What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Congressional and Public Affairs Specialist/Advisor position at Wits Solutions Inc.?
Wits Solutions Inc. (WITS) is a SBA certified 8(a) company with headquarters in the metropolitan Washington D.C. area. WITS has been providing best-in-class solutions in professional IT and administrative consulting to various Federal, State, Local and commercial customers. At WITS, we believe in working not for our clients but with them. This is why right from the beginning; our analysts and solution-builders work closely with our clients to ensure that the project outcomes continue to deliver value long into the future.
Job Description
Security Clearance:
Job Description
Security Clearance:
- TS/SCI
- Bachelor’s degree
- Minimum seven (7) years of demonstrated experience performing technical analysis with legislative process expertise, Prior agency experience (OUSD, I&S) if not (WHS)
- Experience in collecting, reviewing, assessing, and demonstrating congressional information, correspondence and other documentation.
- Demonstrated experience tracking congressional reports.
- Experience preparing witnesses for hearings, staff reviews, GAO audits and other congressional activities.
- Experience drafting legislation and legislative appeals, analyzing legislative proposals and enacted legislation.
- Collect, review, assess, and disseminate congressional information, correspondence, and other documentation within the DoD and IC, and among required Executive Branch elements.
- Support the development, coordination, and tracking of reports, correspondence, Questions for the Record (QFRs) and activities responding to the Congress; This is a daily activity.
- Support OUSD(I&S) preparations for congressional hearings, staff reviews, Government
- Accounting Office audits, and other congressional activities; Processes, standards, and services related to congressional activities to provide advice, guidance, and training and to make recommendations for improvements. This is a daily activity.
- Provide assistance with the drafting of coordinating and communication among the Defense Agencies and IC regarding congressional matters related to systems, programs, architectures, issues, and initiatives. Estimated quantity is 10 per week.
- Draft summaries of intelligence and intelligence related legislative provisions or other directive language in annual National Defense Authorization Act, Defense Appropriations Act, and Intelligence Authorization Act, accompanying committee or conference reports and classified annexes. Estimated quantity is 4 per month.
- Coordinate responses to congressional letters for the SECDEF, USD(I&S), and Director of Congressional Activities. Manages and recommends refinements to the congressional correspondence coordination process within OUSD(I&S) and among OUSD(I&S) and the defense intelligence components. Estimated quantity is 4 per month.
- Manage congressional taskings throughout OUSD(I&S) on behalf of the Director, Congressional Activities; and coordinate taskings classified up to Top Secret / Sensitive Compartmented Information, to include Alternative Compensatory Control Measures. Estimated quantity is 10 per week.
- Assess the impact of legislative proposals and enacted legislation.
- Draft USD(I&S), OSD and Administration comments and/or appeals concerning legislation originating within the OUSD(I&S), the Defense intelligence community, other elements of the Executive Branch, and Congress; and
- Conduct continuous evaluations and assessments of all business policies and processes and make recommendations to improve systems (including information technologies) related to congressional activities. This is a daily activity.
