Summary 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. Responsibilities Serve as a senior advisor, technical expert, and recognized authority to the Project Manager (PM) on Army Acquisition. Assist in the oversight of cost, scheduling, and performance of subordinate Product Offices. Apply knowledge of Army Acquisition policy and procedure to assess, design and evolve acquisition strategies for assigned programs. Manage the integration of separate functions to include financial management, procurement, test, quality assurance, logistics, engineering, and/or production, of assigned systems. Determine if existing programs effectively accomplish intended goals or if modifications are required to meet PEO, PM, and Department of the Army goals and procedures. Develop detailed plans, goals, and objectives that cover the entire life cycle of the system assigned. Assess all acquisition plans, documentation and status for programs in the PM portfolio. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications 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). Education 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. Additional Information Direct Deposit of Pay is required. This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a(n) General and Administrative Management Career Field position Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest.