Job Requirements
Colorado Springs, CO
Top Secret/SCI Polygraph Unspecified
Mid Level Career (5+ yrs experience)
$130,000 - $170,000
Job Description
Responsibilities:
Qualifications
Required:
Desired:
Clearance:
- Provide advice, expertise and consultation in acquisition program management (PM) lifecycle activities, in concert with sustainment engineering, logistics and test and evaluation members to the SSC government integrated planning team
- Provide expert advice to the Materiel Leader (ML) / Program Manager (PM) and Senior USSF and Air Force Leadership regarding acquisition strategies, product support, logistics, contracting, budgeting and execution
- Provide oversight and facilitation of program management activities between operational stakeholders, as well as other developmental program activities supporting MD3.
- Ability to clearly and concisely advise and present information in person to stakeholders and Senior Military Leadership on program milestone decision and processes ensuring continued program success.
- Provide a wide variety of acquisition/sustainment technical analyses including Agile, Scrum, and DevOps to the Government Program Manager
- Facilitate Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) efforts necessary to obtain and execute funding necessary to deliver required capabilities across the program portfolio, including: Fiscal Year planning, execution, execution monitoring, unfunded requirements management, and Program Objective Memorandum (POM) development and coordination
- Participate and contribute to the development and coordination of strategic acquisition planning and pre-award activities and documentation, including: Early Strategy and Issues Sessions (ESIS), Acquisition Strategy Panels (ASP), Statements of Objective, Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, Requests for Information (RFI), Justifications and Approvals (J&A), Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCE), and Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans (QASPs)
- Lead development and coordination of solicitation planning and execution activities and documentation, including: Requests for Proposal (RFP), Source Selection Plans/Strategies, and all associated documentation
- Manage and assist in the development and coordination of overarching program planning and execution documents as prescribed by/tailored from DoDI 5000.02, and relevant Department of Defense, Air Force, USSF, and SSC policies
- Draft technical evaluations and function as an advisor in source selections
- Successful candidate may be tasked by Air Force/Space Force to support one or more acquisition programs with responsibility for performance and schedule execution
- Leads integrated scheduling and active risk management activities for Operations Integration, Logistics, and Product Support
- Prepare program scheduling activities, meetings, briefings, reports, and analyze information in support of MD3 developmental and sustainment programs.
- Supports operations training and technical documentation development, including Technical Orders (TOs), coordination and operations integration.
- Coordinate with operations and development stakeholders to facilitate identifying and designating SMEs who will assist in obtaining information critical for development, to include rapid integration requests
- Frequently coordinate with multiple military organizations (including Joint, Space Force, Air Force, and Navy organizations)
- Review and provide input to enabling concepts, concept of operations, and multi-agency agreements supporting program development and integration
- Adept at a variety of acquisition concepts, phases, and procedures; participate in technical studies, and performance reviews; ability to function in a multi-contractor/customer environment, performs a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected; demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills; and effective written and oral communication skills required
- Experience working on classified government systems and networks
Qualifications
Required:
- Bachelor’s degree
- At least 5 years experience in Program Management (Government PM time preferred) but preferably 10 or more years of DoD and related Space operations combined experience, specifically acquisition program management and/or operational experience
- In lieu of a Bachelor’s degree and 5 years of relevant experience, a Master’s plus 2.5 years of related experience or PhD plus 1 year of related experience is acceptable.
- Experience with Air Force and/or Space Force operations, command and control (C2), theater operations, space tasking cycle, and operator training, preferably with experience in the Electronic Warfare and/or Satellite Communications (SATCOM) mission areas.
- Excellent problem-solving and analytical skills
- Demonstrated competency in technical writing
- Familiarity operating under agile conditions as a member of a Scrum team
- Superior written and oral communication skills, including interpersonal and negotiation skills
- Familiar with MS Office products
- Experience in working with multi-disciplinary teams of Military and technical managers
Desired:
- Master’s degree (STEM)
- 10+ years’ experience in Program Management (Government PM time preferred) of DoD and related Space operations combined experience, specifically acquisition program management and/or operational experience development of requirements, specifications and proposals; familiar with a variety of acquisition concepts, phases, and procedures.
- Scaled Agile Framework for Enterprises (SAFe), Project Management Institute- Agile Certified Professional (PMI- ACP), Certified Scrum Master, PMP, USAF Acquisition Professional Development Program (APDP) or similar certification
- Experience in the Electronic Warfare and/or Satellite Communications (SATCOM) mission areas or other USSF mission domains.
- Experience participating in technical studies and project performance reviews; ability to function in a multi-contractor/customer environment
- Ability to perform a variety of complicated tasks, a wide degree of creativity and latitude is expected; demonstrated leadership and interpersonal skills; and effective written and oral communication skills required
- Familiarity working with or at the Combined Space Operations Center (CSpOC), US Space Command (USSPACECOM), and/or Space Force Field Commands
- Experience/knowledge navigating the Air Force’s cloud-based DevSecOps Platform One enterprise service
- Experience/familiarity working as a Product Repository technician or lead.
- A successful candidate will coordinate the delivery of services among different program activities to increase effectiveness and efficiency leadership – proven success in leading high-performance teams in an integrated product development team environment, achieving results through others, and being a strong team player
- Objectivity – Must maintain objectivity to determine proper standards, processes, and procedures that benefits the entire organization
- Creativity – Develop innovative solutions to modernize and improve system proficiencies (i.e. processes, procedures, techniques, tools, etc.)
- Flexibility – Receptive to change/new information and rapidly adapts to new technology, information, changing conditions, or unexpected obstacles
- Analytical Thinking - Exceptional ability to analyze data and utilize it to make sound business decisions
- Conflict management and resolution skills
- Passionate - Possess a passion for researching, defining and enforcing standards, processes and procedures
- Results focused – Ability to organize and manage multiple, and at time competing priorities
- Communication Skills – Demonstrate communication skills necessary to interpret policies in situations requiring persuasion and prepare and present presentations
- Relationship building skills – Ability to work within a dynamic team setting and provide role-model leadership
- Customer service – Superior customer service skills to both internal and external customers
Clearance:
- Active Top Secret clearance with SCI eligibility required
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