The Sponsor has a requirement for a contractor to assist the Sponsor with Contracting Officers Technical Representative (COTR) instruction.  The Sponsor requires an instructor to teach existing in-person COTR courses; support administrative details of the courses; and participate in the creation of other COTR training courses. The instructor's understanding of Sponsor mission areas and COTR work is paramount.  Responsibilities include, but are not limited to: 

• Ability to speak to topics and facilitate courses on one or more of the following: 
  • Acquisition Planning 
  • Contract Management 
  • Resource Management 
  • Program Management 
  • Federal Acquisition Regulation 
  • Other Transactional Authorities (OTA)
• Experience and passion for teaching, developing people, providing feedback, mentoring, and coaching
• Demonstrate leadership skills reflecting integrity, credibility, and accountability
• Willingness to discuss personal leadership/management challenges and lessons learned in a learning environment
• Strong familiarity with the Sponsor's information technology, comfort with using and learning about new technology and analytic tools, and willingness to promote technology that enhances learning design and delivery
• Ability to use facilitative behaviors such as active listening, paraphrasing, questioning, summarizing, and using tools like problem-solving and action planning
• Outstanding communication, collaboration, briefing, and facilitation skills needed to effectively interact in a classroom setting
• Strong interpersonal and critical thinking skills (analysis, judgment, information-seeking)
• Ability to multitask and work independently, as a self-starter
• Ability to work effectively with other instructors
• Experience with Microsoft Office, Outlook, SharePoint, PowerPoint, and Sponsor learning software platforms

• Must possess and be able to maintain a TS/SCI clearance with Polygraph
  
• Bachelor's degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Information Systems, Engineering, Business, or a scientific or technical discipline
  
• BS 10-12, MS 8-10, PhD 5-7
• Ability to fully coordinate master project schedules
• Ability to coordinate information flow between all programs and organizational managers 
• Ability to establish functional and technical specifications and standards, solve hardware and software interface problems, define input/output parameters, and ensure integration of the entire system or subsystem
• Provide a total systems perspective including technical understanding of relationships, dependencies, and requirements of hardware and software components 

Desired Qualifications

• Ability to test and evaluate hardware and software to determine efficiency, reliability, and compatibility with existing systems 
• Identify measures or indicators of system performance and the actions needed to improve or correct it, relative to the goals of the system 
• Ability to work in a dynamic and challenging environment 
• Ability to coordinate with engineers, systems analysts, programmers, technicians, scientists, and top-level managers in the design, testing, and evaluation of systems 

We are an equal opportunity employer and federal government contractor. We do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment as protected by law.