Cyber Manpower and Workforce Analysis SME

Job Title: Cyber Manpower and Workforce Analysis SME
Job Location: Ft. Meade, MD - Hybrid Remote
Compensation: $180,000 - $210,000
Eligibility/Clearance: Candidate must possess an active TS/SCI clearance
Job Description:
Our client is seeking a senior Cyber Manpower and Workforce Analysis
Subject Matter Expert to support the Department of Defense Cyber Defense
Command. The six-month engagement will establish an independent,
defensible baseline for the workforce required to execute the command's
mission. You will help catalog missions, functions, and tasks; identify
workload drivers; build workload-to-FTE estimates; assess current and
future manpower gaps; and recommend the appropriate military, civilian,
and contractor mix. You will work with command leaders, J-Directorate
personnel, cyber mission specialists, manpower and personnel staff, and
data owners to separate current mission demand from legacy
organizational assumptions. Ideal candidates combine DoD
manpower-analysis experience, quantitative workforce modeling,
structured interviewing, and the judgment to connect staffing decisions
to operational risk.
Key Responsibilities:
Develop a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive taxonomy of the
command's missions, functions, and tasks, with clear ownership
boundaries, outputs, dependencies, complexity tiers, authorities, and
completion criteria.
Define workload-driver trees and success measures that connect mission
demand to measurable volume, complexity, service-level, coverage,
compliance, and risk factors.
Document the data source, owner, collection cadence, known quality
issues, and validation method for each key workload driver and
performance measure.
Build a J-Directorate-aligned interview architecture, data inventory,
extraction plan, and mission-function-task-to-role crosswalk that
supports complete and non-duplicative analysis.
Conduct structured, artifact-based interviews using recent incidents,
exercises, patch cycles, recurring reporting, and other representative
work to validate task definitions, workload, constraints, and handoffs.
Organize needs by mission set, characterize required versus authorized
versus on-hand gaps, and express operational consequences through
specific mission-impact statements.
Develop a transparent workload-to-FTE model using demand drivers, time
standards, complexity and variability factors, quality requirements, and
explicit assumptions for 24/7 coverage, relief, surge, and
major-incident conditions.
Forecast workload over three to five years and use scenario and
sensitivity analysis to identify the assumptions that drive the greatest
variance in manpower requirements.
Assess military, civilian, and contractor workforce options using
mission authority, inherently governmental considerations, readiness,
continuity, security, access, retention, and oversight requirements.
Identify critical dependencies and produce decision-ready reports,
executive briefings, an implementation roadmap, and a repeatable
manpower-refresh toolkit.
Required:
Bachelor's degree and eight or more years of relevant Department of
Defense experience in manpower analysis, workforce planning,
organizational analysis, force management, personnel policy, operations
research, or a related field.
Direct experience conducting or supporting a DoD manpower study,
manpower requirements determination, organizational assessment, or
mission-function-task analysis.
Demonstrated ability to translate mission demand into workload drivers,
time standards, coverage factors, and traceable FTE requirements.
Experience modeling persistent or 24/7 operations, including shift
coverage, relief factors, surge posture, variability, and
operational-risk assumptions.
Experience reconciling required, authorized, assigned, and on-hand
staffing and identifying the operational causes and effects of manpower
gaps.
Knowledge of military, civilian, and contractor workforce-mix decisions,
including inherently governmental considerations, continuity, access,
readiness, and oversight trade-offs.
Strong quantitative, facilitation, and executive-writing skills, with
the ability to explain assumptions, uncertainty, and mission impact to
senior leaders.
Active Department of Defense Secret clearance and the ability to satisfy
all customer security, suitability, and installation-access
requirements.
Preferred:
Experience supporting the Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command,
Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network,
Defense Information Systems Agency, U.S. Cyber Command, or a comparable
joint cyber organization.
Working knowledge of DoDIN operations and defense, threat-informed risk
reduction, incident response, adversary response generation, and support
to combatant-command priorities.
Experience with J-Directorate structures, the DoD Cyber Workforce
Framework, cyber work-role families, skill bands, or comparable
workforce taxonomies.
Experience applying DOTmLPF-P analysis, scenario planning, sensitivity
analysis, assumption registers, and options analysis to manpower or
force-design decisions.
Advanced experience building auditable workforce models in Excel or a
comparable quantitative-analysis environment.
Active TS/SCI clearance.
Education:
Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field
ATR is an Equal Opportunity Employer (EOE) who will provide equal
employment opportunity to employees and applicants for employment
without regard to race, ethnicity, religion, color, sex, pregnancy,
national origin, age, veteran status, ancestry, sexual orientation,
gender identity or expression, marital status, family structure, genetic
information, or mental or physical disability