C002434 Senior Contract Officer (NS) - TUE 13 JUN OFFSITE

<p><strong>Note: This is a sole source contract<br/></strong></p><p><strong>Deadline Date: </strong>Tuesday 13 June 2023<br/></p> <p><strong>Requirement Title: </strong>Senior Contract Officer</p> <p><strong>Location: </strong>Off-Site</p> <p><strong>Full time on-site: </strong>Yes</p> <p><strong>NATO Grade: </strong>A/58</p> <p><strong>Total Scope of the request (hours): 836</strong></p> <p><strong>Required Start Date: </strong>01-AUG-2023</p> <p><strong>End Contract Date: </strong>31-DEC-2023</p> <p><strong>Required Security Clearance: </strong>NATO Secret</p><p><br/></p><p><strong>Duties and Role</strong></p>Under the direction of the Principal Contracting Officer, but largely on own initiative, the incumbent will perform the following duties:<ul> <li>Planning, drafting, negotiation, award and administration of contracts for goods and services for projects assigned by the Director of Acquisition;</li> <li>Supporting Project Managers to whom assigned, for the provision of high quality, effective and professional contracting services; </li> <li>Drafting of acquisition strategy on projects assigned; </li> <li>Leading all contractual matters in the competitive bidding process including issuing Notification of Intent to Invite Bids, establishment of Bidders' Lists, drafting, coordinating and releasing of the Invitation For bid, evaluation of contractual content of bids, conduct of pre-award discussions and award of contracts in accordance with the Agency's procurement procedures; </li> <li>Ensuring a sole source justification is obtained for sole source contracts and deviations from prescribed procurement methods, ensuring adequate cost and pricing information is provided and analysed, negotiating a fair and reasonable price and for the establishment of a contract in accordance with Agency procedures; </li> <li>Signing contractual documents in accordance with the Agency's directive on signature policy; </li> <li>Coordinating and liaising with contractors and other Agencies to ensure compliance and timely performance of all contract tasks; </li> <li>Performing contract management and administration tasks including processing payments, contract changes and amendments, settling claims and termination action; </li> <li>Providing high quality and timely contribution to ACQ and NCI Agency reporting; - Informing Principal Contracting Officer of status, problems and concerns; </li> <li>Performing any other duties as may be required. </li> </ul><p><strong>Requirements</strong></p><ul> <li>NATO Secret Security Clearance</li> <li>A minimum requirement of a Bachelor's degree at a nationally recognised/certified University in a related discipline and 3 years post-related experience; </li> <li>Or exceptionally, the lack of a university/college degree may be Skill, Knowledge &amp; Experience: compensated by the demonstration of a candidate's particular abilities or experience that is/are of interest to NCI Agency; that is, at least 10 years extensive and progressive expertise in the duties related to the function of the post; </li> <li>Appropriate level experience at a significant level of responsibility (e.g., Contracts Manager, Procuring Contracting Officer) in performing both pre-award and post-award contracting functions for high value contracts for complex systems level acquisitions; </li> <li>Thorough understanding of, competitive and sole source procurement principles and practices, negotiation skills, cost and price analysis techniques, contract law, contract administration, industry practices and fundamental logistic principles and their applications; </li> <li>Ability to work independently with minimal supervision directly with a project manager on a complex, large systems level acquisition; </li> <li>Proven ability to communicate effectively orally and in writing with experience in providing presentations and briefs to upper management.</li> <li>Experience in use of automated tools (e.g. E-procurement applications, Procurement ERPs, automation tools and Procure to Pay processes).</li> <li>Previous experience working on international procurements;</li> </ul>