Position 1: Program Manager - Acquisition (Senior-Lifecycle Acquisition)
Overall Assignment Description:
(U) Provide Acquisition Program Management to a Government lead and team that:
- Provides acquisition strategy program management services to senior management.
- Works across NGA 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 NGA’s GEOINT mission.
(U) 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 NGA 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 NGA Management in strategic business planning, business development activities, product concept development and Information Technology engineering.
- Ensure programmatic alignment and adherence to the NGA 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.
- Support the preparation of briefing packages for the Acquisition Governance Process and
other related governance boards.
- Support the coordination of program management between the Engineering Divisions, CIO-T Offices, and NGA Directorates and Associate Directorates.
- Support NGA and IC Steering Groups, Advisory Groups and Governance Boards.
- Support Enterprise Release Planning.
- Support Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s) and / or Assessments.
- Maintain PMO artifacts using NGA 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:
(U) Required:
- Bachelor’s Degree in Information Systems, Business or a related field such as Economics, Accounting, or Finance.
- 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.
(U) Desired:
- Demonstrated specialized experience in Cost/ Price analysis, cost estimating or financial
management.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in Department of Defense (DoD) and or NGA
acquisition processes.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with the development and/or review of cost estimates and the associated technical work scope necessary to achieve stated objectives.
- Demonstrated knowledge of the geospatial intelligence mission and its contributions to the Intelligence Community.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in 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.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in lean six-sigma, Agile or SAFe methods with
demonstrated results.
- Demonstrated specialized experience tailoring and using both Agile and Waterfall
development methodologies to support acquisition planning, execution, integration and
transition to operations.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with the identification of technical issues and proactive communication of possible impacts.
- Demonstrated specialized experience in performing validation and verification of various
engineering results and deliverables to ensure the highest quality results against customer
requirements.
- Demonstrated knowledge of Department of Defense (DoD) and/or Intelligence Community (IC) Configuration Management (CM) processes.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with developing and validating system roadmaps,
project plans and mission capabilities.
- Demonstrated specialized experience with Analysis of Alternatives (AoA’s).
