Senior Acquisition Specialist (Contingent)

About the role

The Senior Acquisition Specialist will support the Navy Catapult and Commercialization Readiness Program (CRP) at the NAVWAR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Management Office. Key responsibilities include:

• Entry, validation, and configuration management of Navy Catapult and CRP program data on various federal government information systems.
• Data validation and quality assurance activities to ensure accuracy of program data.
• Support and draft program milestone related documentation to ensure compliance with DoD and SECNAV 5000 series directives.
• Support the development of program acquisition documentation such as Acquisition Plans (APs), Acquisition Strategy Reports (ASR), Procurement Initiation Document (PID), Statement of Work (SOW), funding documents, contract awards, agreements, and Acquisition Program Baseline Agreements (APBA).
• Assess program procedures, practices, philosophies, and documentation for compliance with specifications, contracts, and mission requirements.
• Attend, participate, support, analyze, provide input, develop, prepare and report on briefs, point papers, reports, correspondence, meetings, conferences, and review boards.
• Utilize business and technical methodologies to provide support of hardware, software, and service acquisition and life cycle management.
• Participate in meetings and support specified Program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
• Provide specialized technical, manufacturing, and management risk analysis leading to risk assessments/recommendations to inform government officials of business and technology transition risks and mitigations for SBIR Small Business Concerns (SBC).

Responsibilities

The acquisition specialist will:

• Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively.
• Support and draft program milestone related documentation to ensure compliance with all aspects of the DoD and SECNAV 5000 series directives.
• Support the development of program acquisition documentation such as Acquisition Plans (APs), Acquisition Strategy Reports (ASR), Procurement Initiation Document (PID), Statement of Work (SOW), funding documents, contract awards, agreements, and Acquisition Program Baseline Agreements (APBA).
• Assess program procedures, practices, philosophies, and documentation for compliance with specifications, contracts, and mission requirements.
• Attend, participate, support, analyze, provide input, develop, prepare and report on briefs, point papers, reports, correspondence, meetings, conferences, and review boards.
• Utilize business and technical methodologies to provide support of hardware, software, and service acquisition and life cycle management.
• Participate in meetings and support specified Program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
• Provide specialized technical, manufacturing, and management risk analysis leading to risk assessments/recommendations to inform government officials of business and technology transition risks and mitigations for SBIR Small Business Concerns (SBC).

Requirements

Required Experience:

• At least six (6) years of experience performing work related to the description above.
• Science and technology process experience.
• At least six (6) years of experience in two (2) of the following Defense acquisition areas: logistics, research and development, configuration management or systems analysis/design.
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following areas: program management, systems engineering, system acquisition, financial management, test and evaluation or integrated logistics support.
• Demonstrated knowledge, and/or familiarity with the DoD and SECNAV 5000 acquisition series, Federal and DoD acquisition regulations and PPBE process.
• Demonstrated knowledge in risk analysis/risk management.
• Demonstrated knowledge in developing a business plan.
• Demonstrated knowledge in specialized and focused company management assessment recommendations.

Qualifications

Education:

• MA/MS degree in a business or technical discipline. No substitution allowed.

Skills

Preferred Experience:

• Over ten (10) years of experience performing work related to the description above.
• Science and technology process experience, preferably supporting the US Navy.
• At least six (6) years of experience related to Defense acquisition, preferably Navy, including logistics, research and development, configuration management or systems analysis/design.
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following areas: system acquisition, acquisition documentation, configuration management, risk analysis and Government furnished equipment (GFE) or Government furnished information (GFI).
• At least six (6) years’ experience in specialized and focused company management assessment recommendations.
• At least six (6) years’ experience related to manufacturing plans, configuration management, commercialization/transition, and audit preparations.
• Demonstrated knowledge and relevant current experience (three (3) years within the last six (6) years) in the following areas: Assertions (when a firm may be granted them, understand the basis of the assertion and the impact), Intellectual Property, SBIR technical data rights, SBIR/STTR law/policy, Federal contract law/policy, International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR), and export regulations with regard to technology and how they apply to SBIR.

Benefits

Travel Required: 0%

Pay

$46 - $56 an hour.

Schedule

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Company

Centurum

Contact

To respond to this posting please reference job # CH25-01 Senior Acquisition Specialist (Contingent)