Principal Acquisition Associate

Job Title

Principal Acquisition Associate

Functional Title

Program Manager

Contract position State Location

Los Angeles - Los Angeles Air Force Base, CA US (Primary)

Education

Bachelor's Level Degree

Job Type

Full-time

Job Description

The Senior-level Program Manager shall support routine Delta/Division Action Group (DAG) tasks including but not limited to business operations; planning, programming, budget, and execution (PPBE); acquisition reporting; strategic communication, lifecycle acquisition management; tasker management, research analysis and reporting; support Foreign Military Sales case development provide support for infrastructure, human resources, and personnel management for assigned team.

Specific Duties:

• Extracting program specific information, assessments, analysis, and reviews enabling program and technical acquisition artifacts to be integrated at the enterprise level. Use the combined program integrated master schedule to facilitate the management of cost, schedule, and technical performance of the program portfolio. Provide detailed analysis, quantifiable supporting documentation, and thorough justification for all research, reviews, and assessments performed and include corrective action plans and recommendations to the Government. Develop Government reports and briefs on how to implement policies, conduct independent program assessments, and conduct risk assessments for the portfolio.

• Support the development of the Program Objective Memorandum, Staffer Day preparations, Spring Program Reviews, Investment Budget Review, Program Management Reviews, Mid-year Execution Reviews, Baseline Execution Reviews, Vice-Commander's Forum, Financial Management Reviews, Acquisition Mission Support, Business Management Reviews, and other budget execution activities and provide detailed, quantifiable documentation and thorough justification for assessment findings, corrective action plans, and recommendations.

• Draft program overviews and executive summaries, encapsulate major program issues, gather program contract information, track program milestones and status, generate overviews of program health and ability to execute, assess program cost, schedule, and technical risks by segment and identify mitigation plans, consolidate and status program manager identified cost, schedule, and technical efficiency initiatives, demonstrate understanding of the program's current critical path, integrate and correlate program performance data with the program baseline, accurately interpret acquisition program baseline thresholds and compliance, verify program costs against the approved President's Budget, track program baseline changes, accurately capture high level program logistic, test and evaluation, and requirements readiness characteristics, and establish a program office point of contacts list to accurately develop, maintain, and update acquisition reports to include, but not limited to Weekly Activity Report, Monthly Acquisition Reports, Selected Acquisition Report, Defense Acquisition Executive Summary, Acquisition Program Baseline, supplemental reports for Acquisition Category I, II, III, Middle Tier Acquisition (MTA) programs at the Directorate, and other related acquisition reporting documents.

• Receive, document, generate, distribute, track and close tasks at the Directorate level to the maximum extent possible. Open, read, understand, and properly distribute tasks to the responsible 3-letters, accordingly, supplying supporting references as available or closing tasks when possible prior to distribution. Coordinate with 3-letter and Front Office personnel and track the status of all tasks, action items, suspense, and responses at a minimum from receipt through closure with the originator.

• Research, draft, and edit articles, speeches, and testimony on the Directorate, organization, missions, operations, and initiatives.

• Coordinate correspondence between external audit agencies and the program offices.

Job Requirements

Minimum Education & Certification(s): BA/BS Degree Required, MA/MS Preferred, PMP Certification Preferred

Minimum Yrs. Experience and/or Expertise: 10+ Years' Experience Required, Experience with TMT Preferred, Foreign Military Sales (FMS) experience Preferred

Clearance: Secret

Salary information below is a general guide only. Salaries are commensurate with experience and qualifications, as well as business and market considerations.

Salary Range: $170,000 - $190,000

Please see standard Work, Physical and Mental Requirements for all Quantech roles.
Work Environment This job operates in a professional office environment. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers, phones, photocopiers, scanners, filing cabinets and fax machines.
Physical Demands This is largely a sedentary role mostly sitting; however, some filing maybe required . This would require the ability to move files, or boxes with file data, open filing cabinets and bend or stand as necessary, ability to lift up to 40lbs.
Mental Demands: Reading; communicate effectively (verbal and written); maintain emotional control and professionalism.

We hire military.

Security clearance required

SECRET

Travel

N/A

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