You understand the power of great service experience and its ability to inspire customer behavior.  You have a keen understanding of what it takes to deliver exceptional services, both in front of the house and behind the scenes.  But most of all, you see all of this in the context of furthering our clients’ core mission or business. You will help large, complex government organizations, especially the Department of Defense, to transform the way they use information to improve operations. The issues to be resolved are often difficult to define and quantify; may involve complex, traditionally competing interests; are often characterized by senior leadership interest and visibility and require extensive proving and analysis. 

Technical Assent is seeking a Department of Defense / Department of War policy analyst to support the development of DoW-level policy documents concerning Commercial Support to Operations (CSO) and/or Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM). The Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Logistics is responsible for accelerating the adoption of CSO and SCRM standards and guidance across the Department, sharing identified supply chain or vendor risks, advancing the use of enterprise analytics, tools, and data, and establishing processes for elevating enterprise-wide risks to senior DoD leaders. The project provides expertise in supply chain risk management, logistics strategy and policy, supply chain operations, and asset management. The team supports the full lifecycle of defense-wide logistics and SCRM policies, monitors sustainment programs, and strengthens visibility, accountability, resilience, and auditability across critical defense supply chains and assets. This project focuses on the comprehensive modernization, systematic tracking, and cross-functional synchronization of all active logistics and supply chain risk policies, instructions, and directives maintained by the office. By implementing rigorous administrative controls, strong records management, risk tracking, and proactive stakeholder coordination, this effort ensures all logistics and SCRM guidance remains accurate, compliant, responsive to evolving threats, and aligned with modern warfighting requirements.

Role Description

The Senior Consultant will support Department-wide supply chain risk management (SCRM) across logistics and supply chain equities, including acquisition, sourcing, transportation, distribution, materiel, sustainment, readiness, and supplier resilience. This individual will analyze and draft policy, support staffing and coordination activities, assess Department-level impacts, and help translate SCRM requirements into practical guidance and implementation actions. The role requires strong DoW institutional knowledge, policy writing and analysis experience, executive communication skills, and the initiative to work independently across diverse stakeholder groups.

Key Responsibilities

• Support DoW supply chain risk management (SCRM) policy, oversight, governance, and enterprise coordination across logistics and supply chain disciplines.
• Analyze the impacts of SCRM policies, executive orders, guidance, and governance requirements across acquisition, sourcing, procurement, industrial base, transportation, distribution, materiel, maintenance, inventory, sustainment, readiness, and related mission areas.
• Draft, refine, staff, and coordinate policy documents, decision papers, briefings, talking points, memoranda, and status updates.
• Support the development and implementation of SCRM governance structures, processes, roles, responsibilities, and decision rights across DoW logistics and supply chain stakeholders.
• Track and manage logistics and supply chain equities, issues, risks, dependencies, and action items across DoW offices, commands, components, and mission stakeholders.
• Coordinate policy reviews, staffing packages, stakeholder comments, implementation activities, and follow-up actions across the Department.
• Prepare executive-level briefings, recommendations, read-aheads, and decision support materials for senior leaders.
• Assess how SCRM policies and governance decisions may affect DoW logistics operations, mission readiness, supply availability, supplier resilience, and critical dependencies.
• Translate policy, executive orders, and governance requirements into practical guidance and actionable steps for logistics and supply chain stakeholders.
• Support the development of oversight mechanisms, reporting cadences, performance measures, risk indicators, and implementation plans.
• Identify gaps, vulnerabilities, risks, and opportunities to improve SCRM execution across DoW logistics and supply chain functions.
• Facilitate communication up, out, and across the Department regarding SCRM priorities, decisions, risks, and implementation requirements.
• Support senior advisory activities in meetings, forums, working groups, and governance bodies.
• Operate as a self-starter who independently advances assigned work, anticipates coordination needs, and elevates issues requiring leadership attention.

Required Skills & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Minimum 5 years of relevant experience in policy analysis, supply chain risk management, logistics, acquisition, sustainment, transportation, industrial base management, or related defense or federal work.
• Strong policy analysis, writing, staffing, and coordination experience.
• Demonstrated familiarity with DoW organizational structures, missions, decision-making processes, and institutional stakeholder environment.
• Experience supporting DoW policy, oversight, governance, enterprise coordination, or senior leadership activities.
• Ability to assess the Department-level impacts of SCRM policy and governance decisions across logistics and supply chain functions.
• Working knowledge of logistics and supply chain disciplines, including acquisition, sourcing, procurement, transportation, distribution, materiel, maintenance, inventory, sustainment, readiness, and supplier resilience.
• Experience preparing briefings, decision papers, recommendations, talking points, memoranda, executive correspondence, and other senior-level products.
• Strong stakeholder coordination skills, including experience working across multiple DoW offices, commands, components, and mission communities.
• Ability to analyze complex logistics and supply chain issues, identify risks and dependencies, synthesize information, and develop actionable recommendations.
• Demonstrated initiative, sound judgment, and ability to work independently with limited direction.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to communicate with senior leaders and functional experts.
• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States without the need for employer sponsorship, now or at any time in the future.
• Must be available to work on-site in Alexandria, VA, up to five days per week.
• Secret clearance required.

