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The United States Space Force (USSF) at WPAFB, OH is searching for a Senior Acquisition Strategist, NSIC (GG-1101-14).

Description:
Shape the future of the United States Space Force Scientific and Technical Intelligence as the Senior Acquisition Strategist at the National Space Intelligence Center (NSIC)! We are seeking a dynamic and experienced acquisition leader to drive our contract planning, development, and execution to ensure NSIC has the resources to deliver critical intelligence insights. You will serve as the organization's acquisition strategy senior advisor.

As the Acquisition Strategist, you'll lead Center procurement planning efforts to define service requirements, advise Directorate and Center leadership, and manage Center processes to ensure effective contract and program management plans. You'll work closely with Contracting Officers, lead multi-functional teams, and ensure programs maintain effective contractual, technical, and financial controls. You will also ensure programs are appropriately aligned. If you are a proven acquisition expert ready to apply your expertise in support of NSIC's vital mission, thrive on solving complex challenges, and want to contribute to national security, this is your opportunity to serve as a Guardian protecting our nation's interests!

Key Skills and Abilities:

1. Extensive knowledge of laws, principles, policies, and practices of systems acquisition and program management.
2. Knowledge of a wide range of concepts and principles related to scientific and technical intelligence analysis, and in-depth knowledge of its practice, including single-INT, integrated, all-source analysis combined with tradecraft and Intelligence Community Standards.
3. Extensive knowledge of business, industrial management, contracting procedures, technical concepts, and production practices to evaluate contractor proposals and activities.
4. Extensive knowledge of the missions, roles, functions, organizational structure, policy, programs, goals, and operation of the Center and the relationship to DoD, Department of the Air Force, United States Space Force, and other entities that govern, interface with, and/or influence the systems acquisition process.
5. Skill in working out solutions to problems or questions related to the work, writing clear and concise products, and delivering written and/or verbal presentations to senior level audiences for decision-making purposes; and quickly assimilating disparate data, rendering knowledgeable and accurate assessments of the implication of such data, and making decisions, estimates, and recommendations under conditions of urgency and pressure.
6. Skill in managing complex projects with multiple interdependencies, in compliance with defined procedures, regulations, precedents, and guidelines; and skill in designing and conducting comprehensive studies, and preparing solutions to resolve substantive problems and issues impacting effectiveness and efficiency of work operations in a major intelligence organization.
7. Excellent communication skills, understanding of DoD, Department of the Air Force, and United States Space Force Acquisition policies and processes; and ability to mentor and advise junior team members; to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing; to understand and negotiate complex issues, including sensitive topics between senior leaders.
8. Ability to establish and maintain good relationships with junior team members within the office, individuals and groups throughout the organization, as well as Center leadership; and also includes external individuals and groups.
9. Ability to lead, integrate, analyze and manage a variety of acquisition functions in support of research, development, production and support of a system, subsystem or equipment.
10. Ability to utilize complex sets of data from different sources to create status dashboards, decision aids, and complex analysis on the state of contract and the organizations acquisition strategy to guide Center processes and acquisition strategy execution.
11. Skill in creating automations to consolidate and validate organizational requirements, efficiencies in processes, and notifications to aid planning of contract and acquisition events.
12. Ability to create process improvement of the organization's acquisition strategy.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be able to obtain and maintain a Top-Secret / SCI security clearance.
• This is a drug testing designated position. The incumbent is subject to pre-employment drug testing as a condition of employment, and participation in random drug testing.
• PCS/Incentive funding is not available.
• Eligible for situational telework only, including Emergency and OPM prescribed "Unscheduled Telework".
• May be required to travel by military or commercial aircraft in the performance of TDY assignment.
• Experience in Acquisition Program Management, Engineering, Logistics, Contracting, and/or Finance is highly desirable.
• Resumes are to be limited to no more than 5 pages.
• This position will close after 5 business days or 75 applications, whichever comes first.
• Bachelor's degree in business or business-related area is highly desirable.
• Employee is expected to maintain Continuing Education certification requirements.
• Subject to Temporary Duty Assignment (TDY): 15 days a year.
• Employee must meet, or be capable of meeting, Defense Acquisition Work Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the duties of the position.
• Use this entry and additional entries as needed for Lautenberg Amendment, Information Assurance, Acquisition (DAWIA), Key, Emergency Essential, Mobility and any other required statements as applicable.
• Requires incumbent's availability for short notice work on weekends, holidays, and evenings. Flexibility in adjusting scheduled workday is mandatory.

Qualifications

The 1101 series does not have an individual occupational requirement that must be met. You can view the experience level requirements here. Please scroll down to the 3rd section titled Administrative and Management Positions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies as related to the series and grade of the position being filled. Final qualifications determinations will be assessed based on OPM's General Schedule Qualifications Standards found here:

Interviews: You will be contacted by e-mail and/or telephone if your application is identified as qualifying for a position being filled. An interview may be conducted. If interviewed, you will be asked to address the same knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies used to initially qualify your application for the position.