Acquisition Program Management Specialist.

Duties

The United States Space Force (USSF) at the Pentagon is seeking a TMM Program Manager to support SYD 81 (NH-0343-03, GS-12/13 Equivalent).

• Develops two Space Force Wide programs - a new Human Resources IT program and Continuous Fitness Assessment Wearables (CFAW) program.
• Drives cost, schedule, and performance for HR IT and CFAW.
• Led cross-functional IPTs to ensure acquisition integration across SYD 81.
• Defines and enforces all program management processes in support of HR IT, CFA, and SYD 81.
• Manages contract execution and direction for A&AS/SETA personnel in SYD 81.
• Creates, coordinates, and synchronizes acquisition strategies, spend plans, and other official programmatic documentation through SYD 81 staff functions.
• Leads a mixed team of approximately 5 to 10 Government civilian, military, and support contractors.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret security clearance.
• Within 30-days of assuming this position and annually thereafter, file an OGE-450, “confidential Financial Disclosure Report.”
• Required to attend annual ethics and procurement integrity training.
• May be required to work overtime on an unscheduled or emergency basis.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed “Unscheduled Telework.”
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• Employee may be required to perform travel by military or commercial passenger aircraft in the performance of temporary duty assignments.
• This position has been designated by the Air Force as a Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP).

Qualifications

• Experience in defense acquisition and program management.
• Background in leading enterprise capability acquisitions, navigating Defense Business Systems (DBS), and executing agile software methodologies.
• Knowledge of the Business Capability Acquisition Cycle (BCAC - DoDI 5000.75), Software Acquisition Pathway (DoDI 5000.87), Contracting Officer Representative (COR) duties, and APDP Practitioner Certification in Program Management.
• Ability to lead a team of Government civilian, military, and support contractors.
• Effective communication skills, able to receive, interpret, and communicate programmatic information from senior leadership to the rest of the organization.
• Knowledge, skill & abilities in applicable principles, concepts, policies, and laws; functions, programs, and systems applicable to the duties of logistics contracts and program management and material support; sources, responsibilities, and means for providing assistance and advice to resolve logistics contracts and program management problems; and all aspects of logistics contracts and program management support.
• Government and private industry policies and practices related to business management, industrial management, financial systems, technical concepts, and production practices.
• Ability to gather, analyze, and evaluate a variety of program information, such as commercial business practices, market conditions, offer acceptability, contractor acceptability, contractor responsibility and/or performance to determine acquisition strategy and sources.
• Knowledge of the missions, roles, functions, organizational structures, and operation of the Department of Defense and entities that govern, interface with, and/or influence management control of proposed and ongoing service contracts.
• Ability to plan, organize, and coordinate the activities of a multi-disciplinary program team; analyze project requirements to set priorities, make sound technical and business decisions, and integrate work operations to achieve organizational acquisition goals.
• Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, clearly, concisely, with technical accuracy and to use computers and a variety of software programs and databases, gather and analyze a variety of program information, make sound judgments concerning program progress, and effectively communicate recommendations orally and in writing to higher organizational management and contractors.
• Ability to establish and maintain good relationships with individuals and groups within the office as well as outside the immediate work unit and to be persuasive in representing the best interests of the government when dealing with personnel with highly divergent points of view.
• Ability to plan, organize, analyze problems, translate complex information, make appropriate judgments, evaluate options, conduct research, summarize results, make appropriate recommendations, and manage critical aspects of service contract requirements as related to the assigned functional area and meet deadlines.
• Ability to compose and edit contract required correspondence, review and analyze directives, develop and brief service contract program related presentations.