Analyst - Pursuit Management

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

- Support pursuit readiness activities before and after RFP release by maintaining schedules, trackers, and workstream coordination materials.
- Maintain workplans, action-item logs, decision trackers, milestone calendars, risk registers, and status reports for assigned workstreams.
- Track owner assignments, due dates, dependencies, open items, and follow-up actions to support schedule adherence.
- Monitor pursuit milestones, flag schedule risks, and escalate barriers requiring leadership attention.
- Coordinate questions, meetings, reminders, and follow-ups across writing, pricing, operations, sales, and proposal teams.
- Prepare concise status updates that summarize progress, upcoming deadlines, risks, decisions, and next steps.
- Use approved AI-enabled tools to help summarize updates, organize action items, streamline tracker maintenance, and improve follow-up efficiency.

Minimum Requirements

- Bachelor's degree in relevant field of study and 3+ years of relevant professional experience required, or equivalent combination of education and experience.

Preferred Qualifications

-Experience organizing and maintaining project schedules, workplans, and milestone calendars.

Strong attention to detail and ability to manage multiple tasks while meeting deadlines.

-Experience tracking action items, decisions, risks, and project updates to support successful execution.

-Ability to coordinate effectively with multiple team members and stakeholders across projects.

-Strong organizational skills with the ability to identify missing information and follow up proactively.

-Experience monitoring schedules and escalating potential risks or delays when needed.

-Excellent written and verbal communication skills, including preparing clear and concise status updates.

-Experience documenting meeting notes, tracking follow-up actions, and ensuring accountability for next steps.

-Proficiency using approved AI-enabled tools to support meeting summaries, action tracking, project organization, and follow-up activities.

-Strong skills in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, and other collaboration tools.

This position is fully remote and will require a home office.

Home office requirements:

Reliable high-speed internet service

Minimum 20 Mpbs download speeds/50 Mpbs for shared internet connectivity

Minimum 5 Mpbs upload speeds

EEO Statement

Maximus is an equal opportunity employer.

We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information and other legally protected characteristics.

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