Senior Policy Analyst DES

Montcure, LLC is a data-driven consulting company delivering solutions to federal clients. The Senior Policy Analyst will lead policy review, development, and integration for a Department of Defense health program, supervise policy analysts, assess the impact of legislation and regulations, and provide recommendations and guidance to senior government leaders.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the policy function — own policy review, development, and integration for the program, and supervise a team of policy analysts covering research, drafting, and staffing
• Run a standing horizon scan — monitor enacted legislation, the annual defense authorization and appropriations cycle, proposed and final rules, departmental and service-level issuances, partner-agency policy, and court and board decisions for anything that touches the program
• Assess impact and recommend action — produce structured impact assessments covering authority, provisions affected, population and cost effects, operational consequences, and risk of inaction, with recommended courses of action delivered within five business days of request
• Develop legislative review packages — build complete, justified, actionable legislative reviews and support their movement through departmental staffing
• Draft policy and implementation guidance — write policy text, staffing documents, instructions, and forms to DoD writing and issuance standards, at a quality that needs little or no editorial revision
• Support the quality assurance program — analyze, research, and propose changes to the program's QA framework, monitor service-level compliance, and advise on normalizing the program across the enterprise
• Own recurring reporting — lead the annual report cycle, quarterly QA reporting, and triennial inspection coordination against fixed, calendar-locked due dates
• Support oversight engagements — prepare analysis, written responses, and read-ahead material for Inspector General, GAO, and congressional inquiries
• Coordinate across organizations — work with military department program offices, partner agencies, and internal stakeholders to move documents through multi-party review and comment adjudication

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in public policy, political science, public administration, or business administration
• Eight or more years of professional experience in federal policy, regulatory, or legislative analysis
• Active Project Management Professional (PMP) certification, or Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certification
• Five or more years supervising or overseeing groups of personnel
• Demonstrated experience analyzing federal statutes, regulations, departmental and service-level issuances, and court or board decisions, and translating that analysis into written recommendations for senior leaders
• Experience maintaining a quality assurance program, initiating policy planning, and providing technical and legislative support
• Five or more years implementing Department of Defense and Department of Veterans Affairs policy and federal regulation and maintaining compliance
• Knowledge of the Department of Defense disability evaluation program and its governing regulations
• Experience preparing legislative proposals or personnel legislation reviews for departmental staffing
• Familiarity with caregiver compensation policy and programs
• Experience coordinating multi-agency document review and comment adjudication cycles
• Experience supporting Inspector General or Government Accountability Office engagements
• Advanced degree in law, public policy, or public administration
• Prior support to the Defense Health Agency, the Military Health System, or a military department headquarters