Supervisory Contract Specialist

In addition to the Basic Education Requirement, your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the next lower grade level (GS-13) or pay band (NO-04) in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing most or all of the following duties: 1) Knowledge of procurement program objectives, scheduling, and interrelationships with other programs; the principles of acquisition planning including pricing arrangements, cost accounting, and life cycle costing and related disciplines and functions involved in the systems acquisition process, such as design or systems engineering, integrated logistics support, and financial management to develop and implement a plan to procure a multi-year program or system; 2) Knowledge of Federal, agency, and local contract laws, regulations, principles, methods, processes, contract types, special provisions, and incentives to determine the best contractual method command-wide, agency-wide, or Government-wide for procurement of a variety of long term requirements for specialized equipment, services, or construction requirements; 3) Knowledge of the acquisition field, education, training and experience; 4) Knowledge and experience in the advance planning, negotiation, and administration of highly complex contracts involving extensive specialized equipment, services, or construction requirements; 5) Knowledge of contracting policies and practices, performance requirements, and negotiation techniques to serve as lead negotiator in the acquisition of design services, systems, and construction; 6) Ability to independently manage a heavy workload of highly complex actions while providing information on both general procurement matters and status of individual actions to technical and managerial personnel; 7) Ability to meet and deal effectively with stakeholders at all levels, including contractors, government personnel, counsel, financial managers, team leader/technical authority over engineers, auditors, transportation specialists, cost analysts and others involved in the procurement process; 8) Knowledge of contract administration principles, policies, regulations, and practices for contracts with unique technical specifications and special contract provision to administer contracts, such as fixed price with re-determination provision, cost reimbursement, cost-plus-incentive-fee, reimbursable and/or contracts with incentive provisions; 9) Knowledge of contract termination policies, concepts, precedents and practices, cost and price techniques, and industry practices to evaluate contractor claims or settlement proposals; 10) Knowledge of cost accounting practices and principles and techniques of analysis to evaluate procurement actions; 11) Knowledge of Government contracting laws and policies including socioeconomic policies and programs, to plan, manage, and implement contracts for an organization having subordinate offices carrying out programs with small and disadvantaged businesses; 12) Knowledge and skill in computer operations including Microsoft Office, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Project; AND 13) Ability to communicate effectively both orally and in writing. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1100/contracting-series-1102/ Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.
You will serve as a Supervisory Contract Specialist within NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY This is a public notice flyer to notify interested applicants of anticipated vacancies. Applications will not be accepted through this flyer. Interested applicants must follow the directions in the “How to Apply” section of this flyer to be considered. There may or may not be actual vacancies filled from this flyer. Notice of Result letters will not be sent to applicants who respond to this flyer.