Project Control Analyst

Job description: Job title: Project Control Analyst Duration: Long term contract on w2 Location: Remote Position Summary: Client is seeking a Project Control Analyst to support a large government contractor on a long-term federal healthcare technology program. This role will support a Health-related initiative focused on improving the connection between healthcare data, readiness data, electronic health records, clinical decision support, and readiness visibility. Project Context: The program supports a federal health IT initiative tied to medical readiness, healthcare data, and armed forces personnel readiness assessment. The selected candidate is expected to support the program for approximately three years. Key Responsibilities: Support development, baseline, maintenance, and updates of the Integrated Master Schedule. Track program tasks, milestones, deliverables, action items, risks, dependencies, due dates, owners, and decision points. Support monthly cost, schedule, and performance reporting. Coordinate inputs for monthly Program Management Reviews and quarterly executive briefings. Maintain action item trackers, meeting cadence plans, standing agendas, risk registers, and status reporting artifacts. Help ensure deliverables are submitted on time through government-approved platforms. Track government review timelines, feedback, resubmissions, approvals, and open deficiencies. Support sprint-cycle coordination by tracking backlog status, sprint milestones, review dates, demos, retrospectives, and acceptance activities. Coordinate logistics for recurring meetings, stakeholder sessions, working groups, reviews, and briefings. Identify schedule conflicts, delivery risks, unresolved dependencies, missing inputs, and bottlenecks. Work with the Senior Data or Systems Engineer, Business Analyst, Stakeholder Relationship Manager, and government contractor leadership to keep workstreams aligned. Support documentation needed for transition-out planning and final program acceptance. Required Qualifications: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Project Management, Finance, Operations, Information Systems, Public Administration, or a related field. 4+ years of project control, project coordination, program analysis, PMO support, scheduling, operations, or government contractor support experience. Experience maintaining project schedules, milestone trackers, action item logs, risk registers, status reports, or deliverable trackers. Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Project, Smartsheet, JIRA, Confluence, SharePoint, or similar project/program management tools. Strong attention to detail and follow-through. Ability to organize complex workstreams and provide clear status visibility. Strong written and verbal communication skills. Ability to work in a deadline-driven environment with multiple stakeholders and frequent reporting requirements. Preferred Qualifications: Experience supporting federal government, healthcare IT, or government contractor programs. Experience with Integrated Master Schedules, cost/schedule/performance reporting, CDRL tracking, or contract deliverable management. Familiarity with Agile delivery environments, sprint schedules, backlog tracking, and release coordination. Experience supporting executive briefings, program management reviews, or formal government reporting. Understanding of acquisition, cybersecurity, data governance, or health IT program environments. PMP, CAPM, PMI-SP, Agile, Scrum, or related certification is a plus. Success Profile: The successful candidate will be disciplined, structured, responsive, and unafraid to chase down missing information. This person must be able to convert scattered activity into a visible operating rhythm so the team knows what is due, who owns it, what is late, what is at risk, and what decision is needed.