FEMA Research Analyst Job at Amentum, Washington DC

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  • Amentum
  • Washington DC

Job Description

CENTRA Technology, Inc., an Amentum company providing analytic, consulting, and staffing support to U.S. Government national security agencies, including the Departments of Homeland Security and Defense, and similar Government clients. CENTRA’s Homeland Group provides a range of homeland security and law enforcement intelligence support, risk analysis and modeling, and program management services to Federal, state, and local agencies. We pride ourselves in developing creative, customized, and flexible approaches that meet our clients’ evolving and dynamic needs.

The successful applicant will provide valuable analytic support for analysis efforts to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to protect against acts of terrorism. Typical duties will include:

  • Draft policy reports and responses to stakeholder questions as well as be able to clearly convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences.

  • Support data collection activities by performing analytic and quality control tasks on large data sets in Excel and other tools.

  • Build and modify Excel-based tools to generate relative risk scores, implement policy decisions, and produce grant allocations.

  • Conduct geospatial analysis and feature layer manipulation to create advanced map solutions in ArcGIS Pro and Google Earth Pro.

  • Support Homeland Security Grant programs by applying risk models used to allocate grant resources to states, urban areas, ports, and transit systems.

  • Knowledge or experience working with data relating to terrorism and security, community resilience, disaster response and recovery, economic analysis, and cartography will be considered strengths for this position.

Required:

  • Ability to obtain a SECRET clearance is required; prior DHS Suitability a plus

  • BA/BS and minimum of 3 years of relevant experience

  • Must possess excellent writing skills and be able to clearly convey complex concepts to non-technical audiences.

  • Strong Excel skills (advanced formulas, pivot tables, etc.) and ability to work with and manage large data sets.

  • Capability in Excel to manage and manipulate data is a requirement for this position.

  • Experienced in data visualization, extraction, cleansing, and analysis.

  • Must be able to work well under tight deadlines and in a team environment

Preferred:

  • Ability to work in Access and Power BI will be considered strengths for this position.

  • Skills in geospatial data analysis and creating maps will be considered a plus for this position in both ArcGIS and Google Earth.

Amentum is proud to be an Equal Opportunity Employer. Our hiring practices provide equal opportunity for employment without regard to race, religion, color, sex, gender, national origin, age, United States military veteran’s status, ancestry, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, family structure, medical condition including genetic characteristics or information, veteran status, or mental or physical disability so long as the essential functions of the job can be performed with or without reasonable accommodation, or any other protected category under federal, state, or local law. Learn more about your rights under Federal EEO laws and supplemental language at EEO including Disability/Protected Veterans ( and Labor Laws Posters ( .

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