Junior Acquisition Support Job Listing at SAIC in Dahlgren, VA (Job ID 2406852)

Description

Description

SAIC is looking to hire an Acquisition Support in Dahlgren, VA to conduct acquisition planning activities for current and future programs in accordance with Federal, DoD, Air Force and JWAC laws regulations, policies, directives, and instructions.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Support all acquisition support functions from cradle to grave for a given mission critical program.
• Provide support to program and project staff.
• Provide support to analysis, evaluation and recommendations for improvements, optimization development, and/or maintenance efforts for client specific or mission critical challenges/issues.
• Support the execution of existing programs and the development of new acquisition initiatives.
• Assist the government acquisition by ensuring that projects are in conformance with current DoD directives (i.e. 5000 and 8000 series) and the Milestone Decision Authority approved baseline as shown in the project's Acquisition Program Baseline document.
• Provide acquisition management support to the planning, organizing, managing critical aspects of the engineering, development, production and/or deployment of systems and equipment.
• Support project actions and activities to include meetings, vendor performance tracking, milestone planning, briefing preparation, staff coordination, risk management and decision document preparation.
• Support to the development of ongoing and crucial core protection competencies that advance specific projects/activities (including cyber) to deliver comprehensive, economical and actionable solutions for both programmatic and operational domains.
• Assist the government and senior contractor acquisition manager in the identification of solutions to balancing near-term results with long-term acquisition, architecture and strategic objectives.
• Prepare acquisition management related sections of acquisition project documentation to include, but not limited to Requirements Approval Document (RAD), Justification and Approval (J&A), Performance Work Statements (PWS), Statement of Work (SOW) and Market Research.
• Provide assistance in the coordination of Integrated Project Teams (IPTs), various program actions and activities including tracking action items and maintaining meeting minutes.

Qualifications

Required Education and Experience:

• High School Diploma
• Qualified candidates must possess an active Top Secret clearance, with SCI/SAP eligibility
• Requires 1-3 years of relevant experience with Air Force acquisition processes, procedures and functions.
• Proficiency using Microsoft Office Products, to include Outlook, Word, PowerPoint, and Excel.
• Strong communication skills, both written and verbal.

SAIC accepts applications on an ongoing basis and there is no deadline.

Covid Policy: SAIC does not require COVID-19 vaccinations or boosters. Customer site vaccination requirements must be followed when work is performed at a customer site.

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