| Position Summary Support the USARCENT G4 mission in operational contract support, acquisition analysis, contract integration, and command contract-portfolio management. The specialist turns operational and sustainment needs into traceable requirement packages and gives Government leaders decision-ready visibility into contract actions, dependencies, cost, schedule, performance, and mission risk. Requirement-Specific Scope of Work Receive, analyze, and document operational or sustainment requirements; clarify the mission need, required outcome, customer, delivery location, period of performance, constraints, dependencies, and acceptance approach. Support development and quality review of acquisition-planning and requirement documents, including scopes or performance work statements, market-research inputs, cost-estimate support, funding and approval artifacts, evaluation-support material, and action trackers as assigned. Verify that requirement packages are complete, internally consistent, traceable to the supported mission, and ready for Government review before submission to contracting or resource-management personnel. Integrate contracted support into operational and sustainment planning by identifying Government-furnished support, access, security, deployment, logistics, schedule, and transition dependencies. Maintain command contract-portfolio visibility for assigned actions, including status, milestones, period of performance, funding, deliverables, performance concerns, decisions, responsible parties, and follow-on or bridge-action risks. Analyze portfolio data to identify duplicative effort, coverage gaps, expiring support, schedule conflicts, cost or funding pressure, and performance risks; develop options for Government consideration. Coordinate with requiring activities, planners, logisticians, resource managers, legal counsel, CORs, contracting personnel, and other stakeholders to resolve packa Prepare decision papers, staff summaries, briefings, data-call responses, review materials, meeting records, and executive-level contract-status products. Track Government decisions and assigned actions through closure and preserve the documentation needed for continuity, audit support, and portfolio reviews. Provide analysis and recommendations without obligating funds, changing contract terms, directing contractor personnel, representing contracting authority, or performing other inherently governmental functions. Government-Stated Conditions Must possess and maintain a Secret clearance. The Government recommends an active clearance at hire. Must be able to obtain and maintain a Common Access Card, installation access, and required Government system/network access; performance cannot begin while required access is pending. Must read, write, speak, and understand English and maintain professional conduct and appearance. Must use Government-furnished equipment and authorized systems for performance; unauthorized personal devices or removable media are prohibited on Government networks. Must complete required security, cyber/IA, OPSEC, antiterrorism, iWATCH, and local training. Possible CONUS or OCONUS travel may be designated after award. |
| Five or more years of DoD acquisition, contracting support, requirements development, operational contract support, or contract-management experience. Experience preparing or reviewing acquisition requirement packages, performance work statements, independent estimates, market research, or contract-action trackers. Working knowledge of the FAR/DFARS and Army acquisition processes appropriate to a contractor support role. Strong analytical writing, document-quality review, schedule control, and stakeholder-coordination skills. DAWIA, FAC-C, CFCM, CPCM, or related acquisition training/certification is preferred but is not stated as a Government requirement. |
