Exec Acquisition Associate

Overview

The Subject Matter Experts for the Delta/Division Action Group are responsible for providing oversight and support to the Business Operations, PPBE, Acquisition Reporting, Management, Communication & Media, and Government Audit Liaison activities of the DAG, supporting the execution of routine business operations. Must have DoD experience supporting phases of the DoD PPBE process as it applies to the administration and management of all programs within the Directorate and provide the Government recommendations.

• Support the Business Manager by 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 Directorate’s 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.
• Perform research, conduct reviews, and provide assessments and 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.
• 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.
• 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. Open, read, understand, and properly distribute tasks to the responsible 3-letters. Schedule and distribute recurring tasks and program-related materials, review and evaluate tracking and tasking processes of both the Directorate and 3-letters, track suspense, monitor status, provide action item coordination and accurate reviews.
• Research, draft, and edit articles, speeches, and testimony on the Directorate, organization, missions, operations, and initiatives and gather, develop, and check the accuracy of information from a wide range of sources.
• Coordinate with the Government to ensure consistency of messages for internal and external audiences and determine the overall organization of the presentation and edit the information for clarity and accuracy.
• Review, coordinate, and process program information suitable for public release to industry, media, trade publications, international partners, and other program stakeholders.
• Liaison between auditors and program personnel and coordinate correspondence between external audit agencies and the program offices and coordinate on-site visits between the audit agency and the program office, review all audit requests, distribute requests to cognizant program…