Acquisition Analyst IV

The Acquisition Analyst Level IV will provide comprehensive on-site support at Edgewood, MD, leveraging a Secret clearance to assist in the full lifecycle of acquisition programs. This role involves significant leadership in planning, developing, and executing new requirements and projects in accordance with DoDI 5000.02.

Key responsibilities include managing complex, cross-functional actions, utilizing Monte Carlo simulation data for program scheduling, and leading Integrated Product Teams (IPTs). The analyst will be instrumental in developing acquisition strategies, assessing program performance, mitigating risks, and preparing critical documentation, while also facilitating communication and maintaining strong stakeholder relationships. Furthermore, the role encompasses robust support for information and operational security, including policy implementation and training.

• Assist the team lead with the planning, development/refinement, initiation, and execution of new requirements, projects, procedures, and guidelines.
• Maintain awareness of program execution and milestones, as well as their strategic impacts, applying acquisition processes and policies as outlined in the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02, relating it to product development, production, and sustainment.
• Consider affordability, technology maturity, and responsiveness to assist in the formulation of broad, time-phased operational goals and initial capabilities.
• Assist in development, design, and implementation of annual and long-range plans to realize the product development components of strategic goals.
• Manage, synchronize, and track multiple, complex, and cross-functional actions.
• Use Monte Carlo simulation data to develop program schedules that determine likely start and completion dates of critical activities and milestones within a range of statistical confidence.
• Support projects or tasks which involve tracking risk and providing constant status or process oversight.
• Facilitate milestone planning by preparing, reviewing, and updating technical briefing materials, documentation, and program schedules; and developing and implementing technical and programmatic plans and measures to track programs.
• Apply relevant skills to review, analyze, and evaluate program development, status/progress, and performance (i.e., acquisition strategies and documentation, acquisition phases and decision levels, and timing and scope of decision reviews), and make recommendations for tailoring an acquisition approach which best fits program conditions. Recommendations shall minimize the time it takes to satisfy the validated need, consistent with common sense, sound business management practice, applicable laws and regulations, and the time-sensitive nature of the users' requirement.
• Review and assess technical, cost, and schedule data and work with Government staff to identify shortfalls and potential corrective actions.
• Assist in identifying, assessing, developing, and mitigating program risk.
• Work at a senior level to stimulate customer alliances for portfolio, program, and project support, maintaining personal and organizational interactions to enhance stakeholder relations and actively promote rapport with customers.
• Draft, review, staff, file, and update a variety of documents, to include acquisition documentation, memorandums, information and issue papers, briefings, executive summaries, milestone review packages, e-mails, and meeting minutes. When applicable, documents shall be prepared in accordance with Department of Defense (DoD) policies and procedures for the research, development, test and evaluation, and procurement of materiel and shall be sufficiently complete, accurate, and timely to establish program goals, objectives, and milestones. These activities require use of Microsoft Office suite of software, with specific experience in effective use of Outlook, PowerPoint, Microsoft Excel, and Word.
• Maintain a list of required documents for assigned programs with corresponding projected need dates.
• Lead an integrated product team (IPT) and/or participate and provide input to program functional IPTs, Interim Program Reviews (IPRs), milestone decisions, and required program updates.
• Coordinate both internal and external meetings and reviews for relevant stakeholders, ensuring that locations, phone, and video teleconference lines are properly booked for use; scheduling speakers; developing and providing meeting materials (e.g., day-to-day schedules, agendas, presentations and displays, etc.); and tracking action items as needed. The contractor shall support each event in person and/or via teleconference, video teleconference, and web conference. In addition, for each meeting conducted, the contractor shall develop meeting minutes and/or an executive summary.
• Review and provide input to acquisition documentation in support of program milestone decisions and IPRs.
• Provide input to support annual, monthly, and weekly recurring reports, as needed.
• Provide program status updates at regular senior staff meetings.
• Communicate programmatic issues, concerns, and information.
• Assist to develop and update top-level briefings for public presentation to be utilized at various meetings and events.
• Track the status of action items, meeting minutes, program milestones, and monthly reports.
• Assist in determining appropriate assignments; setting priorities, monitoring progress, and reporting on progress to meet established milestones and deadlines.
• Ensure that product teams are aware of deadlines, assignments, and objectives.
• Assist in maintaining program management tools and processes.
• Obtain and maintain all information regarding the projects and events he/she is responsible for managing and provide updates on issues, upcoming meetings, briefings, and taskers related to assigned projects, both orally and in written form.
• Assist in the review, preparation, and submission of responses to formal taskers related to acquisition and program office operations.
• Monitor/protect acquisition-sensitive materiel.
• Meet assigned deadlines.
• Develop trend analyses and provide strategic guidance and recommendations to senior staff.
• Lead the integrated master schedule (IMS) Working-level IPT, collecting monthly schedule execution status reports from all program performers and providing updates to the Product Director in support of Program Management Reviews (PMRs). The contractor shall also assist the Product Director with organizing periodic IMS execution reviews.
• Assist with analysis of individual schedule variances and determine the IMS execution status of the overall program. The contractor shall also assist with development of program-level schedule execution reports.
• Support to product management teams and the Government lead in the areas of acquisition and emergency management, risk management, Technology Readiness Assessments (TRAs), developmental testing, operational testing, and other testing.
• Review program documentation and technical reports, conduct assessments, and communicate issues regarding product development, storage, and sustainment.
• Develop, implement, and monitor information security policies, instructions, procedures, and control systems for activities involving clearance/classification authority and guides.
• The contractor shall implement and monitor training programs regarding physical, information, and operational security.
• * The contractor shall develop, implement, and monitor policies, instructions, procedures, control systems, and methods for the following functions:
  
  
  
  • Delegation and exercise of classification and declassification authority
  • Use of classification guides, document marking, and safeguarding
  • Personnel access controls
  • "Need to Know" criteria
  • Physical storage and control
  • Security education
  • Transmitting, transferring, reproducing, downgrading, and destroying information
  
  
  
  
• Provide information on new developments and advances in security processes, methods, and application, to include resolution of unique, time sensitive issues and implementation of new techniques, requirements, and systems.
• Facilitate efficient communication and program support between Joint PM CBRNE CDMA and external agencies.

• Minimum of five (5) years ofexperience in acquisition life cycle activities/management and a four-year degree in business, science, technical or related discipline.
• Ability to use Microsoft Suite of software applications (e.g. Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint) to create and maintain documents and communications.
• Secret Clearance REQUIRED

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