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Posted: Sep. 28, 2018

Clearance Required:

TOP SECRET security clearance required. All Personnel in order to begin work will be required to complete the requirements for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access and complete a Counter-Intelligence polygraph (current Full Scope polygraph will also be accepted).

Do not apply for this job if you do not currently hold a TS security clearance.

Location: Charlottesville, VA

Responsibilities:

The contract specialist (CS) shall assist the contracting officer (CO) in planning, soliciting, awarding, administering, and closing contract actions. The CS shall interact with internal and external government and contract personnel, as required, to ensure all contract actions comply with relevant regulations, local policies, and directives. Specific tasking, includes, but is not limited to the following:

• Assist the CO and requirements owners with acquisition and source selection planning and documentation
• Assist requirements owners in the development of requirements documents such as the statement of work (SOW), statement of objectives (SOO), performance work statement (PWS), independent government cost estimate (IGCE), to name a few
• Prepare requests for proposal (RFPs) and requests for information (RFIs)
• Select appropriate solicitation provisions and contract terms/conditions
• Review complex solicitations and prepare specialized and/or non-routine response for proposals, bids, and contract modifications
• Analyzes significant, and/or unique contract requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and federal policies and business unit procedure and communicates results
• Responsible for initiating, tracking and monitoring contract changes, deliverables, invoicing and payment, correspondence, risks and maintaining associated documentation
• Prepare and disseminate information including, but not limited to, contract status, compliance and modifications
• Performant cost and price analysis and prepare negotiation memorandum
• Cradle to Grave Contract Management Support

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, or similar, with 24 semester hours in any combination of accounting, business, finance or contract law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, and quantitative methods
• Master’s degree is highly preferred
• Minimum 6 years of experience
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Certification in Contracting Level 2 and/or Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Level 2
• Broad knowledge of and exposure to all phases of contracts management and negotiation experience
• Experience with Government and Commercial type contracts or order
• Must be proficient in FAR/DFARs requirements
• Strong negotiation experience
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in a team and as in individual contributor
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Working to expert knowledge of contracting concepts
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Company Information:

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, iPower LLC is an SBA certified 8(a), woman-owned small business (WOSB) that provides first-class professional consulting services in a wide variety of disciplines. Since its founding, iPower has sustained stable growth by successfully supporting government and commercial clients in areas such as strategic planning, business process improvement, performance management, quality assurance, earned value management, enterprise support, project management and training services. iPower’s business consulting services are grounded upon government, industry and academia best practices and are offered within frameworks that include the CMMI Institute, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and 20000, Six Sigma, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and standards of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and IT Governance best practices.

iPower LLC offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation packages including medical and dental insurance, paid time off and holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401K, short and long term disability and more!

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Posted: Sep. 28, 2018

Clearance Required: 

TOP SECRET security clearance required. All Personnel in order to begin work will be required to complete the requirements for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access and complete a Counter-Intelligence polygraph (current Full Scope polygraph will also be accepted).

Do not apply for this job if you do not currently hold a TS security clearance.

Place of Performance:

• Washington, DC, Bolling AFB

Must Have Special Requirements:

• Current/Active TS/SCI clearance
• 5 to 10 years of administrative support experience
• BA/BS Degree preferred

Description:

Reporting to a Director and/or Deputy Director of a DoD Intel Organization. Provide comprehensive administrative support. Serves as the executive assistant with a focus on scheduling, travel, logistics, meeting planning, presentation and memo drafting activities.

May correspond on behalf of the Director and or Deputy Director with key internal and external stakeholders such as government officials and their staff. The successful candidate must be highly proficient/expert in Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, Excel and Outlook with the ability to learn new software programs with ease.

Responsibilities:

• Manage Senior Leadership Calendars / Coordinate Meetings
• Ensure that information is recorded and sent on time to appropriate individuals
• Coordinate, tracks and monitors administrative and program support activity across a variety of Mission Support functional disciplines
• Draft, process, catalog, file, and maintain the correspondence, messages and other documentation. Correspondence includes military and civilian letters, internal and external memorandums, enclosures, endorsements, transmittal letters, award recommendations, minutes of meetings, talking papers, background papers, fact sheets, point papers, and briefing papers.
• Word processing, typing, editing, classification marking, preparing envelopes, annotating writer information; assembling completed correspondence and documents for review, approval and signature; making copies; retaining office copies, and placing office copies in official files. Preparing unclassified and classified mail, and packages for mail/distribution/courier. Establish expertise on current DoD and IC regulations and established administrative procedures, draft new procedures as required for government approval.
• Track and monitor actions to include receiving actions, entering them into a log, indicating an assigned action officer and indicating status and completion of each action. File a copy of each completed action.
• Prepare briefing materials including Power Point slides or other presentation media.
• As assigned, serve as assistant for military and civilian manpower and personnel actions. Prepare applicable paperwork for government approval. Consolidate and edit various recurring reports.
• Review incoming and outgoing classified and unclassified correspondence.
• Serve as the travel focal point, composing and preparing TDY justification, verifying travel requests for conformance to travel plans, resolve deviations, and ensure accountability on travel-related items, prepare travel orders and any other travel related documents.
• The contractor shall plan/coordinate travel for senior personnel. The contractor shall prepare and monitor travel vouchers.
• Assist with escort duties for uncleared personnel in secure work spaces.
• As assigned, maintain, update, and distribute alert rosters, phone charts, and organizational diagrams.
• As assigned, compile briefings, make copies, answer phones, send and receive fax documents, make overhead slides, and provide other general office support as necessary.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree with 5 to 10 years' experience (1 year of education = 1.5 years’ experience)
• Experience providing EA Support to Executive Level Officers
• Experience working either for the Government, or on behalf of the Government as a contractor
• Significant experience using Microsoft Office Products (Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint)
• Demonstrates high degree of independent judgment
• Strong interpersonal skills, able to work well in a mixed team of government personnel and other contractors
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through

