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The Acquisition Program Manager will lead a team providing procurement advisory and assistance services to the Sentinel 3.0 program team by developing procurement work products for the program team's review before submission to FDA Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services (OAGS). The FDA Sentinel Initiative is a national electronic system used to monitor the safety of approved medical products-such as drugs, vaccines, and medical devices-after they reach the market\nOur company offers employees the opportunity to join a team where there is a robust employee benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, an atmosphere of teamwork, recognition for performance, and promotion opportunities. We actively strive to channel our highly engaged employee’s knowledge, critical thinking, innovative solutions for our clients.\n\nWork Location: Remote- Qualified candidate must be local to Silver Spring, MD\nResponsibilities\nProvides overall program management and coordination for a portfolio of acquisition support services, serving as the primary point of contact for the Contracting Officer's Representative (COR).\nResponsibilities include scheduling, staffing, deliverable tracking, quality assurance, stakeholder communication, risk management, and reporting to government leadership.\nEnsures contract performance aligns with task order requirements, period of performance milestones, and agency priorities.\nManages and coordinates key functional areas across the acquisition support team, which may include the Acquisition Lead, Evaluation Lead, Documentation Lead, and Quality Assurance Manager functions.\nEnsures appropriate assignment, coverage, and integration of responsibilities across all supported acquisition workstreams.\nMaintains proactive visibility into capacity constraints and workload conditions, surfacing material schedule conflicts or resource limitations to the Government early enough to allow for reprioritization or recovery action.\nTracks and reports on performance metrics including on-time delivery rates, first-submission acceptance rates, and FAR compliance results.\nLeads development and execution of the 60-day transition-in and transition-out plans, ensuring personnel are on-boarded, cleared, and badged in advance of performance start dates, and that knowledge transfer is completed before contract closeout.\nOversees Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) mitigation and ensures all contractor personnel adhere to applicable OCI policies, procurement integrity requirements, and information security controls.\nEnsures quality control processes, including multi-level review workflows and self-assessments, are applied consistently across all deliverables.\nSupports BPA and IDIQ management activities, including ordering activity tracking, ceiling value monitoring, minimum guarantee compliance, and fair opportunity compliance.\nCoordinates acquisition lifecycle activities from planning through post-award administration and closeout, ensuring acquisition records are organized and audit-ready.\nConducts or oversees preparation of weekly and monthly status reports, meeting materials, risk registers, and integrated acquisition schedules. Facilitates Government-authorized acquisition planning meetings, proposal evaluation sessions, and program management reviews as required.\nOther duties as assigned\nQualifications\nMinimum Qualifications: (To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily.) \nBachelor’s Degree in related field of study\nMinimum of 10 years’ related experience\nKnowledge of federal acquisition methods and techniques\nPMP or equivalent desired\n\nKnowledge, Skills and Abilities: \nExperience and expertise to independently perform the tasks in section 4 above, as reflected in the following required knowledge, skills and abilities:\nKnowledge of federal acquisition methods and techniques\nKnowledge of federal acquisition regulations, laws and policies, to include, but not limited to:\nFAR Part 5 - Publicizing Contract Actions\nFAR Part 6 - Competition Requirements\nFAR Part 7 - Acquisition Planning\nFAR Part 8 - Required Sources\nFAR Part 10 - Market Research\nFAR Part 11 - Describing Agency Needs\nFAR Part 12 -Acquisition of Commercial Items\nFAR Part 13 - Simplified Acquisition Procedures\nFAR Part 15 - Contracting By Negotiation\nFAR Part 16 - Types of Contracts\nFAR Part 17 - Special Contracting Methods (including lnteragency Acquisitions}\nFAR Part 19 Small Business Programs\nFAR Part 43 - Contract Modifications\nKnowledge of federal methods and techniques for lnteragency Agreements (IAAs}, to include, but not limited to:\nFAR Part 17 - Special Contracting Methods (including lnteragency Acquisitions}\n\nKnowledge of federal methods and techniques for Grants and Cooperative Agreements, to include, but not limited to:\ne-Code of Federal Regulation Title 2 Grant and Agreements\nTitle 2 Subtitle A - Office of Management and Budget Guidance for Grants and Agreements; Chapters I and II; Parts 1 through 299\nTitle 2 Subtitle B - Federal Agency Regulations for Grants and Agreements; Chapter Ill; Parts 300-399\n\nProfessional personal computer skills, to include but not limited to, skills in operating Microsoft Office software, with emphasis on Word, Excel, Power Point, and Outlook as well as SharePoint.\nSkills in managing and prioritizing multiple assignments with strict deadlines and ability to coordinate efforts among many offices.\nAll positions require excellent interpersonal and communication skills (both oral and written).\nSkills including, but not limited to, the areas of:\nPerforming advanced business analysis using various techniques (e.g., statistical analysis, explanatory and predictive modeling}.\nDetermining best practices and developing actionable insights and recommendations for the current business operations or issues.\nData analysis - creating reports based on findings and/or comparison with previous data, project/plan design, development of SOP's and testing and/or implementation of new systems and/or software.\n\nAbility and desire to read/research to obtain knowledge of purchasing/contracting methods and techniques including small purchasing techniques, complex federal acquisition, research and interpretation of laws, regulations, and policies and procedures.\nAbility to apply the skills learned above to perform pre-award, post-award procurement actions and aspects of contract administration on Government contracts\nExcellent communication and writing skills.\nComputing skills including ability to use Microsoft Office suite.\nKnowledge of the FDA and HHS acquisition process.\n\nTeleworking Permitted?\nYesTeleworking Details\nMust be local to Silver Spring, MD","description_format":"text","description_chars":6943,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":10,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"bachelor","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":[],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T01:01:17Z"}],"liveness":{"score":33,"band":"fade","label":"Fading","p_open":1,"p_active":0.735,"p_room":0.45,"age_days":5,"expected_fill_days":3,"reasons":["conf:17","velocity","win:tail","comp:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-10-01T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/chenega-acquisition-program-manager","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/chenega-acquisition-program-manager.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-10-02T00:23:09Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":259,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4741,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-10-03T00:00:00Z"}}}