Strategic Federal Acquisition Policy Lead

imagineeer LLC; Washington (District of Columbia); On-site; USD 120,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Imagineeer seeks a Policy and Business Process Lead to anchor policy work on a federal acquisition transformation project for a civilian department's Office of Finance and Operations. You will map end-to-end acquisition activities from planning through CPARS and build an evidence base to defend necessary policies and templates.

You will lead interviews, document current-state workflows, identify risks, and update SOPs and templates.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, public policy, or a related field.
• 10+ years of experience in business process analysis, process re-engineering, or policy analysis, including at least 5 years supporting federal agencies.
• Experience mapping complex, multi-stakeholder workflows and producing current- and future-state process documentation (e.g., BPMN, swimlane, SIPOC).
• Working knowledge of the federal acquisition lifecycle and the FAR, including how agency supplements and internal policies layer on top of it.
• Experience writing or revising SOPs, templates, and policy guidance for federal audiences.
• Strong interviewing, facilitation, and plain-language writing skills.
• Ability to pass the client's contractor security vetting and obtain and maintain a PIV credential.

Responsibilities

• Lead stakeholder interviews with acquisition staff, program office customers, approvers, and system administrators.
• Map current-state acquisition workflows end to end, documenting steps, handoffs, approvals, data entry, and reporting requirements.
• Identify risks in current workflows related to process, compliance, internal controls, and audit-readiness.
• Build and maintain an inventory of policies, procedures, templates, and review requirements behind each workflow step.
• Document rationale for keep/revise/retire recommendations when policies are out of alignment.
• Support regulatory alignment and cost-and-benefit determinations with evidentiary methodology.
• Contribute to redundancy, gap, and improvement analyses and classify opportunities as eliminate, optimize, or automate.
• Update SOPs, templates, workflows, and user guidance during implementation.
• Maintain an inventory of modernization opportunities for the Continuation Roadmap.

Skills

Stakeholder interviews

Process mapping

Risk identification

Policy analysis

SOP writing

Plain-language writing

Data/documentation

Project coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

BPMN

SIPOC

Swimlane diagrams

Job description

Imagineeer seeks a Policy and Business Process Lead to anchor policy work on a federal acquisition transformation project for a civilian department's Office of Finance and Operations. You will map end-to-end acquisition activities from planning through CPARS and build an evidence base to defend necessary policies and templates.

You will lead interviews, document current-state workflows, identify risks, and update SOPs and templates.