This individual shall provide support and guidance to Contracting Officer Representatives (CORs), Project Managers and CIO management.  He/she will ensure programs align with overall Bureau program and business objectives and have clear quantitative and qualitative outcome measures for success.  Seeks to improve the Agency’s ability to deliver a high performing portfolio of IT business services by implementing a cost accounting framework, establishing a program and portfolio review process, and developing business processes and procedures to ensure sustainability. Works closely with Bureau Contracting Officers (COs) and Contract Specialists regarding the planning and administration of program requirements. 

• Manage contracts post-award to ensure project spending is in alignment with forecasts including reviewing project financial plans, advising CORs and project managers on effective project financial management, and supporting the annual Federal budget process.
• Ensure Bureau staff who are responsible for contracts, programs, and projects have access to information required for planning, execution, and analysis.
• Improve data validity and ease of access to meaningful information for planning and decision making.
• Support the Program Manager to institute the Business Management Program.
• Leverage data collection and management to improve budget formulation and business cases.
• Understand and utilize a multi-dimensional cost accounting framework to capture, aggregate and report Information Technology (IT) infrastructure and business services cost data in a variety of views to support analysis and decision making by multiple stakeholder communities.
• Enable dynamic reporting capabilities to successfully respond to ad hoc reporting requests.
• Understand and implement a standard program review process that improves executive stakeholder visibility into the intersection of cost and service level achievement, enabling improved portfolio management that will result in higher performing business services.
• Assist CORs to develop an estimate of accrued expenditures on a quarterly basis in accordance with Agency policy.
• Assist CORs in monitoring the financial status of contracts to ensure the level of funding is adequate (i.e., budget execution).
• Assist CORs and Bureau contractors to set up and monitor Level of Effort, Funds and Man-hour Expenditure Reports in accordance with contract requirements.
• Report monthly project financial status updates to Project Managers and project management support staff. 
• Assist CORs in preparing Independent Government Cost Estimates (IGCEs).
• Assist CORs in acquisition and assistance planning, and ensuring actions are entered and updated in the A&A Planning System.
• Assist CORs in the monitoring of contractor performance including developing, implementing, executing and managing the Quality Assurance and Surveillance Plan (QASP) process.
• Provide Independent Validation and Verification of contractor performance.
• Assist CORs in receiving and inspecting completed services or supplies upon delivery and verifying that they meet the acceptance standards, including time of delivery, specified in the contract.
• Assist CORs as needed in the completion of past performance reviews in the Contractor Performance Assessment Report System (CPARS).
• Assist CORs to establish and maintain required COR files.
• Map analytics back to critical project success factors/SSO (Statement of Objectives).
• Must be reliable and able to work independently in a partial telework posture.
• Other duties as assigned.

• Bachelor’s degree required in a field such as business administration, economics, social and political sciences, communication, finance, health, or similar areas
• 4+years of professional work experience with contract management responsibilities

Preferred Qualifications:

• Microsoft Excel Proficiency

• Successfully pass background and drug screening