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Supervisory Contract Specialist
Commander, Navy Installations Command · Patuxent River, Maryland · Closes in 4 days
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1 Check you can apply You are here
Who can apply: The public.
This job is open to the public. You must be a U.S. citizen, a U.S. national, or someone who owes allegiance to the United States.
Experience: You need at least 1 full year of specialized experience at the next lower level (NF-03 or GS-11/12 equivalent) in federal service or commercial contracting. The experience should include planning and negotiating contracts, price analysis, applying procurement rules, advising managers, and leading or supervising staff.
Education: You can meet the education requirement with a bachelor's degree in any major from an accredited college, or with at least 24 semester hours (36 quarter hours) in fields such as accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, or management.
Licenses and certifications:
- NAF Contracting Officer warrant, which you must get within one year of hire and keep while employed
Experience can be paid or unpaid, volunteer work included: if it matches the duties, it counts. The full rules are in the announcement.
2 Resume and documents
Write a federal resume for this job. For each job you held, give the month and year you started and ended, your hours per week and what you did, using the words of the experience the announcement asks for. Many announcements accept resumes of up to 2 pages: check this one.
3 Apply on USAJOBS
Closes in 4 days (November 7, until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time).
You sign in to USAJOBS with a Login.gov account, answer the questionnaire and upload your documents, then you submit. Answer the questionnaire honestly: your resume must show what you claim.
How they rate you: Your resume is first checked for basic eligibility. Then it is rated on your knowledge, skills and abilities (KSAs) using a set rating scale. The best qualified applicants go to the hiring manager, and the selecting official may interview people.
4 After you apply
In USAJOBS, under Applications, you can see where your application stands: received, reviewed, referred to the hiring manager or not, then selected or not. It can take a few weeks.
For the interview, prepare three examples with the STAR method: the Situation, the Task, what you did (Action) and the Result.
If they choose you: a tentative offer, then a background check, a security clearance (Other), then the final offer with your start date.
Tips for this job:
- Complete the online questionnaire and upload all required documents before 11:59 PM EST on 11/07/2026.
- In your resume, clearly describe your contract work, dates, and any staff you supervised, since ratings depend on what it shows.
- If you are using a degree or coursework to qualify, include official or unofficial transcripts with your package.
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