Excel | Microsoft Word | Microsoft PowerPoint | Microsoft Teams |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting federal government programs or contracts. | Experience supporting PMO operations. | Experience developing dashboards, metrics, or performance reports. | Familiarity with Agile, Scrum, or PMBOK methodologies. | Experience conducting stakeholder interviews and requirements analysis. |Experience supporting process improvement or business process reengineering initiatives. | Ability to communicate analytical findings through executive-level presentations. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust suitability determination. |
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Ascension is seeking a detail-oriented and analytical Operations Analyst to support federal mission programs through performance analysis, operational assessments, risk identification, and data-driven decision support. The ideal candidate will help government stakeholders understand program performance, identify improvement opportunities, manage operational risks, and develop actionable recommendations that support mission objectives.
This role is suited for a professional who combines analytical thinking with strong communication skills and can translate complex operational data into meaningful insights for program managers and senior leaders. The successful candidate should be comfortable working across business, technical, and program environments; gathering information from multiple sources; evaluating processes; developing performance metrics; and supporting continuous improvement initiatives.
The candidate will support federal programs requiring disciplined analysis, stakeholder coordination, performance reporting, and risk management support. Experience supporting government programs, acquisition activities, information technology initiatives, or organizational transformation efforts is highly valued.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Operations Analyst provides analytical and management consulting support to assist government organizations in improving program performance, operational effectiveness, and mission outcomes.
The contractor will perform operational research, collect and analyze program data, develop performance metrics, identify risks, support requirements analysis, and prepare executive-level reporting products. The role requires the ability to evaluate business processes, identify gaps, document findings, and provide recommendations that support informed decision-making.
The ideal candidate is a self-driven professional who can work independently with limited supervision, manage multiple priorities, collaborate with government stakeholders, and produce high-quality analytical deliverables.
The Operations Analyst will support activities such as:
- Program performance measurement
- Risk identification and mitigation planning
- Business process analysis and improvement
- Requirements gathering and documentation
- Performance reporting and dashboard development
- Acquisition and program support activities
- Stakeholder engagement and meeting facilitation
- Data analysis and interpretation
Position Responsibilities / Expected Activities
The contractor will:
- Analyze program operations, workflows, processes, and performance data to identify trends, risks, and improvement opportunities.
- Collect, validate, and analyze quantitative and qualitative information from multiple sources, including databases, reports, interviews, surveys, and stakeholder discussions.
- Develop and maintain performance metrics, key performance indicators (KPIs), dashboards, scorecards, and reporting products.
- Conduct operational assessments and provide recommendations to improve program execution, resource utilization, and mission outcomes.
- Support requirements elicitation activities by interviewing stakeholders, documenting business needs, and translating findings into actionable requirements.
- Perform risk assessments and develop risk mitigation recommendations, tracking identified issues through resolution.
- Prepare analytical reports, executive briefings, presentations, decision papers, and program status updates.
- Facilitate Integrated Project Team (IPT) meetings, working groups, and stakeholder sessions.
- Support acquisition lifecycle activities through market research, requirements analysis, cost analysis, and program documentation.
- Develop process maps, workflow documentation, standard operating procedures (SOPs), and business improvement recommendations.
- Review existing processes and systems to identify opportunities for automation, modernization, and improved data visibility.
- Collaborate with program managers, technical teams, and business stakeholders to ensure analytical products address mission needs.
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Analysis and Analytics |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Management, Operations Research, Information Systems, Public Administration, Data Analytics, Engineering, or related discipline. | Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to present findings to technical and non-technical audiences. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 6 years of professional experience supporting business operations analysis, management consulting, program analysis, or related analytical functions. |Experience conducting operational analysis, performance assessments, or process improvement activities. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Teams. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Federal contracting experience supporting DoD, DHS, DOJ, DOE, or other government agencies. | Experience supporting program management offices (PMOs), enterprise initiatives, or transformation efforts. | Experience developing Power BI dashboards, Tableau reports, or other business intelligence solutions. | Experience with Microsoft Power Platform tools (Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate). | Experience with Agile methodologies, Scrum, or PMBOK-based project management practices. | Experience developing risk registers, performance measurement frameworks, and executive reporting packages. | Experience supporting business process reengineering (BPR), organizational change initiatives, or workflow automation. | PMP, PMI-ACP, Certified Scrum Master (CSM), Lean Six Sigma, or similar professional certification. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
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Ascension is seeking a Business Data Analyst – Workflow & Process Improvement professional to support federal mission organizations by analyzing business processes, transforming operational data into actionable insights, and helping stakeholders improve workflows, reporting capabilities, and decision-making processes.
The ideal candidate is a detail-oriented analytical professional who can bridge the gap between business operations and technology solutions. This individual will work with stakeholders to understand mission challenges, evaluate existing processes, identify improvement opportunities, and develop data-driven recommendations that enhance organizational performance.