Preferred Skills & Experience

• 8+ years of relevant experience in DoW policy, logistics, supply chain, SCRM, acquisition, sustainment, or related defense or federal functions.
• Experience supporting DoW headquarters, component, command, or enterprise-level logistics and supply chain policy or governance.
• Familiarity with defense industrial base risk, critical dependencies, supplier resilience, strategic materials, production capacity, transportation networks, and supply availability.
• Experience coordinating policy staffing packages and resolving comments across organizations with competing priorities.
• Experience assessing cross-functional impacts across logistics, acquisition, operations, sustainment, and readiness communities.
• Experience supporting senior DoW leaders, executive forums, working groups, or governance bodies.
• Familiarity with DoW acquisition, logistics, operational, and mission-support processes.
• Experience developing oversight frameworks, performance measures, reporting mechanisms, risk dashboards, or implementation plans.

The Senior Consultant is expected to approach assignments in the context of the Government's broader mission and objectives, anticipate risks and stakeholder needs, and support decisions through well-researched and data-driven analysis. The role requires the ability to independently manage assigned work while contributing effectively within a consulting team. These expectations align with Technical Assent's Senior Consultant level.

General Expectations

In addition to the responsibilities described above, a successful Senior Consultant at Technical Assent:

• Broadens their general knowledge, skills, and abilities within Technical Assent's Capability Areas and develops deeper practical expertise in project-specific capability areas.
• Participates in and applies Technical Assent's consulting approaches and methods.
• Shares knowledge with internal and external peers through writing and speaking approximately three to five times per year.
• Contributes to organizational capability by developing reusable process assets, templates, and tools that improve the consistency of Technical Assent's services.
• Supports business development by researching customer needs and the competitive environment and actively contributing to proposal efforts.
• Recognizes opportunities and helps define solutions that address customer needs.
• Maintains a professional demeanor consistent with Technical Assent's core values.

Work Location

On site at client facility in Alexandria, VA (Mark Center), up to 5 days per week.

Salary Range

For individuals assigned and/or hired to work in Virginia, Technical Assent is required by law to include a reasonable estimate of the compensation range for this role. This compensation range is specific to Virginia and takes into account the wide range of factors that are considered in making compensation decisions including but not limited to skill sets; experience and training; licensure and certifications; and other business and organizational needs. At Technical Assent, it is not typical for an individual to be hired at or near the top of the range for their role and compensation decisions are dependent on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $110,000 to $130,000.
You may also be eligible to participate in a discretionary annual incentive program, subject to the rules governing the program, whereby an award, if any, depends on various factors, including, without limitation, individual and organizational performance.

THE COMPANY

Technical Assent is passionate about services – in government, business, and not-for-profit. We design exceptional service experiences, engineer them to be robust, and deliver real capability and business outcomes for our clients. You will be working on government programs that have strategic importance to our client.  Your team will work IN and ON the client’s core mission – helping them to deliver their services day-to-day while simultaneously looking for opportunities to improve.  Our work is Driven by Evidence, Grounded in Understanding, and Focused on Impact.  

A LITTLE ABOUT OUR CULTURE

We look for these attributes in our teammates.

• Our team combines the creative and the pragmatic to deliver the results that matter most to our clients.  We see beauty when art and science come together.
• We seek self-starters, people who are confident in tackling challenges independently and bringing this to high-performing teams.  We continually seek feedback from our customers and employees, looking for opportunities to grow.
• We are a small company which gives you an essential voice in shaping our culture.  You will help grow our culture, and you will grow from the experience, too.

You will be part of a team to take an improvement concept and transform it into a capability – an asset that provides measurable value to our client’s mission.  The team will work with users, prototype, develop, and deliver new capabilities.  We hold ourselves accountable to impacting outcomes.

• Comprehensive Medical, Dental & Vision coverage
• 401(k) plan with employer contributions and matching
• Company-paid Life Insurance and Short- & Long-Term Disability
• Flexible PTO
• Health & Dependent Care Spending Accounts
• OneMedical primary care membership
• Annual Learning & Development benefit to support your career growth
• Wellness benefit
• Mobile phone stipend
• Charitable contribution matching