Contract Specialist

1 month ago

Washington, United States US Administration for Children and Families Full time

**Duties**:
**WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING DAY TO DAY**

As a Contract Specialist, you will use your knowledge and experience to optimize business results and customer experience by:

- Developing solicitations for offers, including special or innovative documents to competitively procure systems or services.
- Planning the negotiation strategy, coordinates with the negotiation team and other necessary entities such as legal counsel, inspector general for audits and subordinate activities.
- Preparing and maintaining acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts and related schedules.
- Serving as lead negotiator. Planning the negotiation strategy, coordinates with the negotiation team and other necessary entities such as legal counsel, inspector general for audits and subordinate activities.
- Performing the full range of contract administration including the issuance of contract modifications, negotiation of changes, exercise of options, investigation and resolution of contractor delays, issuance of cure notices or show cause letters.

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

- U.S. Citizenship required
- Suitable for federal employment
- Documentation that you present for purposes of completing the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Form I-9 will be verified through the DHS "E-Verify" System.
- All Federal employees are required to have Federal salary payments made by direct deposit to a financial institution of their choice.
- All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.
- Financial disclosure statement may be required.
- Probationary (or trial) period may be required.
- Current government employees and government contractors will be granted provisional suitability and will onboard in an expedited manner.
- Once on board, continued employment will be based on the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.

**Qualifications**:
**WHAT WE ARE LOOKING FOR**

**Basic Qualifications**

**1.** Completion of all mandatory training prescribed by the head of the agency for progression to GS-13 or higher level contracting positions, including at least 4-years experience in contracting or related positions. At least 1 year of that experience must have been specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the next lower level of the position, and must have provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the work of the position.
- **AND**

**2. **A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by 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.
- **3. Exceptions**: Employees in GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupy on January 1, 2000. This also applies to positions at the same grade in the same agency or other agencies if the specialized experience requirements are met. However, they will have to meet the basic requirements and specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for promotion to a higher grade, unless granted a waiver under Paragraph D.
- **4. Waiver**: When filling a specific vacant position, the senior procurement executive of the selecting agency, at his or her discretion, may waive any or all of the requirements of Paragraphs A and B above if the senior procurement executive certifies that the applicant possesses significant potential for advancement to levels of greater responsibility and authority, based on demonstrated analytical and decision making capabilities, job performance, and qualifying experience. With respect to each waiver granted under this Paragraph D, the senior procurement executive must document for the record the basis of the waiver. If an individual is placed in a position in an agency on the basis of a waiver, the agency may later reassign that individual to another position at the same grade within that agency without additional waiver action.
- **AND**

**Minimum Qualifications**

You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the** GS-12 **grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing **ALL **of the following:

-**:

- Providing contracting services for the acquisition of supplies and/or services.**
- **Performing pre-award and post-award functions for procurement actions.**:
**Documenting experience**:IN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Qualifications are based on breadth/level of experience. In addition to describing duties performed, applicants must provide the exact dates of each period of employment (from MM/YY to MM/YY) and the number of hours worked per week if part time. As qualification determinations canno

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