Strategic Policy Analyst — Defense Medical Readiness

Location: Falls Church, VA. Work Environment: Hybrid, 3 days onsite per week. Clearance Required: Active Secret security clearance preferred; must be eligible to obtain. U.S. citizenship required. Status: Funded.

Responsibilities

• Provide medical logistics policy and analytical support to HRP&O, including strategic development, policy formulation, quality assurance, and research facilitation.
• Research, draft, review, coordinate, and update DoW medical logistics policy, guidance, doctrine, standard operating procedures, decision memoranda, executive summaries, and related products.
• Support the full policy lifecycle, including issue identification, research, drafting, staffing, stakeholder coordination, comment adjudication, revision, approval support, and maintenance of the administrative record.
• Interpret higher-level statutes, regulations, directives, instructions, and national security guidance and translate them into clear, actionable policy or operational guidance.
• Identify conflicting or overlapping policy requirements across DoW Components, Services, partner organizations, or interagency stakeholders and develop options for resolution.
• Analyze medical logistics and medical supply chain issues affecting readiness, including pharmaceuticals, medical devices, strategic supply requirements, and contingency support.
• Support the development of joint medical logistics policy, doctrine, and strategic supply requirements for peacetime, wartime, and contingency operations.
• Collect, analyze, and synthesize qualitative and quantitative information for working groups, committees, Capabilities-Based Assessments, Integrated Product Teams, and senior-leader reviews.
• Support coordination with U.S. federal and interagency partners on medical logistics planning, emergency response, supply chain resilience, and policy development.
• Develop concise briefings, talking points, issue papers, decision-support products, and recommendations for senior government stakeholders.
• Support responses to legislative, regulatory, and senior-leader inquiries and help ensure alignment with applicable compliance requirements.
• Engage operational stakeholders and subject-matter experts to ensure proposed policy is practical, executable, and aligned with readiness requirements.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in logistics, supply chain management, public policy, health administration, or a related field
• Minimum of three (3) years of relevant professional experience in medical logistics, logistics policy, DoW health policy, supply chain policy, or a closely related area.
• Demonstrated experience researching, analyzing, drafting, reviewing, or coordinating policy or other formal government products.
• Working knowledge of DoW organizations, staffing processes, or federal policy environments.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, including the ability to work through incomplete information and ambiguous requirements.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate complex issues clearly to technical and senior-leader audiences.
• Demonstrated ability to collaborate across organizations, manage competing stakeholder interests, and support resolution of conflicting positions.

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's degree in a related field.
• Strong knowledge of medical materiel supply chains and applicable regulatory frameworks.
• Military medical logistics experience or equivalent civilian experience.
• Experience with medical devices, pharmaceuticals, or related medical supply chain domains.
• Legislative or regulatory experience, including FDA or compliance-related work.
• Experience developing CONOPS, playbooks, executive summaries, or other decision-support products.

Benefits

• Health (PPO & HDHP) Insurance
• Dental
• Vision
• STD & LTD
• Basic Life Insurance
• 401k Company Match
• Voluntary Products

Pay

Salary Range: $90,000 - $127,000