Contract Specialist
What you'd do
This position is located in the Office of the Comptroller, Energy and Natural Resources Division. The Comptroller oversees and directs all aspects of the Division's financial management, budget formulation, contract, and procurement programs. The incumbent serves as a Contracting Officer for the Division and must hold or be able to obtain a Contracting Officer's warrant.
Major duties
As a Contracting Officer, your typical work assignments may include the following: Develops, interprets, and performs procurement of goods and services using formal advertising or negotiation procedures; evaluates contract price proposals; and administers or close out of contracts. Provides advice and guidance to procurement customers regarding all aspects of the acquisition process, including acquisition plans, market research, and statements of work. Manages a buying workload of purchase requests within the Simplified Acquisition Threshold. Uses contracting writing program to generate Purchase Orders (PO's) or GSA Schedule Task or Delivery Orders. Negotiates contract modifications and the terms and cost of changes to contracts. Engages management and contracting officers on contracting actions, procedures, and policy matters. Performs the full range of contract specialist duties necessary to award, administer, and close out a variety of contract types, including fixed-price, cost, time and materials, and labor hours. Prepares pre-award and post-award documents, responsibility determinations, waivers, justification, and approvals for other than full and open competition, determinations, and findings. Generates a variety of procurement actions via GSA federal supply schedules, UNICOR, GWAC, agency BPA's and commercial sources in the open market while also applying Simplified Acquisition Procedures and Socioeconomic Programs where appropriate.
What you need to qualify
Applicants must meet the following criteria in A and B below: A) Basic Requirement: Must have 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major in any field; or Must have 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; or Must meet the basic requirement based on an EXCEPTION: occupied a GS-1102 Contract Specialist position at the GS-5 through GS-12 on January 1, 2000; or Must possess an Agency-approved Waiver of any or all requirements of A and B above. I understand that I must upload the waiver document with my application. B) Contracting Certification This position requires a Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Professional. You must demonstrate that you have this certification by submitting a copy of your certificate. Present Clip Dashboard demonstrating compliance for FAI's previous Continuous Learning Points (CLP) Cycle 5/1/2024 - 4/30/2026. Failure to submit your certificate will result in your application not being considered for the position. Current employees must maintain 80 CLPs every two years, which begins on the date they were certified. In addition to the Basic Requirement and Certification described above, applicants must meet the following Qualification requirements: GS-12: You must have one year of specialized experience at, or equivalent to, the GS-11 Federal grade level or above utilizing a wide range of contracting methods and types to procure goods and services and administering the terms of the contract to include contract scope determinations, contract modifications, supplemental agreements, justifications, and approval reviews. Time in Grade: Federal employees must meet time-in-grade requirements (one year at the next lower grade) by the closing date of announcement. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skill and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. YOUR RESUME MUST support your responses to the online questionnaire and provide specific details as to how your experience meets the specialized experience as described in the vacancy announcement if you are using experience to meet all or part of the qualification requirements. Please ensure that your resume includes the month and year that you began and ended each position held or that position will not be credited toward meeting the specialized experience requirement. Part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience. Failure to provide details will result in an ineligible rating. Your latest resume submitted for this vacancy announcement will be used to determine qualifications and supersedes previous submissions. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. To preview questions, please click here: https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13003065
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