Contract Acquisition Specialist
3 weeks ago
At MITRE, we're committed to tackling our nation's toughest challenges. As a Contract Acquisition Manager, you'll play a critical role in helping us achieve our mission. You'll work closely with our government partners to develop and implement acquisition strategies that deliver best value to the government.
Key Responsibilities:
- Develop and evaluate program technical and programmatic baselines.
- Conduct Federal Government acquisition lifecycle activities, with emphasis on creating contracts and supporting artifacts that provide best value to the government.
- Identify and define contracting requirements to support specific Federal Government acquisition activities in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR).
- Provide acquisition and contracting actionable recommendations to various government sponsors.
- Develop acquisition strategies and plans as well as studies and assessments that support acquisition and contracting activities for Federal Government sponsors.
- Perform independent validation and verification of government contracts.
- Recommend and support implementation of acquisition and contracting industry best practices.
Requirements:
- Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor's degree; or 6 years and a Master's degree; or a PhD with 3 years' experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.
- BS or Master's in Economics, Finance, Business, Operations Research, Systems Engineering, or other engineering field
- Applicants selected for this position will be subject to a government security investigation and must meet eligibility requirements for access to classified information or applicants who are eligible for security clearances.
- Experience with cost estimating, cost risk analysis, and/or budgeting and the CPIC process in defense, intelligence and/or civil agencies
- Significant experience providing pre- and post-award acquisition support, including market analysis, cost analysis, requirements, rough orders of magnitude, and contract changes.
- Demonstrated understanding of Budget formulation, development, and planning lifecycle
- Proficiency in development of risk-adjusted LCCEs and investment economic and decision analyses
- Proficient with MS Office Suite, and other tools for analysis
- Technical depth with demonstrated skills and experience in presenting analytical results both verbally and in writing
- Demonstrated ability to engage at executive and C-suite levels
- Must be eligible to receive an IRS Suitability Clearance
- This position requires a minimum of 50% hybrid on-site
Preferred Qualifications:
- Experience providing acquisition support in acquiring managed services (technical and business) to achieve desired outcomes.
- ICEAA Certification or Defense Acquisition Workforce Initiative Act (DAWIA) certification desired
- Knowledge of IT Portfolio Investment management and CPIC processes of select, control, and analyze.
- Knowledge of Technology Business Management (TBM) framework and potential solutions to aligning costs to services
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to prioritize across multiple projects and handle diverse assignments simultaneously.
- Advanced analytics skills
This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):
Suitability - IRSThis requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):
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