Program Manager-PEG/DAG Public Affairs, Journeyman- WAX 1.4.06

Credence•Bath Township, OH

16h•Onsite

About The Position

At Credence, we support our clients’ mission-critical needs, powered by technology. We provide cutting-edge solutions, including AI/ML, enterprise modernization, and advanced intelligence capabilities, to the largest defense and health federal organizations. Through partnership and trust, we increase mission success for war-fighters and secure our nation for a better future. We are privately held, are repeatedly recognized as a top place to work, and have been on the Inc. 5000 Fastest Growing Private Companies list for the last 12 years. We practice servant leadership and believe that by focusing on the success of our clients, team members, and partners, we all achieve greater success. Credence has an immediate opening for a Program Manager- PEG/DAG Public Affairs at the Journeyman level supporting AFLCMC/WAX at Wright Patterson AFB, OH. The Plans and Programs Division supports the modernization and sustainment of Fighter and Advanced Aircraft (F&AA) capabilities for the U.S. Air Force and coalition partners. The division manages capability planning, technology integration, program oversight, and cross-functional processes—including airworthiness, configuration management, system safety, and cybersecurity—from concept through fielding. It also develops future capability roadmaps in collaboration with Air Force Major Commands (MAJCOMs) and other key stakeholders.

Requirements

Understanding of current DoD and USAF acquisition regulations, guidelines and processes.
Knowledge of development and test activities required to support warfighter Urgent Operational Needs (UON) and Joint Urgent Operational Needs (JUON).
Active Secret security clearance
Bachelor’s or Master’s Degree in a related field and at least three years of experience in the respective technical / professional discipline being performed, three of which must be in the DoD
OR, seven years of directly related experience with proper certifications as described in the PWS labor category performance requirements, five of which must be in the DoD.
Independently demonstrate proficiency in the use of Microsoft Office Applications (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, SharePoint and Skype/Lync), Adobe Acrobat, and applications for access to the World Wide Web including Microsoft Internet Explorer.
Demonstrate proficiency in virtual communication tools used by the Government (i.e., MS Teams).
May be required to learn to use other commercial or specialized computer applications as required
Possess USAF MAJCOM expertise, ideally at the HQ USAF, HQ ACC, or HQ AFGSC level, as a background for understanding broad user war fighter requirements.

