Clarification from the agency

This vacancy is open current employees of the AO. This position allows for situational, and recurring telework, and is eligible for remote work consideration.

The Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts, Department of the Chief Information Officer, Policy and Resources Management Division (PRMD), Vendor Management Branch (VMB) seeks a Program Analyst. The Program Analyst helps oversee and manage all case management modernization (CMM) IT acquisitions for the CMM project and program offices.

The Program Analyst serves as Contracting Officer's Representative (COR) and manages and oversees major IT contracts and blanket purchase agreements. The incumbent provides expert advice on acquisitions strategy and contract management to program offices, project managers, and financial and technical specialists. The Program Analyst reviews solicitations to ensure requirements, goals, and objectives correctly represent program office needs, and serves on the source selection panel. The incumbent works with program office stakeholders to resolve problems impeding successful contract performance.

This position reports to the Chief of the Vendor Management Branch.

The duties of the position include, but are not limited to:

1. Supporting the CMM program office as a COR in pre-award functions, including developing contract requirements, such as statements of work, market research, independent government cost estimates, and evaluating performance criteria for IT hardware, software, and services acquisitions.
2. Serving as a subject matter expert for the CMM program office on contract vehicles and potential methods of procurement.
3. Serving as a COR for IT hardware, software, cloud services, security services, and IT services contracts, including serving as technical liaison between the Contracting Officer and the contractor.
4. Providing expert advice to CMM program offices on contract vehicles and potential procurement methods.
5. Serving on technical evaluation panels.
6. Maintaining COR files.
7. Participating in post-award orientation conferences.
8. Ensuring contactors meet performance requirements, quality standards, delivery timelines, and contract terms.
9. Overseeing schedules and monitoring costs.
10. Monitoring and recording performance or delivery issues and ensuring the contractor properly corrects defects.
11. Advising the contracting officer on performance issues and the need to issue change orders or contract modifications.
12. Reviewing and processing contractor invoices.
13. Conducting contract closeouts.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience is demonstrated experience in ALL the following areas:

1. Managing federal IT contracts.
2. Formatting, executing, reviewing, evaluating, and justifying resource requirements for complex programs.
3. Applying technical skills in accounting or finance and using analytical software tools.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.