PROGRAM MANAGER (ASSISTANT PROGRAM MANAGER ACQUISITION)

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for AcqDemo Business and Technical Management Career Path (NH) to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service. About the Position: This Program Manager (Assistant Program Manager Acquisition) position is assigned to the Capability Program Executive Command and Control Information Network (CPE C2IN), located in FORT BELVOIR, VA.

Major duties

• Plans, designs, develops, acquires, and implements major complex, critical IT and cyber security systems in support of the Army Security Assistance Enterprise (ASAE) mission.
• Demonstrates a thorough understanding of all phases of the FMS process under the ASAE construct.
• Coordinates and develops procedures relating to financial management, acquisition, implementation, distribution, product support management and logistical support for the hardware, software, supplies, and services required by the project.
• Serves as a Contracting Officer Technical Representative (COTR) for assigned contracts and resolves contractual issues with Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs) and Contracting Officers (KOs) as required.
• Makes extensive use of technical resources external to the immediate project office, initiates, plans, and directs a variety of activities critical to mission accomplishment.
• Responsible for the efficient and economical use of available resources, establishing policies and priorities, and conducting short and long range planning milestones and events for development and fielding of system(s).

Qualifications

Term Appointment NTE - Position will be filled as a Term Appointment NTE 5 years. Term appointments may be extended up to a maximum of six years. Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. NH-03-Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience is defined as: 1) Performing acquisition life-cycle support and project analysis in accordance with Defense Acquisition System policies and procedures; 2) Formulating and/or presenting cost, schedule, and performance requirements to meet milestones across engineering, development, testing, integration, production, fielding, and/or sustainment; 3) Coordinating with and/or advising project officials on project management and acquisition issues to support effective program execution AND 4) Planning and/or executing pre and post award contracting actions for complex and/or specialized procurements for assigned projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service NH-02 (GS-11).

Education

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.