Foreign Military Sales Specialist

Overview:

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 warfighters 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 Foreign Military Sales Specialist who will be primarily responsible for maintaining and updating program/project management documents, developing standard plans and operating instructions/procedures, financial management, developing and maintaining IMS and critical path models, identifying, assessing, and documenting acquisition and acquisition logistics resource requirements, evaluating and responding to Letters of Request (LOR).

Full pay range for this position is $145,000 to $165,000 per year, with the starting wage determined based on candidate’s knowledge, skills, experience, as well as budget availability.

• Assist with case acquisition program planning, scheduling, implementation, execution, and risk management.
• Assist with initiation and development of requirements from a project’s inception to completion for complex to extremely complex FMS cases where little to no current processes exist.
• Assist in executing both the directorate-wide self-assessment program and other relevant internal/external FMS case assessment and reporting programs.
• Consult with clients to define requirements and/or problems that are not typical of FMS.
• Assist in the development and implementation of systems acquisition streamlining policy.
• Assist with acquisition strategy planning; preparation and coordination of Pricing and Availability (P&A) data; Request for Information (RFI) responses; feasibility and trade studies; Program Contracting Officer Letters (PCOLs), Comprehensive Performance Management (CPMs), and IMSs; risk assessments/ reports; Life Cycle Management Plans (LCMPs); Program Protection Plans (PPPs); and other relevant FMS-peculiar plans, documentation, reports, studies, data products, and correspondence.
• Advise the branch/section chief in the development and execution of various types of FMS programs.
• Assist in establishing and maintaining FMS-peculiar Operating Instructions (OIs), guides, and process models, including developing and maintaining self-inspection/assessment processes, procedures, and checklists.
• Communicate information to relevant directorate senior staff and program offices, internal/external command and functional support agencies, and key stakeholders as required to ensure compliance with applicable FMS policies, directives, procedures, and guidance.
• Advise on application or revisions to current policies and regulatory material for use across AFMC impacting unique types of FMS initiatives.
• develop improvements to complex processes in the acquisition and FMS community with extreme time pressures, conflicting requirements, and resource limitations.
• Participate in conferences and meetings as an FMS subject matter expert advisor to the senior program team.
• Assist in developing and maintaining relevant action items, risk management, and critical path model databases, tracking and reporting systems.
• Conduct surveys to collect and analyze data to provide recommended solutions of highly complex FMS challenges.

• Top Secret (TS) security clearance with Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) eligibility is required.

• BA/BS and (3) three or more years of experience is required.  Six (6) years of additional work experience can be substituted for the lack of BA/BS degree. 

• Be proficient in the use of Foreign Military Sales specific software and Management Information System (MIS) applications, to include but not limited to Air Force Security Assistance and Cooperation Directorate On-Line and DSAMS/SAMRS applications.
• Apply a full range of Information Assurance IA, SA, FMS, Section 1206/1203, Special Defense Acquisition Fund (SDAF), and Building Partner Capacity (BPC) acquisition program management concepts, philosophies, policies, procedures to perform a wide range of acquisition and logistics management activities in support of FMS programs.

Normal office working conditions and occasional travel to Los Angeles Space Force Base in El Segundo, CA.

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