Acquisition Management Specialist

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Personnel of the DoD Workforce to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: This Acquisition Management Specialist position is assigned to the Program Executive Officer, Intelligence Electronic Warfare & Sensors, Project Manager Intelligence Systems and Analytics, located at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone–no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Who May Apply: US Citizens

In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job. Specialized experience: is defined as performing duties which include: 1) Utilizing knowledge of acquisition and management processes to develop acquisition strategies utilizing pathways of the adaptive acquisition framework (Middle Tier of Acquisition, Major Capability Acquisition and Software Acquisition Pathway); 2) Planning and/or evaluating major programs, system development efforts, acquisition, and/or research and development related initiatives; 3) Overseeing the integration of various functional areas to include programming, scheduling, financial management, engineering, and logistics planning; and, 4) Performing acquisition management activities on software-intensive programs

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (NH-03/GS-13).