Contract Officer Representative

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is located at the Bayne-Jones Army Community hospital situated on Fort Polk, LA. Previous Contracting Officer Representative experience is highly preferred.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

Current Civilian Employees of the Defense Health Agency (DHA) Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473 Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the education/experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes (1) conducting surveillance of contractor performance of a variety of complex services; (2) write, or develop, or evaluate statements of work (3) and evaluating the effectiveness of contracts.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the second lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-09).

OR Education: Ph.D or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M.

in a field which demonstrates the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work of the position, such as: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, or organization and management.

OR Combination of Education and Experience: A combination of education and experience may be used to qualify for this position as long as the computed percentage of the requirements is at least 100%.

To compute the percentage of the requirements, divide your total months of experience by 12.

Then divide the total number of completed graduate semester hours (or (or equivalent) beyond the second year (total graduate semester hours minus 36) by 18. Add the two percentages.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-09).

Major Duties:

• Establish methods and systems to monitor a wide range of contractor performance activities in accordance various contracts as needed.
• Write, develop, and evaluate statements of work that define requirements in clear, concise language identifying specific work to be accomplished.
• Conduct the surveillance function with respect to contractor performance working closely with infection control, quality management, facilities, and clinic chiefs and nurse managers.
• Evaluates the effectiveness of all contracts assigned for surveillance and provides leadership with supported recommendations to improve quality and efficiency.
• Prepare receiving reports documenting adequate contractor performance.
• Review invoices, claims, and other related documents presented by the contractor and maintains contractor files.
• Utilize General Fund Enterprise Business System (GFEBS) to initiate new and option year contracts for medical and non-medical services.