Job Description

Description

SAIC is seeking an experienced Program Integrator with strong initiative, organizational skills, and multitasking abilities to support the customer team's non-Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and FAR-based academic and industry outreach efforts. The customer leverages academia and non-traditional industry partners to address current and future technical needs in support of the intelligence mission. The speed and agility of the available engagement models provides the ability to engage with experts who would otherwise not be well-positioned to bring their expertise to bear in researching emerging and disruptive technology for Government challenges. The team conducts multidisciplinary scientific and technological research, development, and testing to address new mission challenges and adapt or improve the production of existing solutions. This position provides a unique opportunity to work across emerging technology areas, promote engagement with experts in the field, work across numerous mission elements within the Sponsor’s organization, and gain an understanding of non-FAR and FAR-based mechanisms of promoting Government partnership with external entities.

The program is an innovative effort with senior leadership visibility supporting the broader Customer organization.  The selected candidate will provide programmatic support for the structure and governance of this effort and will be part of a dynamic team of unique specialists.  The candidate will interact with a wide spectrum of personnel to maintain and successfully advance critical activities and provide wide-ranging support to the program.

Specific duties include, but are not limited to, the following:

• Establish cross team and cross community relationships to support all non-fAR and FAR-based partnerships and acquisition efforts.

• Schedule and support multiple partner program reviews and in-person visits (travel optional but welcome).

• Work with external users to gather requirements and generate/update a summary of actions to improve the program’s success.

• Coordinate internally to enable work and communication across multiple development and support teams.

• Coordinate with Customer personnel to document program requirements and milestones and maintain other programmatic artifacts using customer’s knowledge management systems/best practices.

• Compose and coordinate cable traffic to inform Customer stakeholders about program travel and external engagements.

• Create, draft, and review portfolio documentation including schedules, planning documents, and briefing materials.

• Maintain the program’s internal website and other knowledge management platforms.

• Support the activities of academic outreach officers.

• Track status of BAA announcements, white papers, and evaluations.

• Provide proactive feedback to the team and improve process design from working knowledge.

• Provide direct support to management and assist in any other task as required.

• Provide meticulous attention to detail in support of budget and finance, tracking expenses, and responding to actions.

Qualifications

Required Qualifications: 

• Current TS/SCI clearance with full-scope polygraph.

• Bachelors and fourteen (14) years or more experience; Masters and twelve (12) years or more experience; PhD or JD and nine (9) years or more experience.

• Demonstrated experience providing end-to-end program integration support with consistent attention to detail.

• Demonstrated strong initiative, organizational skills, and the ability to multitask in a dynamic environment.

• Expertise with Microsoft Office products to include Excel and PowerPoint.

• Familiarity with Customer systems, workflows, and mission elements to include supporting program activities, budget, personnel onboarding/accesses, and requesting vetting of external entities.

• Strong knowledge of the Customer’s cable system including the new e-version of the system and drafting, coordinating, and tracking cables.

• Familiarity with the Customer’s dispersed field presence, work processes, and pertinent record-keeping systems.

• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with experience successfully conveying technical ideas to non-technical audiences.

• Expertise coordinating with other team members for problem solutions, risk reduction, and user satisfaction; confident in making recommendations on process strategies.

• Ability to establish and maintain an effective working relationship with management, peers, academics, and other professionals, including external agencies, with varied interests and perspectives.

• Demonstrated ability to effectively communicate mission critical ideas and prioritize taskings by need, level of effort required, and timeline expectations.

• Prior experience with the administrative, counterintelligence, security, and legal governance of Customer outreach.

• Demonstrated expertise deconflicting activities across Customer HQs and field stakeholders.

• Proactive spirit toward search and discovery of potential stakeholders and records.

• Expertise in preemptively identifying sources of conflict among stakeholders and potential solutions.

• Successful experience with Customer budget and finance management practices.

• Ability to use enterprise tools such as Excel to track expenses and manage budget on behalf of the team.

Desired Qualifications: 

• Familiarity with emerging and disruptive technologies and/or applied research.

• Familiarity with Customer’s traditional and non-traditional acquisition methodologies or Government engagement with external entities to include PIA, CRADAs, BAAs and UARC IDIQs.

• Familiarity with Government budget execution and associated Customer systems and processes.

• Proficient in the use of PowerBI, HIVE, and other record systems to assist in effective program management support.

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