Division Action Officer (SETA Support)

Job Description

Salary Statement
Estimated Starting Salary Range: USD $90,050.00/Yr. - USD $150,000.00/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

Description

Cross-Portfolio Tasker Resolution and Action Coordination

Coordinating high-priority taskers, data calls, and special requests that span multiple TR-I portfolios or originate from higher headquarters

Identifying required contributors, gathering inputs, and maintaining clear ownership, suspense, and follow-through across participants

Driving actions to closure and elevating unresolved issues, bottlenecks, or late responses when needed

Executive Writing and Decision Support Product Development

Drafting executive-level correspondence, decision packages, briefing materials, read-ahead, background memoranda, and transmittal packages for senior leadership use

Translating programmatic, technical, and acquisition into clear, concise written products aligned to leadership intent

Supporting development of products that enable timely leadership review and decision-making

Central Action Tracker Ownership and Workflow Visibility

Maintaining the TR-I Division central action tracker across taskers, requests, and follow-on actions

Tracking progress against suspense, identifying stalled or overdue actions, and maintaining current visibility into action status

Providing the Deputy Division Support Lead and front office with a reliable picture of pending, active, and completed actions

Staffing, Equities, and Response Consolidation

Identifying offices and stakeholders with equities in tasking or response

Coordinating staffing and consolidating fragmented inputs into coherent response packages

Helping ensure that actions are sufficiently coordinated before elevation for front-office review

Executive Engagement and Meeting Support

Supporting preparation for executive meetings, reviews, and engagements by coordinating action status, assembling materials, and capturing follow-on requirements

Recording key leadership guidance, decisions, and resulting actions during executive sessions

Converting direction from those sessions into tracked follow-up actions and assigned tasks

Workflow Discipline and Tool Support

Using approved collaboration and workflow tools to improve action visibility, task routing, and front-office efficiency

Supporting disciplined use of templates, trackers, repositories, and workflow practices across front-office activities

Helping improve the consistency and usability of action-management processes over time

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Requirements

Bachelor's degree in defense or public policy, business administration, systems management, communications, program management, or a related field

5+ years of progressively responsible experience in DoD action officer work, executive staff operations, tasker coordination, briefing development, program integration, or similar front-office support environments

Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers, data calls, or response packages across organizations

Demonstrated ability to draft concise, executive-ready written products with limited supervision

Experience managing action tracking systems, suspense management, and follow-through in a high-tempo environment

Strong written and verbal communication skills

Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint

Active Secret Clearance

Desired Skills

Experience serving as a primary Action Officer within OSW, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a PEO, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment

Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, defense acquisition frameworks, and congressional action timelines

Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar task-management platforms

Experience preparing executive decision packages, memoranda, transmittals, and read-ahead materials for senior leadership

Experience working across multiple portfolios, staff elements, or higher-headquarters tasking channels

Experience improving action-management workflows, tracker discipline, or front-office tasking processes

Clearance Information

SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS WELL AS, A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL

Travel Requirements

Travel requirement is approximately 10 percent annually, typically around five non-consecutive weeks, subject to Government priorities and scheduling

About Us

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals with amounts increasing based on role and years of service, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

EEO

Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

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Minimum Qualifications

Bachelor's degree in defense or public policy, business administration, systems management, communications, program management, or a related field 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in DoD action officer work, executive staff operations, tasker coordination, briefing development, program integration, or similar front-office support environments Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers, data calls, or response packages across organizations Demonstrated ability to draft concise, executive-ready written products with limited supervision Experience managing action tracking systems, suspense management, and follow-through in a high-tempo environment Strong written and verbal communication skills Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint Active Secret Clearance Desired Skills Experience serving as a primary Action Officer within OSW, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a PEO, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, defense acquisition frameworks, and congressional action timelines Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar task-management platforms Experience preparing executive decision packages, memoranda, transmittals, and read-ahead materials for senior leadership Experience working across multiple portfolios, staff elements, or higher-headquarters tasking channels Experience improving action-management workflows, tracker discipline, or front-office tasking processes Clearance Information SRC IS A CONTRACTOR FOR THE U.S. GOVERNMENT, THIS POSITION WILL REQUIRE U.S. CITIZENSHIP AS WELL AS, A U.S. GOVERNMENT SECURITY CLEARANCE AT THE SECRET LEVEL Travel Requirements Travel requirement is approximately 10 percent annually, typically around five non-consecutive weeks, subject to Government priorities and scheduling