Total Force Manpower Strategy & Analytics

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PRISM is seeking a Total Force Manpower Strategy & Analytics SME to address complex Total Force manpower, workforce planning, resource allocation, and organizational transformation challenges. The practitioner provides analytical and strategic advice across active-duty, Guard, Reserve, civilian, and contractor personnel populations. The practitioner applies advanced qualitative and quantitative methods, enterprise strategy, and Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) principles to assess manpower requirements, evaluate workforce mix options, develop policy guidance, and recommend risk-based solutions. The role interfaces directly with senior officials. This is an onsite position in Washington, DC.

RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide expert advice on Department-wide manpower planning, programming, requirements determination, and workforce optimization.
• Interpret enterprise-wide strategic documents and translate them into actionable manpower policy, planning guidance, and analytical frameworks.
• Identify emerging issues, workforce trends, mission demands, and future manpower requirements.
• Conduct qualitative and quantitative analyses of Total Force manpower requirements, capabilities, workload, effectiveness, feasibility, risks, and costs.
• Evaluate workload sourcing and performance alternatives to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and reduce manpower requirements.
• Develop alternative courses of action supported by sound analytical reasoning, return-on-investment considerations, and risk-based recommendations.
• Support systematic manpower reviews within the PPBE process.
• Examine new and expanding missions to validate, prioritize, and resource associated manpower requirements.
• Assess consistency between programmatic manpower levels, budgeted manpower levels, and mission requirements.
• Conduct balanced evaluations across Defense-wide programs, considering emerging technologies, improved business practices, and evolving mission needs.
• Develop policy recommendations and decision-support materials for senior officials.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, presentations, white papers, staff packages, analytical reports, and recommendations.
• Interface with senior stakeholders to gather information, validate findings, and negotiate solutions to complex or controversial issues.
• Lead project workstreams, coordinate multidisciplinary teams, and manage deliverables, schedules, risks, dependencies, and quality controls.
• Present complex analyses clearly to technical and nontechnical audiences.
• Mentor junior personnel and review work products for accuracy, completeness, clarity, and consistency.
• Support proposal development, client account growth, and practice development activities, as appropriate.
• Produces accurate, defensible, and decision-relevant manpower analyses.
• Provides recommendations that clearly articulate capabilities, costs, risks, feasibility, and expected outcomes.
• Helps senior officials make informed decisions about Total Force requirements and workforce mix.
• Identifies actionable opportunities to improve efficiency and optimize manpower resources.
• Delivers clear, concise, and executive-ready briefings and written products.
• Maintains strong control over scope, schedule, dependencies, risks, and deliverable quality.
• Mentors team members and strengthens the overall quality of engagement delivery.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor's degree from an accredited institution.
• Demonstrated experience in Department of Defense manpower planning, force management, workforce analysis, military personnel policy, resource planning, or a related field.
• Experience analyzing workforce requirements.
• Experience supporting PPBE, manpower requirements determination, program analysis, resource allocation, or defense planning activities.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct advanced qualitative and quantitative analysis.
• Strong understanding of workforce mix analysis, workload sourcing, manpower modeling, and organizational design principles.
• Experience developing senior-level recommendations, policy guidance, briefings, and decision-support materials.
• Strong written, verbal, analytical, and presentation skills.
• Ability to engage senior government stakeholders and facilitate alignment on complex or contested issues.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and deliver high-quality work under tight deadlines.
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a multidisciplinary consulting environment.
• Manpower requirements determination.
• Workforce mix and sourcing optimization.
• Quantitative and qualitative analysis.
• Risk-based decision support.
• Return-on-investment analysis.
• Executive communication.
• Stakeholder engagement and consensus building.
• Policy development.
• Program and workstream management.
• Structured problem-solving.
• Quality assurance and analytical rigor.
• Team leadership and mentoring.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

• Master's degree in public policy, public administration, business, economics, operations research, human capital, organizational design, or a related discipline.
• Experience supporting Defense agencies.
• Experience evaluating military, civilian, and contractor performance alternatives.
• Experience with manpower requirements studies, force structure analysis, workload-based analysis, or workforce optimization initiatives.
• Experience applying operations research, cost-benefit analysis, scenario modeling, statistical analysis, or other advanced analytical techniques.
• Knowledge of Department of Defense planning, programming, budgeting, and execution processes.
• Familiarity with emerging technologies and their implications for workforce design and manpower requirements.
• Active security clearance, where required by the engagement.
• Relevant certifications in program management, analytics, human capital, operations research, or process improvement.

REQUIRED SECURITY CLEARANCE:
Active Secret Clearance Required

PRISM is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, or veteran status, or any other protected class.