Contracts Manager

Newport News, Virginia

Overview
The Contracts Manager is responsible for a wide variety of procurement and contracting duties including drafting AIA contracts, Short Form Agreements, and Purchase Orders; ensuring all legal, insurance and bonding requirements are met prior to contract execution; preparing reports; recording documents; maintaining the contract log and filing system; and working with project managers to administer active contracts. The position requires demonstrated skill in public procurement and contracting for formal and informal bidding processes and proven experience in all phases of the contracts lifecycle. The Contracts Manager works independently on assigned contracting tasks with general guidance from the System Director of Construction Management.

What you will do

• Manage contract development through all lifecycle stages (draft, revision, approval, filing, and distribution), ensuring that insurance, bonding, and legal requirements are met and internal processes and records are maintained.
• Administration of active contracts (construction, development, consultants, etc.) to identify, calendar, notify, and ensure completion and compliance with all deliverables in collaboration with project managers and responsible parties.
• Professional interaction with colleagues, other public agencies, developers, contractors, consultants and the general public.
• Provide on-going assistance to staff on contract development and compliance issues.
• Administer Department records management policies and procedures to maintain complete, orderly, accurate, and accessible working files and archives.
• Evaluate records for retention in compliance with Board-approved policies.

Qualifications

Education

• Bachelors Degree, Related Field (Required)

Experience

• 3-4 years experience with preparing a variety of contract documents; writing, administering and enforcing contracts and legal agreements and managing records. (Required)

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