About This Role
This role involves administrating complex contracts with managerial oversight and ensuring timely completion of assigned workloads. It requires applying an understanding of industry practices and government requirements to ensure appropriate negotiated terms and conditions.
Responsibilities
- Administrate contracts that are complex in nature with managerial oversight
- Monitor work progress to assure timely accomplishment of assigned workload
- Analyze price adjustments, deviation from contract terms and conditions, change orders, or delivery schedule changes to make a final determination
- Apply understanding of industry practices and government requirements to ensure negotiated terms/conditions are appropriate
- Participate in negotiations regarding disputes with contractors
- Draft correspondence that clearly articulates issues and ensure best response
- Prepare and document contractual decisions for higher level contracting personnel and/or supervisor
- Notify individuals or offices in writing of decisions, problems, or further actions needed
Requirements
- Meet all qualification and eligibility requirements by Friday, May 05, 2017
- Completed a 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major in any field
- Completed at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management
- Held a GS-1102 position in the federal government since January 1, 2000 (Grandfather Clause)
- One or more years of specialized experience in contracting equivalent to the GS-05 federal grade level that provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the work of this position, demonstrated by performing duties such as: (1) monitoring work progress to assure timely accomplishment of assigned workload; (2) applying understanding of industry practices and government requirements to ensure negotiated terms/conditions are appropriate; (3) conducting negotiations to award contracts, for supplemental agreements, adjustments, or settlements with supervisor; and (4) preparing negotiation memoranda to explain the rationale and method used in arriving at a best value decision
- Completed one full academic year of law school or graduate education in accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management
- An equivalent combination of the specialized experience or graduate education stated above. To compute this, first determine your total qualifying specialized experience as a percentage of the requirement stated in "A"; then determine your qualifying graduate education as a percentage of the education requirement stated in "B"; add the two percentages. The total percentage must equal 100 percent to qualify
