Senior Acquisition Program Analyst (AQC- Contracting)

Acquisition Program Analyst, Senior

The Acquisition Program Analyst, Senior candidate will work for the AQC (Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Contracting) Directorate. AQC is the Air Force's lead contracting representative on the Air Staff responsible for developing and executing innovative business strategies and cost-effective contracting solutions to enable the global Air Force mission.

This position is currently telework eligible due to COVID, with in person meetings happening 3-4 days per week. When the Pentagon re-opens fully, this position may be 100% onsite.

The Acquisition Program Analyst, Senior position support will be primarily for AQCI e-business support as well as other AQC non-e-business initiatives. Personnel in this position shall understand e-business systems and contracting systems (CON-IT, ConWrite, ACPS).

Tasks for this position include:

• Supporting Headquarters Air Force (HAF) budget preparation and defense, SAE oversight, decision-making activities.
• Supporting the HAF review process: Air Force Requirements Oversight Council (AFROCs), Joint Warfighting Capabilities Assessment (JWCAs), Defense Acquisition Boards (DABs), Congressional cycle, Acquisition Strategy Panels (ASPs), Air Force Review Board (AFRBs), Configuration Steering Board (CSB), Government Accountability Office (GAO) reports, etc.
• Use knowledge of CON-IT, ConWrite, and ACPS systems and their linkages to other business systems to help identify upcoming requirements and make recommendations in support of ongoing projects and initiatives.
• Providing short notice, quick-reaction analyses of critical programmatic issues in the context of Congressional, OSD Staff, Joint Staff, HQ USAF and Major Air Command (MAJCOM).
• Preparing Planning, Programming, Budgeting and Execution (PPBE) documentation to ensure they accurately articulate the SAF/AQC associated
• Maintaining, analyzing, planning, scheduling, and management of AQC funding data.
• Studying, analyzing, and providing recommendations on requirements, acquisition strategies, program documentation, program phase transition plans, supplemental information, and program execution.
• Providing honest broker assessments of approaching milestone decisions and of prime contractor technical and operational issues.
• Researching and analyzing program trends, identifying issues, and recommending solutions.
• Making recommendations on the allocation of funding, establishment of program goals, objectives, and schedules, and the formulation of program direction.
• Tracking compliance with stated program direction and identifying issues.
• Identifying and researching programmatic issues and tradeoffs in terms of required capabilities, costs, and schedules.
• Generating PowerPoint slides to ensure understanding of pertinent briefing topics at various levels of leadership and conducting briefing reviews of slides with AQCI.
• Reviewing and evaluating the impact of national, DoD, JCS, and civil government policies and activities that affect Air Force acquisition programs and capability areas.
• Maintaining historical Air Force AQC program documentation and developing summary documents/briefings and training material.
• Monitoring on-going studies, analyses, and developmental work relevant to AQC related systems.
• Reviewing and providing data to assist in preparation for legislative hearings, program documentation, briefing packages and read-aheads, Congressional staffer visits, and other events to ensure an integrated and consistent Air Force position in response to Congressional questions, issues, and requests for information on assigned program/portfolio.
• Any other tasks closely associated with the performance of duties list above and as coordinated with the COR.

Qualifications:

Active Secret Clearance

Master's degree in a Business, Finance or Engineering discipline.

10 years of DOD acquisition experience in a System Program Office and/or Air Force Headquarters.

Have strong understanding with the Air Force e-business systems and contracting systems (CON-IT, ConWrite, ACPS).