Supervisory Contract Specialist

About the Position: Position is for a Supervisory Contract Specialist with the Army Contracting Command located at Fort Huachuca Arizona. As a Supervisory Contract Specialist (Acquisition Branch Chief) providing direction and guidance through subordinate branch chiefs and team leaders. ACC-APG offers a multitude of flexible work schedules along with a robust telework policy that allows for maximum telework up to a hundred percent.

NOTE: Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement.

Qualifications:

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

• Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
• Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
• Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
• Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
• Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
• Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
• Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998

This position is subject to the NH-04 tier III salary control point established in the ACC-APG Acquisition Demo Business Rules. This control point limits basic pay for this position to the equivalent of a GS-14, step 10.

In order to qualify, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below. 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). You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

Education Requirement:

1. Completion of all mandatory training prescribed by the head of the agency for progression to GS-13 or higher level contracting positions, including 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 provided the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the work of the position.

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2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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.

In addition to the education requirement outlined above you must meet one- year of specialized experience equivalent to the NH-3 (GS-13 equivalent grade level). Specialized experience is defined as: 1) Performing pre and post award contract management functions. 2) Briefing senior leadership on key acquisition and procurement issues; 3) Monitoring contractor performance for adherence to contractual terms; 4) Leading contract negotiations while adhering to established policies, procedures and regulations. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-13/NH 03).

You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:

• Acquisition Strategy
• Contracting/Procurement
• Leadership
• Planning and Evaluating

Responsibilities:

• Overseeing, managing and directing the daily operations such as contract negotiations, awards (pre and post), contract modifications, contract management/administration, and terminations encompassing diverse and extremely complex types of contracts.
• Serves as an advisor identifying procurement problems and developing innovate solutions.
• Reviews, analyzes and evaluates regulations to provide authoritative interpretations on specific policy and procedural regulations, directives and other contracting guidance.
• Performs the full range of administrative and technical supervisory duties.
  

Salary : $118,291 - $180,881