Contract Specialist
What you'd do
This position is located at Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of the Chief Procurement Officer.
Major duties
HUD's Mission The mission of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development is to foster strong communities by supporting access to quality, affordable housing, expanding the housing supply, and unlocking homeownership opportunities for the American people. The Department is committed to furthering the promise of self-sufficiency in every American while promoting economic development to revitalize rural, tribal, and urban communities across the country. This position is located in the Office of the Chief Procurement Officer (OCPO). The OCPO is responsible for awarding and administering contracts and purchase orders for HUD's program offices in order to achieve HUD's mission, goals and objectives. OCPO is primarily staffed with Contract Specialists and Contracting Officers, with support by other staff (e.g., procurement and management analysts, and procurement technicians). OCPO provides vital procurement and logistic services to HUD's program and support offices, and leadership in applying fundamentally sound business practices to the Department's acquisition of goods and services. As a/an Contract Specialist, you will: Plan, negotiate, lead, and/or administer complex procurements of goods, systems or services with specialized, state-of-the-art, critical or scarce requirements. Develop and/or review complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques, sharing arrangements such as cost-plus-incentive-fees or fixed-price-incentive-fees where the agency and the contractor share cost risk, or economic price adjustment clauses for adjusting labor and material costs where price cannot be reasonably predicted at the time of negotiation. Audit or review major acquisitions of similar complexity. Review, advise on, develop and recommend operation-wide or agency-wide procurement processes and systems, procedures and policies; or equivalent assignment.
What you need to qualify
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-13, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes: Experience in performing the full range of pre-award or post award activities utilizing various types of contracts such as fixed price, various cost types, requirements, performance based and multiple award schedules; AND Procure and plan acquisitions for standard or specialized items, services, or contracts where specifications have become standardized and established competitive markets and price competition exist; AND Develop, prepare, and issue solicitations and evaluate responses; AND Monitor contract performance and assists in contract termination through various forms of oral and written communication. The experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume. In addition to meeting specialized experience, individuals must meet proficiency levels in each of the following competencies: Accountability, Attention to Detail, Customer Service, Flexibility, Influencing/Negotiating, Integrity/Honesty, Interpersonal skills, Learning, Self-Management, Stress Tolerance, Teamwork, Decision making, Reading Comprehension, Reasoning.
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