Responsibilities

Apply knowledge and experience in acquisition program management policies and procedures to USAF systems, subsystems, and equipment procurement activities, post award project/program management tasks, and acquisition programs throughout their life cycles.
Apply a full range of acquisition program management policies/procedures to perform a wide range of acquisition management activities in support of the existing and future F/B Directorate aircraft programs and platforms.
Support the review of proposals as assigned by the customer.
Assist in the coordination of documentation between functional resources to include: financial management, program management, contracting, CM, engineering, and logistics management.
Assist in consolidating functional inputs into common documents.
Assist in planning for the accomplishment of various program milestones.
Provide assistance in risk management, project management, process improvement support, and logistics support.
Participate in process improvement activities as members of, or advisors to, Integrated Product Teams (IPTs) and Product/Process Improvement Working Groups (PIWGs).
Assist in the collection of programmatic inputs from acquisition programs throughout their life cycles to include: research, develop, produce, test, acquire, field, sustain and modernize existing and advanced war-winning capabilities, on-time and on-cost of the F/B Directorate portfolio for the US.
Assist in performing a non-voting, advisory role for program source selections on all acquisition related requirements, as required.
Assist in determining program progress and effectively communicating recommendations orally and in writing to higher organizational management.
Apply program knowledge for developing and coordinating responses to taskers in response to internal and external program inquiries.
Assist in supporting UON execution teams by providing special knowledge to assist in recommending accelerated test concepts, minimum levels of integration required to satisfy operational need, and trade-offs among risk, schedule, performance, and cost.
Assist in producing or reviewing products for program offices use that include business case analyses, trade-off studies, estimates for program office acquisition and logistics requirements, written requirements documents for planned acquisitions, and acquisition strategies and plans.
Assist in supporting the program office during Materiel Solution Analysis (MSA), Technology Maturation and Risk Reduction (TMRR), Engineering and Manufacturing Development (EMD), Production and Deployment, and Operations and Support (O&S) phases, to include all milestone activities.
Assist in performing MSAs leading up to design reviews.
Assist in producing or supporting the development of draft documentation and presentation materials as requested or necessitated by programmatic limits based on cost, schedule and performance.
Assist in providing support for strategic scheduling and planning documentation such as the Integrated Master Plan (IMP) and the Integrated Master Schedule (IMS) and develop and coordinate a reporting framework for event-based activities during the work efforts.
Assist in developing, analyzing, and maintaining a master integrated program schedule from concept exploration to fielding a system.
Assist in employing networking software tools and capabilities to support lower tier schedule networking, network statusing, generation of network graphics, assignment of realistic durations and relationships to network elements.
Assist in evaluating weapon system contractor-proposed schedules against Government schedules, assessing Government program office schedules against schedule databases and conducting probabilistic and deterministic risk assessments on both Contractor and Government schedules by performing a Schedule Risk Assessment (SRA) using Monte Carlo simulation-based software.
Assist in utilizing various types of scheduling software and integrate weapon system contractor and Government schedule data with the F/B Directorate’s schedule databases.
Assist in developing program management strategies to include recommending, initiating, reviewing, developing and implementing activities to accomplish Business Case Analysis (BCA), Cost of Ownership analysis (COO), aging aircraft analysis, process documentation, PWSs, Statement of Work (SOWs), Data Item Descriptions (DIDs), test plans, acquisition plans, Life Cycle Management Plans (LCMPs), Life Cycle Sustainment Plans (LCSPs) Engine Life Management Plans (ELMPs), Quality Assurance Surveillance Plans (QASPs), Acquisition Strategy Panels (ASPs), IMPs, IMSs, Aircraft Information Programs (AIPs), and Aircraft Information Management Plans (AIMPs).
Support the development of contract strategies, Work Breakdown Structures (WBSs) and the completion of program risk assessments to document issues impinging on milestone execution.
Provide support in developing market survey requirements.
Support the development of executive briefings, scheduling and coordinating through appropriate USAF and Government stakeholders.
Assist in updating the briefings and documenting meeting minutes.
Assist in performing analyses to support program strategy decisions and courses of action.
Assist in providing program assessments for integration of documentation to ensure consistency with program strategy and consistency across all milestone documentation.
Assist in providing inputs, drafting, coordinating (with the appropriate F/B Directorate divisions and other Government agencies), adjudicating comments, and producing final versions of coordinated milestone documents and assessments.
Assist in developing and collecting technical data and inputs for staff summary packages to support coordination and signature of all associated documents for milestone approval.
Support the development, review, and approval process for requirements document development and the Joint Capabilities Integration and Development System (JCIDS) process and staffing.
