Senior Acquisition Specialist - Active clearance required

Overview

LMI is seeking a Senior Acquisition Consultant for a U.S. Army client to support activities related to the acquisition, development, and implementation of U.S. Army software programs. The Senior Acquisition Consultant serves as the Government's advisor and Subject Matter Expert for acquisition, program management, and contracting activities. Work location is primarily remote with occasional trips to the client site, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

 

Note: Telework is acceptable under current government directed guidelines. 

 

LMI is a consultancy dedicated to improving the business of government, drawing from deep expertise in advanced analytics, digital services, logistics, and management advisory services. Established in 1961, LMI is a trusted third party to federal civilian, national security, and defense agencies, operating free of commercial and political bias. For nearly 60 years, LMI has worked with 40 government agencies. From the departments of Defense to Health and Human Services, LMI is honored to support the government's mission and people around the globe. We believe government can make a difference, and we seek talented, hardworking, mission-driven people who share that conviction.

 

LMI offers a generous compensation package with excellent benefits that start the first day of employment. Business casual dress, flex time, and tuition reimbursement are a few of our many work-life benefits available to our employees. 

Responsibilities

• Ability to solve complex problems and integrate Agile solutions to meet client requirements.
• Responsible for developing plans and documentation in support of the software acquisition management (5000.87) approach and strategy to include timelines and milestones for FAR based and other rapid acquisition approaches. Support documentation includes:
• Develops, drafts and edits multiple types of program acquisition and contract documents
• Responsible to track changes in DoD and Army acquisition and procurement regulations / instructions / policy and interpret the changes for the organizational tasks
• As required, provides the following types of products and analysis in support of Information Technology (IT) systems: Drafts Acquisition documents to include: Capability Implementation Plan (CIP), Acquisition Approach, Acquisition Strategy, Cost Estimates, Requirements Traceability Matrices, program/project presentations, executive summaries and white papers
• Drafts requests for proposal (RFP) documents to include solicitation sections A — M and required attachments
• Drafts Source Selection Evaluation planning, including development of evaluation criteria, instructions to vendors, training for evaluation teams, creating schedules, and editing Government reports and documents
• Conducts Market Research and assistance with industry interactions
• Works with Project Scheduler to develop Integrated master schedules (IMS) with discrete milestones at sufficient intervals to measure progress
• Develops and monitors performance measurement baseline metrics including cost, schedule, and scope baselines

Qualifications

• Required Qualifications:

  • Bachelor’s degree
  • 5 years’ experience in Defense acquisition and contracting. Must be familiar with the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation (DFAR), and other acquisition regulations
  • Certification in Agile or ability to obtain within 3-4 months (e.g. may include PMP-ACP, ICP, APMG, ACI, CSM, and PSM SAFe®) and understanding of the software development process.
  • Experience with contract formation and management to support development of materials for Software and System Integration contracts
  • Demonstrated knowledge with the Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) to support the development of key deliverables and work products.
  • Demonstrated knowledge of Government contract and subcontract management, specifically with Source Selection Evaluations under multiple contract types.
  • Previous experience providing acquisition support to an Army or DoD Program Offices
  • Excellent computer applications skills, especially with MS Office products (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint Outlook, Project) and SharePoint
  • Values and provides excellent customer service
  • Ability to participate effectively and build consensus across a cross-functional team
  • Must possess and maintain a Secret Security Clearance

  Desired Qualifications:

  • Master's degree
  • 8+ years’ experience in Defense acquisition and contracting.
  • Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Acquisition or Contracting Level II or higher certification
  • Experience with Enterprise data and a