Division Action Officer (SETA Support)

Estimated Starting Salary Range: USD $90,050.00/Yr. - USD $150,000.00/Yr. Salary to be determined by the education, experience, knowledge, skills, and abilities of the applicant, internal equity, and alignment with market data.

• Coordinating high-priority taskers, data calls, and special requests that span multiple TR-I portfolios or originate from higher headquarters
• Identifying required contributors, gathering inputs, and maintaining clear ownership, suspense, and follow-through across participants
• Driving actions to closure and elevating unresolved issues, bottlenecks, or late responses when needed

• Drafting executive-level correspondence, decision packages, briefing materials, read-ahead, background memoranda, and transmittal packages for senior leadership use
• Translating programmatic, technical, and acquisition into clear, concise written products aligned to leadership intent
• Supporting development of products that enable timely leadership review and decision-making

• Maintaining the TR-I Division central action tracker across taskers, requests, and follow-on actions
• Tracking progress against suspense, identifying stalled or overdue actions, and maintaining current visibility into action status
• Providing the Deputy Division Support Lead and front office with a reliable picture of pending, active, and completed actions

• Identifying offices and stakeholders with equities in tasking or response
• Coordinating staffing and consolidating fragmented inputs into coherent response packages
• Helping ensure that actions are sufficiently coordinated before elevation for front-office review

• Supporting preparation for executive meetings, reviews, and engagements by coordinating action status, assembling materials, and capturing follow-on requirements
• Recording key leadership guidance, decisions, and resulting actions during executive sessions
• Converting direction from those sessions into tracked follow-up actions and assigned tasks

• Using approved collaboration and workflow tools to improve action visibility, task routing, and front-office efficiency
• Supporting disciplined use of templates, trackers, repositories, and workflow practices across front-office activities
• Helping improve the consistency and usability of action-management processes over time

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• Bachelor’s degree in defense or public policy, business administration, systems management, communications, program management, or a related field
• 5+ years of progressively responsible experience in DoD action officer work, executive staff operations, tasker coordination, briefing development, program integration, or similar front-office support environments
• Demonstrated experience coordinating multi-stakeholder taskers, data calls, or response packages across organizations
• Demonstrated ability to draft concise, executive-ready written products with limited supervision
• Experience managing action tracking systems, suspense management, and follow-through in a high-tempo environment
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office tools, including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint
• Active Secret Clearance

• Travel requirement is approximately 10 percent annually, typically around five non-consecutive weeks, subject to Government priorities and scheduling

• Experience serving as a primary Action Officer within OSW, Joint Staff, a Service staff, a PEO, defense agency, or similar headquarters environment
• Working knowledge of the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution process, defense acquisition frameworks, and congressional action timelines
• Experience using collaboration and workflow tools such as Jira, Confluence, Power BI, or similar task-management platforms
• Experience preparing executive decision packages, memoranda, transmittals, and read-ahead materials for senior leadership
• Experience working across multiple portfolios, staff elements, or higher-headquarters tasking channels
• Experience improving action-management workflows, tracker discipline, or front-office tasking processes

 

Scientific Research Corporation is an advanced information technology and engineering company that provides innovative products and services to government and private industry, as well as independent institutions. At the core of our capabilities is a seasoned team of highly skilled engineers and scientists with multidisciplinary backgrounds. This team is challenged daily to provide cutting edge technology solutions to our clients.

 

SRC offers a generous benefit package, including medical, dental, and vision plans, 401(k) with a company match, life insurance, vacation and sick paid time off accruals with amounts increasing based on role and years of service, 11 paid holidays, tuition reimbursement, and a work environment that encourages excellence and more. For positions requiring a security clearance, selected applicants will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information.

Scientific Research Corporation is an equal opportunity employer that does not discriminate in employment.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to their race, color, religion, sex, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under federal, state or local law.

 

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