Contracting Officer Technical Representative

Full Job Description

The Office of the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) leads the development, negotiation, and presentation of the National Intelligence Program (NIP) budget on behalf of the Director of National Intelligence to the President and the Congress.

The CFO's three main responsibilities include resource management (budget analysis, formulation, justification, and execution), performance planning and evaluation, and financial management improvement.

Mandatory Requirement: Extensive knowledge of the concepts, principles, practices, laws, and regulations of financial management, budgeting, accounting, or auditing sufficient to conduct difficult assignments involving interfaces and inter-relationships between and among programs, systems, functions, policies, and various issues and relationships between the IC and ODNI organizational elements, the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and the Congress.

Major Duties:

Plan, prepare, justification, administration, analysis, forecasting, and monitoring of contractual agreements to ensure delivery of Intelligence Community (IC) programs; oversee budget/financial data analysis and the assessment of deliverables by applying contractual management principles, policies, methods, techniques, and systems.

Monitors the collection, research, and analysis of comprehensive and substantive contractual information that includes budget, accounting, and financial reporting information to develop budget testimony, briefings, and talking points for senior DNI leadership and develop IC guidance on the preparation of resource requests and realignments or reprogramming to the DNI and Congress.

Monitor contract performance and take any necessary action related to delays in contract performance or the need to stop work under the contract.

Apply remedies to protect the rights of the Government under commercial item contracts and simplified acquisitions.

Apply remedies to protect the rights of the Government under noncommercial item contracts. Document past performance information.

Make sound, well informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals.

Monitor and evaluate the progress and outcomes of operational performance plans and identify potential threats or opportunities.

Organize work, sets priorities, determines resource requirements, determines goals and strategies; coordinates with other organizations, monitors progress; evaluates outcomes.

Provide technical guidance to the contractor. Assist the Contractor and the CO in interpreting technical requirements of the contract scope of work or specifications.

The COTR shall refer differences of opinion to the CO for resolution. Evaluate and make recommendations for acceptance or rejection of waivers and deviations from technical requirements.

Monitor the contractor's performance to ensure compliance with the technical requirements and terms and conditions and expectations of the contract. Immediately report all problems to the CO.

Provide comments on the contractor's interim status reports, outlining the contractor's performance against the schedule, any problems identified, and any recommended contractual actions that the Agency should take.