Job Description
Position Summary
Odyssey has an exciting opportunity for a Senior Acquisition Program Specialist who is ready to dive into hands-on program support across the full defense acquisition lifecycle. In this role, you'll work side‑by‑side with program and financial managers to shape smart acquisition strategies, strengthen program plans, and ensure contracting and source‑selection activities hit the mark with federal acquisition guidance. You’ll play a key role in driving disciplined execution for USAF weapons programs supporting planning, budgeting, risk management, configuration control, and high‑value decision support that directly contributes to the warfighter. This role is located onsite at Eglin AFB, FL.
Responsibilities
Duties include, but not limited to:
- Develop and manage program plans including risk management processes and practical courses of action that streamline operations and drive schedule, cost, and performance outcomes.
- Administer contract documentation within the program’s scope: prepare, maintain, and post contracts and modifications; track schedules, funding profiles, and CLIN indexes; monitor contractor production status; project deliverable status; and maintain databases to log and route contractual correspondence.
- Support draft RFP development by building systems specifications and core acquisition artifacts (e.g., SRD, SOO, SOW, CDRLs) and coordinating other solicitation products.
- Advise on source-selection activities support simulations, conduct cost–benefit assessments, develop mock proposals, perform RFP risk assessments, prepare and coordinate responses to RFIs, and deliver targeted training modules.
- Plan and manage configuration baselines (identification, control, status accounting, verification, audits) in alignment with established military/industry guidance.
- Perform economic and financial analyses obligation/expenditure forecasting; funds management and status; development of automated models and control techniques.
- Prepare executive-ready briefings and decision support materials that synthesize complex technical and financial information into clear, actionable guidance.
Qualifications
Citizenship: Must be a US citizen
Minimum Required Qualifications
Clearance: Secret Clearance with ability to obtain interim TS (may delay onboarding)
Education/Years of Experience: Associates degree and 15 years relevant experience (RE); OR Bachelors degree and 10 years RE; OR Masters degree and 7 years RE
Preferred Qualifications
Clearance: TS/SCI
Education/Years of Experience: Masters degree and years of experience: + 7 years RE
Certifications: APDP Program Management Practitioner (Level III) or PMP
Technical Skills
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel, including schedule development, critical path analysis, pivot tables, and data modeling.
- Experience applying Earned Value Management to monitor program cost, schedule ,and performance, skilled in interpreting CPI/SPI and identifying variance drivers.
- Ability to interpret and apply FAR/DoD acquisition guidance, support RFP and source selection development, and manage contract documentation effectively.
- Skilled in forecasting, funds management, cost estimating, and using automated models to assess program health.
- Proficiency in developing program artifacts, maintaining baselines, and preparing clear, accurate acquisition documentation and briefings for leadership.
Interpersonal Skills
- Ability to translate complex acquisition information into concise, leadership-ready briefings and collaborate effectively across technical and management teams.
- Comfortable working with program managers, engineers, financial analysts, and contracting personnel to support integrated program execution.
- Able to analyze program issues, provide informed recommendations, and operate with minimal direction while producing high-quality work.
Additional Information
Location: Eglin AFB, FL
Travel: 10%
Remote, On-site, or Hybrid: On-site
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Company Overview
Odyssey is a world-class technical, engineering, and integration company serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration, ISR, C2, and warfighter readiness capabilities. Odyssey meets the military’s operational needs by integrating layered defense systems from equipment, technology, and services to data, information, and business operations. We streamline defense acquisition and sustainment, engineering the technical battlefield with domain-specific proficiency to ensure lethality. Odyssey is dedicated to excellent contract execution, peak organizational performance, and fostering a workplace built on employee care.
Odyssey is proud to live out our core values of commitment, ambition, and respect in our work and communities through OdysseyCares, a philanthropic group focused on giving back through direct donations, an employer match program, and volunteering events.
Please note: Final compensation for this position will be determined by various factors such as the Federal Government contract labor categories and contract wage rates, relevant work experience, specific skills and competencies, geographic location, education, and certifications.
Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities
Odyssey is a team of world-class technical, engineering, and integration experts serving the warfighting ecosystem with airborne integration; intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR); command and control (C2); and warfighter readiness capabilities.
- Ensure lethality from acquisition through sustainment, engineering better solutions with deep industry insight and domain-specific proficiency to augment capability and carry the voice of the warfighter throughout the weapon system life cycle.
- Integrate the technical battlefield and power systems of systems that meet the operational needs of the Pentagon.
- Design systems that are of greater value to the government by driving cost-efficiency, scale, speed and agility.
In 2025, Odyssey made its second appearance on the Washington Technology (WT) Top 100. WT researches and identifies companies capturing the most contracts in the federal market, ranking them in order of largest number of prime contract dollars. Our sustained growth is a direct result of our persistent dedication to powering the purpose of our customers and employees..
A seven-time Inc. 5000 honoree, Odyssey has earned recognition as one of the most successful companies in America. In Inc.’s 2025 annual guide to the 5,000 fastest-growing privately held companies in the U.S. we were ranked #2,628 overall, and #84 in the Government Services category, delivering a wide range of services to national security customers and beyond.