Lead Contract Specialist.

About the role

The Lead Contract Specialist position involves reviewing, advising, and signing awards and modifications for unwarranted specialists, providing guidance and training to lower grades and new hires, articulating and communicating assignments, projects, problems, deadlines, and time frames to the team, and applying signature to final award documents to obligate Navy funds.

Responsibilities

• Reviews, advises, and signs awards and modifications for unwarranted specialists.
• Provides guidance and training to lower grades and new hires.
• Communicates assignments, projects, problems, deadlines, and time frames to the team.
• Applies signature to final award documents to obligate Navy funds.

Requirements

Security Requirements: Non-Critical Sensitive with Confidential Access.

Appointment is subject to the completion of a favorable suitability or fitness determination, where reciprocity cannot be applied; unfavorably adjudicated background checks will be grounds for removal.

Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt.

Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered or exempt from Selective Service.

Bargaining Unit Status: No.

Subject to Overseas Rotation Agreement, Tour Length: Yes, 36 Months. (https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025v1230.pdf)

Qualifications

• A basic contracting requirement: A bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution OR a current civilian employee in DoD or member of the Armed Forces, who occupied an 1102 position, contracting officer position, or comparable military contracting position with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold on or before September 30, 2000.
• A contracting officer requirement: At least two years of experience in a contracting position.
• A specialized experience: One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position. In addition to meeting the Basic Contracting and Contracting Officer Requirements, to qualify for the GS-12 grade level, specialized experience must be at the GS-11 grade level or equivalent under other pay systems in the Federal service, military, or private sector.

Skills

To qualify for a Lead Contract Specialist, your resume and supporting documentation must support:

• A bachelor's degree from an accredited educational institution OR a current civilian employee in DoD or member of the Armed Forces, who occupied an 1102 position, contracting officer position, or comparable military contracting position with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold on or before September 30, 2000.
• At least two years of experience in a contracting position.
• One year of specialized experience that equipped you with the particular competencies to successfully perform the duties of the position and is directly in or related to this position.

Benefits

May be authorized.

Pay

Exempt.

Schedule

Subject to Overseas Rotation Agreement, Tour Length: Yes, 36 Months. (https://www.esd.whs.mil/Portals/54/Documents/DD/issuances/140025/140025v1230.pdf)

Additional Information

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.

Education: Substitution of education may not be used in lieu of specialized experience for this grade level.

Drug-Free Workplace Policy: The Defense Logistics Agency (DLA) is committed to maintaining a safe, drug-free workplace. All DLA employees are required to refrain from illegal drug use on and off duty. DLA conducts pre-employment, reasonable suspicion, post-accident, and random drug testing.

Information for Veterans is available at: https://www.dla.mil/Careers/Programs.

Advisory: Use of cannabidiol (CBD) products may result in a positive drug test for marijuana. DLA employees are subject to Federal law and under Federal law, Marijuana is illegal.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.

To apply for this position you must provide a complete Application Package. Each Application Package MUST include:

• Your Resume: IMPORTANT UPDATE: Your resume must not exceed two (2) pages. If your resume exceeds the two-page limit, you will be removed from consideration for this announcement. The resume and required supporting documentation should provide the minimum qualifications and relevant experience for the announced position. Must include the work schedule, hours worked per week, dates of employment, and duties performed. If multiple resumes are submitted by an applicant, only the last resume submitted will be reviewed for qualifications and referred for selection consideration, if eligible. The resume must not be more than 5MB and should be saved and uploaded as a PDF to maintain formatting and number of pages. We also accept GIF, JPG, JPEG, PNG, RTF, TXT, PDF, ODT or Word (DOC or DOCX). We do not accept PDF portfolio files. Page margins should be 0.5 inches, and font styles must be legible. Consider using 14-point size font for titles and 10-point for the main text. We recommend using a font like Lato, if available. Other widely available options are Calibri, Helvetica, Arial, Verdana, Open San Source Sans Pro, Roboto or Noro Sans.
• Applicable documents to support the eligibility(s) for which you are applying. Please review the following link for a listing of the additional documents you will need to provide: [Link to Additional Documents]