Contract Specialist - Journeyman

Title: Contract Specialist - Journeyman
Fort Washington, MD
Fulltime
$85000 -$90000

Essential Duties And Responsibilities

The Contract Specialist Journeyman supports the SAF/OC/CDM/CDMS/CPO with a full range of contract administration tasks in support of its Acquisition Project Support portfolio; specific responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Manages program contract tasks with minimal supervision, working with other contract specialists, in support of the government Contracting Officer.

• Assists with implementation of strategies in support of organization objectives.

• Assists with development of key contracting documents to include Statements of Objective, Statements of Work, Performance Work Statements, Contract Data Requirements Lists, Quality Assurance Plans, etc.

• Assists with cost estimating efforts, and cost or price analysis.

• Assists with technology evaluation, assessment, FAR Research, strategy development, and market research efforts.

• Assists with coordination of contract execution with all stakeholders, resolving issues, and maintaining compliance with the FAR laws, rules, and regulations.

• Supports pre-award tasks, to include but not limited to: coordination with all stakeholders, review and advice on requirement and contract documentation, market research, solicitations, evaluations, and source selections with minimal guidance.

• Provides ongoing contract project execution, contract management, monitoring, tracking, schedule development, technical development prioritization, goal setting, and implementation; scheduling, coordination and implementation; risk and issue identification and mitigation; and financial execution monitoring.

• Supports post Award contract administration tasks, to include: documenting simple contract changes for the supported contracting officer, funded and administrative modifications, low risk negotiations per established standards, correspondence, contract documentation, and close out.

• Use government provided Generative AI tools on a day-to-day basis to accelerate research, documentation, analysis, reporting, and problem solving. Continuously adapt to evolving AI capabilities and recommend improvements to processes and practices.

• May perform duties as Contractor Task Team Lead, in support of the Task Lead.

Required Qualifications, Education, And Experience

Current TOP SECRET/SCI

• BA/BS (or an AA/AS with at least 22 Credit hour business related credits plus an additional 4 years of work-related experience)

• A minimum of five (5) years of work-related experience.

• Of those 5 years, at least four (4) years of work-related experience supporting a DoD component.

• Experience with DoD contracts and acquisition processes.

• Experience in market research.

• Experience with applying the FAR to acquisition processes.

• Experience in assisting with market research, simple and low risk procurements, request for quotes (RFQ) with selection criteria or instructions to enable contract award to satisfy customer requirements.

• Must be DAWIA Level I certified in contracting or equivalent.

Desired Qualifications, Education, And Experience

• Experience in Pre-award and Post Award tasks in the last 5 years and willingness to grow and learn.

• Experience working with government contract writing systems, like. ConWrite or other, within the last five years.

• Air Force contracting experience.

• Contracting Level II preferred and have held a warrant.

• Knowledgeable and skilled at applying Generative AI.

The Successful Candidate Will Possess

• Prospective candidates should have strong risk management skills, excellent communication, teamwork, and conflict management skills.

• The candidate must be analytical and effectively able to prioritize needs, requirements, and other issues.

• Ability to communicate and interact effectively at all levels of staff and management.

• Ability to exercise independent judgment, develop relationships, and obtain consensus among interested parties.

• Critical thinker with strong technical skills, diagnostic skills and problem-solving ability

• Solid written and verbal communication skills to negotiate direction, drive projects and projects to successful conclusion and deliver knowledge to team members verbally and via clear designs, runbooks and technical engineering and exchange sessions

• Self-starter, flexible, adaptable, collaborative and motivated to champion continuous improvement

• Ability to develop peer networks across an enterprise to maintain technology awareness and to support resolution of problems

• Ability to operate across traditional technical boundaries, comfortable working in the compute space as well as the storage space in an operational capacity

• Technically curious and driven to learn new skills.