Contract Specialist

**Duties**:

- Monitor transactions during the cycle and take timely action against questionable charges.
- Perform compliance reviews to detect, identify and correct potential fraud, waste and abuse or non-compliance issues with cardholders.
- Provide policy and procedural advice to cardholders and other Government-wide Commercial Purchase Card Program participants.
- Review required training of billing officials and cardholders and maintain master tracker, prepares, and distributes appointment documents and issues bank access.
- Maintain technical proficiency by keeping current with FMR, FAR, DFARS, and DPC regulations and policies pertaining to Government Commercial Purchase Card (GCPC).
- Monitor and identify purchasing behavior patterns that span multiple cardholders/managing accounts.
- Professionally and ethically handle issues, problems, and obstacles.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- Male applicants born after December 31, 1959, must complete a Pre-Employment Certification Statement for Selective Service Requirement.
- Proof of U.S. Citizenship required.
- Direct deposit of pay is required.
- One-year probationary period may be required.
- This position requires you to submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
- You may be required to sign a transportation agreement.
- Individuals hired from the Continental United States (CONUS) and their family members (who are US citizens) are required to obtain Official Passports prior to departure to the overseas area.
- This is an Acquisition and Technology Workforce position.
- Must fully comply with the provisions of the DoDD 5500.07 Standards of Conduct and DoD 5500.07-R The Join Ethics Regulation (JER).
- Must fully comply with the provisions of the 5 CFR 2635 Standards of Conduct for Employees of the Executive Branch and 5 CFR 3601 Supplemental Standards of Conduct for Employees of the Department of Defense.

**Qualifications**:
**Who May Apply**:U.S. Citizens- **Basic Requirement for Contract Specialist**:
**Degree**: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) from an accredited educational institution authorized to grant baccalaureate degrees.
- **OR**
**Exemption**: You are exempt from the education requirements above if (A) you are a current civilian employee in DoD who occupied GS-1102 positions or contracting positions with authority to award or administer contracts above the simplified acquisition threshold in an Executive Department on or before September 30, 2000; OR (B) you are a current military member who occupied a similar occupational specialty to the GS (or equivalent)-1102 on or before September 30, 2000.
- In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below:
- Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone-no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

**Education**:
**Additional information**:

- Applicants must comply with the Exceptional Family Member Program requirements as outlined in the DoD Instruction 1315.19.
- Applicants who have family members with special medical needs should ensure that prior to accepting a position overseas their family members' medical needs can be met. Access to care in a military treatment facility may not be available to civilian employees except on a space available basis. Consequently, host nation medical facilities may be the only care available. The availability and level of care at host nation medical facilities will vary by location.
- Employees (and family members) who require medical or dental care in the overseas location will be responsible for obtaining and paying for such care. Access for civilian employees and their families to military medical and dental treatment facilities is on a space-available and reimbursable basis only.
- Medical and dental care may be provided by host nation providers. The availability and level of care at host nation medical and dental facilities will vary by location.
- Status applicants in their fourth year of an overseas assignment cannot be selected unless a waiver of the 5 year overseas service limitation requirement is approved.
- Selectees recruited outside the U.S. will have their eligibility for foreign area benefits determined at the time of hire.
- The initial length of this overseas tour is 36 months.
- This position is not covered by a bargaining unit.

You can find more information about this vacancy in the How You Will Be Evaluated section.- Benefits

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