# Strategic Planning Management Analyst > Gritter Francona · Washington, United States (Hybrid) · Full-time · Posted 2026-08-28 **Workplace:** hybrid **Department:** SIM ## Description Gritter Francona is seeking a Management Analyst to support strategy and planning for senior management to align IT initiatives with strategic goals and business needs. **Responsibilities:** - Develop and implement strategic plans that align IT initiatives, operational priorities, and organizational investments with VHA strategy, mission, and business needs. - Translate organizational strategy into measurable objectives, key performance indicators (KPIs), milestones, outcomes, and actionable implementation roadmaps. - Develop and maintain strategic performance frameworks, scorecards, and dashboards to monitor progress against organizational priorities and desired outcomes. - Conduct quantitative and qualitative analysis of operational, financial, project, workforce, and performance data to identify trends, gaps, risks, dependencies, and opportunities. - Integrate data from multiple organizational sources to develop comprehensive views of performance and provide leadership with timely, reliable, and actionable insights. - Develop executive dashboards, reports, briefing materials, and decision-support products that translate complex data and analysis into clear recommendations for senior leadership. - Establish and facilitate recurring data-driven performance reviews with leadership to assess strategic progress, identify barriers, and recommend corrective actions. - Develop leading and lagging performance indicators to monitor current performance and identify emerging risks, issues, and opportunities. - Conduct forecasting, scenario analysis, and predictive assessments to anticipate emerging trends, resource requirements, operational impacts, and potential changes in strategic priorities. - Evaluate strategic initiatives, programs, and IT investments based on strategic alignment, mission impact, customer outcomes, cost, risk, feasibility, resource requirements, and expected value. - Support strategic portfolio management by maintaining visibility into initiatives, priorities, milestones, dependencies, risks, resource requirements, funding, and expected outcomes. - Develop objective prioritization and scoring methodologies to support leadership decisions regarding competing initiatives, investments, and resource allocation. - Analyze organizational demand, resource capacity, funding, and initiative performance to identify portfolio constraints and recommend effective allocation of resources. - Develop business cases, cost-benefit analyses, return-on-investment assessments, and value analyses to inform strategic and investment decisions. - Monitor strategic initiatives for benefits realization and evaluate whether investments achieve intended mission, operational, financial, and customer outcomes. - Conduct business process analysis and continuous-improvement assessments to identify inefficiencies, duplication, bottlenecks, unnecessary complexity, and opportunities for standardization or automation. - Perform root-cause analysis of significant performance gaps and develop evidence-based recommendations, improvement plans, and implementation strategies. - Identify and evaluate opportunities to leverage emerging technologies, artificial intelligence, automation, analytics, and digital capabilities to improve efficiency, decision-making, workforce effectiveness, and mission outcomes. - Conduct environmental scans, benchmarking, and trend analyses of emerging healthcare, technology, workforce, regulatory, and operational developments to identify strategic implications and opportunities for VHA. - Assess emerging trends and technologies and recommend proactive strategies, investments, capabilities, or organizational changes to prepare for future mission and business needs. - Establish and maintain data quality, governance, and documentation practices for strategic planning and performance information to ensure data is accurate, consistent, timely, and reliable. - Maintain and manage strategic planning documentation, governance artifacts, analytical models, decision records, performance measures, and other critical artifacts. - Develop standardized strategic planning methodologies, templates, analytical frameworks, governance processes, and reporting practices to improve consistency, transparency, and repeatability. - Facilitate strategic planning sessions, portfolio reviews, workshops, and cross-functional working groups with senior leadership and key stakeholders. - Facilitate cross-functional collaboration to resolve strategic dependencies, risks, resource conflicts, implementation barriers, and competing priorities. - Support organizational change initiatives through stakeholder analysis, organizational readiness assessments, change-management strategies, communications planning, and adoption measurement. - Monitor implementation of strategic initiatives and provide leadership with recommendations to address risks, delays, performance gaps, and changing organizational conditions. - Conduct post-implementation reviews and lessons-learned analyses to evaluate outcomes, capture best practices, and improve future strategic initiatives and investments. - Develop and maintain relationships with clinical, administrative, IT, financial, operational, and executive stakeholders to ensure strategic initiatives remain aligned with organizational needs. - Promote a culture of evidence-based decision-making by incorporating data, performance trends, stakeholder input, and measurable outcomes into strategic planning and resource decisions. - Identify opportunities to improve organizational transparency, accountability, and decision velocity through improved data, reporting, governance, and analytical processes. - Perform other strategic planning, management analysis, performance improvement, and decision-support activities as required to advance VHA mission and organizational priorities. ## Requirements - Bachelor's degree in Business Administration, Public Administration, Healthcare Management, or related field. - Minimum 4 years of relevant experience - Previous experience supporting the VA or VHA a must - Strong analytical and project management skills. - Excellent written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills. - Ability to manage multiple tasks and priorities effectively. - Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite, including project management tools. - Proficiency in strategic planning tools. ## Benefits - Health Care Plan (Medical, Dental & Vision) - Retirement Plan (401k, IRA) - Life Insurance (Basic, Voluntary & AD&D) - Paid Time Off (Vacation, Sick & Public Holidays) - Short Term & Long Term Disability - Training & Development ## Apply [Apply at Gritter Francona](https://apply.workable.com/gritter-francona/j/5BC3240143/apply) --- Powered by [Workable](https://www.workable.com)