Principal Contract Officer

2 days ago


Logan City, Australia Child Safety, Seniors and Disabilities Full time

**The Principal Contract Officer's key responsibilities are**:

- Lead effective team involvement and/or participate in end to end procurement processes including tender processes and market analysis in partnership with various business areas.
- Lead effective contract management of suppliers from a range of diverse and cultural backgrounds including, contract development and renegotiation where required, and monitoring to ensure compliance with legislation, contracts, investment specifications and departmental policies and procedures.
- Utilise tools and systems to analyse and interpret a wide variety of supplier and performance related information to drive better outcomes through the supplier relationship.
- Monitor systems and strategies to ensure remedial action is taken and non-compliance issues with suppliers and/or licensed organisations are effectively managed.
- Provide direction to contract management staff in relation to monitoring and undertaking inspection of individual care services covered by a licence; and contribute to the development and maintenance of the licensing process.
- Negotiate and maintain effective and respectful working relationships with departmental staff, other government agencies and a diverse range of suppliers on a range of human service delivery issues.
- Provide high level strategic and operational advice to senior management on appropriate change/improvement strategies in supplier service delivery.
- Undertake, implement and/or coordinate projects to improve the delivery of procurement outcomes and address the needs of vulnerable clients from a range of diverse backgrounds.
- Provide direction, advice and mentoring to contract management staff in relation to legislation, compliance, financial, legal and cultural issues.
- Ensure human resources are effectively managed and decisions concerning these resources are made in line with departmental policies, procedures and delegations.
- Professionally represent the department at forums with key stakeholders and suppliers.
- Prepare and coordinate briefs, correspondence and reports consistent with departmental guidelines

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.



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