Contracts and Compliance Manager

J29, Inc•Millersville, MD

7d•$120,000 - $140,000•Hybrid

About The Position

J29 is an employee centered healthcare management consulting company that specializes in processing, reviewing, and analyzing medical claims, records, disputes, and audits. Established in 2017, J29 prides itself on its employee centric culture and high employee retention rates that allow us to ensure that we are creating a working environment that prioritizes the employee experience. Our team brings corporate performance that stretches to various areas where we can provide our clinical, healthcare policy, and compliance expertise through our support to health and human service programs at the State, Federal, and Commercial levels. J29’s Contracts & Compliance Manager will be responsible for performing performs advanced contract administration and compliance oversight for J29’s federal, state, and commercial portfolio. This role is responsible for cradle-to-grave contract management, including contract formation, negotiation, execution, monitoring, and closeout. The Contracts Manager ensures J29 fulfills all contractual, regulatory, and reporting obligations while supporting internal stakeholders and maintaining rigorous documentation standards. This position will support two critical business functions of J29; J29’s Growth Team and J29’s Programs & Delivery Team. J29’s team of 200+ employees support health and human service missions at the commercial, State, and Federal levels that involve various operational needs to empower our work – including, technology, infrastructure, administratively, financially, and process improvement functions.

Requirements

7+ years in a government contract management role, including individual responsibility (not direct report) for task completion, task management, and leadership facing responsibilities with demonstrated cradle-to-grave contract administration responsibilities.
4+ years of experience specifically serving in environments with small business, socio-economic organizations, and large businesses.
Sound judgement, professionalism, communication, presentation ability, and risk evaluation mindset.
Ability to interpret state or federal regulations and apply them to legal documents, including NDAs, TAs, contracts, subcontracts, and modifications.
Hands-on contract management experience with demonstrated use cases leveraging technology to support end-to-end lifecycle of efficient contract and task management
Proficient and demonstrated use of Microsoft Office 365 (O365) applications, such as Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, PowerApps, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.
Strong knowledge of CPARS, FAR, SCA, DFARS, agency clauses, contract types (FFP, T&M, CPFF), and other client-set policies and procedures that require compliance and/or reporting.
Required: Bachelor’s degree from an accredited college or university in a relevant field of study to business administration, contracts, finance, etc.
Years of experience may be substituted for the required educational requirement

Nice To Haves

Preference: 8(a) and/or EDWOSB
Preferred additional experiences: healthcare experience, government contract experience or prior government employment, good-standing experience with Federal Government, litigation exposure, mediation exposure, client relationship responsibilities
Preferred: Master of Business Administration, or alternate contract management certifications and/or credentials
Years of experience may be substituted for the preferred educational desire
Preferred: formal education in the form of certifications, course credits, education hours, or class attended related to Contractual Law, Procurement Law, or Business Law
Years of experience may be substituted for the preferred educational desire

Responsibilities

Manage government, and occasional commercial contracts from initial solicitation review through award, execution, modifications, option periods, and closeout for all prime, subcontracts, task orders, Government Wide Acquisition Contract (GWACs), and Blanket Purchase Agreements (BPAs).
Review, evaluate, and interpret federal solicitations (RFPs, RFIs, RFQs) to identify contractual risk, obligations, and requirements.
Draft, negotiate, redline, and finalize Non-Disclosure Agreements (NDAs), Teaming Agreements (TAs), and Subcontract Agreements, working with internal and external stakeholders to meet J29 business needs .
Ensure contractual documents align with J29’s contract parameters, comfort-levels and organizational policies.
Serve as a key point of contact with Programs/Delivery, Growth, Business Operations, People Operations, Information Technology, External Counsel, and Executive Leadership.
Communicate contract updates to internal distribution lists, ensuring clear and timely visibility across J29’s leadership and program teams – being the meeting host and presenter on such meetings.
Collaborate with proposal teams on contractual requirements, subcontractor contractual paperwork, labor category alignment, compliance, business volume support, conflicts of interest (COI), and pricing consistency.
Develop, launch, and continue with various contracts topic trainings that are either requested, needed based on knowledge levels of internal team members, or “hot topics” that candidate recognizes that J29 should be internally trained on.
Monitor compliance with FAR/DFARS, agency supplements, small‑business requirements, and flow‑down clauses — reflecting key requirements emphasized across federal postings.
Maintain accurate and complete contract files, modifications, award documents, and related reporting.
Support internal audits, CPARS considerations, and program compliance needs.
Other Direct Costs (ODC): license negotiations and oversight for corporate and program specific commercial agreements between J29 and technology enterprises.
Develop and manage subcontractor agreements and ensure flow‑downs are properly applied and monitored.
Coordinate with primes on J29 subcontract obligations and reporting needs, working with appropriate internal stakeholders
Conduct regular, frequent virtual and/or in-person meetings with select vendors and/or subcontractors
Manage contract repositories through SharePoint, Atlassian Jira, and PowerApps and ensure documentation is properly organized, version‑controlled, and retained following federal and internal policy standards.
Provide frequent contract briefing documentation updates, and various document management for all contractual files.
Support implementation of updated contract templates and maintain consistency across all contractual instruments.