Company Information:

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, iPower LLC is an SBA certified 8(a), woman-owned small business (WOSB) that provides first-class professional consulting services in a wide variety of disciplines. Since its founding, iPower has sustained stable growth by successfully supporting government and commercial clients in areas such as strategic planning, business process improvement, performance management, quality assurance, earned value management, enterprise support, project management and training services. iPower’s business consulting services are grounded upon government, industry and academia best practices and are offered within frameworks that include the CMMI Institute, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and 20000, Six Sigma, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and standards of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and IT Governance best practices.

iPower LLC offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation packages including medical and dental insurance, paid time off and holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401K, short and long term disability and more!

Click Here To Apply

Posted: Sep. 28, 2018

Clearance Required:

TOP SECRET security clearance required. All Personnel in order to begin work will be required to complete the requirements for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) access and complete a Counter-Intelligence polygraph (current Full Scope polygraph will also be accepted).

Do not apply for this job if you do not currently hold a TS security clearance.

Location: PAFB, FL

Responsibilities:

The financial management personnel shall assist in overseeing, creating, maintaining, and tracking financial spend plans and contract financial data. Personnel shall interact with internal and external government and contractor personnel, as required, in order to ensure smooth obligation and execution of program/project funds, as well as to ensure all financial actions comply with relevant policies and directives. Specific tasks include, but are not limited to the following:

• Provide technical and advisory assistance in processing and/or reviewing Contract Management System (CMS) packages (e.g. acquisition planning record (APR), interagency acquisition planning records (IA APRs), and military interdepartmental purchase requests (MIPRs))
• Serve as the subject matter expert (SME) for required content of CMS packages and DIA-unique regulations, procedures and systems
• Track the status of acquisition actions through commitment, obligation, and expenditure of funding
• Provide status reports, weekly or at intervals directed by the COR, pertaining to recent funding execution as well as the current status of all APRs and requisitions in CMS
• Track the status of purchase requisitions (PRs) from creation through final accounting for completion of tasks, receipt of deliverables, recording of all expenses, and de-obligation of any unused funds
• Provide monthly status reports, monthly are at intervals directed by the COR, pertaining to contract and MIPR invoicing and burn rates
• Assist in the maintenance of program/project databases, files and automated data systems (ADPs) for all acquisition actions
• Provide assistance in estimating project schedules, resources, costs and budgets
• Provide administrative support for the routing and tracking of financial/acquisition documentation to leadership and program/project managers
• Utilize DIA Financial Accounting Corporate Tracking System (FACTS) / Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) financial database accounts to verify available funding, funding expenditures, and conduct queries

Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, or similar, with 24 semester hours in any combination of accounting, business, finance or contract law, economics
• Master’s degree is highly preferred
• Minimum 6 years of experience in DoD environment supporting financial/acquisition management requirements
• Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Certification in Contracting Level 2 and/or Federal Acquisition Certification in Contracting (FAC-C) Level 2
• Acquisition 101 (ACQ 101) required
• Completed training for DIA Financial Accounting Corporate Tracking System (FACTS) and Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) system and have experience using the systems
• Training and experience using DIA Contract Management System (CMS), the DIA MIPR Acceptance Logging Tool (MALT) and DIA electronic document storage (EDS)
• Must be proficient in FAR/DFARs requirements
• Strong negotiation experience
• Excellent interpersonal and organizational skills
• Must be able to work in a team and as in individual contributor
• Strong Microsoft Office skills
• Working to expert knowledge of contracting concepts
• Ability to work under tight deadlines and handle multiple/detail-oriented tasks
• Strong self-organization and self-management skills, with emphasis on self-initiation and follow through
• Excellent written and oral communication skills

Company Information:

Founded in 2001 and headquartered in Reston, Virginia, iPower LLC is an SBA certified 8(a), woman-owned small business (WOSB) that provides first-class professional consulting services in a wide variety of disciplines. Since its founding, iPower has sustained stable growth by successfully supporting government and commercial clients in areas such as strategic planning, business process improvement, performance management, quality assurance, earned value management, enterprise support, project management and training services. iPower’s business consulting services are grounded upon government, industry and academia best practices and are offered within frameworks that include the CMMI Institute, Capability Maturity Model Integration (CMMI), International Organization for Standardization (ISO) 9001 and 20000, Six Sigma, the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) and standards of the Institute for Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and IT Governance best practices.

iPower LLC offers a flexible work environment and competitive compensation packages including medical and dental insurance, paid time off and holidays, tuition reimbursement, 401K, short and long term disability and more!

Click Here To Apply