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Dynamic Management Associates has an immediate requirement for an Executive Program Management Consultant to serve as a senior acquisition strategist, enterprise integrator, and trusted advisor to program, portfolio, functional, resource, contracting, and executive leadership. The consultant converts complex policy, governance, funding, workforce, technical, and organizational issues into decision-ready strategies and coordinated action. The position establishes and matures portfolio-level Programs of Record; develops acquisition strategies, Simplified Acquisition Management Plans (SAMPs), milestone decision packages, and Agile-aligned acquisition baselines; supports major competitive procurements; and protects mission continuity during transformation, fiscal pressure, and organizational change.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

· Executive advisory and decision support. Advise Program Managers, deputies, portfolio executives, functional and resource sponsors, flag officers, Senior Executive Service members, and Secretariat officials. Frame ambiguous problems; define the decision required; evaluate alternatives, tradeoffs, risks, dependencies, and authorities; and provide clear, defensible recommendations.

· Program-of-Record and acquisition strategy. Develop the strategy and documentation required to establish, restructure, or mature major portfolio Programs of Record, including Business Capability Acquisition Category I Defense Business Systems. Author SAMPs and related acquisition artifacts; align pathways, governance, decision authorities, statutory requirements, funding, and execution; and prepare milestone packages that enable rapid, well-supported approval.

· Agile acquisition baseline governance. Design and maintain rolling acquisition baselines that reconcile iterative software delivery with executive control of cost, schedule, performance, capability outcomes, funding, risk, and dependencies. Establish disciplined semiannual and event-driven update processes comparable to the Transformation Portfolio Baseline and create reusable methods that can be institutionalized across the Defense Business Systems community.

· Major acquisition and contracting support. Support compressed, high-dollar competitive acquisitions, including $500 million-class portfolio coordination, systems-integration, and transformation efforts. Integrate requirements, acquisition strategy, evaluation approach, competition schedule, contracting actions, transition planning, stakeholder coordination, and executive decisions to achieve timely award and executable performance.

· Portfolio integration and modernization. Integrate critical workstreams, schedules, metrics, risks, technical dependencies, resources, and stakeholder commitments into a coherent portfolio approach. Develop enterprise strategies, Top Level Requirements Documents, roadmaps, implementation plans, and courses of action for legacy-system rationalization, shared services, commercial-first solutions, data modernization, technical-debt reduction, and Digital Human or workforce capabilities.

· Governance and organizational alignment. Develop charters, concepts of operations, roles and responsibilities, decision rights, escalation paths, and accountability models. Lead senior working groups, deep dives, offsites, and cross-functional forums that resolve barriers and reconcile acquisition, functional, technical, resource, contracting, and operational equities.

· Budget, workforce, and investment strategy. Advise on spend plans, execution-year realignments, Program Objective Memorandum and Future Years Defense Program requirements, RDT&E justifications, budget claims, and mitigation strategies. Conduct workload, manpower, staffing, competency, organizational-capacity, and contract-portfolio analyses; assess transfers or consolidations of oversight; and recommend resource alignments that preserve mission.

· Executive communications and enterprise coordination. Prepare executive briefs, white papers, assessments, Congressional and senior-leader responses, talking points, joint memoranda, readiness statements, and decision packages. Coordinate across Navy, Marine Corps, Army, Air Force, OSD, DFAS, CIO, acquisition, and functional organizations to build a unified position, identify interoperability and reuse opportunities, and document matters requiring senior resolution.

· Data, performance, and institutional knowledge. Integrate portfolio metrics, dashboards, assessments, and authoritative data into decision-useful executive analytics. Capture program history, decision records, lessons learned, governance artifacts, action tracking, and reusable templates in authoritative repositories to reduce key-person dependency and improve continuity.

· Executive decision briefs, courses of action, strategic assessments, Congressional and Secretariat responses, modernization plans, governance charters, budget and workforce analyses, and joint or cross-service alignment products.

Required Qualifications

· Bachelor's degree in business, public administration, acquisition, information technology, systems engineering, organizational management, or a related field; advanced degree preferred.

· At least 15 years of progressively responsible Federal or Department of War program experience, including five years of portfolio-level, acquisition-strategy, or executive-advisory support.

· Demonstrated experience establishing or restructuring a major portfolio or Defense Business System Program of Record; authoring a SAMP or equivalent acquisition strategy; and supporting milestone decisions through approval.

· Demonstrated experience designing Agile-aligned acquisition baselines and repeatable baseline-update governance that accommodate iterative delivery while preserving compliance, traceability, affordability, and Government control.

· Experience supporting large-dollar competitive acquisitions under compressed schedules, including requirements integration, acquisition planning, evaluation support, stakeholder coordination, and transition readiness.

· Expert executive writing, briefing, facilitation, decision analysis, and stakeholder-management skills; strong knowledge of Federal and Navy acquisition, portfolio governance, budgeting, workforce analysis, enterprise IT modernization, and organizational change.

· Ability to operate independently with discretion, sound judgment, political awareness, and credibility in high-visibility senior-leader environments; required security eligibility and system access.

ACTIVE SECRET SECURITY CLEARANCE REQUIRED

Application Question(s):

• Do you have • Demonstrated experience establishing or restructuring a major portfolio or Defense Business System Program of Record; authoring a SAMP or equivalent acquisition strategy
• Do you have • Experience supporting large-dollar competitive acquisitions under compressed schedules, including requirements integration, acquisition planning, evaluation support, stakeholder coordination, and transition readiness.
• Do you have • Major acquisition and contracting support experience

Education:

• Master's (Preferred)

Experience:

• Federal or Department of War Program : 10 years (Required)

Security clearance:

• Secret (Preferred)

Work Location: In person