Government Contracts Specalist

Agency: TBWA

Job Function: General Legal

Job Subfunction: Legal

Job Description: Contract Specialist

In this role, you will be responsible for all aspects of contract administration on assigned projects. Under the supervision of a Contracts/Subcontracts Manager, you will support and/or perform all activities related to the development and administration of contracts and subcontracts, ensuring adherence to the federal government contract, overall business strategy and corporate policies.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

• Review of proposal and proposal requirements, analysis of terms and conditions; negotiating and executing contracts.
• Experience in the administration of federal government contracts, or subcontracts, under a federal government prime contract and with knowledge of commercial subcontracts.
• Review and assist in the preparation of Statements of Work.
• Negotiating the terms and conditions of subcontracts; negotiating final prices with suppliers.
• Familiarity with all contract types including FFP, CPFF, and T&M.
• Candidate must be articulate, demonstrate excellent communication, negotiation, people and organizational skills. Must be comfortable and confident in dealing directly with all levels of internal and customer management.
• The successful candidate must possess a demonstrated ability to deal with project deadlines and ambiguity.
• Candidate must be well versed and have an in-depth understanding of all principles of the procurement process in a government environment, from inception of a requirement to the close out of the file.
• Candidate must be self-motivated, resourceful and organized, taking ownership of all assigned work.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Preferred Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s degree in a business discipline
• A minimum of three (3) years, full-time, contemporary, directly related experience
• Knowledge of the Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR); and Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS)
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, Adobe, and PowerPoint
• US Citizenship required. Must also be able to satisfy federal government requirements for access to government information.





The Salary range for this position is $60,000.00 - $75,000.00.

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