Consultant​/Acquisition Manager

Consultant / Acquisition Manager (All Levels)

20% - 100% in SCIF/at site (ranges by customer) 0% - 80% remote/UNCLASSIFIED locations (ranges by customer)

Job Type

Part-Time to Full-Time (Full-Time = 1,860 work hours per year)

Compensation

$100K - $250K / year, based on candidate attributes (skills, experience)

Technical Areas of Interest:
Satellite acquisition (all aspects) and architecture (GEOINT, SIGINT, Communications), Multi-INT capabilities, Mission Data Processing, Command & Control (C2), Mission Management (MM), data and target discovery solutions, system and software design, architecture, and security.

MMAX consultants / business managers provide “buyer side” advisory support to customers in a variety of technical or mission areas (current areas of interest shown above). Personnel provide business and analytic solutions/recommendations and implementation support to meet customer mission requirements/objectives alongside program technical and acquisition expertise. Activities include (but are not limited to):

Support planning, development and execution of new acquisitions, guiding programs through Milestone Decision Authority (MDA) directed reviews, developing and executing ECPs, monitoring contract execution and providing technical analysis when required.

Provide execution deliverables and overall management support to ensure contract and program mission objectives are met including engineering change proposals (ECPs), cross-organization agreements, budget/financial processing, and contractual implementation guidance.

Provide programmatic assessments of contractor designs and milestone reviews to assess progress, risks and issues, and the ability to achieve mission requirements as well as monitoring of requirements, performance metrics, financial limitations, and schedule of awarded contracts/programs.

Develop cost and schedule estimates utilizing defensible source data to determine program and contract strategies.

Ability to evaluate, process, and manage pre‑acquisition activities including Acquisition Strategy Council (ASC) documents and other documents as needed to obtain management approvals. Support the review, vetting, and approval of acquisition documents such as sole source justification, CDRLs, and Statement of Work (SOW).

Support evaluation (provide advisory comments on technical/management, cost, schedule, past performance, integration and selection) documentation, manage) proposals in a competitive environment against established source selection criteria within a diverse team.

Direct experience in business management or mission or technology domain

Active TS/SCI with CI Polygraph (or eligible to obtain new or upgraded level)