Acquisition Program Manager
About the role
Chenega Services and Federal Solutions, LLC (CSFS) is seeking an Acquisition Support Program Manager to support the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) Office of the Commissioner Strategic Initiative Programs. The Acquisition Program Manager will lead a team providing procurement advisory and assistance services to the Sentinel 3.0 program team by developing procurement work products for the program team's review before submission to FDA Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services (OAGS). The FDA Sentinel Initiative is a national electronic system used to monitor the safety of approved medical products—such as drugs, vaccines, and medical devices—after they reach the market. Work Location: Remote‑ Qualified candidate must be local to Silver Spring, MD. Teleworking permitted: Yes, must be local to Silver Spring, MD.
Responsibilities
- Provides overall program management and coordination for a portfolio of acquisition support services, serving as the primary point of contact for the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).
- Responsibilities include scheduling, staffing, deliverable tracking, quality assurance, stakeholder communication, risk management, and reporting to government leadership.
- Ensures contract performance aligns with task order requirements, period of performance milestones, and agency priorities.
- Manages and coordinates key functional areas across the acquisition support team, which may include the Acquisition Lead, Evaluation Lead, Documentation Lead, and Quality Assurance Manager functions.
- Ensures appropriate assignment, coverage, and integration of responsibilities across all supported acquisition workstreams.
- Maintains proactive visibility into capacity constraints and workload conditions, surfacing material schedule conflicts or resource limitations to the Government early enough to allow for reprioritization or recovery action.
- Tracks and reports on performance metrics including on-time delivery rates, first-submission acceptance rates, and FAR compliance results.
- Leads development and execution of the