Contract Specialist

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Assist Contracting Officers in evaluating acquisition packages for completeness, accuracy, compliance, and strategic alignment.

• Facilitate coordination between the acquisition section, DIT team, and various client groups for pre-award and prerequisite support.

• Aid in the distribution of workload, prioritization, tracking, and overall portfolio management.

• Monitor acquisition milestones, risks, dependencies, and forthcoming portfolio actions.

• Collaborate with Contracting Officers, policy teams, program offices, clients, legal counsel, and stakeholders to address and resolve issues.

• Contribute to the TEP process through planning, coordination, documentation, training, and compliance measures.

• Draft, review, and enhance acquisition plans, solicitations, statements of work, performance work statements, evaluation plans, negotiation memoranda, and award documentation.

• Analyze requirements and acquisition strategies for potential risks, gaps, ambiguities, competition, performance, and pricing opportunities.

• Conduct quality assurance evaluations of acquisition documentation.

• Manage responses to inquiries related to policy, legal matters, oversight, and management.

• Create and maintain acquisition schedules, milestone trackers, dashboards, and management briefings.

• Identify and highlight acquisition risks, including schedule delays, funding challenges, requirements instability, data deficiencies, and stakeholder dependencies.

• Promote collaboration among program, technical, budget, finance, legal, policy, and contracting personnel.

• Assist with market research, industry engagement, and acquisition strategies for intricate or high-value IT requirements.

• Support post-award transition activities, contract kickoff meetings, transition planning, and coordination among acquisition and technical teams.

• Drive continuous improvement initiatives, lessons-learned activities, templates, tools, and standard operating procedures.

• Offer mentoring, guidance, and knowledge-sharing to acquisition staff and stakeholders.

• Undertake additional acquisition-related support duties and special projects as assigned.

⛳️ Requirements

• A minimum of seven (7) years of experience as a Contract Specialist or Contracting Officer within the Federal Government, military, or equivalent contractor experience in federal acquisition functions.

• Bachelor’s degree in a business-related discipline.

• Capability to obtain and maintain a Public Trust (background investigation).

• Experience in both FAR and non-FAR acquisition environments.

• DAWIA Level II certification in Contracting, or an equivalent current certification.

🏝️ Benefits

• Flexible time off benefit.

• Comprehensive learning resources.

• Competitive salary.

• Healthcare benefits.

• Wellness benefits.

• Financial benefits.

• Retirement benefits.

• Family support benefits.

• Continuing education benefits.

• Time off benefits.