What are the responsibilities and job description for the Contracts Specialist position at Hive Group LLC?
Job Summary
Hive Group is an award-winning Small Business specializing in providing acquisition management, financial management, and program management support to the federal government. Hive's strong understanding of federal acquisition, contract, financial management and program management organization (PMO) lifecycles paves the way for mature organizational processes, experienced resources, responsive management, and proven management methodologies to meet and exceed client goals.
Hive Group seeks Contacts Specialists to join our team providing contractual design and full acquisition lifecycle support to an assisted acquisition center within the General Services Administration managing contracts across the Federal Government for numerous mission partners.
The positions will be telework/virtual optional with occasional in office required.
Position Responsibilities
- Advises source selection teams with regards to cost realism and cost analyses for proposal offerings.
- Supports the execution of existing contracts.
- Performs forensic accounting, budgeting, and monitoring of milestone achievements of industry partners.
- Assists with the contractual closeouts of legacy IT initiatives, as required.
- Drafts procurement planning deliverables to include acquisition strategy, acquisition plan, market research, a source selection plan, and requests for proposal documents.
- Research federal procurement regulations.
- Assists in designing more of a performance based contractual relationship with potential industry partners.
- Performs peer review deliverables.
- Drafts contractual modifications, as required by Government Contracting Officers (CO or KO).
- Creates effective and prompt written communications and performs as a proficient verbal communicator with all levels of the Organization.
- Monitors procurement timelines and ensures schedules are met.
- Assists the Government with responding to industry communications to include Industry Days, questions and answers, as well as requests for clarification.
- Ensures the procurement strategy chosen is achievable for the intended results and is in accordance with the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FARs) and guidelines.
Job Qualifications
- Bachelor’s Degree
- Effective communication
- Knowledge and experience of the full lifecycle of the federal government contracting landscape, is required
- Former experience as an 1102 is preferred
- Minimum 3 years’ experience with government contracts
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Public Trust and may become eligible for government clearance.
Hive Group is an Equal Employment Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer dedicated to making all employment decisions without regard to race, color, sex (including gender and transgender status), age, religion, national origin, disability, marital status, veteran status, registered domestic partner or civil union status, gender identity, medical condition, genetic information, sexual orientation, or any other protected status in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws. Hive Group hires and promotes individuals solely on the basis of their qualifications for the job to be filled.
