Acquisition Specialist (Lifecycle Acquisition- Senior) with Security Clearance

Job Description

Functions as the advisor for the Government Technical Point of Contact (POC) and the Program Office.

Provides contractual and financial knowledge and assistance to the CUSTOMER program offices. Duties include:

• Review contractor engineering change proposals and provide reviews to the program office.
• Coincide cost estimates and performance work statement updates for CUSTOMER program offices, CUSTOMER finance, the appropriate project teams, and the Office of Contracting Services.
• Attend monthly Program Management Review Boards and Budget Management review Boards.
• Support development of acquisition documents, to include Source Selection Plans, Acquisition Plans, and budget documents.
• Aid in tracking and managing contract deliverables, to include the contract funding status reports (CFSRs), and invoices.
• Assist in managing the program funds. Track spending, earned value, and route funding documents.
• Maintain CUSTOMER business office artifacts using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Identify technical issues and communicate impacts.

Skills and Experience

• Required: Demonstrated specialized experience with acquisition documentation and principals: contracting, contracting documents, the FAR, the contracting process, Engineering Change Proposals (ECPs), Performance Work Statements (PWSs), the acquisition process and lifecycle management.
• Required: Demonstrated specialized experience with budgeting and funding basics, such as, fiscal years, appropriations, and IC or DoD budgeting process.
• Required: Bachelor's degree in business or business-related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Desired: Master's degree in a business-related field.
• Desired: Demonstrated understanding with IC or DoD systems architecture and engineering.
• Desired: Demonstrated specialized program management experience in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Desired: Demonstrated understanding of CUSTOMER Mission and acquisition process.
• Desired: Demonstrated understanding of the CUSTOMER Configuration Management (CM) process.
• Desired: Demonstrated specialized experience with the Source Selection process.

Qualifications

Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.