The successful candidate will bring experience in business analysis, process improvement, data analytics, reporting, and dashboard development. The role is well suited for professionals who enjoy solving complex business problems, translating operational needs into measurable outcomes, and supporting modernization initiatives through data and process improvement.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Business Data Analyst – Workflow & Process Improvement will provide analytical and business process support to assist government clients in improving operational performance, strengthening reporting capabilities, and implementing data-informed solutions.
The contractor will analyze business workflows, collect and evaluate operational data, develop performance metrics, and create reports and dashboards that support leadership decision-making. The analyst will collaborate with program managers, technical teams, and mission stakeholders to identify business challenges, define requirements, recommend improvements, and support implementation activities.
The ideal candidate should be comfortable working in environments where requirements may evolve and where independent analysis, stakeholder engagement, and problem-solving are required. The candidate should demonstrate the ability to manage multiple priorities, communicate findings clearly to technical and non-technical audiences, and develop practical recommendations that align business processes with organizational goals.
This role supports Ascension’s capabilities in business intelligence, data analytics, workflow automation, business process improvement, and technology-enabled transformation. Ascension’s relevant experience includes supporting Federal Protective Service programs with data analysis, dashboard development, KPI development, SharePoint solutions, workflow automation, and business process improvement initiatives.
Position Responsibilities / Expected Activities
- Analyze existing business processes, workflows, and operational procedures to identify improvement opportunities.
- Evaluate business requirements and translate stakeholder needs into analytical solutions and actionable recommendations.
- Collect, validate, cleanse, and analyze data from multiple sources to support reporting and decision-making.
- Develop dashboards, reports, scorecards, and performance metrics using business intelligence tools.
- Identify trends, patterns, and performance gaps through quantitative and qualitative analysis.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) and performance measurement approaches.
- Document business processes, requirements, workflows, and recommended improvements.
- Support business process improvement (BPI) and business process reengineering (BPR) initiatives.
- Develop data visualizations and executive-level briefing materials to communicate analytical findings.
- Support workflow automation initiatives by identifying opportunities for process digitization and optimization.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings, interviews, and working sessions to gather requirements and validate recommendations.
- Prepare analytical reports, presentations, and decision-support materials for government leadership.
- Coordinate with technical teams to support implementation of approved process and reporting improvements.
- Maintain documentation supporting analysis activities, requirements, and process changes.
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Analysis and Analytics |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in Business Administration, Information Systems, Data Analytics, Computer Science, Management Information Systems, Engineering, or related discipline. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 6 years of professional experience supporting business analysis, data analysis, reporting, process improvement, or management consulting activities. | Experience analyzing business operations, identifying process improvements, and developing recommendations. | Experience gathering and documenting business requirements. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Microsoft Excel (advanced analysis, formulas, data modeling) | Microsoft Power BI or similar business intelligence platforms | SharePoint and Microsoft 365 collaboration tools | Data visualization and reporting techniques |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Experience supporting Federal Government programs or mission support organizations. | Experience with Microsoft Power Platform (Power BI, Power Automate, Power Apps). | Experience developing automated workflows and low-code/no-code solutions. | Experience supporting Agile project environments. | Experience developing executive dashboards and performance reporting. | Experience supporting data governance and data management activities. | Experience working with SharePoint-based business solutions. | Strong written communication and presentation skills. | Ability to independently manage assigned tasks and collaborate across multidisciplinary teams. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | Ability to obtain and maintain required government suitability determination. |Prior experience supporting Federal Government programs preferred. |Public Trust eligibility preferred depending on client requirements. | Must successfully complete applicable background screening requirements. |
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Ascension is seeking an experienced Senior Data Analyst to support enterprise data transformation initiatives by converting complex data sources into actionable insights, reports, dashboards, and decision-support products. This position is ideal for a data professional who combines strong analytical skills with business process knowledge and understands how organizations use data to improve mission performance.
The ideal candidate will have experience analyzing large and complex datasets, developing enterprise-level reporting solutions, defining performance metrics, supporting data governance activities, and translating business needs into analytical solutions. The candidate should be comfortable working with stakeholders across business, technical, and leadership teams to identify challenges, recommend improvements, and deliver data-driven solutions.
This role supports Ascension’s mission of helping federal organizations improve decision-making through data analytics, visualization, process improvement, and technology-enabled transformation.
Summary of Contractor Role
The Senior Data Analyst provides advanced analytical support to help organizations organize, analyze, visualize, and leverage enterprise data for improved decision-making. The position supports activities such as data analysis, reporting automation, dashboard development, KPI development, data quality assessment, business intelligence development, and requirements analysis.
