Senior Acquisition Specialist; Contingent

Overview

Centurum is seeking a Senior Acquisition Specialist to perform program analyst tasks required to support the Navy Catapult and Commercialization Readiness Program (CRP) at the NAVWAR Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Program Management Office. The individual will be responsible for entering, validating, and configuring Navy Catapult and CRP program data on federal government information systems including the DON Program Management Database (PMDB), S&T Alignment and Investment Reporting System (STAIRS), Flank speed Teams, SharePoint tools, One Note, and shared file resources.

Data validation and quality assurance activities will be performed to ensure accuracy of data contained in these systems.

• Conduct organizational studies and evaluations, design systems and procedures, conduct work simplification and measurement studies, and prepare operations and procedures manuals to assist management in operating more efficiently and effectively.
• Support and draft program milestone related documentation to ensure compliance with all aspects of the DoD and SECNAV 5000 series directives.
• Support the development of program acquisition documentation such as Acquisition Plans (APs), Acquisition Strategy Reports (ASR), Procurement Initiation Document (PID), Statement of Work (SOW), funding documents, contract awards, agreements, and Acquisition Program Baseline Agreements (APBA).
• Assess program procedures, practices, philosophies, and documentation for compliance with specifications, contracts, and mission requirements.
• Attend, participate, support, analyze, provide input, develop, prepare and report on briefs, point papers, reports, correspondence, meetings, conferences, and review boards.
• Utilize business and technical methodologies to provide support of hardware, software, and service acquisition and life cycle management.
• Participate in meetings and support specified Program Integrated Product Teams (IPTs).
• Provide specialized technical, manufacturing, and management risk analysis leading to risk assessments/recommendations to inform government officials of business and technology transition risks and mitigations for SBIR Small Business Concerns (SBC).

MA/MS degree in a business or technical discipline. No substitution allowed.

• At least six (6) years of experience performing work related to the above description. Must have science and technology process experience.
• At least six (6) years of experience in two of the following defense acquisition areas: logistics, research and development, configuration management, or systems analysis/design.
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following areas: program management, systems engineering, system acquisition, financial management, test and evaluation, or integrated logistics support.
• Demonstrated knowledge and/or familiarity with the DoD and SECNAV 5000 acquisition series, Federal and DoD acquisition regulations and PPBE process.
• Demonstrated knowledge in risk analysis/risk management.
• Demonstrated knowledge in developing a business plan.
• Demonstrated knowledge in specialized and focused company management assessment recommendations.

• Over ten (10) years of experience performing work related to the above description. Must have science and technology process experience, preferably supporting the U.S. Navy.
• At least six (6) years of experience related to defense acquisition, preferably Navy, including logistics, research and development, configuration management, or systems analysis/design.
• Demonstrated knowledge in one or more of the following areas: system acquisition, acquisition documentation, configuration management, risk analysis, and Government furnished equipment (GFE) or government furnished information (GFI).
• At least six (6) years of experience related to manufacturing plans, configuration management, commercialization/transition, and audit preparations.
• Demonstrated knowledge in business planning, business development, or operational security review.
• At least six (6) years’ experience in specialized and focused company management assessment recommendations.
• Demonstrated…