Procurement & Contracts Specialist

**Duration**: 12 months

**Pay**: $81.34-$91.57 p/ + Super

**Hours**: 40 per week

**Location**: Gungahlin (ACT) / WFH

**WHAT YOU WILL DO**:

- Contribute to procurement planning, tendering and contract formation and contract management activities, ensuring compliance with legislation, procurement policies, processes and procedures and deliver recommendations that achieve budget outcomes and value for money.
- Use experience to deliver procurement related documentation including templates, schedule, correspondence, reports, submissions, plans and strategies, risk and performance reviews, contract change proposals and other contract management documentation.
- Build and sustain productive relationships with internal and external stakeholders, including solicitors, Procurement ACT and DDTS contract managers and actively participate in teamwork and group activities.
- Work closely with a team of specialists in areas related to delivering services, software, and infrastructure to assist with delivering the outcomes of major programs for the Territory.
- Provide risk and issues management advice, deliver status updates in relation to program contracts.
- Support the identification, management and resolution of commercial risks and issues and contract change management, ensuring timely responses to requests received.
- Provide strategic guidance and advice on complex and/or sensitive procurement and contract matters to ensure that resulting contracts are clear and performance based.
- Facilitate the establishment, management and recording of contracts and their performance expectations (i.e., KPI’s), ensuring a commercial focus to program wide management of agreements.
- Ensure procurement, risk and contract management planning and record keeping functions are developed throughout the procurement lifecycle and maintained for the term of contracts.
- Work with a high level of autonomy under broad direction while resolving issues and ensuring delivery of outcomes.
- Report to the Senior Director Commercial and Governance, with no staff management responsibilities.

**Professional / Technical Skills and Knowledge**:

- Demonstrated high-level experience to work effectively within procurement and contract management guidelines, procedures, and frameworks in a complex operational environment.
- Sound understanding (or capability to gain the understanding) of ACT Government procurement and contract requirements.
- Experience working with ICT procurements and agreements and understanding of government procurement methodologies and required documentation.
- Ability to identify strategic and innovative solutions including an awareness of medium to long-term ICT procurement and contracting opportunities.
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills with experience writing a range of government documents to a high standard.
- Well-developed problem-solving skills.

**Behavioural Capabilities**
- Self-management, demonstrating the ability to deliver agreed outcomes by taking initiative, managing resources, and setting clear direction and providing guidance for team members.
- Ability to establish and maintain effective and diverse strategic business partnerships, including with senior stakeholders, through collaboration, engagement, responsiveness, and influence.
- Adaptability to changing circumstances and multiple priorities and demands, and resilience while managing a constantly changing environment.

If you feel you have the relevant skills and background required then
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