Program Analyst

Join the team who values your skills and expertise. Cherokee Nation System Solutions (CNSS) helps federal agencies improve productivity and find innovative solutions. Taking a personalized approach, CNSS offers a complete line of innovative services and consulting to government agencies, including call center, application modernization, data utilization, advanced analytics and IT infrastructure. Your valuable skills can help us give customers the support they deserve and the quality they expect from our team – a team of experts, like you.

Cherokee Nation System Solutions is part of Cherokee Federal – a team of tribally owned federal contracting companies focused on building solutions, solving complex challenges, and serving the nation’s mission around the globe for more than 60 federal clients. For more information, visit cherokee-federal.com. 

SUMMARY

The Program Analyst provides programmatic, research, and inter-departmental and inter-agency support for region and country-specific policy development, alignment, and implementation of migration-related polices and activities.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Maintain a broad, deep, and current understanding of the administration’s migration policy, and stay abreast of policy changes or new initiatives that affect the Department of State’s interests in irregular migration from the Western Hemisphere to the U.S. southern border.
• Draft and clear to senior office leadership, briefing memos – often on short notice - to prepare principals for weekly Principal, Deputy and Executive Committee meetings on migration issues.
• Draft and clear to senior office leadership, reports of interagency progress on key milestones in the administration strategies to stem irregular immigration at the U.S. southern border.
• As part of the MWG team, assist with leading WHA’s coordination within the Bureau, as well as with PRM, INL, USAID, and DHS, on implementing the Root Causes Strategy and the Collaborative Migration Management Strategy to stem irregular migration to the U.S. southern border.
• Participate in meetings, including interagency committees and with external stakeholders from civil society, for migration-based programs.
• As part of the implementing the administration’s migration policy, advise the Western Hemisphere Bureau’s Migration Communications Unit in public messaging to deter irregular migration to the U.S. southern border and encourage migrants to take advantage of legal pathways to the United States.
• Monitor political, economic, and migration-related communications at both the classified and unclassified secret level developments in the Western Hemisphere that affect administration migration policy, providing assessments, analyses, and support to WHA/MWG and the Bureau, including but not limited to assembling briefing books, drafting reports, clearing thematic and regional paper to contribute to well-coordinated U.S. government policy and program recommendations to the MWG office and Bureau leadership.
• Collate interagency information and statistics on migration.

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE

• Required: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited institution in a relevant field such as international studies, affairs, or development, or related program.
• Preferred: Master’s degree from an accredited university in a related field.
• Demonstrated minimum of four years (two years with Master’s Degree) of combined work experience in international affairs settings, including working with NGOs or U.S. embassies abroad, with migration-related organizations or thinktanks. A graduate degree in international studies or other relevant field is acceptable in lieu of two years of experience.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES

Minimum Qualifications

• Ability to obtain and maintain a Secret Clearance.
• Demonstrated experience working with Microsoft office products to create professional and comprehensive documents.
• As demonstrated by experience or educational attainment excellent English verbal and written communication skills adequate to prepare and present analyses and recommendations, and draft cables, official memos, and reports.
• Strong writing and analytical skills, ability to think critically, and attend to details.
• Ability to manage multiple tasks under tight deadlines, coordinate activities in multiple locations, act decisively in daily work, and work well in a multi-cultural and virtual team environment.
• Ability to work independently to assess priorities and coordinate daily requirements with minimal supervision
• Proficiency in speaking and reading Spanish.
• Successfully pass a federal background check and a drug screen

Cherokee Federal employees are included as covered employees in U.S. Presidential Executive Order 14042, which mandates Covid vaccines for federal contractors. Executive Order 14042 is currently blocked from enforcement pending court proceedings. Therefore, Cherokee Federal is halting the application of the mandate; however, if the injunction is lifted, Cherokee Federal will restore administration of the vaccine requirement.

Preferred Qualifications

• Current Secret clearance.
• Knowledge of research and analytical methods to validate, evaluate, and interpret information obtained from a variety of sources.
• Experience promoting objectives related to implementing U.S. policy in a multi-stakeholder environment.

WORK ENVIRONMENT

A climate-controlled office environment.

Estimated Starting Salary Range: $ 105,000.00  - $113,000.00  annually

CNSS offers a competitive benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans for regular full-time employees, 401(k) with 100% match up to 6%, life insurance, paid time off and more.  Paid sick leave is provided in accordance with applicable law.

ABOUT THE TEAM 

Cherokee Federal is a collective group of subsidiary companies of Cherokee Nation Businesses (CNB). CNB is the economic engine of Cherokee Nation, the largest Native American tribe in the U.S. As a trusted partner, the Cherokee Federal team of companies manages nearly 2,000 projects of all sizes across the construction, engineering and manufacturing, and mission solutions portfolios – ranging from advanced data analytics and telehealth to cybersecurity, cloud and logistics.

Since 2012, our team of companies has won $6 billion in government contracts and completed more than 5,300 federal missions.  Our 3,600 employees work in 20 countries, 50 states and 2 U.S. territories.

Why Cherokee Federal? Visit cherokee-federal.com to learn why you should join our team!

COMPLIANCE 

Cherokee Federal is an equal opportunity employer. We are committed to prohibiting discrimination and harassment of any type and affords equal employment opportunities to employees and applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, union affiliation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, age, national origin, disability status, genetic information, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. We conform to the spirit as well as to the letter of all applicable laws and regulations governing all aspects of the relationship between the Company and its employees, including, but not limited to, recruitment, employment, promotion, transfer, training, working conditions, wages and salary administration, employee benefits, and application of policies. The policies and principles of EEO also apply to the selection and treatment of independent contractors, personnel working on our premises who are employed by temporary agencies and any other persons or firms doing business for or with the Company.

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