The successful candidate will analyze information from multiple sources, identify trends and patterns, develop executive-level dashboards and reports, and provide recommendations that improve business operations. The role requires a detail-oriented professional who can independently manage analytical assignments, communicate findings clearly, and work effectively in environments with evolving priorities.
The Senior Data Analyst will support enterprise modernization initiatives involving data integration, document/data repositories, business intelligence, and reporting capabilities. Responsibilities may include developing analytics solutions that help organizations transform large volumes of structured and unstructured information into usable insights.
This position requires someone who can bridge the gap between technical data environments and business mission requirements by understanding stakeholder needs, defining analytical approaches, and delivering practical solutions.
Expected Day-to-Day Activities
- Analyze complex datasets from multiple sources to identify trends, patterns, anomalies, and opportunities for improvement.
- Develop and maintain dashboards, reports, scorecards, and executive-level data visualizations using business intelligence tools.
- Translate business requirements into analytical solutions, reporting requirements, and data models.
- Develop and monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) aligned with organizational objectives.
- Perform data cleansing, validation, reconciliation, and quality assessments to improve data reliability.
- Conduct exploratory data analysis to support operational decision-making and strategic planning.
- Develop data visualization products using tools such as Microsoft Power BI, Tableau, or similar analytics platforms.
- Collaborate with business stakeholders, technical teams, and leadership to define reporting needs.
- Document analytical methodologies, assumptions, findings, and recommendations.
- Support data governance activities including data standards, metadata management, and reporting consistency.
- Identify opportunities to automate manual reporting processes using low-code/no-code solutions.
- Prepare executive briefings, analytical summaries, and presentation materials.
- Support continuous improvement initiatives by identifying process inefficiencies and recommending data-driven solutions.
- Participate in stakeholder meetings, working groups, and technical discussions.
Job Features
| Job Category | Data Analysis and Analytics |
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Ascension is seeking a Senior Program Manager, Federal IT Modernization to lead planning, coordination, execution oversight, risk management, and stakeholder engagement for a federal enterprise document management modernization effort. The role will support a mission focused on moving from fragmented legacy document repositories toward a secure, cloud-native, multi-tenant document management platform capable of ingesting, indexing, securing, and reporting on very large volumes of legacy records.
This position is important because the customer’s effort involves multiple workstreams, including platform modernization, legacy system transition, records ingestion, data governance, reporting, cybersecurity alignment, and coordination among technical, business, security, and mission stakeholders. The ideal candidate will bring strong federal program management discipline, experience supporting IT modernization or cloud-based transformation efforts, and the ability to manage ambiguity while keeping teams aligned to schedule, scope, risk, quality, and customer expectations.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Senior Program Manager will serve as the primary management lead responsible for coordinating modernization activities across multiple project teams and stakeholder groups. The customer’s requirement centers on establishing a cloud-native enterprise document management platform using JWCC-enabled capabilities, supporting ingestion and indexing of approximately 1.5 billion legacy microfiche-derived records, and preparing for future migration or subsumption of systems such as CEDMS-CDA and CEDMS-MSS. The RFI describes the need for OCR, indexing, search, secure access control, analytics, APIs, Zero Trust, records management, and future migration planning.
The ideal candidate should be a disciplined, organized, and self-driven program leader who can manage multiple workstreams in a complex federal environment. This person should be skilled at translating customer priorities into actionable plans, maintaining integrated schedules, tracking decisions and risks, preparing executive briefings, coordinating with technical subject matter experts, and ensuring deliverables are completed on time and aligned to customer expectations. Ascension’s GSA Project Manager III labor category aligns to this level because it directs multiple projects, manages quality, schedule, cost, and scope, leads client meetings, coordinates consultants, mitigates risks, and supports IT and program/portfolio management missions.
Expected Day-to-Day Activities
- Lead overall program coordination across modernization, ingestion, security, data, reporting, and stakeholder engagement workstreams.
- Develop and maintain an integrated master schedule, milestone tracker, risk register, issue log, action item tracker, and decision log.
- Coordinate meetings with client stakeholders, technical teams, business process owners, security representatives, records management stakeholders, and data/reporting leads.
- Translate customer objectives into practical execution plans, workstream charters, deliverable schedules, and status reporting formats.
- Monitor project performance against scope, schedule, quality, and customer priorities.
- Identify program risks related to data ingestion volume, legacy migration dependencies, security controls, user adoption, governance, and interface/API planning.
- Prepare executive briefings, status reports, meeting agendas, meeting summaries, dashboards, and leadership decision materials.
- Support requirements clarification for cloud-native document management, OCR/indexing, metadata strategy, role-based access, reporting, APIs, and records retention.
- Facilitate cross-functional discussions between business users, technical architects, cybersecurity leads, cloud/platform teams, and data analysts.
- Support change management planning for users transitioning from legacy document repositories to a modernized platform.
