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This position is developmental to the full performance, NH-1102-3. This position receives on-the-job training, mentoring from a senior specialist, and/or formal specialized training to develop subject matter expertise in accordance with a formalized training plan designed to progress to target level. The incumbent receives progressively more responsible assignments after proficient experience and training levels are met and may be non-competitively promoted to the next level grade duties. As a Contract Specialist at the NH-1102-02 some of your typical work assignments may include:-Assisting in devising negotiation approaches, modifying or extending existing guidelines in specific contractual situations (e.g., accommodating new reporting requirements), writing new clauses or provisions to cover specific situations (e.g., developing new language to eliminate various contractor objections or draft specific language to cover the contractor's proprietary rights under the Patent Rights Clause), or developing new information to establish a pricing position when historical cost data are not available. -Serving as a point of contact for advising the MDA Deputies and Directors in areas not requiring contracting officer authorizations, such as, coordination of future procurement requirements; preparation of required procurement supporting documentation; and the resolution of specific procurement problems. -Planning and coordinating activities performed on a variety of contracts associated with spiral development, deployment and sustainment of MDA elements and supporting services. Complexities include: Use of cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost sharing, negotiated or advertised firm fixed-price, requirements, indefinite quantity and incentive contracts; and, evaluation of unsolicited proposals; sole-source acquisitions involving highly specialized programs; Contracts that involve difficult cost projections, time schedules, unauditable data, or unknowns; Scope of research effort, test required, and level and extent of labor and skills necessary, which are difficult to define because of lack of precedent data; Frequent technological changes which are imposed by technical personnel and which incur delays or modifications to the solicitation or contract. -Recommending forecasting labor and material costs with unknowns in the research program, locating or developing sources, developing approaches for procurement lacking precedent, accommodating technological challenges, and resolving major differences in the interpretation of the statement of work.