This position is part of the National Archives and Records Administration.The Senior Construction Contracting Officer at NARA manages complex construction contracts, ensuring cost-effective and compliant projects. The Senior Construction Contracting Officer manages the entire lifecycle of complex construction contracts, from planning to completion, ensuring cost-effectiveness and legal compliance, developing acquisition strategies and solicitations.

Duties

As a Supervisory Contract Specialist, you will: - Serve as a Supervisory Contract Specialist and Contracting Officer (with unlimited signatory authority) for Construction Contracts and Leases. - Function as a supervisory contract specialist during contract negotiations. - Be responsible for all pre-award and post-award phases of the systems acquisition program having characteristics such as initial strategy, planning, contract negotiations, award, administration, termination, and closeout including the merging of subsystems and components and the meeting of scheduled goals. - Ensure a continuing affirmative application of NARA policies concerning equal opportunity.

Requirements

Qualifications

You must meet the following requirements within 30 days of the closing date of this announcement. Specialized Experience: For the GS-14, you must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience for this position includes: - Leading staff and managing functional requirements in a contracting operation; AND - Experience with analysis techniques to evaluate proposals, or prepare pre-negotiation and post-negotiation positions; AND - Experience reading, understanding, and communicating construction plans and specifications. Mandatory Training defined as: The training curriculum required for this position is completion of FAC-C Level I and Level II mandatory courses. Applicants that have FAC-C Level III (or DAWIA Level III) Certification or equivalent, provide a copy of the certification by the closing date of the announcement to be considered. If the applicant holds a valid/current Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Level II or Level III certification, then the applicant meets the training requirement. ***FAC-C courses are listed below, DAWIA equivalents are also acceptable. Specific course information can be found online at https://www.fai.gov/certification/contracting-fac-c In addition to the above requirements, you must meet the following time-in-grade requirement, if applicable (as defined in 5 CFR 300, Subpart F): For the GS-14, you must have been at the GS-13level for 52 weeks.

Education

Education Requirements: The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.

A. 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 of 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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B. 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.

C. 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.

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.

Contacts

• Address Office of the Chief Acquisition Officer 8601 Adelphi Road Room 3340 College Park, MD 20740 US
• Name: Applicant Call Center
• Phone: 304-480-8990
• Email: [email protected]