Markon Solutions Looking for Acquisition SME at Bethesda, MD  Full Time

Job Title

Acquisition SME

Job Description

Founded in 2007, Markon Solutions is a nationally recognized consulting firm headquartered in Falls Church, Virginia. Markon is the Federal Business Unit of Anser Advisory. With employees in seven states and overseas, we support the intelligence community, defense and civilian sectors, as well as commercial clients. Markon is committed to advancing clients through project management and business improvement services offered in a premiere, highly personal environment.

Join our winning team! We empower our employees to make decisions and encourage them to take on leadership roles. New ideas from employees are also encouraged. Markon is a place where you can truly demonstrate your capabilities to your full potential. We are consistently named a Washington Post Top Workplace and Best Place to Work in Virginia because we put our employees first. Markon offers an exceptional benefits package that ranks in the top tier of our industry.

Markon Solutions is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

Description:

Perform oversight of planned and on-going Major Systems Acquisition (MSA) Programs, Service Acquisitions (SA) and other Special Interest Acquisitions (SIA) across the IC. Such oversight will range from quick turn-around, small-scale tasks to longer, broader scope assessments. This support will include, but is not limited to:

• Monitoring, analyzing, and reporting on MSA and SIA Programs within AT&F’s purview to assess program effectiveness within cost, schedule, performance and risk constraints.
• Developing, coordinating, and implementing a construct for oversight of SA programs.
• Ensuring Program risk areas (cost, schedule, or performance) are appropriately identified, and assessing suitability of proposed risk management approaches.
• Evaluating acquisition and programmatic strategies to ensure sound acquisition practices are employed.
• Developing recommendations for corrective actions when program activity warrants correction.
• Partnering with the appropriate IC and DoD elements to ensure cross-agency programs maximize use of IC resources.
• Providing in-depth studies, assessments, and recommendations on IC Acquisition topics of interest.
• Drafting, editing, and coordinating oversight reports, briefings or other deliverables in support of congressional mandates and ODNI requirements.
• Developing and delivering briefings as required to provide the results of any analysis performed.
• Maintaining cognizance of future programs, areas of interest and emerging requirements in support of IC interests.
• Partnering with fellow DNI Requirements personnel and IC elements to ensure requirements are properly articulated and prioritized, appropriate technologies are considered and cost estimates are comprehensive and realistic.

Job Requirements

Required:

• Mastersdegree or higher in Business Administration, Program Management, Acquisition or other related field.
• Twenty years or more of experience within a Program Management Office (PMO), or providing senior management/oversight of: requirements analysis, resource allocation, project costing, deliverable tracking, schedule and financial data monitoring, and reporting.
• Ten years or more of experience within the IC developing or reviewing MSA acquisition documentation (e.g. Program Management Plan (PMP), Statement of Capabilities (SOC), Intelligence Capabilities Baseline Description (ICBD), etc).
• Knowledge of Federal, IC and DoD acquisition policies, laws, procedures and guidance.
• Knowledge of the IC’s structure and IC member organizations’ (e.g. NRO, NGA, NSA, DIA and CIA) roles and internal structures for acquisition and program management.

The following are DESIRED:

• Program Management experience in two or more IC (e.g. NRO, NGA, NSA, DIA, CIA) or DoD elements.
• Current or prior Program Management Certification (e.g. PMP, FAC-P/PM or Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) level 3 certification in Program Management, Engineering or Test & Evaluation).

Travel

0 – 10%

Location

Bethesda, MD – Bethesda, MD US (Primary)

Education

Master’s Degree

Job Type

Full-time

Career Level

Experienced (Non-Manager)

Category

Contracts/Acquisition Management

Exemption Type

Exempt

Date Needed By

1/24/2023

Security Clearance

Top Secret/SCI with Counter Intelligence Polygraph