About The Position
AlphaHire is building a small group of senior strategic advisors with deep operating experience in areas that matter to its next stage of growth. The company is currently looking for a Strategic Senior Advisor with significant government contracting experience. AlphaHire provides workforce and execution intelligence for construction, infrastructure, energy, power, data centers, and other capital-intensive markets. The company is also expanding its work with federal, state, and local government agencies and pursuing opportunities where its data, research, workforce intelligence, and subject-matter expertise can solve meaningful public-sector problems. The ideal candidate has operated inside the government contracting ecosystem and can help AlphaHire avoid the mistakes companies make when entering or scaling in this market.
Requirements
- Substantial experience with federal, state, or large municipal government contracting.
- Experience with capture strategy and opportunity qualification.
- Experience with RFP/RFQ/RFI evaluation and bid/no-bid decisions.
- Experience with proposal strategy and competitive positioning.
- Knowledge of FAR/DFARS and government procurement processes.
- Experience with IDIQs, BPAs, GWACs, GSA schedules, or similar contract vehicles.
- Experience with prime/subcontractor and teaming strategies.
- Experience with agency relationship development.
- Experience with contract compliance and post-award execution.
- Experience with professional services, research, analytics, workforce, infrastructure, technology, or consulting contracts.
- Experience building or scaling a government contracting function.
- Experience as a government contracting executive, former contracting/procurement leader, capture executive, government practice leader, or senior operator at an established federal contractor.
- Learned government contracting through actual execution.
- Ability to translate experience into practical judgment.
Responsibilities
- Provide strategic advice on government contracting.
- Help AlphaHire avoid common mistakes in the government contracting market.
- Answer strategic questions regarding opportunity pursuit, government buying processes, capability assessment, prime vs. partner decisions, agency relationship building, and post-award execution.
- Challenge assumptions and provide practical judgment based on execution experience.
- Engage in periodic strategic conversations.
- Review selected opportunities or decisions.
- Make introductions where independently deemed appropriate.
- Potentially scope separate paid engagements for substantial execution needs such as capture support, proposal development, contract strategy, or client work.
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What This Job Offers
Career Level
Senior
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