Job Opportunity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Position Title: Contract Specialist<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Location: CDC offers remote telework from a variety of locations in the United States. The location will be determined after selection is made.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Description of Position<\/strong>:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The CDC is recruiting individuals to work in the field of contracting at its headquarters office in Atlanta, GA. Applicants must have a master\u2019s degree or equivalent graduate degree in any combination of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, marketing, industrial\/supply chain management, quantitative methods, or organization and management. CDC is responsible for award and administration of billions of dollars in contracts each year for a variety of complex services and supplies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Some of the duties associated with this position are:<\/p>\n\n\n\n The contract specialist performs the following job functions: <\/p>\n\n\n\n –Responsible for pre-award and post-award contract functions including negotiations, cost\/price analysis, and administration of contracts for various technical and business services, equipment, construction, and\/or commodities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n –Address problems that have arisen, present alternative solutions, and negotiate with the contractor to settle issues that affect the terms and conditions of the award. Review settlement proposals. <\/p>\n\n\n\n –Develop strategic procurement plans with program officials to efficiently and effectively provide contract management support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n –Advise program office staff with regard to the acquisition objectives. Plan strategies pertaining to the degree of competition and the contractual methods to meet program objectives.<\/p>\n\n\n\n –Develop acquisition milestone schedules. Prepare solicitation documents for various procurement actions. Incorporate applicable regulations and clauses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n For additional information and to apply, please visit Symplicity Job Posting ID#33634.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Job Opportunity at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Position Title: Contract Specialist Location: CDC offers remote telework from a variety of locations in the United States. The location will be determined after selection is made. Description of Position: The CDC is recruiting individuals to work in the field of contracting at its […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,34,17,8,29,9,1],"tags":[46,54,45,41,44],"class_list":["post-9966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alumni","category-diversity","category-general-announcements","category-government-opportunities","category-ll-m-info","category-post-graduate-opportunities","category-uncategorized","tag-alumni","tag-diversity","tag-general","tag-ll-m","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9966"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9967,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9966\/revisions\/9967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cdo.law.miami.edu\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}