Contract Specialist

2 weeks ago

Washington, United States US Federal Aviation Administration Full time

**Duties**:
The incumbent will be responsible, with general direction by the manager, team lead, or more experienced professional, for drafting, reviewing, editing documents as well as leading the execution and implementation of major milestones throughout the acquisition process.

Pre-Award - Use all appropriate laws, regulation, agency directives, etc., to perform all pre-award contract duties.

Acquisition Planning and Strategy - Learns and implements acquisition planning and market research principles to develop comprehensive and innovative plans that will best fulfill the Agency’s needs while collaborating across Acquisitions to consider dollar value, complexity, and other appropriate factors. Assists the supervisor or senior level specialist with helping the requiring organization with developing and implementing a comprehensive market research process that identifies external sources in anticipation of future requirements.

Post-Award - Contract Management. Under general direction by the supervisor, the incumbent performs contract administration functions and provide guidance on contractual actions to acquisition partners.

**The duties at the H-band**:
The incumbent will be responsible, with limited direction of a manager, team lead, or more experienced professional, for drafting, reviewing, editing documents as well as the execution and implementation of major milestones throughout the acquisition process. This includes, but is not limited to all the key contractual roles identified above as well as analysis of contractor Cost Accounting System (CAS) Disclosure Statements, analysis of Earned Value Management (EVM) data, analysis of compliance with terms and conditions, using tools to determine root causes for issues that arise as well as formulating the course of action to remedy issues. The negotiated contracts and awards will be made to commercial organizations, educational institutions, nonprofit organizations and state, local or foreign government entities.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.

**Qualifications**:
To view the complete OPM qualification standard, please refer to:
**Basic Requirements for Pay Bands FV-G**:
**(1) **A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree with a major in any field; **or**

**(2) **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**; and**

(3) Above the FV-F or FG/GS-5 level, specialized experience is required, but educational achievements higher than 1 or 2 above can be substituted for specialized experience.

**OR**

3 years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to a Ph.D. degree or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree. Education must be directly related to the position.

Specialized experience includes: Experience as a contract official awarding and administering contracts and support service acquisitions.

**Basic Requirements for Pay Bands FV-H**:
**(1) **A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor’s degree with a major in any field; **or**

**(2) **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**; and**

(3) Above the FV-F or FG/GS-5 level, specialized experience is required, but educational achievements higher than 1 or 2 above can be substituted for specialized experience.

Employees in 1102 series positions will be considered to have met the basic requirements for positions they occupy on January 1, 2000, if specialized experience requirements are met. This applies to other positions at the same pay band/grade in the FAA or other Federal agencies. To qualify for a position at a higher pay band or grade, he/she must meet the requirements and specialized experience as stated.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.

**Education**:
**Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.**

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign educ

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