Senior Strategic Initiatives Action Officer

Position Overview:

ANSER is seeking a Senior Strategic Initiatives Action Officer to support the Washington Headquarters Service (WHS) Facilities Services Directorate (FSD). In this key role, you will provide senior-level analytical, policy, writing, and staff support to FSD leadership while contributing to initiatives that support lifecycle facility management and the day-to-day working environment for senior Department of War (DoW) and other U.S. Government stakeholders.

Day to Day Responsibilities:

• Provide comprehensive analysis and subject matter expertise across a broad range of FSD initiatives and mission requirements.
• Support the Director and Deputy Director of FSD in executing projects, developing solutions, and advancing organizational priorities.
• Represent FSD in interagency, departmental, and external working groups, committees, and task forces.
• Coordinate with Office of the Secretary of War, military service, and external stakeholders to promote policy alignment and consistency.
• Research, organize, author, edit, and review executive-level staff packages, including letters, memoranda, reports, guidance documents, issuances, strategies, and other official correspondence.
• Synthesize information and data from disparate stakeholders and adjudicate conflicting information to identify common themes, connections, and appropriate courses of action.
• Identify root-cause issues and develop innovative solutions to complex business and organizational challenges.
• Author draft decision and directive memoranda and other executive-level correspondence for senior leadership review and signature.
• Apply Department of War (DoW) correspondence requirements, guides, manuals, and style standards to official documents and written packages.
• Manage revisions and updates to official materials to maintain consistency with established DoW style, branding, and messaging standards.
• Translate complex technical and organizational information into clear, logical, and actionable written products for senior leaders and stakeholders.
• Carry assigned projects and initiatives through completion or appropriate transition and perform other duties as assigned.

Required Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret security clearance.
• Bachelor’s degree.
• 20+ years of experience supporting senior general or flag officers and/or SES officials within the DoW. Will accept 15 years of experience with a Masters degree.
• Comprehensive knowledge of DoW and OSW policies, priorities, strategies, organizational structures, and missions.
• Experience researching, analyzing, authoring, editing, and reviewing official government documents and executive-level staff packages.
• Experience developing decision memoranda, directive memoranda, correspondence, reports, guidance documents, strategies, or similar executive-level products.
• Experience synthesizing information from multiple stakeholders and resolving or reconciling disparate information into cohesive products.
• Experience applying DoW correspondence requirements, guides, manuals, and style standards.
• Experience using Microsoft Office applications, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Teams.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Active TS/SCI clearance.
• Exceptional oral and written communication skills, including the ability to translate complex technical information into clear, concise language.
• Professionalism and tact when working with senior Department of War leadership, military personnel, civilian officials, and external stakeholders.
• High emotional intelligence and the ability to foster productive relationships across diverse military and civilian organizations.
• Ability to work independently, understand organizational requirements, and take appropriate action on behalf of the organization.
• Demonstrated ownership of projects and initiatives from inception through completion or transition.