Defense Acquisition University
Develop and manage dynamic curricula, teach and facilitate classroom and on-line classes, mentor course participants, and actively engage in providing expert consulting and tailored training to assist program management teams solve immediate workplace challenges. Activities focus on acquisition workforce leaders, executives and practitioners with the goal of providing opportunities to hone critical thinking, analysis, and decision-making skills around complex acquisition challenges. Faculty member will need to be able to convey the following:
- Convey expertise and experience that demonstrates the ability to accomplish program objectives for development, production, and sustainment to meet the user’s acquisition and operational needs. This includes leading teams and managing comprehensive acquisition program plans.
- Convey extensive acquisition program management knowledge and experience in applying DoD Adaptive Acquisition Framework (AAF) pathways for the development, procurement and sustainment of capabilities, which may include acquisition of Services; Major Systems Acquisition; Defense Business Systems, Middle Tier of Acquisition, Urgent Capability Acquisition, and Software acquisition.
- Convey the competencies and skills required for the leadership and program management of acquisition programs, and management of key acquisition activities across the spectrum of the DoD acquisition system framework/phases.
Provide Executive Education for acquisition professionals and their industry counterparts who have completed their functional requirements for practitioners, advanced or professional certification, or equivalent credits.
Support a specific customer request to meet mission needs in multiple areas that may include innovative techniques to solve hard problems, applying an agile mindset, approaches to software development and deployment, engaging industry, and/or managing stakeholders.
Deliver training as a subject matter expert that improves the outcome for a program office. Areas may include contracting strategies/types, supply chain resilience, cybersecurity, risk management and opportunity, or understanding financial documents.
Provide expertise to Senior OSD and Service leadership in the development of major policy and change initiatives and lead deployment and training events/forums of changes to the acquisition workforce.