Assist in translating user requirements documents such as the Capability Development Document (CDD)/Capability Production Document (CPD) and CONOPs into Request for Proposal (RFP) documentation for the F/B Directorate.
Support key acquisition events and reviews as needed, such as: System Requirements Reviews (SRRs), Preliminary Design Reviews (PDRs), Critical Design Reviews (CDRs), Test Readiness Reviews (TRRs), Technical Coordination Meetings (TCMs), Functional Configuration Audits (FCAs), Physical Configuration Audits (PCAs), Production Readiness Reviews (PRRs), Technical Interchange Meetings (TIMs), and others as applicable.
Assist with the application of program management initiatives to include purchasing commercial items such as Non-Developmental Items (NDI), Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS), and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certified items.
Assist with commercial practices such as Performance Based Business Environment (PBBE), Evolutionary Acquisition (EA), Agile Acquisition (AA), JCIDS, CONOPS, partnering, architectural views, and Capabilities Review and Risk Assessment (CRRA).
Assist with the Automated Business Services System (ABSS), the System Management Analysis Reporting Tool (SMART), and Integrated Budget Documentation and Execution System (IDECS).
Assist in supporting DAG processes including but not limited to: Monthly Acquisition Reports (MARs), Defense Acquisition Executive Summary (DAES), Selected Acquisition Reports (SARs) and the Task Management Tool (TMT).
Assist in providing technical support through planning, coordinating, and participating in integrated program reviews and conferences, including, but not limited to, the following: executive, readiness, technical, budget, design, weapon system, requirement working groups, supportability, and management reviews.
Assist in the review and analysis of weapon system prime and subcontractor’s Earned Value Management (EVM) systems.
Assist in supporting the management of the action item process following each review.
Support program briefings and reports by gathering information, preparing charts, presenting briefings, and providing other support as needed.
Provide support to process and complete Modification Proposal AF Form 1067 activities.
Assist with logging, assigning review responsibilities, tracking completions, providing responses to the using command, and archiving results.
Assist in providing programmatic support for the using commands’ Requirements and Planning Councils (R&PC) or similar requirements review processes.
Support various program actions to include implementation of policies, processes, and tools for Capability Planning and Development.
Assist capabilities managers in arranging and supporting High Powered Teams (HPTs) for capabilities development.
Develop and implement capability based planning processes for AFMC.
Support AFMC’s Capabilities Integration Panel Resources to include financial and manpower resources.
Assist in reviewing capability requirements and option sets (architecture-based) to ensure the necessary interoperability and appropriate linkages to other capabilities.
Assist in communicating with multiple platforms, programs, and phases as well as across multiple enterprises while assisting in integration of intelligence information and infrastructure to ensure cross-enterprise capabilities planning and system acquisition.
Advise in establishing a capability architect function to ensure integrated architectures are developed and used as a standard vehicle for cross-enterprise comparison, analysis and integration.
Assist in identifying and advocating to various levels of management AF Operational Support (OS) capability requirements.
Support OS transformation via capability-based planning, modernization initiatives and process engineering.
Support early and pervasive integration of intelligence in force modernization efforts, from concept development through sustainment.
Assist in promoting the use of Modeling Simulation and Analysis (MS&A) throughout the acquisition life cycle process and foster the development and maintenance of common use MS&A tools useful to the divisions/groups/industry.
Support command leadership and policy for modeling, simulation, and analysis to enable capability-based planning and acquisition.
Assist in accessing modeling databases and perform specific analysis.
Assist in planning, organizing, and managing critical aspects of the development, production, and/or deployment of capabilities (including System of Systems and Families of Systems), systems, subsystems, and equipment.
Support to the Directorate/Division Self-Inspection Program (SIP).
Assist in preparing for SIP inspection, distributing checklist information to the Points of Contact (POCs), developing and maintaining a checklist tracking and reporting system, monitoring checklist completion status, and recommending corrective actions.
Provide assistance with preparing, maintaining, updating, and reviewing the full range of test and test-related documentation to include the Test and Evaluation Master Plan (TEMP), Integrated System Test Plan, Integrated Test Team (ITT) Charter, Program Introduction Document (PID), Statement of Capabilities (SOC) and all other test plans and reports as required.
Assist in reviewing documentation for adequacy, specification/ performance requirement compliance, conformity with mandatory guidance, and provide recommendations to the Government as necessary for improvement.
Assist in recommending, assessing, and analyzing requirements and objectives, test and evaluation concepts, strategies, and plans.
Assist in coordinating the acceptance test procedures for the delivered items and associated plans to include coordination of testing requirements with program office customers, contractors, and other agencies that have standardization requirements for test programs.
Assist in independently applying/demonstrating proficiency in various project/program initiatives.
Assist in investigating, analyzing, planning, designing, developing, implementing, or evaluating solutions for project/program efforts.
