Acquisition Program Manager

Chenega Services & Federal Solutions • Scottsdale, AZ

4h • Remote

About The Position

Chenega Services and Federal Solutions, LLC (CSFS) is seeking an Acquisition Support Program Manager to support the Food and Drug Administration’s Office of the Commissioner Strategic Initiative Programs. The role leads a team providing procurement advisory and assistance services to the Sentinel 3.0 program team, developing procurement work products for the program team’s review before submission to the FDA Office of Acquisitions and Grants Services. The FDA Sentinel Initiative is a national electronic system used to monitor the safety of approved medical products, including drugs, vaccines, and medical devices, after they reach the market.

The Program Manager provides overall management and coordination for a portfolio of acquisition support services and serves as the primary point of contact for the Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR). The position oversees contract performance, acquisition workstreams, transition activities, quality controls, compliance, reporting, and stakeholder coordination. The work is remote, but the qualified candidate must be local to Silver Spring, Maryland.

CSFS describes its employee environment as offering a robust benefits program, management engagement, quality leadership, teamwork, performance recognition, and promotion opportunities.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in a related field of study.
• At least 10 years of related experience.
• Knowledge of federal acquisition methods and techniques.
• Knowledge of federal acquisition regulations, laws, and policies, including FAR Parts 5, 6, 7, 8, 10, 11, 12, 13, 15, 16, 17, 19, and 43.
• Knowledge of federal methods and techniques for Interagency Agreements, including FAR Part 17.
• Knowledge of federal methods and techniques for grants and cooperative agreements, including 2 CFR Subtitle A, Chapters I and II, Parts 1 through 299, and Subtitle B, Chapter III, Parts 300 through 399.
• Professional personal-computer skills, including Microsoft Office, particularly Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and Outlook, as well as SharePoint.
• Ability to manage and prioritize multiple assignments with strict deadlines and coordinate efforts among many offices.
• Excellent interpersonal and oral and written communication skills.
• Ability to perform advanced business analysis using techniques such as statistical analysis, explanatory modeling, and predictive modeling.
• Ability to determine best practices and develop actionable insights and recommendations for business operations or issues.
• Data-analysis skills, including creating reports based on findings or comparisons with previous data; project or plan design; SOP development; and testing or implementation of new systems or software.
• Ability and desire to read and research purchasing and contracting methods and techniques, including small purchasing techniques, complex federal acquisition, and interpretation of laws, regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Ability to apply relevant skills to pre-award and post-award procurement actions and aspects of contract administration on Government contracts.
• Knowledge of the FDA and HHS acquisition process.
• Must be local to Silver Spring, Maryland.

Nice To Haves

• PMP or equivalent certification is desired.

Responsibilities

• Provide 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).
• Manage scheduling, staffing, deliverable tracking, quality assurance, stakeholder communication, risk management, and reporting to government leadership.
• Ensure contract performance aligns with task order requirements, period-of-performance milestones, and agency priorities.
• Manage and coordinate functional areas across the acquisition support team, which may include Acquisition Lead, Evaluation Lead, Documentation Lead, and Quality Assurance Manager functions.
• Ensure responsibilities are appropriately assigned, covered, and integrated across supported acquisition workstreams.
• Monitor capacity and workload, and raise material schedule conflicts or resource limitations to the Government early enough to support reprioritization or recovery action.
• Track and report performance metrics, including on-time delivery rates, first-submission acceptance rates, and FAR compliance results.
• Lead development and execution of 60-day transition-in and transition-out plans; ensure personnel are onboarded, cleared, and badged before performance start dates, and knowledge transfer is completed before contract closeout.
• Oversee Organizational Conflict of Interest (OCI) mitigation and ensure contractor personnel follow applicable OCI policies, procurement integrity requirements, and information security controls.
• Ensure quality control processes, including multi-level review workflows and self-assessments, are consistently applied to deliverables.
• Support BPA and IDIQ management, including ordering activity tracking, ceiling value monitoring, minimum guarantee compliance, and fair opportunity compliance.
• Coordinate acquisition lifecycle activities from planning through post-award administration and closeout, maintaining organized and audit-ready acquisition records.
• Conduct or oversee preparation of weekly and monthly status reports, meeting materials, risk registers, and integrated acquisition schedules.
• Facilitate Government-authorized acquisition planning meetings, proposal evaluation sessions, and program management reviews as required.
• Perform other duties as assigned.

Benefits

• The company describes a robust employee benefits program but does not specify individual benefit offerings.
• Management engagement, quality leadership, teamwork, performance recognition, and promotion opportunities are described as aspects of the employee experience.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager