Senior PMO Analyst

Senior Portfolio Management Office (PMO) Analyst

About Us:

BlackSky is a real-time intelligence company. We own and operate the world's most advanced space-based intelligence platform and provide customers satellite imagery, automated analytics and high-frequency monitoring of strategic locations, economic assets, and events from around the globe. BlackSky is trusted by the most demanding allied military and intelligence organizations and commercial companies to deliver foresight into critical matters that affect national security and the economy. BlackSky's data enables governments and businesses to see, understand and anticipate change as it happens, giving them the ultimate strategic advantage so they can act quickly. Our global team works with cutting-edge technology to make a difference around the world and prides itself on being people-first, customer-focused and fun.

The Senior Analyst role enables the Portfolio Management Office (PMO) by working in close coordination with the PMO Director to develop, maintain, and operate full lifecycle processes for the organization's work portfolio, including both direct customer-facing contract-based work as well as indirect internal work. This work includes strategic work alignment and value justification, performance tracking and reporting, and execution excellence while also owning the administration and configuration of the PPM platform. The Senior Analyst will directly handle the scheduling and fulfillment of key monthly operating events and activities both within and outside of the Office of the COO. This position is a hybrid role based out our Herndon, VA headquarters and reports to the Director, PMO.

Responsibilities:

• Provide lifecycle oversight, controls, and health monitoring for the delivery portfolio (direct and indirect work sub-portfolios) and fulfillment of all requisite monthly operational duties.
• Ensure strategic fit and value justification for all indirect initiatives as well as proper work and financial charge code setup in coordination with sponsoring executives and owning functional managers.
• Planning, development, maintenance, and configuration control of PMO policies, standards, processes, procedures, tool guides and other reference artifacts.
• Serve as the PPM platform system administrator and configurator. This includes tier 1 user support, access management, basic customizations, user adoption, report design/setup, proactive data completeness and quality monitoring, PPM product roadmap awareness and planning, system integrations, and feature exploitation.
• Curriculum development and user training delivery in areas of responsibility.
• Direct service support to PMs in the areas of: WBS development, schedule development, financial management, risk management, resources management and other requisite program management domains.
• Other job-related duties as assigned.

Required Qualification