ACQUISITION DEPUTY

Strategic Systems Programs; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 165,000; Full time

Job summary

Strategic Systems Programs is seeking a Deputy Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition for the CPS program office in a DoD context. The role requires coordinating budgets, contracts, and engineering with program management to address cost, schedule, and technical risks.

You will develop and maintain acquisition strategies, plans, and documentation to ensure resources align with requirements. The position emphasizes leadership and cross-functional problem solving in a high-stakes

Qualifications

• Specialized experience at NH-03 (GS-13) level or equivalent, in Navy/DoD acquisition.
• Using DoD 5000-series acquisition requirements; analyzing cost, schedule, technical, contract, and financial data.
• Coordinating acquisition, contracting, and budget-execution activities to support planning and documentation.

Responsibilities

• Serve as Deputy Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition for CPS PMO.
• Integrate acquisition, contracting, budgets, engineering, and program-management activities to resolve performance issues.
• Support development and execution of CPS acquisition strategies, plans, and review documents.
• Support CPS contracting planning, procurement requests, source-selection docs, contract modifications, contractor performance, funding, and schedules.
• Prepare, integrate, justify, and assess CPS budget and financial-management products.
• Analyze commitments, obligations, expenditures, and milestones; recommend actions for financial risks.
• Coordinate acquisition, contract-management, and budget execution across CPS functions.
• Provide leadership with timely, accurate, decision-quality information.

Skills

Acquisition management

Budgeting

Contract management

Cost analysis

Schedule analysis

Cross-functional coordination

Program management

Job description

Duties

• You will serve as the Deputy Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition for the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Program Management Office, providing principal-deputy support to the Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition.
• You will integrate and coordinate acquisition, contract-management/Contracting Officer’s Rep., budgets, engineering, and program-management activities to identify and resolve cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and financial-execution issues.
• You will support development, maintenance, and execution of CPS acquisition strategies, acquisition plans, acquisition-review documentation, and associated programmatic products to ensure alignment with program requirements and available resources.
• You will support planning, coordination, and oversight of CPS contracting activities, including procurement requests, proposal-planning, source-selection documentation, contract modifications, contractor performance, funding, and schedules.
• You will prepare, integrate, justify, execute, and assess CPS budget and financial-management products.
• You will analyze commitments, obligations, expenditures, execution plans, and program milestones; and recommend actions to address identified financial risks.
• You will coordinate acquisition, contract-management, and budget-execution efforts across CPS functional areas.
• You will integrate program requirements, synchronize activities, resolve cross-functional issues, and provide leadership with timely, accurate, decision-quality information.
  

Duties

• You will serve as the Deputy Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition for the Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) Program Management Office, providing principal-deputy support to the Principal Assistant Program Manager for Acquisition.
• You will integrate and coordinate acquisition, contract-management/Contracting Officer’s Rep., budgets, engineering, and program-management activities to identify and resolve cost, schedule, technical, contractual, and financial-execution issues.
• You will support development, maintenance, and execution of CPS acquisition strategies, acquisition plans, acquisition-review documentation, and associated programmatic products to ensure alignment with program requirements and available resources.
• You will support planning, coordination, and oversight of CPS contracting activities, including procurement requests, proposal-planning, source-selection documentation, contract modifications, contractor performance, funding, and schedules.
• You will prepare, integrate, justify, execute, and assess CPS budget and financial-management products.
• You will analyze commitments, obligations, expenditures, execution plans, and program milestones; and recommend actions to address identified financial risks.
• You will coordinate acquisition, contract-management, and budget-execution efforts across CPS functional areas.
• You will integrate program requirements, synchronize activities, resolve cross-functional issues, and provide leadership with timely, accurate, decision-quality information.
  

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Male born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• This position is covered under the Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA). Certification in the Functional Area and Tier assigned to the position, along with Continuous Learning (CL) points, are required within established timeframes.
• Successful completion of a pre-employment drug test (including marijuana) is required. A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if you fail to report to the drug test appointment or fail the test. You will be subject to random testing.
• This position may require travel from normal duty station to CONUS and OCONUS and may include remote or isolated sites. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft for extended periods of time.

Qualifications

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the NH-03 (GS-13) grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Utilizing Navy and Department of War acquisition-management principles, including Department of Defense 5000-series requirements; analyzing cost, schedule, technical, contract, and financial data; or coordinating acquisition, contracting, and budget-execution activities to support the planning, execution, and documentation of acquisition programs.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: Program Management Series 0340

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional Information

This announcement uses the Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project (AcqDemo) Business Management & Technical Management direct hire authority to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to certain positions in the competitive service.

This position is part of the Department of Defense Civilian Acquisition Workforce Personnel Demonstration Project. The NH-4 broadband level encompasses positions equivalent to GS-14 and GS-15.

This position is covered by the Department of Defense Priority Placement Program.

Certain incentives (such as Recruitment, Relocation or Student Loan Repayment) may be authorized to eligible selectees.

A relocation incentive is generally a single payment intended to offset some of the relocation costs experienced by the selectee. A relocation incentive may be authorized.

Several vacancies may be filled.

A tentative offer of employment will be rescinded if the selectee fails to meet the pre-employment requirements, including failure to report to any of the scheduled appointments.

Federal annuitant information: The selection of an annuitant is subject to the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy policy on the employment of annuitants. Policy information may be found at: http://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/FedCivAnnuitants.pdf.

Veteran's preference does not apply when selecting individuals under this specific hiring authority. However, if you claim veteran's preference, you will be required to submit supporting documentation with your application as described in the Required Documents section below.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits .

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How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

In order to qualify for this position, your resume must provide sufficient experience and/or education, knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the specific position for which you are being considered. Resumes are restricted to no more than 2 pages. Illegible/unreadable resumes will not be considered. Your resume is the key means we have for evaluating your skills, knowledge, and abilities as they relate to this position. Therefore, we encourage you to be clear and specific when describing your experience.

As vacancies occur, the Human Resources Office will review your resume to ensure you meet the hiring eligibility and qualification requirements listed in this flyer. You will be rated based on the information provided in your resume, along with your supporting documentation.

If selected, you may be required to provide additional supporting documentation.

If after reviewing your resume and supporting documentation, a determination is made that you inflated your qualifications and/or experience, you may be found ineligible/not qualified.

Please follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may affect your rating or consideration for employment.

All qualification requirements must be met before being considered for any vacancies.