This position is part of the, African Development Foundation. The incumbent serve as a contract specialist and perform contracting and related work to satisfy agency requirements.

Duties

Procures a wide range of services and/or supplies, utilizing a variety of acquisition methods and vehicles. Manages the acquisition of services with a high degree of uncertainty during performance, complicated work breakdown, schedules with significant interdependence of work elements creating considerable possibilities for schedule slippage. Consults with and supports internal and external agency customers, as well as companies that have submitted offers and those currently under contract providing technical advice on contracting matters. Performs all contract work, including pre solicitation, solicitation, contract award and close out. Reviews and analyzes requests for procurement, revising the work statements, drawing or specification as necessary. Plans, negotiates, leads and/or administers complex procurements of goods, systems, or services with specialized state-of-the-art, critical, or scare requirements and characterized by a lack of any previous cost date. Develops pre negotiation position, including advising other agency personnel involved in negotiations on the development of a pre negotiation position. Develops and/or reviews complex contractual pricing arrangements and incentives characterized by multiple incentives requiring sophisticated contracting techniques, sharing arrangements such as cost-plus-incentive-fees or fixed-price-incentive-fees.

Requirements

Qualifications

All applicants must meet one of the following: A 4-year course of study leading to a bachelor's degree with a major in any field. OR 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. Exception: Employees in the GS-1102 positions will be considered to have met the standard for positions they occupied on January 1, 2000. Employees who occupy GS-1102 positions at grades 5 through 12 will be considered to meet the basic requirements for other GS-1102 positions up to and including those classified at GS-12. This includes positions at other agencies and promotions up through grade 12. However, employees must meet specialized experience requirements when seeking another position. NOTE: You are required to submit unofficial college transcripts from an appropriately accredited educational institution in order to document completion of the educational requirements for this position. The unofficial transcripts must be legible and include your name, major, school name/location, course title/number, date completed, grade, number of credits earned, and degree(s) conferred. In the case that your transcripts do not show that a degree was conferred, you may submit your unofficial transcripts AND a copy of your degree certification. If selected, official transcripts will be required prior to establishing an entrance on duty date. AND One year of specialized experience that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity to the GS-12 level in the Federal service. Specialized experience includes: (1) Performing the full range of highly complex pre award and post-award activities on various contract types such as fixed price, economic price adjustment, various cost type contracts, requirements contracts, performance based acquisitions, and multiple award schedules, (2) Performing acquisition planning including market research and knowledge of a wide variety of contracting methods that satisfy mission needs and meet customer requirements, (3) Advising Contracting Officer Representatives and advising customers on procurement preparation and development of contractually acceptable specifications, work statements, and quality assurance criteria, (4) Reviewing procurement requests to assure clarity, adequacy, and completeness, and (5) Reviewing contract terms and technical specifications to identify any special requirements, (6) Leading contracting professionals and providing contracting services for the acquisition of a wide range of supplies and services. Possession of Federal Acquisition Certification - Contracting (FAC-C) (Professional) Certification on entry on duty. This document must be submitted with your application to be considered for the GS-12 level. Only experience and education obtained by the closing date of this announcement will be considered. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). 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.

Education

If qualifying based on EDUCATION you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

Only education from institutions which are accredited or preaccredited/candidate for accreditation may be used to meet education requirements.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must show that the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: http://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address African Development Foundation 1400 I Street NW Washington, DC 20005 US
• Name: Tyler Olson
• Phone: (303) 969-7087
• Email: [email protected]