Supervisory Contract Specialist

As a Supervisory Contract Specialist, you will be responsible for supervising the procurement of services supporting new buildings; repairs, alterations, leases, and improvements to existing real property. Location: Public Buildings Service, Office of Acquisition Management, in Kansas City, MO and Washington, DC. We are currently filling one vacancy in Kansas City, MO and one in Washington, DC, but additional vacancies may be filled as needed.

Major duties

Directs and oversees complex acquisition and procurement operations for professional, administrative, operations, and maintenance services, including large and complex contracts and orders. Establishes branch priorities, assigns workload among Contracting Officers/Specialists, and ensures procurement actions support organizational goals and acquisition requirements. Serves as Supervisory Contracting Officer with unlimited warrant authority, providing oversight for highly complex contracts and orders. Ensures legal sufficiency, contractual adequacy, proper bidder selection, and effective negotiation of complex contracts using advanced procurement methods, procedures, and techniques. Administers and resolves contract management actions, including bid openings, bid and market analyses, protests, change orders, price determinations, time extensions, claims, penalties, corrective actions, and contract terminations. Determines contractor compliance with contract terms, specifications, and performance requirements. Provides expert contracting guidance and coordination to senior leadership, program offices, other business lines, GSA divisions, outside organizations, vendors, and contractors. Resolves complex procurement issues, negotiates changes, establishes standard practices, enforces regulations, and contributes to long-range acquisition planning, policy development, budget estimates, and operational improvement. Performs full supervisory and branch management responsibilities over Contracting Officers/Specialists and other staff, including planning and assigning work, reviewing performance, approving leave, preparing performance plans and ratings, resolving employee issues, taking disciplinary actions, identifying training needs, approving overtime/travel, recommending awards, and implementing process improvements to increase efficiency and quality.

Qualifications

To evaluate your qualifications, your resume must clearly demonstrate how you meet the specialized experience described below. Your resume must not exceed two pages. To ensure your qualifications can be fully evaluated, we recommend including the following information: Name, address, telephone number, email address; Job Title (if Federal Service, provide series and grade; if not in GS plan, provide GS equivalent grade); Relevant work experience—should include employer name, job title, start and end dates (month/year), the number of hours worked per week and descriptions that explain how you meet the required qualifications in the job announcement. Education, certifications or licensures—If the job announcement requires any education, certifications or licensures, make sure to include the required information and any required documents like transcripts. Your resume should contain enough information to make a valid determination that you fully meet experience requirements for each grade level you are applying to. If you do not provide enough information for us to determine your qualifications, you may be rated ineligible. If you have volunteered your service through a National Service program (e.g., Peace Corps, Americorps), we encourage you to apply and include this experience on your resume. The GS-14 salary range starts at $127,829 (Kansas City) or $143,913 (D.C.) per year. If you are a new federal employee, your starting salary will likely be set at the Step 1 of the grade for which you are selected. 1102 Qualifications GS-13 & above: You must meet the requirements in 1, 2, or 3 below:

1. All of a, b, and c below:

• (a) Completion of Training/Certification: FAC-C (Professional) or DoD Contracting Professional Certification.
• (b) At least 4 years of experience in contracting or related positions including 1 year of specialized experience at or equivalent to work at the level described below; and
• (c) Completion of 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.

1. Exception: If you were in a GS-1102 position on January 1, 2000, you will be exempt from meeting the educational requirements for the grade level of that position. However, to be promoted you will have to meet Option 1 or 3.

1. Waiver: GSA's senior procurement executive has the discretion to waive any or all of the requirements in 1 above. Note: Candidates that are missing either the 24 hours of business credit and/or the mandatory training certification, but are determined to be otherwise eligible, can be placed on a waiver certification by the HR staffing specialist.

Transcript Requirement: To receive consideration for this position, applicants must submit transcripts documenting completion of the required bachelor's degree and at least 24 semester hours in the qualifying fields listed above. If you do not provide your bachelor's transcripts with your application, your eligibility for this position cannot be verified. This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcript(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcements to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. To qualify, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 level or higher in the Federal service. Specialized experience is having in-depth knowledge of Federal contracting and acquisition programs and experience in the procurement and contract administration of large, highly complex construction, facilities management, professional services, Architecture/Engineering (A/E) services, construction management services, and other types of projects, with the ability to apply and advise on advanced contracting concepts methodologies to manage and oversee various construction, small purchases and/or services. This experience must include overseeing and performing the full range of pre-award, award, and post-award procurement actions and leading diverse teams in the accomplishing the following: Overseeing and/or performing the full range of highly complex pre-award and post-award activities on various contract types such as fixed price, fixed price economic price adjustment, various cost type contracts, requirements contracts; performance based acquisitions, and multiple award schedules; Overseeing operations for an acquisition organization or program including all phases of the contracting process; ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, policies, and procedures; implementing policy, regulations, and program guidance and procedures for contracting programs or initiatives; Leading or working as part of an integrated acquisition and procurement project team, and analyzing difficult contracting issues to identify alternative courses of action.

Education

Note: If you are using foreign education to meet qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education. For further information, visit: https://sites.ed.gov/international/recognition-of-foreign-qualifications/

Requirements

If selected, you must meet the following conditions: Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees. If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C or Non­Career SES employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the HR Office. Failure to disclose this information could result in disciplinary action including removal from Federal Service. Undergo and pass a background investigation (Tier 4 investigation level). Complete a financial disclosure report to verify that no conflict, or an appearance of conflict, exists between your financial interest and this position. Have your identity and work status eligibility verified if you are not a GSA employee. We will use the Department of Homeland Security's e-Verify system for this. Any discrepancies must be resolved as a condition of continued employment. Serve a one year supervisory or managerial probationary period, if required