Contract Specialist Pathways Student Intern

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The Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division is hiring Contract Specialist Pathways Student Interns (GS-1199-02/03/04/05/07 - from $15.79 to $34.84 hourly) in Ashburn, Virginia. Apply today by visiting https://www.usajobs.gov/job/820973200 (open to U.S. Citizens only). This internship announcement closes on 12/05/2024.

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Are you ready to start your career in a federal agency that consistently ranks highly as the best place to work in the Federal government? Do you want to make a difference designing and overseeing construction of roads, bridges, and trails in National Parks, Forests, Wildlife Refuges, Recreation Areas, and other Federal lands?

Since the early 1900s, FLH has built safe, reliable, equitable, and resilient access to our Nation's treasures as core to its mission! Our partners rely on FLH to solve and manage unique program and project challenges that are wide-ranging in environment, geography, and complexity through engineering solutions that are sensitive to the context of the land. Learn more about our work by visiting the hyperlink below - #WeWorkWhereYouPlay!

Visit https://highways.dot.gov/federal-lands/careers to learn more about FLH.

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This is a Student Internship position under the Pathways Internship Program.

To qualify for this internship, you must be a continuing student enrolled or accepted for enrollment for the upcoming semester for the duration of the internship as a condition of employment (taking at least a "half time" course load). You will be required to provide documentation (transcript, enrollment certification, etc.) to support eligibility. Students may be employed throughout the academic year.

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The Contract Specialist Pathways Student Intern supports contracting/procurement activities by...

• Assisting in preparing documents for award of contracts/task orders and contract/task order modifications.
• Reviewing, reformatting, and editing solicitation statements of work using Word documents and assembling/converting various Word/Excel documents into an Adobe version of the solicitation.
• Aiding in preparing negotiations and in recording receipt of bids, offers, and other offer data.
• Responding to vendor and staff inquiries.
• Tracking progress of solicitations, contracts, and task orders through the solicitation process; updating spreadsheets; and maintaining contract/task order electronic files.

The ideal candidate for this position works well in a team environment and is interested in learning and applying procurement laws, regulations, and policies and performing a variety of procurement tasks and can work full-time in the office during the summer.

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Virginia, a southeastern U.S. state, stretches from the Chesapeake Bay to the Appalachian Mountains, with a long Atlantic coastline. It's one of the 13 original colonies, with historic landmarks including Monticello, "founding father" Thomas Jefferson’s iconic Charlottesville plantation. The Jamestown Settlement and Colonial Williamsburg are living-history museums reenacting Colonial and Revolutionary-era life.

Ashburn is a rapidly growing census-designated place in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. At the 2010 United States census, its population was 43,511, up from 3,393 in 1990. It is 30 miles northwest of Washington, D.C., and part of the Washington metropolitan area.

Find FHWA's Eastern Federal Lands Highway Division at 22001 Loudon County Parkway in Ashburn!