- Track deliverable quality and ensure work products are reviewed, version controlled, and ready for customer submission.
- Coordinate with Ascension leadership and teaming partners to ensure staffing, deliverables, and customer communications remain aligned.
- Apply project management methods such as PMBOK, Agile, risk management, stakeholder management, and quality control practices.
- Support contract compliance by tracking required deliverables, due dates, assumptions, dependencies, and customer approvals.
Job Features
| Job Category | Project Management |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Master’s degree in business, information technology, public administration, management, engineering, computer science, or a related field. Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to explain technical topics to non-technical stakeholders. | Ability to work independently in an ambiguous environment with limited day-to-day supervision. | Ability to coordinate across technical, business, security, and customer-facing teams. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | 12+ years of relevant experience in program management, project management, federal IT modernization, enterprise systems support, cloud transformation, data management, or mission support modernization. | Experience managing multiple project workstreams in a federal government or government contractor environment. | Demonstrated ability to manage scope, schedule, cost, quality, risks, issues, and deliverables. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Experience using Microsoft 365, Teams, SharePoint, Excel, PowerPoint, and project tracking tools. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | PMP certification strongly preferred. | Agile, Scrum, PMI-ACP, ITIL, CSM, SAFe, or related certification preferred. | Experience supporting DoD, defense finance, federal financial management, records management, document management systems, or cloud-based modernization efforts. | Familiarity with JWCC, IL5, FedRAMP, NIST, RMF, ICAM, Zero Trust, or federal cybersecurity compliance concepts. | Experience with Microsoft Power Platform, Power BI, ServiceNow, Jira, MS Project, Smartsheet, Tableau, or similar tools. | Experience supporting legacy system modernization, system migration planning, enterprise content management, or large-scale data ingestion initiatives. | Experience facilitating Integrated Project Teams, governance boards, executive reviews, and cross-agency working sessions. | Experience managing subcontractor or teaming partner coordination. | Strong ability to identify risks early, develop mitigation options, and communicate tradeoffs to leadership. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | U.S. citizenship may be required based on the federal customer environment. | Ability to obtain and maintain the required federal suitability or clearance level. | Public Trust, Secret, or higher clearance may be required depending on final task order requirements. | Experience working in controlled federal environments is preferred. | Must be able to comply with customer security, privacy, records management, and information handling requirements. |
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Ascension is seeking a Junior Management Analyst / Program and Executive Support Analyst to provide analytical, organizational, reporting, and administrative support for HUD executive initiatives and task-order activities.
This position is suited for an early-career management consulting or program support professional who can transform information from meetings, documents, workflows, and data sources into organized analyses, accurate reports, actionable trackers, and executive-ready materials. The successful candidate will help senior consultants, program managers, and HUD stakeholders maintain visibility into work status, decisions, risks, action items, and operational improvement activities.
The role is important because HUD’s executive initiatives involve multiple stakeholders, shifting priorities, recurring reporting requirements, and deliverables that must be accurate, timely, clearly written, and suitable for senior leadership review. The analyst must be comfortable operating in a structured federal environment while remaining adaptable when task-order requirements or priorities evolve.
Position Summary
The Junior Management Analyst supports organizational studies, workflow documentation, data collection, research, reporting, meeting coordination, presentation development, correspondence, and action-item tracking. The ideal candidate is detail-oriented, organized, dependable, and capable of managing multiple assignments with limited day-to-day direction. The individual should anticipate information needs, identify missing or inconsistent data, communicate emerging issues, and help the team maintain orderly and defensible program documentation.
Day-to-Day and Recurring Activities
- Collect information from meetings, interviews, documents, spreadsheets, project trackers, and stakeholder communications.
- Analyze program, workflow, operational, and performance information to identify trends, gaps, bottlenecks, and follow-up requirements.
- Document current-state processes, roles, decision points, dependencies, handoffs, risks, and procedural requirements.
- Develop workflow diagrams, process narratives, meeting summaries, status reports, briefing slides, executive summaries, and supporting documentation.
- Maintain project schedules, action-item logs, issue trackers, risk registers, decision logs, contact lists, and deliverable calendars.
- Coordinate meetings, including invitations, agendas, materials, participant information, logistics, and follow-up communications.
- Capture accurate meeting notes, decisions, assignments, due dates, unresolved questions, and dependencies.
- Track action items through completion and follow up with responsible team members regarding approaching or missed deadlines.
- Prepare recurring and ad hoc reports summarizing accomplishments, schedule status, risks, issues, metrics, and upcoming activities.
- Support workflow and organizational studies by conducting research, gathering stakeholder input, comparing current practices, and documenting findings.
- Compile data from multiple sources and perform basic validation, reconciliation, categorization, and trend analysis.
- Create charts, tables, dashboards, and presentation materials that communicate information clearly to senior leaders.
