Acquisition Analyst

Kalman & Company is seeking to hire an experienced Acquisition Analyst to work onsite in Edgewood, MD. This resource shall assist the team lead with the planning, development/refinement, initiation, and execution of new requirements, projects, procedures, and guidelines. The salary range for this position is $87K/year-$92K/year.

• Assist the Support Agreements Manager (SAM) with the preparation and coordination of all support agreements (7600As and 7600Bs), amendments, and terminations.
• Maintain awareness of program execution and milestones, as well as their strategic impacts.
• Support project management, engineering management, Department of Defense (DoD) acquisition, or another related subjects of comparable complexity and responsibility; apply acquisition processes and policies as outlined in the Department of Defense Instruction (DoDI) 5000.02 , relating it to life cycle management (product development, production, and sustainment).
• Consider affordability, technology maturity, and responsiveness to assist in the formulation of broad, time-phased operational goals and initial capabilities.
• Assist in development, design, and implementation of annual and long-range plans to realize the product development components of strategic goals.
• Facilitate milestone planning by preparing, reviewing, and updating technical briefing materials, documentation, and program schedules; and developing and implementing technical and programmatic plans and measures to track programs.
• Apply relevant skills to review, analyze, and evaluate program development, status/progress, and performance (i.e., acquisition strategies and documentation, acquisition phases and decision levels, and timing and scope of decision reviews), and make recommendations for tailoring an acquisition approach which best fits program conditions. Recommendations shall minimize the time it takes to satisfy the validated need, consistent with common sense, sound business management practice, applicable laws and regulations, and the time-sensitive nature of the users' requirements.
• Review and assess technical, cost, and schedule data and work with Government staff to identify shortfalls and potential corrective actions.
• Work at a senior level to stimulate customer alliances for portfolio, program, and project support, maintaining personal and organizational interactions to enhance stakeholder relations and actively promote rapport with customers.
• Draft, review, staff, file, and update various documents, including acquisition documentation, memorandums, information and issue papers, briefings, executive summaries, milestone review packages, e-mails, and meeting minutes. When applicable, documents shall be prepared in accordance with DoD policies and procedures for the research, development, test and evaluation, and procurement of materiel and shall be sufficiently complete, accurate, and timely to establish program goals, objectives, and milestones. These activities require Primavera and Microsoft Project, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, and Word.
• Maintain a list of required documents for assigned programs with corresponding projected need dates.
• Coordinate both internal and external meetings and reviews for relevant stakeholders, ensuring that locations, phone, and video teleconference lines are properly booked for use; scheduling speakers; developing and providing meeting materials (e.g., day-to-day schedules, agendas, presentations and displays, etc.); and tracking action items as needed.
• Support each event in person and/or via teleconference, video teleconference, and web conference. In addition, for each meeting conducted, the contractor shall develop meeting minutes and/or an executive summary.
• Review and provide input to acquisition documentation in support of program milestone decisions and IPRs.
• Provide input to support annual, monthly, and weekly recurring reports, as needed.
• Shall brief leadership on the status of program reviews and recurring reports.
• Provide program status updates at regular senior staff meetings.
• Communicate programmatic issues, concerns, and information.
• Assist to develop and update top-level briefings for public presentation to be utilized at various meetings and events.
• Track the status of action items, meeting minutes, program milestones, and monthly reports.
• Ensure that product teams are aware of deadlines, assignments, and objectives.
• Assist in maintaining program management tools and processes.
• Obtain and maintain all information regarding the projects and events he/she is responsible for managing and provide updates on issues, upcoming meetings, briefings, and taskers related to assigned projects, both orally and in written form.
• Assist in the review, preparation, and submission of responses to formal taskers related to acquisition and program office operations.
• Monitor/protect acquisition-sensitive materiel.
• Apply managerial and executive skills to construct and maintain a program schedule; review, analyze, and evaluate program development, progress, and performance; and provide on-going analytical, acquisition, and administrative support by managing and coordinating daily staff operations.
• Develop and maintain an IMS that synchronizes activities of all program management functional areas into a logically linked sequence of events from program initiation to program completion such that activity changes in any one functional area reveals effects on activities of all other functional areas and reflect risk at a defined confidence level.
• Migrate, archive, and maintain electronic program files in appropriate electronic libraries.
• Develop, implement, and monitor information security policies, instructions, procedures, and control systems for activities involving clearance/classification authority and guides.
• Implement and monitor training programs regarding physical, information, and operational security.
• Develop, implement, and monitor policies, instructions, procedures, control systems, and methods for the following functions:

a. Delegation and exercise of classification and declassification authority

b. Use of classification guides, document marking, and safeguarding

c. Personnel access controls

d. "Need to Know" criteria

e. Physical storage and control

f. Security education

g. Transmitting, transferring, reproducing, downgrading, and destroying information

• Provide information on new developments and advances in security processes, methods, and application, including resolution of unique, time-sensitive issues and implementation of new techniques, requirements, and systems.
• Serve as the system domain administrator for the training development capability system. The contractor shall provide after-action reports for each training element, including a summary of the training and results.

Minimum Requirements:

• US Citizenship is required.
• An Active Secret Clearance.
• Must possess at least three (3) years of experience in acquisition life cycle activities/management.
• Must have three (3) years of Microsoft Suite of software applications (e.g. Project, Outlook, Power Point, Word, Excel), and Primavera experience.