Provide expert-level issue resolution and recommendation support to achieve desired program outcomes and have specialized expertise to include the following functional areas: program management, logistics, maintenance, supply, financial management, test, security management, information management, and contracting.
Assist in building and maintaining business relationships between the program office, supporting Government offices, other contractors, USAF AFMC, AFLCMC, AFRL, Air Combat Command (ACC), AFGSC, and higher headquarters’ mid-to upper-level staff, to support the F/B Capability Plans and Programs for the various platforms.
Participate in and represent the interests of the F/B portfolio of programs in the Service Core Function process.
Assist in building business relationships and perform activities necessary to influence science and technology investment decisions favorable to the F/B portfolio of programs.
Perform other related duties associated with F/B capability planning.
Assist with the analysis of war fighter requirements with ACC and AFGSC and serve as key advisor to Capability Planning leadership on mission critical capability needs.
Assist in preparing and reviewing pertinent data, coordinating with applicable managers, and finalizing related documentation/information for verbal and visual presentation of the plan status at meetings as required.
Support analytic identification of needs and development of requirements for potential materiel solutions.
Assist with the initiation of high confidence acquisition programs via early systems engineering, early test and evaluation strategy development, technology and manufacturing maturity, assessments of life-cycle analyses, lifecycle cost estimates, and early acquisition intelligence engagement.
Assist in identifying and solving problems and aid in the influence of science and technology investment decisions.
Assist in developing and executing a collaborative process bridging warfighter-identified capability needs to plan for acquisition of materiel solutions.
Support the trade-space evaluation of emerging capability needs, including system-of-systems assessments.
Assist in identifying and assessing technology maturity and risk drivers and incorporate comprehensive life-cycle planning to include pre-concept through disposal in support of future program technical needs.
Assist in applying expertise of the acquisition process and all areas relating to acquisition policy matters, including acquisition streamlining, integrated weapon systems management, manning, best practices and lessons learned, to assigned projects.
Support and conduct studies and analysis of tradeoffs for incorporation of potential capabilities in future platform capabilities.
Act as the F/B Directorate Unit Control Center Chief for emergency response, exercises, and other surge activities.
Assist in ensuring that PEG and directorate leadership is kept apprised of workload assignments, resolutions and other time sensitive communications/events.
Assist in receiving, preparing, submitting and maintaining official records of documentation and communications.
Assist in developing and maintaining the F/B Directorate Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) and shall assist in leading the F/B Directorate participation in the AFLCMC COOP and execution.
Assist in managing the F/B Directorate SIP.
Assist in identifying and tracking deficiencies during the annual SIP cycle and keep leadership informed as items are closed-out and in preparation for the SIP out-brief meeting.
Assist in utilizing the Management Internal Control Toolset (MICT) and assist in identifying new and/or recently updated SIP checklists for division use as required.
Assist divisions with checklist completion, deficiency tracking, training, and other SIP-related issues.
Hold meetings as required with unit SIP monitors and conduct F/B Directorate SIP training.
Support the PEG and DAG processes for the entire F/B Directorate at all locations including but not limited to: MARs, DAES, SARs and and TMTs.
Collect and/or measure various Fighters & Advanced Aircraft, Bombers, and F-35 requirements defined by the Government.
Review and interpret data collected by other project members for accuracy and consistency with policy, procedures and customer objectives.
Serve as a PM for special studies, initiatives, and projects as defined by senior leadership.
Complete special projects reports in directed format to provide insight to the AFPEO/WA, Deputy PEO, staff, divisions, and branches.
Develop and present briefings and reports on studies/project status, findings, and/or recommendations to senior functional managers and upper management.
Develop a monthly newsletter to be used for Directorate wide communications using information collected from AFPEO/WA (WA/WAB), Deputy PEO, staff, divisions, and branches.
Help facilitate virtual All Calls via the virtual communication tools used by the Government, and support the PEO/DPEO on recording, formatting, and disseminating video messages to the workforce (Government and industry partners as required).
Manage review/approval of social media posts
Draft media responses for PA review/approval
Assist in the development of scripts and preparation material for PEO
Engage in forums to deliberate and strategize social media public affairs guidance, instructions and memorandums
Engage and participate in conferences, symposiums, meetings for, but not limited to Life Cycle Industry Days(LCID), Air & Space Forces Association (AFA)
Engage in required meetings SecAF Acquisition Executive Branch, emphasis on Agile Combat employment (ACE)
Create SharePoint sites (LCID, etc.) to house directorate industry partner engagement materials
Update and maintain of the directorate's media relations and PA SharePoint site to include decision memorandums, public affairs guidance (PAG), media queries and congressional inquiries
PEO FAA video presentations
Work with AFLCMC/PA to arrange advanced media training and prepare for media roundtables, empowering the PEO with strong communication skills to articulate the directorate's strategic direction