Contracts Administrator II (Remote From Anywhere In Colorado).

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Description Of Job

OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current fulltime employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Contractors currently engaged at OIT do not qualify as fulltime employees.

IMPORTANT NOTE: Please review your application to ensure completion. For the most equitable applicant experience, OIT’s hiring team considers only the contents of your application to review your qualifications. Please do not include any attachments (such as resume or cover letter) with your application as these items are not used by OIT’s hiring team.

Do you have a solid understanding of contracting processes and a desire to gain expertise in contract law and compliance? Are you interested in drafting and reviewing a variety of legal documents, including contracts and agreements? Our new Contract Administrator II will support the Contracts Supervisor and Administrator IV, working to create contract drafts, modifications, and final versions for vendor signatures, ensuring compliance with applicable laws, regulations, and policies.

This is an opportunity to work closely with cross-functional teams, ensuring contracts are comprehensive, compliant, and aligned with organizational goals. In this position, you will increase your knowledge, becoming an expert on compliance with contract terms, researching and reviewing drafts for statutes, rules, regulations, and policies, and creating legal documents that fairly represent all stakeholders.

Key Responsibilities

• Draft and review contracts for goods and services across various sectors (IT, federal, construction, intergovernmental).
• Ensure contract compliance with procurement rules, fiscal regulations, and accessibility requirements.
• Collaborate with senior contract specialists to improve processes, create templates, and address contract compliance issues.
• Assist in interpreting contract terms for internal teams and external contractors.
• Conduct audits on contracts and ensure contractor performance aligns with contractual terms.
• Support the creation and modification of statutes, rules, and policies as they apply to contracts.
  
  

Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights

OIT ONLY RECRUITMENT: This recruitment is open only to current employees of the Office of Information Technology for the State of Colorado. Contractors currently engaged at OIT do not qualify as fulltime employees.

A wide salary range is posted for this position and any job offer is based upon a salary analysis to comply with the Colorado Equal Pay for Equal Work Act. The salary analysis considers relevant experience, education, certifications, and state seniority as compared to others doing substantially similar work. While most salary offers are made within the posted range, occasionally an offer is made below or above the posted range based upon this salary analysis.

Minimum Qualifications

This is a skills-based job announcement. The required minimum qualifications and/or education (if substituting for the proven experience, knowledge, and skills), are as follows:

• Two (2) years experience in an occupational field related to the work assigned to the position.
• Experience applying digital accessibility regulations and standards (e.g., WCAG 2.1) to business processes, content, tools, and/or documents, with the ability to provide specific examples of accessibility improvements made.
  
  

Substitutions

• Additional appropriate education will substitute for the required experience on a year-for-year basis, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• Training or Certification related to the work assigned to the position will be assigned credit towards substitution for experience and/or education, but cannot completely substitute for these qualifications.
• If the minimum qualifications include a degree requirement, additional appropriate paid or unpaid experience will substitute for the required education on a year-for-year basis.
  
  

Preferred Qualifications

• Knowledge of the Colorado procurement rules, fiscal rules, and contracting laws and policies; experience with Colorado Resource Operations Engine (CORE) or a similar web-based financial system.
• An understanding of government procurement at the state or federal level.
• Experience with Contract Management System (CMS) or a similar web-based database system.
• Some experience with/exposure to Federal grant funding.
  
  

Conditions Of Employment

OIT candidates and employees must comply with any screening procedures in place at state entity locations where they might be required to perform work.

A pre-employment background check will be conducted as part of the selection process.

Positions supporting some agencies such as the Department of Corrections and the Department of Public Safety will also require a pre-employment drug test.

This position may require travel within the specified geographic area, and to locations across the state as needed.

This position may require on-call duties as needed by the position.

Supplemental Information

If this posting indicates “remote from anywhere in CO” in the title, periodic reporting to the primary state work location designated for the position is required. All remote work must be performed in Colorado.

While candidates from out of state will be considered for this role, the candidate selected for the position must relocate and reside in Colorado on the first day of their new position. There is no form of relocation assistance, financial or otherwise, available for any position. A reasonable timeframe for relocation will be established on an individual basis, while considering business needs, and determining a start date.

Our application process and what to expect after you apply are described in the videos found here .

The State of Colorado believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion drive our success, and we encourage candidates from all identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. The State of Colorado is an equal opportunity employer committed to building inclusive, innovative work environments with employees who reflect our communities and enthusiastically serve them. Therefore, in all aspects of the employment process, we provide employment opportunities to all qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, disability, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, pregnancy, medical condition related to pregnancy, creed, ancestry, national origin, marital status, genetic information, or military status (with preference given to military veterans), or any other protected status in accordance with applicable law.

The Governor's Office of Information Technology is committed to the full inclusion of all qualified individuals. As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests related to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or to perform essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a positive experience applying or interviewing for this position, please direct your inquiries to our ADA Coordinator at [email protected] or call (303) 764-7900.

This posting may be used to fill multiple vacancies based upon business need.

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