- Research federal policies, management practices, organizational requirements, and relevant industry benchmarks under the direction of senior staff.
- Draft professional correspondence, memoranda, reports, standard operating procedures, job aids, and management-consulting work products.
- Review documents for grammar, formatting, consistency, completeness, source support, version control, and compliance with established templates.
- Incorporate Government and internal reviewer comments into revised deliverables within required review cycles.
- Organize files, supporting evidence, reference materials, and deliverable versions using approved document-management practices.
- Monitor task-order deadlines and notify the project manager of potential schedule, quality, resource, or coordination concerns.
- Participate in quality-control reviews and verify that submitted work meets the applicable acceptance criteria.
- Protect sensitive, proprietary, personally identifiable, and controlled unclassified information in accordance with contract and company requirements.
Job Features
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in business administration, management, public administration, organizational development, political science, economics, communications, information systems, operations research, or a related field. | Strong writing, proofreading, formatting, and records-organization skills. | Ability to work independently while knowing when to raise questions or escalate concerns. | Ability to protect sensitive information and follow federal and corporate information-handling requirements. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of four years of relevant professional experience in management analysis, program support, project coordination, business analysis, operations support, executive support, or management consulting. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Strong Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, and Teams skills. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Master’s degree in business, public administration, management, organizational development, or a related discipline. | Experience supporting a federal agency, federal contractor, or public-sector consulting engagement. | Experience preparing materials for executives, senior government officials, or program leadership. | Knowledge of federal program management, organizational transformation, portfolio management, or operational efficiency initiatives. | Experience with HUD or another cabinet-level federal department.| Experience developing process maps, SOPs, job aids, management studies, or organizational assessment materials. | Experience supporting data calls and consolidating information from multiple offices or stakeholders. | Familiarity with Power BI, Power Automate, SharePoint lists, Microsoft Forms, Visio, or Smartsheet. | Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements for documents and presentations. | Familiarity with Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, change management, or continuous process improvement. | CAPM, Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt, Certified Associate in Project Management, Scrum, or comparable early-career professional certification. | Experience handling controlled unclassified information or other sensitive Government information. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
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Ascension, LLC is seeking an experienced Senior Management Analyst to support the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s executive-level management, operational improvement, portfolio oversight, and organizational transformation initiatives.
This position is designed for an analytical and solutions-oriented professional who can evaluate complex organizational challenges, translate data and stakeholder input into practical recommendations, and help senior leaders improve how programs, portfolios, policies, processes, and resources are managed.
The Senior Management Analyst may support multiple HUD executive initiatives involving portfolio status and risk reporting, operational assessments, performance analytics, regulatory analysis, workforce planning, governance and compliance reviews, procurement analysis, and executive decision support. HUD’s objective is to enhance operational capability, improve efficiency, and maintain alignment with the Department’s mission and long-term management priorities.
The ideal candidate is comfortable working in an evolving federal environment where assignments may involve incomplete information, competing priorities, compressed review cycles, and collaboration with senior executives and cross-functional stakeholders. The successful candidate will be expected to independently structure analyses, identify the underlying cause of operational problems, formulate defensible recommendations, and produce clear work products that executives can use to make informed decisions.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Senior Management Analyst will conduct organizational studies, process and workflow evaluations, requirements analyses, feasibility assessments, performance reviews, and management consulting activities in support of HUD executive leadership. The PWS requires contractors to furnish the facilities, equipment, and supplies necessary to perform the work unless otherwise identified at the task-order level. Deliverables must be thoroughly researched, analytically complete, responsive to HUD comments, grammatically correct, and compliant with applicable Section 508 requirements.
Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities
- Conduct organizational studies, management reviews, feasibility analyses, and operational assessments involving HUD programs, offices, portfolios, or enterprise initiatives.
- Analyze business processes, workflows, roles, decision points, handoffs, controls, dependencies, and performance bottlenecks.
- Document current-state processes and develop practical future-state recommendations that reduce duplication, delays, administrative burden, and operational risk.
- Collect qualitative and quantitative information through document reviews, data analysis, interviews, facilitated discussions, surveys, and stakeholder working sessions.
- Evaluate portfolio status, schedules, milestones, resource utilization, risks, issues, dependencies, and performance trends.
- Develop monthly status reports, portfolio management plans, project plans, issue papers, risk registers, problem notification reports, and management decision documents.
- Define meaningful performance measures, key performance indicators, targets, reporting cycles, data definitions, and validation procedures.
- Analyze portfolio and operational data to identify trends, exceptions, root causes, emerging risks, and areas requiring executive attention.
- Prepare dashboards, scorecards, charts, briefing slides, summaries, and analytical reports that convert complex information into clear executive insights.
- Research statutes, regulations, federal guidance, HUD policies, industry practices, GAO or OIG findings, and comparable organizational models.
