Senior Acquisition Specialist

Bering-Alaka`ina Holdings, LLC is looking for has a potential need for a Senior Acquisition Specialist to provide support for our government customer in Frederick, MD at Fort Detrick Army Base.

• Provide Program Management Support within the realm of the DoD’s acquisition process by applying knowledge related to Federal regulations, policies and procedures to requirements involving the major issues and goals and objectives for product development.
• Produce draft reports, briefings, and decision/information papers identifying impacts, risks and opportunities for PMO review.
• Lead and/or participate in meetings central to defense acquisition program/project management including but not limited to:
  Integrated Product Team(s) (IPT), Working Group(s), and Product Manager/Vendor meetings, as well as other meetings part of the acquisition process including, but not limited to, In Process Reviews (IPRs) and Milestone Decision Reviews (MDRs).
• Coordinate and conduct site visits (e.g., clinical, vendors, testing facilities, and manufacturing facilities) and shall coordinate the conduct of developmental testing and operational assessment and testing, to include delivery of test items such as test articles and manuals.
• Prepare and maintain project management documents for assigned programs (e.g., integrated master schedules (IMS)/Gantt charts; stakeholder communication plans; risk analysis and management logs; change/decision logs, memos for program record; responses to requests for information; situational reports, executive summaries, information/position/white papers etc.) IAW project management best practices and DoD acquisition guidelines.
• Develop and maintain technical, budgetary, programmatic, administrative, and acquisition milestone documentation, to include program briefings IAW applicable DoDI 5000 series regulations to ensure successful decision reviews, such as Business Case Analyses (BCA), Strategy Plans, Simplified Acquisition Management Plans (SAMPs), Acquisition Decision Memoranda, Life Cycle Cost Estimates (LCCEs), Test and Evaluation Master Plans (TEMPs), Risk Management registers, and other documentation as needed to support the development effort of assigned programs.
• Communicate and coordinate with internal and external stakeholders to meet program objectives and shall document their coordination, including the achievement of concurrence and/or non-concurrence with comments.
• Assist in coordinating any needed support agreements with extramural customers, DoD stakeholders, or commercial entities.
• Populate and maintain tracking of action items/taskers for specified product development programs according to DoD and DHA policies and procedures.
• Monitor, coordinate, and report responses to external requests and tasks for information, ensuring responses are timely and accurate.
• Employ effective risk management practices in support of the program acquisition strategy.
• Support management of the progress of projects/products and provide recommendations on acquisition strategies, maturity and risk of technologies, assess capability gaps for the focus areas for further development and/or investment.
• Use the designated electronic document management systems that maintain and transmit program documentation and records.
• Manage the electronic filing, maintenance, and recovery of all program documentation on existing electronic records management systems.
• Provide support for all relevant testing, to include all FDA and non-FDA regulated activities and events.
• Monitor the progress of acquisition program activities and provide recommendations on impact to acquisition strategies, maturity and risk of technologies, ability to address capability gaps for the focus areas for further…