Employment and Training Contract Specialist

State of Delaware•Dover, DE

16h•Hybrid

About The Position

As an Employment and Training Contract Specialist, you hold responsibility for coordinating all activities involved with developing, managing, monitoring and evaluating employment and training programs. You will provide technical assistance in the awarding of funds to contractors as well as negotiate contracts and provide assistance to contractors in contract implementation and ongoing maintenance. As this role is the department contact for contractor questions and concerns, you will also frequently engage with the division's Fiscal and MIS teams to determine payments to contractors which includes approving or disallowing payment, identifying problems, and recommending corrective action.

Requirements

Six months experience in planning, developing, implementing, and evaluating employment and training programs.
Six months experience in budget management and control which includes managing a budget for the purpose of keeping expenditures within the limitations of available appropriations and available revenue and maintaining, monitoring, projecting and controlling a budget within set policies and procedures.
Six months experience in contract management and control which includes ensuring compliance with terms of contracts; negotiating changes to existing contracts.
Six months experience in interpreting employment and training program laws, rules, regulations, policies, and procedures.
Six months experience in narrative report writing.

Responsibilities

Negotiates and develops cost reimbursement and performance contracts with outside contractors and the Division of Employment and Training; supervises negotiation team.
Acts as technical advisor to subcontractors during contract period: identifies managerial and operational problems; develops corrective action plans; provides interpretation of laws, guidelines, and policies.
Monitors and evaluates contract management effectiveness through on-site review and analysis of subcontractor performance and operations.
Initiates and/or participates in the development of unit/program policy and procedure and long-range planning goals and objectives; analyzes proposed and enacted legislation to determine impact on training and employment operations.
Determines flow of funds to subcontractors based on analysis of statistical and fiscal reports; determines advance amounts; approves/disallows payments.
Make individual and/or group oral and written presentations to special interest groups; participates on related committees and task forces.
Performs special projects individually or as part of a work group such as: conversion of the unit's manual system to an automated system, development of new policies, procedures and forms, and development of EEO compliance guidelines.