ADMINISTRATIVE SPECIALIST (CONTRACT SPECIALIST)

Full Job Description

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.

Your resume must also demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-11 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector.

Specialized experience must demonstrate the following: Demonstrated knowledge and experience in providing business advice to the customer and support to the Contracting Officer in planning, negotiating, and administering contracts of various types and complexities.

Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management website: https://www.secnav.navy.mil/donhr/Documents/CivilianJobs/DoD_Qualification_Standard_For_GS-1102.pdf 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. Major Duties:

• You will provide business advice to the customer and formulating acquisition strategies from requirements definition through the life of the system.
• You will perform all pre-award and post-award functions, using a wide range of complex contracting methods and complex and hybrid contract types (e.g. Cost-Plus mixed with Fixed-Price, Firm Fixed-Price, Fixed-Price Incentive etc.)
• You will plan the overall approach to meet the programs’ objectives by procuring a variety of requirements with multiple complexities associated with major systems acquisitions.
• You will research, interpret, analyze, and apply Federal, DoD and Department of the Navy guidelines, including the Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR) and its supplements, and non-FAR (other transactions).
• You will interpret business, industry practices, and market trends.
• You will prepare and maintain acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related schedules.
• You will manage the evaluation process and analyzes contractor proposals, comparing previous history, actual expenditures (earned value management) and established rates.
• You will perform cost analysis, uses the weighted guidelines to develop profit/ fee objectives and negotiates contract costs.
• You will perform contract administration, to include a wide variety of contract modifications ranging from funding actions to highly complex major scope changes, which require performance of advanced cost analysis