CONGRESSIONAL AFFAIRS ANALYST

Responsibilities:

• Addressing all Congressional requests of ARNG, including Congressional requests from Soldiers, lawmakers, and executive agencies, and advocating on behalf of all ARNG soldiers nationwide
• Use familiarity with government agency artifact writing and editing requirements to coordinate with multiple stakeholders, understand data calls, prepare, and brief executive-level artifacts, follow, and establish processes and procedures, facilitate, summarize, and track outcomes of meetings, including:
  • Developing comprehensive documentation and translating complex information into simple, polished, engaging content
  • Business process analysis as well as technical writing and editing
  • Create, review, submit and track highly visible documentation (including Congressional), coordinate actions and tasks, and facilitate training and meeting
    aspects
  • Focusing on format, style, grammar, and tone while researching, clarifying, writing, and designing printed material for mass distribution that may be used on
    official websites, e-mails, announcements, and reports 
  • When required, collaborate with or back up the Technical Writing support
• Stay abreast of latest, key regulations and policies, then analyze and relay any needed authorization, allowance, guideline, policy, procedure, and process update
  recommendations – This includes tracking any Congressional floor actions, bills and amendments through the House, Senate, Conference sessions, Presidential updates, Office of Management and Budget (OMB) reports, Army Audit Agency (AAA), Department of Defense Inspector General, and Government Accountability Office (GAO) audits/reports
• Route, analyze, and task advance policy inquiries to the appropriate stakeholders (especially for approval), in a timely manner, addressing all parts of the request while using the correct format, accurate data and audience-specific language – all in accordance with the NGB regulatory requirements
• Use Enterprise Task Management Solution System (ETMS2) / Task Management Tool (TMT) and Microsoft Excel to track, provide summaries and submit any recommended actions related to policy related changes or impacts
• Ensure the Congressional Affairs Program, including regulations and policies, understands authorizations, allowances, guidelines, procedures, and processes are
  documented 
• Responsible for drafting official responses, controlling, analyzing, researching, and formulating written and telephonic requests from Members of Congress and their staffs, and Congressional Committees so they can make strategic choices that align with organizational priorities – This support function enhances transparency, accountability, and collaboration across the organization
• Coordinate with ARNG Congressional Affairs Liaison to ensure travel policy understating when travel from primary place of performance in support of Congressional activities
• Conduct necessary research and draft/review initial responses to report to SGS Deputy and Action Officers on White House and Congressional Inquiries sent to the Pentagon
• Maintain proper protocols for classified information and timeliness and navigate government document, task, and process-tracking databases/repositories.