Summary About the Position: Serve as a Contract Management Support Specialist with primary responsibilities to manage existing and future contract requirements and the development/identification of near and long-range acquisitions requirements. This Time Limited (Term) Assignment NTE 13 months is also being announced under Job Opportunity Announcement SDSB-25-12846167-MP for external applicants resulting in a TERM appointment. Please review in detail the Additional Information section below. Responsibilities Act on a variety of information pertaining to programmatic contract operations. Serve as the organizational Contracting Officer Representative (COR) liaison/administrator. Ensure objectives of annual financial plans are met on a timely basis by analyzing and reviewing processes, procedures and meeting suspense dates. Represent the National Museum as the contractual authority on a large number of multi-million-dollar contracts covering complex operations. Analyze the requirement, develop procurement package documents, recommend revisions to package documents and key acquisition documents and determine the best course of action on all @types of Museum contracts. Requirements Conditions of Employment Qualifications Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities. Current Department of Army Civilian Employees Applying on Time-Limited Assignments In order to qualify, you must meet the experience requirements described below. 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. Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application. Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes: 1) Performing and/or participating in all the phases of the acquisition process through contract completion including requirements definition, acquisition planning, documentation preparation, and contract administration; 2) Developing, modifying and implementing near and long-range acquisition and business plans to identify contract requirements; and 3) Applying regulations and policies to execute and monitor projects. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12). Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12). To be referred, applicants must meet applicable time-in-grade and qualification requirements within 30 days of the closing of the announcement. Education Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted. Additional Information Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Registration. You will be required to provide proof of U.S. Citizenship. One or two year trial/probationary period may be required. Direct deposit of pay is required. This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter. Selection is subject to restrictions resulting from Department of Defense referral system for displaced employees. If you have retired from federal service and you are interested in employment as a reemployed annuitant, see the information in the Reemployed Annuitant information sheet. This is a Contracting and Procurement Career Field position. Multiple positions may be filled from this announcement. Salary includes applicable locality pay or Local Market Supplement. Payment of Permanent Change of Station (PCS) costs is not authorized, based on a determination that a PCS move is not in the Government interest. This is a Term Appointment NTE - Position may be filled as a time-limited assignment: promotion, reassignment or change to lower grade not to exceed (NTE) 13 months by a current permanent Army employee. Time-limited promotions may be extended up to a maximum of five years. Time-limited reassignments and changes to lower grade may exceed five years, however return rights (permanent placement) may be impacted. Position may be made permanent without further competition contingent upon employee's eligibility under merit promotion rules, the clearing of the DoD Priority Placement Program and any applicable hiring limitation exemption approvals. Time-limited reassignments and changes to lower grades can be extended beyond five (5) years if the temporary Army activity (the hiring activity) becomes the obligated activity for permanent placement of the employee at the end of the time-limited assignment. Administrative return rights will be negotiated prior to receiving an official (firm) job offer; either the losing or gaining Army activity may assume permanent placement responsibility following the expiration of the time-limited assignment. If neither Army activity agrees to assuming permanent placement, the time-limited assignment tentative job offer will be retracted. Current permanent Army employees: if you are aware that your current Army activity will not agree to assuming permanent placement upon the end of the time-limited assignment, you have the option to also apply to the external announcement number SDSB-25-12846167-MP. If you apply against the external vacancy announcement, the employment authority category that you apply under is Reinstatement. If selected and you accept the TERM appointment job offer, you will be converted to a TERM appointment with no placement rights at the end of the TERM appointment.
