Policy Analysis, Lead Associate

Peraton is a national security and enterprise IT company supporting government missions and agencies. The company is seeking a Lead Associate to own the end-to-end authoring, review, and production of CMS-facing vendor assessment and AI Tool Proof of Concept proposal deliverables. The role synthesizes technical, regulatory, program, and vendor input into decision-ready documents while maintaining traceability and using generative AI to accelerate drafting.

Responsibilities:

• Own the outline, drafting, review, red-team, and final production of the vendor-list assessment package
• Own the outline and draft of the POC Solution proposal covering development approach, demonstration plan, effectiveness analysis, implementation/production recommendations, cost, and gained efficiency
• Run the drafting cadence and section-lead coordination
• Maintain CMS-facing style, format, and traceability standards; manage figures, tables, and program-requirement traceability
• Use Peraton's internal tool, Peraton[x] as a productivity accelerator for first drafts and consistency checking, then apply senior editorial judgment to every CMS-facing paragraph

Requirements:

• 5 years with BS/BA; 3 years with MS/MA; 0 years with PhD
• Ability to be highly independent and adaptive in a fast-changing environment
• Has an "AI first" mentality and uses AI to accelerate productivity
• Experience using generative-AI writing assistants (LLMs, agentic drafting tools) for first-draft acceleration, with the editorial discipline to correct and ground the output
• Experience authoring CMS-facing or comparable Federal-health-agency artifacts under compressed schedules
• Ability to synthesize architect, security, and program input into a single, consistent, decision-ready document with clean requirement traceability
• Strong command of technical-communication fundamentals: outline discipline, section-lead coordination, figure/table strategy, style guides, red-team incorporation
• Comfort with the subject matter (LLMs, agentic AI, cloud data platforms, AWS, fraud-detection/program-integrity use cases) sufficient to edit and challenge engineering input
• Excellent written and verbal communication
• US citizenship; ability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust clearance
• Prior proposal work on CMS or other Federal health programs
• APMP certification or equivalent proposal-management credential
• Experience producing vendor-evaluation / POC-outcome reports for a Federal customer
• Working knowledge of Medicare/Medicaid program integrity terminology (e.g., UPIC, MEDIC, MFCU, NPI)
• Familiarity with SAFe Agile documentation cadence (Confluence/JIRA)