Cyber Manpower and Workforce Analysis SME

Our client is seeking a senior Cyber Manpower and Workforce Analysis Subject Matter Expert to support the Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command. The six-month engagement will establish an independent, defensible baseline for the workforce required to execute the command's mission. You will help catalog missions, functions, and tasks; identify workload drivers; build workload-to-FTE estimates; assess current and future manpower gaps; and recommend the appropriate military, civilian, and contractor mix. You will work with command leaders, J-Directorate personnel, cyber mission specialists, manpower and personnel staff, and data owners to separate current mission demand from legacy organizational assumptions. Ideal candidates combine DoD manpower-analysis experience, quantitative workforce modeling, structured interviewing, and the judgment to connect staffing decisions to operational risk.

Key Responsibilities:

Develop a mutually exclusive and collectively exhaustive taxonomy of the command's missions, functions, and tasks, with clear ownership boundaries, outputs, dependencies, complexity tiers, authorities, and completion criteria.
Define workload-driver trees and success measures that connect mission demand to measurable volume, complexity, service-level, coverage, compliance, and risk factors.
Document the data source, owner, collection cadence, known quality issues, and validation method for each key workload driver and performance measure.
Build a J-Directorate-aligned interview architecture, data inventory, extraction plan, and mission-function-task-to-role crosswalk that supports complete and non-duplicative analysis.
Conduct structured, artifact-based interviews using recent incidents, exercises, patch cycles, recurring reporting, and other representative work to validate task definitions, workload, constraints, and handoffs.
Organize needs by mission set, characterize required versus authorized versus on-hand gaps, and express operational consequences through specific mission-impact statements.
Develop a transparent workload-to-FTE model using demand drivers, time standards, complexity and variability factors, quality requirements, and explicit assumptions for 24/7 coverage, relief, surge, and major-incident conditions.
Forecast workload over three to five years and use scenario and sensitivity analysis to identify the assumptions that drive the greatest variance in manpower requirements.
Assess military, civilian, and contractor workforce options using mission authority, inherently governmental considerations, readiness, continuity, security, access, retention, and oversight requirements.
Identify critical dependencies and produce decision-ready reports, executive briefings, an implementation roadmap, and a repeatable manpower-refresh toolkit.

Required: Bachelor's degree and eight or more years of relevant Department of Defense experience in manpower analysis, workforce planning, organizational analysis, force management, personnel policy, operations research, or a related field. Direct experience conducting or supporting a DoD manpower study, manpower requirements determination, organizational assessment, or mission-function-task analysis. Demonstrated ability to translate mission demand into workload drivers, time standards, coverage factors, and traceable FTE requirements. Experience modeling persistent or 24/7 operations, including shift coverage, relief factors, surge posture, variability, and operational-risk assumptions. Experience reconciling required, authorized, assigned, and on-hand staffing and identifying the operational causes and effects of manpower gaps. Knowledge of military, civilian, and contractor workforce-mix decisions, including inherently governmental considerations, continuity, access, readiness, and oversight trade-offs. Strong quantitative, facilitation, and executive-writing skills, with the ability to explain assumptions, uncertainty, and mission impact to senior leaders. Active Department of Defense Secret clearance and the ability to satisfy all customer security, suitability, and installation-access requirements.

Preferred: Experience supporting the Department of Defense Cyber Defense Command, Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network, Defense Information Systems Agency, U.S. Cyber Command, or a comparable joint cyber organization. Working knowledge of DoDIN operations and defense, threat-informed risk reduction, incident response, adversary response generation, and support to combatant-command priorities. Experience with J-Directorate structures, the DoD Cyber Workforce Framework, cyber work-role families, skill bands, or comparable workforce taxonomies. Experience applying DOTmLPF-P analysis, scenario planning, sensitivity analysis, assumption registers, and options analysis to manpower or force-design decisions. Advanced experience building auditable workforce models in Excel or a comparable quantitative-analysis environment. Active TS/SCI clearance. Education: Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or a related field