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Within MITRE’s Intelligence Center the Strategy and Policy Department has the mission to enhance our sponsors’ policy formulation, planning, and strategy execution across the national security enterprise through all-source intelligence and resource analysis that informs decision-making to address threats in an era of strategic competition. Our vision is to guide the formulation and implementation of strategy and policy that enables sponsor transformation and addresses emerging national and global challenges by unlocking the full potential of intelligence analysis to advance the missions of our sponsors. The Department is accountable and responsible for programs with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI), the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security (OUSD I&S), and the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA).

Job Description:

The Strategy and Policy Department seeks a Lead Intelligence Acquisition Advisor who wants to drive innovative solutions, thought leadership, and evidence-based recommendations so the Intelligence Community (IC) can deliver the benefits and services our mission partners depend on to make a positive impact in the world. The position involves extensive collaboration across the IC and DoD components and requires experience working with multiple Agencies, Departments, and external partners to help them develop requirements capability documents to be validated.

In addition, the selected candidate will:

• Lead acquisition efforts throughout their life cycle, including conceptualization, requirements definition, procurement, and post award contract management activities to ensure the expected benefits of each procurement action are realized.

• Lead and advise the government sponsor on acquisition strategy, roadmap, repeatable processes, and develop actionable acquisition solutions to achieve desired outcomes.

• Develop acquisition artifacts to include requirements documents (SOW, SOO, PWS), requests for proposals, source selection plans, acquisition plans, risk management plans, cost estimates, and other documents as necessary.

• Provide acquisition support, including market analysis, cost analysis, requirements, rough orders of magnitude, and contract changes.

• Participate and assist in source selection, recommend evaluation factors, evaluation, and analysis of proposal-provided data/information.

• Support efforts to research, develop, and implement innovative acquisition solutions to bring capabilities to the programs faster and more cost effective.

• Attend meetings with the technical, systems engineering, cost, and procurement teams to effectively define acquisition products that meet technical, schedule, and programmatic requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• Active Top Secret/SCI clearance with Polygraph.

• Due to the lengthy clearance process and our urgent need, candidates without an existing TS/SCI clearance with CI or FS polygraph cannot be considered for this opening.

• Typically requires a minimum of 8 years of related experience with a Bachelor’s degree; or 6 years and a Master’s degree; or a PhD with 3 years’ experience; or equivalent combination of related education and work experience.

• Experience providing acquisition support to the Intelligence Community in acquiring managed services (technical and business) to achieve desired outcomes.

• Experience developing repeatable acquisition process, acquisition artifacts (e.g., requirements documents (SOW, SOO, PWS), requests for proposals, source selection plans, acquisition plans, risk management plans, cost estimates, and other documents as necessary).

• Experience providing pre- and post-award acquisition support, including market analysis, cost analysis, requirements, rough orders of magnitude, and contract changes.

• Ability to translate operational mission needs into acquisition, technical, and programmatic requirements.

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Demonstrated experience and capability to advise on all aspects of the federal acquisition life cycle to implement and adopt innovative acquisition solutions.

• Experience participating and assisting in source selection, recommending evaluation factors, proposal evaluation process, and analyzing offer proposals.

• DAWIA Contracting Level II or III or NCMA CFCM or CPCM certification.

• DAWIA Program Management Level II or III or PMI PMP certification.

  This requisition requires the candidate to have a minimum of the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

This requisition requires the hired candidate to have or obtain, within one year from the date of hire, the following clearance(s):

Top Secret/SCI/Polygraph

Work Location Type:

Onsite

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