Industrial-Organizational Psychologist & SME- DoD​/DCSA | VA with Security Clearance

Position Title:

Industrial-Organizational Psychologist – Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics SME
Company:
Strategic Technology Institute, Inc. (STi)

Location:

Quantico, VA (Primarily on-site at DCSA Headquarters; limited telework may be authorized)
Anticipated

Start Date:

30 September 2026
Clearance:
Active Secret clearance required at time of proposal submission EMPLOYMENT NOTE
• Full-time position contingent upon contract award and final staffing approval. STi is actively identifying highly qualified, cleared candidates for proposal staffing and rapid post-award onboarding.

• Period of Performance: 30 September 2026 – 30 March 2031, inclusive of option periods. Dates are subject to adjustment based on task-order award. POSITION OVERVIEW STi is seeking an Industrial-Organizational Psychologist to serve as a Strategic Workforce Planning and Analytics SME supporting the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Human Capital Management Office. This key position will apply industrial-organizational psychology, workforce research, people analytics, survey analysis, competency assessment, and data-visualization methods to support agency workforce-planning and workforce-shaping decisions.

The ideal candidate is a hands-on practitioner who can analyze human capital data, evaluate workforce competencies and gaps, improve employee-survey products, and convert complex findings into accessible reports, dashboards, briefings, and recommendations. PRIMARY DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

Responsibilities include:

• Apply industrial-organizational psychology methods to strategic workforce planning and human capital initiatives.

• Conduct quantitative and qualitative workforce analyses and develop analytic reports for leadership requests and oversight data calls.

• Extract, query, mine, analyze, and visualize information from human capital data sources.

• Document connections among reporting requirements, workforce data, and underlying human capital business processes.

• Develop dashboards and data visualizations depicting workforce trends, capability gaps, insights, and forecasting models.

• Support development and maintenance of People Analytics portal products.

• Conduct workforce competency and gap assessments and support maintenance of the DCSA competency library.

• Support development of workforce and succession-management plans.

• Analyze Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey, Exit Survey, New Hire Survey, and other employee-survey data.

• Develop survey response-rate dashboards, results dashboards, executive briefings, and organization-specific analyses.

• Review survey instruments and results products and recommend improvements to questions, instructions, methodology, analysis, and presentation.

• Benchmark human capital practices across DoD, Intelligence Community, Federal, and industry organizations.

• Develop reports, briefings, working papers, job aids, process documentation, and decision-support products for senior leaders.

• Support change-management, workforce-shaping, and HCMO modernization initiatives. MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS U.S. Citizenship required. Active Secret clearance required at time of proposal submission and must be maintained throughout contract performance.
• Bachelor’s degree or higher in industrial-organizational psychology, organizational psychology, behavioral science, statistics, data analytics, human capital, or a related discipline

• Expert knowledge of industrial-organizational psychology principles and best practices

• Demonstrated experience conducting workforce research, strategic workforce analysis, competency assessment, or organizational assessment

• Experience analyzing quantitative and qualitative human capital or employee-survey data

• Experience developing workforce dashboards, data visualizations, analytic reports, or forecasting products

• Experience supporting strategic workforce planning, succession planning, competency management, or workforce-shaping programs

• Knowledge of DoD strategic human capital goals and objectives

• Knowledge of change management and organizational transformation practices

• Ability to benchmark practices and convert research findings into…