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National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) · 2 months ago

Contracts Specialist - Senior/Expert

Chantilly, VA

Full-time

Onsite

Senior Level, Lead/Staff

$144K/yr - $197K/yr

8+ years exp

The National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) is seeking strategic minds to join their Office of Contracts as a Contracts Specialist at the senior/expert level. The role involves overseeing acquisitions for critical reconnaissance satellite systems, leading a team in contract support, negotiating agreements, and ensuring compliance with financial directives.

Defense & Space

No H1B

Security Clearance Required

U.S. Citizen Only

Responsibilities

Lead a team of Contracting Officers and Contract Specialists in providing contract support to NRO program offices. Providing guidance, coaching, and assistance to team members on acquisition issues

Serve as chief negotiator and team lead, plan negotiation strategies to ensure attainment of goals and arrive at an agreement in the Government's best interest in technical and cost areas

Serve as a liaison with program offices, providing advice on acquisition issues and long-range strategic planning

Audit or review major acquisitions, present findings, recommend corrective actions and policy or procedure improvements

Provide budgetary, finance and accounting, management analysis oversight of expenditures to ensure propriety and compliance with financial, fiscal, and auditing directives

Analyze productivity, workload, and program accomplishment of subordinate team members

Provide technical guidance and assistance to all components to improve the execution of the contracting mission and to advance process improvements to standardize procedures

Develop procedures and documentation for both internal processes and administrative controls

Perform procurement planning and identifying large-scale subsystems, components, equipment, and services to be acquired by contract

Implement policy and procedures, coordinating and requesting personnel actions, interviewing candidates for positions, appointments, promotions, and reassignments

Develop organization-wide contracting policies and procedures necessary to implement acquisition directives and regulations

Apply objective criteria for evaluating proposals of competing offer to provide the best contractual terms for quality, quantity, timeliness, flexibility, and price

Qualification

Contract managementFederal regulationsFinancial acumenNegotiationBachelor's degreeDAWIA Certification Level IIIFAC-C CertificationBudget analysisProgram analysisProcess improvementTeam leadership

Required

U.S. Citizenship is required

You must be able to obtain and maintain a TS/SCI security clearance

You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic drug testing

You will be subject to pre-employment and periodic polygraph examinations

This position requires minimum education of a Bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees AND 24 semester hours in any combination of the following fields (accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods, or organization and management)

A minimum of 8 years of relevant experience

Knowledgeable in the use of program analyses techniques to review program performance and plans for improvements

Employee must meet, or be capable of meeting, the Defense Acquisition Work Improvement Act (DAWIA) requirements applicable to the position

The incumbent in this position will be required to obtain and maintain a Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) or Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) in Contracting Certification Level III

Benefits

The NRO may offer hiring incentives and other entitlements at management’s discretion.

All new DCIPS employees will be required to serve a 2-year trial period.

DoD Components with DCIPS positions apply Veterans’ Preference to preference eligible candidates as defined by Section 2108 of Title 5 USC, in accordance with the procedures provided in DoD Instruction 1400.25, Vol 2005, DCIPS Employment and Placement.