Senior Director, Contracts - Hybrid

Senior Director, Contracts - Hybrid

ICF is a mission-driven company filled with people who care deeply about improving the lives of others and making the world a better place. Our core values include Embracing Difference; we seek candidates who are passionate about building a culture that encourages, embraces, and hires dimensions of difference. Diversity, Equity, Inclusion & Belonging, is simply who we are and what we do. 

We are seeking a Senior Director of Contracts to manage our contracts administration team supporting a portfolio that includes federal, state, and local and commercial contracts supporting our Health, People and Human Sciences (HPHS) Group. The ideal candidate will have extensive people management experience; advanced contract drafting, reviewing, and negotiating experience; and capture/proposal support and business volume development experience.  This is a great opportunity to work with talented and passionate individuals and to grow with a firm that believes in nurturing talent and developing long-term career success.

ICF is working in a true hybrid environment, and preference will be given to a candidate that can work from the Reston HQ and/or Rockville office 1-2 days a week. 

What you’ll be doing:      

• Provide daily oversight and management to a team of 25+ contracting professionals.
• Provide training and mentoring to team members to develop and build upon skillsets of the team to ensure growth and development of each individual member.
• Identify and develop opportunities to streamline processes, improve the contracts support model, and make operations more efficient.
• Foster and develop leadership, negotiation, business proposal and contract administration skills in members of the team at various levels and points their career.
• Conduct consistent team meetings to ensure flow down of department/company processes, procedures and policies.
• Hands-on proposal support.
• Oversee and assist in the development of compliant business proposals to address RFP requirements, pricing strategies, and mitigate risk consistent with sound business practices, company policies, and government regulations.
• Delegate workload among team members to ensure effective and efficient support to proposal and project teams.
• Review and negotiate non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, contracts, and subcontractor documents (when ICF is subcontractor).
• Participate in proposal reviews to ensure compliance with corporate policies, pertinent regulations, and customer requirements.
• Identify items of risk to stakeholders and properly resolve/mitigate with the company's best interests in mind.
• Provide oversight and assist in resolving contractual issues that may arise in performance of the contract with a focus on mitigating ICF’s risk while meeting the customer’s needs.
• Ensure proactive maintenance of contracts documentation consistent with established ICF practices.
• Manage dispute resolution on client contracts.
• Provide guidance to internal business partners ensuring compliance with RFP requirements and/or contractual requirements while adhering to company policy and established practices to mitigate risks accordingly.
• Support with company M&A efforts performing due diligence and integration efforts.
• Engage with client acquisition counterparts (federal, state or commercial) to develop important relationships and partnerships.

What you’ll need:

• Bachelor's degree (or applicants can substitute one year of related experience for one year of education).
• 15+ years of experience in contracts administration.
• 8+ years of management/supervisory experience.
• Experience with Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), and other federal regulations including but not limited to civilian agencies such as USAID, NIH, DHS, etc.
• Significant experience with state legislation, procurement and contract requirements as well as contracts with commercial and not-for-profit entities.
• Experience with writing and managing business/price volume proposals.
• Experience drafting company policies and procedures.

What we’d like for you to have:

• Experience working directly with business partners and clients to solve challenges that arise within the proposal and contract management life cycle.
• Strong attention to detail and the ability to multi-task in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Solid skills with Microsoft Office (e.g. Word, Excel, PowerPoint).

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