Contracts Specialist

Responsibilities

• Draft, review, and negotiate proposal-ready teaming agreements, MOUs, NDAs, and subcontracts that support aggressive capture timelines while protecting Advanced Space’s margin, IP, and overall risk posture.
• Analyze government solicitations and flow-down requirements (FAR/DFARS/NASA), develop and maintain compliance matrices and reps & certs, and provide compliance-driven bid/no-bid recommendations.
• Identify and quantify contractual, financial, schedule, and compliance risks; recommend risk-mitigation terms and escalate higher-risk pursuits with clear options and rationale.
• Track and manage the full lifecycle of pre-award vehicles and standard active agreements, including execution, modifications, renewals, and expirations, providing regular written status updates to contracts leadership.
• Serve as a primary contracts interface to BD, capture, and program teams; build and maintain relationships with customer contracting officers and partners; and clearly communicate contract requirements, risks, and status.
• Apply knowledge of government contract types, FAR/DFARS/NASA requirements, and IP/data rights to structure competitive, compliant proposals and agreements, ensuring proper protection and flow-down of IP and regulatory obligations.
• Improve contracts operations by identifying workflow bottlenecks, maintaining reusable templates and checklists, contributing to lessons learned, and leading or supporting small contract administration and compliance initiatives.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, Contract Management, Legal Studies, or a related field; or equivalent professional work experience.
• 1–2 years of professional experience, preferably in contracts, subcontracts, legal, procurement, project/business operations, or a related discipline.
• Foundational familiarity with government contracting concepts and regulations (e.g., FAR, DFARS, and/or NASA clauses).
• Demonstrated ability to draft and review standard agreements such as NDAs, teaming agreements, and basic subcontracts.
• Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret solicitations and identify compliance requirements, risks, and flow-down obligations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain contract issues to both technical and non-technical stakeholders.
• Proven ability to manage multiple deadlines simultaneously and deliver high-quality work in fast-paced proposal environments.
• High level of integrity, sound judgment, and commitment to ethical conduct.

Compensation and Benefits

• $67,000 - $92,000 based on role and experience
• Signing bonus
• Quarterly Performance bonuses
• Company provided health insurance and 401K plan upon eligibility
• Fully stocked breakroom with free snacks, drinks options during work
• Relocation Assistance

About the Company

Advanced Space exists to enable the sustainable exploration, development, and settlement of space through software and services that leverage unique subject matter expertise. The company is actively supporting mission and cutting-edge capabilities spanning commercial, civil, and national security customers. Our core business is focused on three areas: (1) mission enabling services, (2) technology solutions and (3) mission solutions. Through its mission enabling services, Advanced Space provides mission and flight optimization, mission design, mission systems engineering. With its technology solutions Advanced Space provides its customers with trusted AI/ML/autonomy expertise, flight-demonstrated applications, and analysis at scale. Advanced Space offers Mission Solutions with unique turn-key missions, data and capabilities purchases and demonstrated cislunar and Martian success. Advanced Space is mission focused as the owner and operator of CAPSTONE™ for NASA and Prime contractor for Oracle for AFRL.