
PROGRAM ANALYST
United States Fleet Forces Command
Little Creek Amphibious Base, VAFull-time$108–140K/yrPosted today
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Job overview
The Program Analyst serves as the Doctrine and Tactics Program Manager within the Expeditionary Warfare Development Center’s Doctrine, Tactics, Analysis, and Assessment Directorate. The role leads cross-warfare teams developing doctrine and tactics, coordinates planning and publication reviews, and supports alignment of Navy and joint concepts, training, and capabilities. It also engages with fleet and joint organizations and investigates tactics, technology, and concepts to address emerging threats.
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Summary
You will serve as a Program Analyst of entitled Doctrine and Tactics Program Manager, in the Doctrine, Tactics, Analysis, and Assessment Directorate (N5) of the Expeditionary War fighting Development Center (EXWDC) of NAVY EXPEDITIONARY WARFIGHTING DEV CTR.
Duties
- You will lead cross-warfare specialty development teams of military, civilian, and contract team SMEs in the development and promulgation of doctrine and tactics.
- You will plan the work to be accomplished by other military, civilian staff, and contract planners, adjust their priorities and prepare schedules for completion of work.
- You will ensure capabilities are correctly represented in emerging and existing Navy and Joint concepts and developmental doctrine and doctrinal publications.
- You will support and otherwise develop and revise doctrinal publications for NECF operating across the competition continuum, ensuring alignment with the objectives and priorities of supported commanders.
- You will conduct substantive reviews of strategic documents including plans and planning guidance.
- You will review strategic guidance, concepts, and doctrine requirements, and other documents to support doctrine development.
- You will maintain a current working knowledge of major doctrinal publications, expeditionary plans, programs and initiatives in order to synchronize relevant NECF and Navy FP capabilities in concert with these publications and incorporate changes
- You will consolidate inputs on doctrine reviews and issues and provide adjudicated responses to the appropriate tasking commands.
- You will participate in EXW, CON, CIC, and FP working groups, exercises, war games, experimentation, and conferences.
- You will liaise with Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV), NWDC, Fleet staff personnel and other Service/Joint organizations on issues related to doctrine, plans and policy guidance, and other initiatives or issues.
- You will assess training to ensure alignment of curriculum with doctrine and TTPs.
- You will lead management surveys and research projects, and/or studies and provide advisory services of a wide variety of substantive issues that require extensive coordination with higher and adjacent commands.
- You will investigate TTPs, science-and-technology, and Concepts to address and mitigate emerging threats.
Qualifications
Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: (1) leading cross-warfare specialty teams in the creation and promulgation of new fleet level developmental publications. (2) Knowledge of joint, combined, Navy and Naval warfare objectives, operations, concepts, and doctrine (e.g. naval concepts, CONOPS, joint pubs and NWPS). (3) Professional understanding of a variety of disciplines, including naval warfare and the mission areas of expeditionary, construction, force protection and countering irregular challenges. (4) Knowledge of major Navy and Marine Corps doctrinal publications, expeditionary plans, programs and initiatives in order to synchronize relevant NECCF and Navy FP capabilities in concert with these publications and incorporate changes to these publications as they apply to the Navy forces providing EXW, CON, CIC, and FP capabilities. (5) Recommending changes to Joint, multi-service, allied, North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and other Naval publications and concepts; provide reviews to appropriate primary review authorities on all publications in development or revision to ensure NECC equities, capabilities, and concept of employment are incorporated. (6) Competency with a variety of duties involving different and often unrelated processes and methods, requiring consideration of a myriad of factors, extending traditional techniques to develop new procedures to meet organizational goals. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
How You Will Be Evaluated
In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience. When the application process is complete, we will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this announcement. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume and application package, along with your supporting documentation to determine your ability to demonstrate the following competencies: Accountability Attention to Detail Customer Service Decision Making Flexibility Influencing/Negotiating Integrity/Honesty Interpersonal Skills Learning Reading Comprehension Reasoning Self-Management Stress Tolerance Teamwork PARTNERING ORAL COMMUNICATION WRITTEN COMMUNICATION STRATEGIC THINKING REPORTING % RECOMMENDATIONS ANALYTICAL CONCEPTS, POLICIES, & PRINCIPLES This recruitment will utilize the following technical assessment tools: USA Hire and Structured Resume Review You should list any relevant performance appraisals and incentive awards in your resume as that information may be taken into consideration during the selection process. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documentation. If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, your score may be adjusted to more accurately reflect your abilities or you may be found ineligible/not qualified. Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment. All eligibility, qualifications, and time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Other Information
This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program. Additional vacancies may be filled by this announcement. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments. During the application process you will have the ability to opt-in to make your resume available to hiring managers in the agency who have similar positions in the local commuting area. Depending on the hiring organization and the position being filled, job requirements (e.g., security clearance, travel, drug testing, financial disclosure filing, bargaining unit status, etc.) may vary. Other hiring managers filling similar positions may offer relocation expense reimbursement and/or may offer recruitment incentives for new employees, depending on funding availability and in accordance with policy. If you opt-in and are referred on a certificate, your resume will be available to other hiring managers for 180-days from the date the job announcement closes. Opting in does not impact your application for this announcement, nor does it guarantee further consideration for additional positions. Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf PPP applicants will be placed at the FPL, if determined Well Qualified (WQ). To receive priority consideration, the FPL must be the same grade level or equivalent of the retained grade or the grade held immediately prior to separation. ICTAP Applicants: To be considered well-qualified and exercise selection priority as an ICTAP candidate, displaced Federal employees must satisfy all qualification requirements for the position and receive a rating in the highly qualified category (score 85) or higher. ICTAP candidates must provide copies of all of the following documentation at the time of application:?1) agency notice; 2) most recent performance appraisal; and 3) most recent SF-50 or notification of personnel action that includes position, grade level, and duty location. Applicants who do not provide this documentation will not receive consideration as an ICTAP candidate. For more information about ICTAP eligibility please review the following link: https://www.usajobs.gov/Help/working-in-government/unique-hiring-paths/federal-employees/career-transitio Military Spouse Preference applicants will be placed at the highest grade for which they have applied and are determined Best Qualified (BQ). A BQ military spouse possesses knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies comparable to others who meet the competitive referral criteria for the specific position. This position is subject to an initial drug screening, and random testing thereafter. A negative drug test result must be received by HR within 30 calendar days after the EOD (i.e., start date). The selectee's inability to successfully pass; or refusal to conduct the test may result in: 1) the tentative or final job offer being withdrawn during the recruitment process; or 2) subsequently being removed from Federal service for failure to meet a condition of employment. You may be required to sign a "Drug Test Statement of Understanding" if you are selected for this position.
How this job compares
Set against the 999 open Program Analyst jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 2, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$108–140K/yr
- Virginia median$100–145K/yr97 salary ranges
- US median$93–138K/yr594 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $124K, is close to the Virginia median midpoint ($124K) — in the middle half of Program Analyst salary ranges in Virginia.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 204 open Program Analyst jobs in Virginia and 999 across the US. 2% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Virginia
- Serco54 open
- United States Fleet Forces Command (this employer)8 open
- Office of the Secretary of Defense7 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Program Analyst postings that state a minimum ask for 3 years at the median (900 postings).
- Education
- 285 of the 999 open Program Analyst jobs (29%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 2, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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