Job Posting: Contract Specialist (Early Career - Procurement)

Summary

As a Contract Specialist or early-career professional in a similar role, you may contribute to the acquisition of supplies, services, equipment, and other resources agencies need to deliver their missions. Your work may include market research, solicitation support, proposal review, contract documentation, contractor performance tracking, customer support, and acquisition process improvement.

Duties

Representative duties may include:

• Support acquisition and contracting activities across the contracting lifecycle.
• Review requisitions, specifications, purchase descriptions, and related materials for completeness and accuracy.
• Conduct market research to identify potential suppliers and assess their ability to meet requirements.
• Assist with preparing solicitation, award, contract administration, and closeout materials.
• Review proposal information for price, technical capability, and compliance with requirements.
• Support monitoring of contractor performance, deliverables, reports, and related issues.
• Apply federal acquisition rules, policy, and guidance under supervision to support recommendations.
• Use spreadsheets, collaboration platforms, dashboards, automation, or approved AI-enabled tools, where authorized, to support research, drafting, summarization, data organization, reporting, and workflow improvement.
• Review digital or AI-assisted outputs for accuracy, completeness, relevance, and appropriate use before incorporating them into official work.

Depending on the hiring agency, you may also use digital tools, dashboards, automation, and approved AI-enabled tools to support market research, summarize acquisition materials, organize contract information, draft routine procurement documents, identify issues for review, and strengthen service delivery. Applicants do not need to be AI experts, but should be comfortable learning new tools, using technology responsibly, and adapting to a changing work environment.

Where supported by the position, evaluation may also consider the ability to use modern digital tools and approved AI-enabled tools responsibly to support assigned work. This may include organizing information, summarizing materials, improving workflows, verifying outputs, protecting sensitive information, and applying human judgment before incorporating tool-assisted work into official products.

Who Can Apply