Who May Apply: US Citizens
In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is
in this document.
To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least one year of experience which prepared you to do the work in this job.
Specialized experience: is defined as performing duties which include: 1) Utilizing knowledge of acquisition and management processes to develop acquisition strategies utilizing pathways of the adaptive acquisition framework (Middle Tier of Acquisition, Major Capability Acquisition and Software Acquisition Pathway); 2) Planning and/or evaluating major programs, system development efforts, acquisition, and/or research and development related initiatives; 3) Overseeing the integration of various functional areas to include programming, scheduling, financial management, engineering, and logistics planning; and, 4) Performing acquisition management activities on software-intensive programs
This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (NH-03/GS-13).