Policy/Research Analyst

FWI (FedWriters, Inc.) is hiring a Policy/Research Analyst to support the U.S. Forest Service Office of Regulatory and Management Services and the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The role provides analytical, research, project, and strategic advisory support to improve operational efficiency, correspondence processing, and enterprise readiness.

Responsibilities:

• Optimize business tools and facilitate executive-level decision making
• Map internal strategic documents, frameworks, and tools to USFS ORMS program activities
• Assist government program staff in drafting business case documents, including analyses of alternatives and draft recommendations
• Support the development of monthly status reports, annual summary reports, presentation materials, and standard operating procedure documents
• Assess the impact of new legislation/regulations to the organization, identify innovations/best practices in data content and management practices in the federal government and private sector (i.e., six sigma), and recommend new business processes or improvements to existing ones
• Analyze initiatives and assist in the formulation of programs, policies, regulations, and technical initiatives
• Prepare written reports, analyses, briefings, memoranda, and technical documentation
• Provide research and technical support, which may include literature review, data collection, data entry/coding, data cleaning/diagnostics, intermediate data analysis, feasibility analysis, the drafting of papers/reports/presentations, and preparation for data archiving
• Review, analyze, and compile data, technical information, and related research

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree
• At least 3 years' experience performing program/policy analyst work
• At least 2 years' experience using federal correspondence management systems