Acquisition Specialist (Lifecycle Acquisition- Senior)

Summary

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Demonstrated specialized experience with acquisition documentation and principals: contracting, contracting documents, the FAR, the contracting process, Engineering Change
  Proposals (ECPs), Performance Work Statements (PWSs), the acquisition process and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated specialized experience with budgeting and funding basics, such as, fiscal years, appropriations, and IC or DoD budgeting process.
• Bachelor's degree in business or business-related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Master's degree in a business-related field.
• Demonstrated understanding with IC or DoD systems architecture and engineering.
• Demonstrated specialized program management experience in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Demonstrated understanding of CUSTOMER Mission and acquisition process.
• Demonstrated understanding of CUSTOMER Configuration Management (CM) process.
• Demonstrated specialized experience with the Source Selection process.

Job Description:

• Functions as the advisor for the Government Technical Point of Contact (POC) and the Program Office.
• Provides contractual and financial knowledge and assistance to the CUSTOMER program offices.

Duties include:

• Review contractor engineering change proposals and provide reviews to the program office.
• Coordinate cost estimates and performance work statement updates for CUSTOMER program offices, CUSTOMER finance, the appropriate project teams, and the Office of Contracting Services.
• Attending monthly Program Management Review Boards and Budget Management review Boards.
• Support development of acquisition documents, to include Source Selection Plans, Acquisition Plans, and budget documents.
• Assist in tracking and managing contract deliverables, to include the contract funding status reports (CFSRs), and invoices.
• Assisting in managing the program funds. Tracking spending, earned value, and routing funding documents.
• Maintain CUSTOMER business office artifacts using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Identify technical issues and communicate impacts.

All employment decisions at RTI are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

RTI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

Job Description

Clearance Required: Active TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

Skills and Experience:

Required:

• Demonstrated specialized experience with acquisition documentation and principals: contracting, contracting documents, the FAR, the contracting process, Engineering Change
  Proposals (ECPs), Performance Work Statements (PWSs), the acquisition process and lifecycle management.
• Demonstrated specialized experience with budgeting and funding basics, such as, fiscal years, appropriations, and IC or DoD budgeting process.
• Bachelor's degree in business or business-related field, or equivalent work experience.
• Master's degree in a business-related field.
• Demonstrated understanding with IC or DoD systems architecture and engineering.
• Demonstrated specialized program management experience in terms of cost, schedule, performance, and risk.
• Demonstrated understanding of CUSTOMER Mission and acquisition process.
• Demonstrated understanding of CUSTOMER Configuration Management (CM) process.
• Demonstrated specialized experience with the Source Selection process.

Job Description:

• Functions as the advisor for the Government Technical Point of Contact (POC) and the Program Office.
• Provides contractual and financial knowledge and assistance to the CUSTOMER program offices.

Duties include:

• Review contractor engineering change proposals and provide reviews to the program office.
• Coordinate cost estimates and performance work statement updates for CUSTOMER program offices, CUSTOMER finance, the appropriate project teams, and the Office of Contracting Services.
• Attending monthly Program Management Review Boards and Budget Management review Boards.
• Support development of acquisition documents, to include Source Selection Plans, Acquisition Plans, and budget documents.
• Assist in tracking and managing contract deliverables, to include the contract funding status reports (CFSRs), and invoices.
• Assisting in managing the program funds. Tracking spending, earned value, and routing funding documents.
• Maintain CUSTOMER business office artifacts using MS Excel and PowerPoint.
• Identify technical issues and communicate impacts.

All employment decisions at RTI are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national, social or ethnic origin, sex, age, physical, mental or sensory disability, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, marital, civil union or domestic partnership status, past or present military service, family medical history or genetic information, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate.

RTI will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.