Contract Specialist

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Contract Specialist

Duties: Placing government and industry funding under contract, processing contracts for procuring goods and services, and resolving and executing agreements for copyright release requests. Accountability: Develops, reviews and negotiates contracts (CRADAs, Subcontracts, CAs, NDAs, PWSs, Software licenses, technology licenses, copyright releases, and other miscellaneous agreements) while ensuring adherence with university and SEI policy and communicates terms and conditions to internal and external customers. Direction: Acts independently within scope of normal duties and responsibilities. Performs under general supervision. Duties are handled with the use of established policies and procedures. Only the most difficult or unique situations are referred to the supervisor. Decisions: May provide formal training in contract domain expertise. Champions contract policy and procedure revision and improvement. Lead negotiation responsibilities. Understands the business case and has an appreciation of financial/analytical issues and profit and loss implications. Supervisory Responsibilities: Report to the Manager of Contracts but will also work closely with Program Directors, Account Executives, SEI Legal Counsel, Associate Provost Office and various members of the technical staff based on the project requirements. Processing US government Project Work Statement (PWS) agreements under the SEI prime contract; maintaining positive relations with government personnel and personnel internal to SEI who are involved in the government funding and contracting processes, and managing a highly variable workload. Issuing and negotiating subcontracts properly documenting subcontract files within a Contractor Purchasing System Review (CPSR) environment. Coordinating permissions and negotiate terms for reproduction of SEI Intellectual Property. Advise staff on complex copyright and permissions matter. Reviewing and negotiating vendor service agreements and vendor software license terms and conditions. Developing and finalizing a wide variety of agreements, including but not limited to license agreements (software and technology), Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA), Collaborative Agreement (CA), copyright release agreements, consulting agreements, non-disclosure agreements and miscellaneous agreements while adhering to CMU/SEI policy and procedure. Developing new agreement templates as required. Recommending and implementing improvements to the SEI contracting process. Keeping accurate and timely records, files, and database entries and maintaining effective communications with stakeholders. Resolve problems and issues as needed with stakeholders, and implementing appropriate agreements. Monitoring the progress of agreements and follow-up to ensure that all contractual obligations are fulfilled.

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