Senior Contracts Administrator

Our team’s mission is to provide contractual expertise through communication and collaboration while allowing our technical partners to focus on delivering results. We are looking for a Senior Contracts Administrator who is a self-starter with excellent communication skills, outstanding customer service, detail orientated, and thrives working in a team environment.  

If you envision yourself to be the contracts professional and trusted business partner that your team and customers turn to for value added contracts solutions and exceptional results, this might be just what you are looking for. This unique opportunity offers employee-ownership, excellent benefits, and will support an organization full of brilliant employee-owners that work together to meet ARA’s mission to solve problems of national importance.

Learn more about us at ARA.com

What will you be doing as a Senior Contracts Administrator?

• Negotiating and administering contracts, non-disclosure agreements, teaming agreements, and other contractual agreements.  


• Coordinating approval of negotiations and contract awards with appropriate management staff.


• Advising program managers and senior executives on Data Rights Assertions and IP protection.


• Providing advice and interpretation of contract requirements to program managers and senior executives; advising on FAR/DFAR and other government and commercial contract terms, clauses, representations and certifications


• Administering contract terms from proposal stage to project close-out in accordance with relevant regulations.


• Leads organizational conflict of interest (OCI) assessments and OCI mitigation plans.


• Work with other functions to include subcontracts, purchasing, government property, and accounting.


• Maintaining and expanding your functional knowledge of government and commercial contracts


• Other duties as assigned

 What our Senior Contracts Administrators need to have (required skills)?

• In-depth knowledge of Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR), Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS), and other government agency supplements


• Must be customer service focused and have excellent time management skills


• Ability to prioritize, plan and analyze multiple and complex contract related activities


• Possess strong analytical and problem-solving skills


• Must be detail-oriented, proactive, and well organized


• Demonstrated leadership ability; ability to take initiative, work a task to completion and deliver results


• Ability to communicate well (both verbal and written), and work collaboratively as team members and/or on an individual basis


• Strong computer and presentation skills


• Costpoint experience a plus


• Pricing, program control, accounting knowledge


• Experience working in a remote environment


• Education:

• Bachelor's with minimum of 5-7 years of experience in government contract administration OR


• Master’s with minimum of 3-5 years of experience in government contract administration OR


• Minimum of 8 years of experience in government contract administration without a degree

Applied Research Associates, Inc. Company Information:

Applied Research Associates, Inc. is a 100% employee-owned international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically superior solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. The company, founded in Albuquerque, NM, in 1979, currently employs over 2,000 employee-owners and continues to grow. ARA offices throughout the United States and Canada provide a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil technologies, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and testing and measurement. The corporation also provides sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement analysis, and robotics.

At ARA, employees are our greatest assets. The corporation realizes that employee ownership inspires greater creativity and initiative along with higher performance and customer satisfaction levels. ARA gives its employees the tools, training, and opportunities to take active roles as employee-owners. The culture is challenging; innovation and experimentation are the norm. Employee-owner’s contributions not only bolster the company’s success, but also their own through the Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP). The motto, “Engineering and Science for Fun and Profit” sums up the ARA experience. For additional information and an opportunity to join this unique workplace, please apply at careers.ara.com.

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