- Assess the operational, workforce, financial, compliance, and stakeholder impacts of proposed regulatory or policy changes.
- Draft evidence-based recommendations, policy analyses, management options, alternatives analyses, and implementation considerations.
- Perform workforce assessments to identify critical positions, capability gaps, succession risks, staffing requirements, and development priorities.
- Review governance structures, internal controls, compliance processes, risk-management activities, and audit documentation.
- Support compliance reviews and audits by organizing evidence, analyzing findings, tracking corrective actions, and monitoring resolution status.
- Conduct procurement-related market research, requirements analysis, process reviews, sourcing assessments, and acquisition documentation support when assigned.
- Facilitate meetings, interviews, process-mapping sessions, working groups, and executive discussions.
- Capture decisions, risks, action items, responsible parties, and due dates and maintain accurate follow-up records.
- Coordinate with program managers, analysts, policy personnel, acquisition professionals, human capital specialists, data teams, and executive stakeholders.
- Validate the completeness, accuracy, traceability, and consistency of analytical data and supporting documentation.
- Incorporate Government review comments and produce revised or final deliverables within required turnaround periods.
- Apply Ascension’s ISO 9001:2015-aligned quality processes, including peer review, document control, version management, and corrective-action tracking.
- Maintain confidentiality and properly safeguard Government records, sensitive information, and controlled information.
- Identify risks or performance deficiencies early and recommend corrective actions that address both immediate issues and underlying causes.
- Support knowledge transfer by developing repeatable analytical tools, templates, SOPs, job aids, and documentation.
Job Features
| Job Category | Management Consulting |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in business administration, public administration, management, operations research, organizational development, economics, finance, data analytics, public policy, industrial engineering, or a closely related discipline. | Strong professional writing, editing, facilitation, interviewing, and presentation skills. | Ability to explain technical or analytically complex findings to nontechnical executives and stakeholders. | Ability to independently plan work, meet deadlines, respond to comments, and produce accurate deliverables. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of eight years of progressively responsible professional experience in management analysis, business analysis, organizational assessment, operational improvement, program analysis, portfolio management, performance management, or management consulting. | Experience conducting organizational studies, workflow evaluations, requirements analyses, feasibility studies, operating-procedure development, or comparable management consulting work. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, public policy, organizational development, operations research, data analytics, or a related field. | Ten or more years of relevant management consulting or federal program-support experience. | Prior experience supporting HUD or another cabinet-level federal department. | Experience supporting organizational transformation, agency reorganization, succession planning, or government-efficiency initiatives. | Experience with portfolio analytics, executive dashboards, strategic planning, workforce analysis, regulatory analysis, compliance reviews, or procurement support. | Knowledge of federal management and oversight requirements, including applicable OMB guidance, GAO internal-control principles, audit-readiness practices, and federal records requirements.| Experience developing performance measures, KPI dictionaries, scorecards, reporting frameworks, or benefits-realization measures. | Experience supporting audits, compliance assessments, corrective-action plans, or internal-control reviews. | Experience using Power BI, SQL, Microsoft Access, Visio, Smartsheet, ServiceNow, or Microsoft Power Platform. | Experience producing Section 508-compliant reports, spreadsheets, and presentations.| Familiarity with federal acquisition processes and documents such as market research, acquisition plans, PWSs, SOWs, evaluation criteria, and contract-performance reports. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
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Ascension is seeking an accomplished Strategist / Senior Strategic Management Advisor to help senior federal leaders translate strategic priorities into actionable initiatives, executive decisions, transformation roadmaps, and measurable organizational outcomes.
The ideal candidate is a senior management consultant who understands how federal agencies establish strategic direction, prioritize competing initiatives, manage enterprise transformation, sustain leadership continuity, and communicate complex recommendations to executive decision-makers. This individual must be equally comfortable advising senior leaders, conducting structured analysis, facilitating cross-functional discussions, and developing concise executive materials.
This role is important to HUD’s objective of improving operational capabilities, promoting efficiency, supporting succession planning and reorganization efforts, and maintaining alignment between departmental initiatives and HUD’s mission and long-term objectives. The advisor helps HUD executives diagnose enterprise challenges, prioritize strategic initiatives, evaluate risks and tradeoffs, coordinate cross-functional stakeholders, and formulate practical recommendations. The individual may also assist leadership with succession strategies, transformation planning, executive briefings, partnership management, and leadership-development activities.
HUD expects advice to be grounded in analysis of portfolio information, organizational conditions, applicable government priorities, industry practices, and identifiable risks. Recommendations must be actionable, mission-aligned, and suitable for executive decision-making.
This is an advisory role. The contractor does not make inherently governmental policy, funding, personnel, or management decisions. Final decisions remain with authorized HUD officials.
Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities
The selected advisor may perform the following activities, depending on the requirements of each awarded task order:
- ADVISE HUD executives on strategic priorities, organizational challenges, transformation initiatives, and emerging risks.
- ASSESS current strategies, operating models, governance structures, workforce conditions, and enterprise-management practices.
- DIAGNOSE organizational barriers, duplicated efforts, competing priorities, resource constraints, and implementation risks.
- DEVELOP strategic plans, initiative charters, transformation roadmaps, operating models, and implementation recommendations.
- PRIORITIZE proposed initiatives using mission impact, urgency, feasibility, risk, resource demand, and expected-value criteria.
- SYNTHESIZE portfolio information, stakeholder input, organizational data, policies, and industry practices into actionable executive insights.
- PREPARE decision papers, executive summaries, briefing books, talking points, presentations, and recommendations.
- BRIEF senior leadership on strategic alternatives, risks, dependencies, implementation status, and recommended courses of action.
- FACILITATE executive workshops, strategic-planning sessions, working groups, interviews, and cross-functional alignment meetings.
- COORDINATE with HUD executives, program offices, functional leaders, and internal or external partners.
- DESIGN stakeholder-management and engagement approaches supporting enterprise initiatives and strategic partnerships.
- SUPPORT organizational transformation through readiness assessments, change-impact analysis, communication planning, and adoption strategies.
- DEVELOP succession-planning approaches that identify mission-critical positions, leadership competencies, talent risks, and continuity strategies.
- ESTABLISH measures for tracking strategic progress, transformation outcomes, succession-plan effectiveness, and organizational performance.
- REVIEW draft strategies, plans, analyses, and executive products for logical consistency, factual accuracy, and decision usefulness.
- RECOMMEND corrective actions when strategic initiatives are delayed, misaligned, insufficiently resourced, or exposed to material risk.
- DESIGN OR DELIVER executive-learning sessions addressing strategic decision-making, leadership, organizational transformation, stakeholder engagement, and enterprise risk.
- INCORPORATE HUD feedback into revised products within the turnaround periods established by the applicable task order.
- MAINTAIN organized, controlled, and appropriately protected working files, decision records, and supporting documentation.
- COMPLY with applicable federal, HUD, privacy, security, accessibility, and records-management requirements.
Job Features
| Job Category | Management Consulting |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in business administration, public administration, management, organizational development, economics, public policy, political science, human capital management, or a closely related discipline. | Ability to develop clear presentations, decision papers, roadmaps, and planning materials. |Ability to handle sensitive organizational and leadership information appropriately. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of 12 years of progressively responsible experience in strategy, management consulting, organizational transformation, federal program management, executive advisory services, or a closely related field. | Demonstrated experience advising senior executives or senior government officials. | Demonstrated experience developing strategic recommendations, implementation plans, transformation roadmaps, or executive decision-support products. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Master’s degree in business administration, public administration, organizational leadership, public policy, management, or a related discipline. | Fifteen or more years of relevant strategic-management or executive-advisory experience. | Prior experience supporting HUD or another Cabinet-level federal department. | Experience advising Senior Executive Service leaders, political appointees, or agency executives. |Experience with federal reorganization, workforce restructuring, leadership continuity, or succession planning. | Experience developing or implementing federal strategic plans, agency priority goals, performance plans, or transformation initiatives. | Experience in housing, community development, financial management, grants management, acquisition, human capital, or federal shared services. | Experience designing and delivering executive-level leadership or strategy training. | Experience developing KPIs, executive dashboards, or portfolio-performance reporting. | Familiarity with federal governance, internal controls, risk management, and regulatory environments. | Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements. |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
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Ascension is seeking a Junior Business Transformation Consultant to support federal executives, program managers, and senior consultants in improving organizational performance, implementing strategic initiatives, analyzing business operations, and supporting enterprise transformation activities.
This position is intended for an early-career consultant who has developed a solid foundation in management analysis, business process improvement, strategic planning, project support, or organizational transformation and is ready to apply those skills in a federal consulting environment.
The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, analytical, highly organized, and comfortable working with complex or incomplete information. This individual must be able to research unfamiliar business issues, organize findings, document requirements, support stakeholder discussions, and convert analysis into clear recommendations, reports, process documentation, and executive-ready materials.
The Junior Business Transformation Consultant will work under the direction of Ascension’s senior consultants and project leadership. Although the position is junior in level, the selected candidate must be capable of independently completing assigned analyses, managing deadlines, communicating emerging issues, and producing accurate work products suitable for federal stakeholders.
Summary of the Contractor Role
The Junior Business Transformation Consultant supports HUD’s broader objective of enhancing operational capabilities, promoting efficiency, and aligning departmental activities with mission priorities and long-term objectives. The consultant may support strategic initiatives, portfolio management, executive advisory services, operational efficiency, enterprise transformation, performance reporting, regulatory analysis, succession planning, executive partnerships, procurement support, and executive training.
