Contract Specialist Team Lead

Summary

This vacancy is for a GS-1102-13, Contract Specialist located in the Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Coast Guard, Surface Forces Logistics Center, Norfolk, VA.

Duties

You will serve as a Contract Specialist Team Lead and will be responsible to plan and recommend execution of all contractual actions and phases for assigned projects within the Office of Contract Operations. This position acquires a full range of sophisticated supplies and services which may include Coast Guard (CG) Information Technology or major acquisitions. Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team. Typical work assignments include: Serving as a Senior Team Lead Contract Specialist responsible for procurements that contain a number of different processes or elements resulting in extensive contract administration and subcontracting. Planning and leading USCG meetings and presentations at government and non-government conferences, seminars, and meetings. Developing new or innovative acquisition plans, source selection plans, and contract terms, conditions, or financial arrangements. Analyzing price and cost data contained in contractor's proposals to ascertain reasonableness of price; and reviewing contractors' performance. Serving as lead negotiator for contract modifications for programs involving several interrelated contracts.

Qualifications

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement. This includes Time-In-Grade requirements for current status employees applying through merit promotion procedures. Status applicants applying for a promotion must have 52 weeks of specialized experience at the GS-12 grade level. Examples of specialized experience include: - Procurement planning to include preparation of acquisition and procurement plans; maintaining milestone charts and related schedules - Preparing and reviewing justifications, determinations and findings, and source selection plans; serves as advisor to program officials to identify procurement objectives to be used in the preparation of statements of work. - Source selection to include devising broad varieties and types of contract vehicles (solicitations, letter contracts, agreements, and contracts), conducting pre-proposal conferences, performing cost and price analysis, determining competitive range and evaluating contractor responsibility - Serving as a warranted contracting officer and lead negotiator utilizing quantitative analysis to prepare the Government's negotiating position, plans negotiation strategy, conducts negotiations, documents results and utilizes cost and price analysis techniques to determine price reasonableness; serves as Source Selection Authority. -Knowledge in contracts to support the United States Coast Guard in Information Technology. -At least 4-years experience in contracting or related positions. -At least 1 year of that experience must have been specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the next lower level of the position, and must have documented knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the work of the position. -The applicant's resume must clearly document and demonstrate contracting experience to include details regarding the complexity level of contracting experience. Conditions of Employment (If applicable): You must comply with education and training requirements for this position see below FAC-C (Professional) Requirements: For all 1102 positions through H Band. Applicants must have a valid and current FAC-C (Professional) certification. DHS has adopted a single level of certification with foundational training and an examination, Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Professional. Detailed information on core curricula courses is available at Contracting Certification Course Web Series - Defense Acquisition University (dau.edu). Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer's Representative (FAC-COR): A valid, current FAC-C (Professional) is considered to have met the FAC-COR requirements for all levels, however, an individual with FAC-COR certification does not meet the requirements for the FAC-C (Professional). DOD Contracting Professional Certification: A valid, current DOD Contracting Professional Certification is equivalent to a FAC-C (Professional). Current federal employees certified at Levels l, Il, or Ill of the legacy FAC-C programs will automatically be certified in the FAC-C (Professional). Key Requirements: · U.S. Citizenship is required. · You MUST provide transcripts in order to receive consideration. Education Requirements: This position does have a positive education requirement. FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application. See Recognition of Foreign Qualifications click here Evaluations National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Education

This position does have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail. -A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree, that included or was supplemented by at least 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. Exceptions: Employees in GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupy on January 1, 2000. This also applies to positions at the same grade in the same agency or other agencies if the specialized experience requirements are met. However, they will have to meet the basic requirements and specialized experience requirements in order to qualify for promotion to a higher grade, unless granted a waiver under Paragraph D. Waiver: When filling a specific vacant position, the senior procurement executive of the selecting agency, at his or her discretion, may waive any or all of the requirements of Paragraphs A and B above if the senior procurement executive certifies that the applicant possesses significant potential for advancement to levels of greater responsibility and authority, based on demonstrated analytical and decision making capabilities, job performance, and qualifying experience. With respect to each waiver granted under this Paragraph D, the senior procurement executive must document for the record the basis of the waiver. If an individual is placed in a position in an agency on the basis of a waiver, the agency may later reassign that individual to another position at the same grade within that agency without additional waiver action. Are you qualifying based on education? Submit a copy of your college transcript (unofficial is acceptable) from an accredited institution. Once selected & prior to appointment, applicants must provide an official college transcript. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable