Washington, D.C., District of Columbia, United States

Senior Contract Specialist

 Job Description:

Looking for an exciting career in a company that provides you with opportunities for personal growth? Come join a team that lets you explore endless opportunities in an environment where your professional success is fully supported by our ongoing commitment to learning, development, and investing in our employees who we deem the critical foundation of our ongoing success.

Role Description

  • Analyzes project requirements from inception to closeout and develops solutions to the agency's needs. Responsible for business improvement services in life cycle administration and management of contracts, contract negations, proposal guidance, preparation, and management assistance.
  • Duties include, but are not limited to, market analysis, purchase justifications, material lifecycle plans, bills of material, cost estimates, as well as product and service-oriented draft statements of work.
  • Provides services to coordinate and support the development of customer needs statements, Requests for Information (RFIs), and Requests for Quotes (RFQs). Coordinates, reviews, and presents vendor responses to RFIs, RFQs, service requests, and acquisition planning.
  • Prepares Request for Proposals (RFP)/Invitation for Bids (IFB) preparation guidance, market research/ analysis, and selection and administration of terms and conditions.
  • Prepare contract awards and modifications for the Contracting Officer's signature.
  • Performs initial cost and price analysis on proposals received.
  • Supports the Contracting Officer (CO) during the source selection process.
  • Drafts contract negotiation memoranda and contract modifications for CO. Supports the CO in documenting evaluation of performance, contract termination, and contract closeout.
  • Create/Maintain Contract file folders, prepare solicitation documentation, and review proposals for compliance contract modifications.
  • Individuals shall also possess extensive working knowledge of the FAR, DFAR, and agency supplements as required.

Qualifications

  • Minimum 9 years of experience directing and performing relevant actions specific to the labor category with relevant experience within the last 2 years.
  • Master's degree in an area related to the labor category from a college or university accredited by an agency recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
  • Active TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a polygraph.

Meets all qualifications and skills of a Senior-Level, to include:

  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge and understanding of the labor category activities required to meet mission requirements.
  • Demonstrates mastery of qualitative and quantitative acquisition and program management analytic methodologies and pursues developments in academia or other fields that contribute to enterprise/corporate level process improvement.
  • Demonstrates ability to design comprehensive, new, or unique process improvement enablers to streamline Agency PPB&E facilitation.
  • Demonstrates in-depth knowledge of acquisition lifecycle operations, including financial execution concepts, and provides knowledge management across organizational and intra-IC boundaries to clearly articulate key findings.
  • Demonstrates ability to work independently and with minimal oversight.
  • Demonstrates ability to review analytic program management data for cogent arguments, provide adequate support for conclusions, and routinely test the accuracy of analytic data.
  • TS/SCI with the ability to obtain a polygraph.

We are equal opportunity/affirmative action employers, committed to diversity in the workplace. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, protected veteran status, or any other protected characteristic under state or local law.

  Required Skills:

Bids Contract Negotiation Program Management Religion Facilitation Estimates Market Analysis Modifications Oversight Reviews Market Research Negotiation Education Administration Research Preparation Documentation Planning Design Business Management

 Salary Package:

$ None - 135,000.00 (US Dollar)