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Position Title:     Sr. Program Manager—Acquisition (#1790)
Location:   Springfield, VA
Clearance Required: Top Secret/SCI

Overall Assignment Description:

Provide Acquisition Program Management to a Government lead and team that:

• • Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management.
  • Works across customer directorates to help the Government coordinate development of new and/or modified/enhanced capabilities for operational use.
  • Provides technical guidance to the Government Point of Contact (GPOC) on programmatic matters related to lifecycle engineering.
  • Provides program management guidance in service frameworks and models, agile engineering processes, and industry best practices to achieve customer’s GEOINT mission.

Duties may include:

• • Provide technical, financial, schedule and risk management guidance to the project, program or Program Management Office (PMO).
  • Provide support to the drafting of interagency agreements and other documents required for the execution of AF9‘s and MIPR’s.
  • Provide business executive support in linking Program Objective Memorandum (POM) and Budget Planning with Budget Execution and Control.
  • Provide programmatic risk assessments, mitigation strategies and risk burn down plans to achieve the desired program results.
  • Support coordination of cost estimates and technical work scope with the PMO and appropriate project or program teams.
  • Interface with customer’s organizational areas, end users/customers including foreign and domestic agencies to identify and mitigate risks, develop and manage budgets, create and maintain schedules that ensure technical results and program performance.
  • Provide program management support to customer management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering.
  • Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the customer’s Vision, Planning and Programs, CIOT Priorities and TA Priorities.
  • Support the development, coordination and governance management of Request for Change (RFC’s) and Engineering Change Proposal (ECPs) requirements documents.
  • Ensure the technical maintenance and configuration management of program and project plans, Concept of Operations (CONOPS), architecture diagrams, and other key program documents.
  • Maintain PMO artifacts using customer’s approved software, tools and processes.
  • Provide acquisition program management expertise in lean six-sigma strategies and execution; working knowledge of agile methods, practices and execution; or working knowledge of Scaled Agile Framework (SAFe) methods and applications.
  • Provide validation and verification of engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality and traceability to requirements.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• U.S. Citizenship.
• Current  Top Secret clearance with current SCI access and in-scope SSBI date.
• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance.
• Min 12 years overall experience.
• Min 8 years of demonstrated specialized experience as a Program Manager in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk management.
• Project Management Professional (PMP); DAWIA Level III certification in Program Management or equivalent specialized experience with Project Management tools and techniques.

 Desired: Demonstrated specialized experience in

• Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial management.
• Department of Defense (DoD) and or customer-specific acquisition processes.
• Development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.
• Geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.
• Managing Cost Plus Fixed Fee, Cost Plus Incentive Fee, Cost Plus Award Fee, Firm Fixed Price, Time and Materials or Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity type contracts.
• Lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with demonstrated results.
• Tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and transition to operations.
• Identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.
• Performing validation and verification of various engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer requirements.
• Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes.
• Developing and validating system roadmaps, project plans and mission capabilities.
• Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s).

Compass, Inc. (Compass) is a Small Business (SB) headquartered in Winchester, VA as a Defense and Intelligence solutions provider to the United States Government. We provide Systems Engineering and Technical Assistance (SETA), Advisory and Assistance Services (A&AS), and Systems Engineering and Integration (SE&I) to our government and business partner customers. As a premier Defense and Intelligence solution provider, we employee a diverse, agile, highly trained and extremely talented staff.

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