Anticipated Day-to-Day Activities
The selected candidate will:
- Conduct qualitative and quantitative research concerning HUD programs, organizational structures, business operations, policies, industry practices, and transformation initiatives.
- Analyze business problems, operational data, existing procedures, stakeholder feedback, and other source materials to identify trends, gaps, risks, duplication, and improvement opportunities.
- Document business, functional, reporting, workflow, and stakeholder requirements in a clear and traceable format.
- Develop current-state and future-state process maps, workflow descriptions, responsibility matrices, decision frameworks, and operating procedures.
- Support organizational assessments, maturity assessments, readiness reviews, gap analyses, and business-impact analyses.
- Prepare findings, recommendations, issue papers, decision memoranda, executive summaries, presentations, dashboards, reports, and briefing materials.
- Assist senior consultants in developing strategic plans, transformation roadmaps, implementation plans, project plans, and performance-measurement frameworks.
- Maintain project trackers, action-item logs, risk and issue registers, decision logs, deliverable schedules, and document repositories.
- Collect and validate information from program offices, stakeholders, subject-matter experts, source systems, policies, and approved government documents.
- Facilitate or support interviews, workshops, working sessions, status meetings, process-mapping sessions, and stakeholder discussions.
- Capture meeting notes, decisions, action items, responsible parties, dependencies, and due dates.
- Coordinate follow-up activities with Ascension team members and authorized government points of contact.
- Perform cost-benefit, options, root-cause, gap, risk, and implementation analyses under the guidance of senior team members.
- Support portfolio reviews by consolidating status, milestones, risks, resource information, performance measures, and management concerns.
- Research applicable statutes, regulations, policies, guidance, and industry practices supporting regulatory or policy assessments.
- Assist with market research, requirements documentation, acquisition planning materials, statements of work, performance work statements, and procurement-support documentation.
- Support change-management activities, including stakeholder analysis, communications planning, readiness activities, training coordination, and adoption tracking.
- Develop training aids, job aids, presentations, facilitator materials, reference guides, and participant-feedback instruments.
- Review deliverables for completeness, consistency, factual accuracy, grammar, formatting, accessibility, and compliance with approved templates.
- Incorporate government and project-management comments into draft and final deliverables within established review periods.
- Apply Section 508 accessibility principles when preparing documents, spreadsheets, presentations, and other electronic materials.
- Protect government information, records, draft products, and other sensitive materials from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
- Escalate risks, delays, data limitations, conflicting requirements, and quality concerns to the assigned project lead.
- Contribute to lessons learned, process improvements, quality reviews, and other continuous-improvement activities.
Job Features
| Job Category | Consulting |
| MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS | Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in business administration, management, public administration, organizational development, economics, finance, political science, information systems, industrial engineering, operations research, or a closely related field. | Strong proofreading, formatting, and document-quality skills. | Ability to prioritize assignments and meet short turnaround times. | Ability to work independently while following established review and approval procedures. | Ability to communicate professionally with project leadership, peers, and client stakeholders. |
| REQUIRED SKILLS | Minimum of three years of relevant professional experience in management consulting, business analysis, program or project support, strategic planning, operations analysis, organizational transformation, process improvement, or a related discipline. | Experience conducting research, organizing findings, and preparing professional reports or presentations. | Experience documenting requirements, workflows, operating procedures, or business processes. |
| TECHNICAL SKILLS | Experience using Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Teams, and SharePoint in a professional environment. |
| DESIRED QUALIFICATIONS | Master’s degree in business, public administration, organizational development, public policy, information systems, or a related field. | Previous federal government consulting or federal program-support experience. | Familiarity with HUD programs, housing policy, community development, grants, financial management, procurement, or federal administrative operations. | Experience supporting organizational reorganization, workforce planning, succession planning, transformation, modernization, or change-management initiatives. | Experience developing process maps in Microsoft Visio, Lucidchart, or comparable software. | Experience producing reports or dashboards using Power BI, advanced Excel, or comparable tools. | Experience preparing executive briefings, decision papers, issue papers, or management reports. | Knowledge of federal acquisition, governance, internal controls, records management, or regulatory-review processes. | Familiarity with Section 508 accessibility requirements. | Familiarity with Agile, Lean, Six Sigma, Prosci, or other project and change-management methods. | Entry-level or foundational certification such as: | Certified Associate in Project Management, or CAPM } Lean Six Sigma Yellow Belt or Green Belt | Prosci Change Management certification | Certified Business Analysis Professional pathway training | PMI Professional in Business Analysis pathway training | Agile or Scrum foundational certification |
| SUITABILITY/SECURITY REQUIREMENT | The Solicitation does not identify a specific clearance level. |
