Total 42 Purchasing / Procurement / Inventory job vacancies in Alexandria, Virginia

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

This is a Direct Hire Public Notice, under this recruitment, applications will be accepted for each location and/or installation identified in this Public Notice and selections are made for vacancies as they occur. There may or may not be actual/projected vacancies at the time you submit your application.

This Public Notice is to gather applications which may or may not result in a referral or selection.

This position is being filled under Direct Hire Authority (DHA) in accordance with USD(P&R) memo of DEC 22, 2023, Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense, Title 5, United States Code, Section 9905. Per 3. Covered Positions E. Table 1.

Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration.

Incumbents typical work assignments may include the following:

• Serves as senior DoD specialist and advisor on DoD contracting and pricing regulations, policies, and associated procedures.
• Within areas of responsibility, develops new and refines existing procurement policies and regulations including developing and testing new techniques and procedures, evaluating and developing proposed innovations including proposed legislative initiatives, participating in formulation of government-wide policies, providing policy guidance and training to the workforce, and ensuring consistent policy application.
• Teams with acquisition professionals and government stakeholders at all levels to develop and communicate solutions on challenging, complex pricing and contracting issues.
• Serves as the procurement analyst responsible for initiating, developing and recommending contracting operational policies, procedures, guidance and oversight of the Defense Department governmentwide commercial purchase card (GPC) program.
• Serves as a procurement analyst within the DoD Purchase Card Program Management Office.
  Reviews the effectiveness of Component (Army, Navy, Air Force and 4th Estate) purchase card program policies and procedures to ensure that they are consistent with governing law, regulation and DoD policy.
• Leads teams across Component card programs and/or other functional communities within the department to develop and integrate innovative approaches to determine efficiencies in the use of the card and to streamline Departmental processes and operations while minimizing associated costs.
• Works with the Director of Contracting eBusiness (who is the Director of the DoD Purchase Card Program Management Office) and other senior leaders across the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and the Components to define, integrate, and implement purchase card functional processes to support other strategic goals/objectives of the Department of Defense.
• Develops new policies, methodologies, and techniques to promulgate the innovative solutions and methodologies designed.

This position will allow you to use your expertise in administrative oversight and assistance to provide substantive support to Customs and Border Protection upper management. This position starts at a salary of $82,764.00 (GS-11, Step 1) to $107,590.00 (GS-11, Step 10) with promotion potential to $107,590 (GS-11 Step 10).

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In this position, you will become a key member of the Office of Information Technology team performing the below typical work assignments:

• Adjusting account records to reflect changes in usage, physical inventories, transfer of property, and physical location changes.
• Projecting needs for accountable property and supporting supplies.
• Performing random inventories, identifies discrepancies, conducts in-depth searches for missing items or equipment, and reconciles inventory and stock levels.
• Maintaining inventory control records in an automated system.
• Monitoring activity in the accounts and ensures that assets and supplies are available when needed.

• You will track the status of actions/orders using automated and manual systems and through contacts with vendors/contractors and with functional personnel within the command.
• You will collect vendor quotes and proposals according to competitive requirement bid information.
• You will assemble and prepare procurement management reports by gathering and consolidating pertinent information.
• You will be responsible for performing a variety of technical work for contract specialists and contracting officer authorized representatives, to include negotiating procurement activities.
• You will use electronic systems for creating, extracting, adding, deleting, editing, and storing information in forms, general correspondence, reports, and memoranda.

Administrative and Supervisory

• Provides first-line coordination and oversight for pharmacist and technician work activities, including staff leave and scheduling, staff work assignments, order verification processes, veteran and non-veteran customer services, and regulatory compliance regarding medication control and security.
• Develops, implements, and manages programs to optimize drug therapy costs, including participation in the development of disease management programs.
• Establishes programs for the appropriate and cost-efficient use of selected drugs (target drugs) that are high cost and subject to misuse. May serve as the approval authority of target drugs.
• Coordinates medication conversions and to comply with local, VISN, and National contracts or approved formulary substitutions. Provides information to patients, providers, and other healthcare personnel regarding the conversion process to promote a safe and efficient transition.
• Develops and conducts medication use evaluations (MUE) in areas of needs from a cost-effective and patient outcome perspective and makes recommendations based on results.

• Incumbent is responsible for daily functions related to fund control management.
• Responsible for processing 1358s, 2237s, and purchase card orders for obligating appropriate funds for pharmacy service budget.
• Acts as a purchase cardholder approving official for the Pharmacy Service and oversees purchases of pharmacy procurement technicians.
• Incumbent complies with all Federal, VA, and local acquisition policies and regulations.
• Responsible for making decisions concerning cost containment related to pharmacy transactions.

• Incumbent is responsible for inventory management of all pharmaceuticals and supplies for the pharmacy service.
• Assures the proper pharmacy storage of all pharmaceuticals and supplies.
• Coordinates the purchase and record keeping of REMS medications.
• Responsible for the annual wall-to-wall inventory preparation.

• Serves as a resource and provides information and education to staff, residents, and students in areas of formulary management and approved clinical guidelines to reduce unnecessary and inappropriate use of drugs.
• Educates medical staff regarding formulary management, approved clinical guidelines and the cost-efficient use of drugs. Education is provided through in-services and one-on-one encounters. Where possible, uses before and after data to assess the impact of these educational interventions.
• Provides input and assistance to Pharmacy Administration on issues related to areas of practice and expertise.

• Actively works to add to the body of knowledge by supporting the research and quality improvement initiatives of pharmacy service, residents, other clinical pharmacy staff, and other practitioners within the facility and/or network.
• Performs other pharmacy related duties as needed to help fulfill our mission and abide by our organization's values.

Administrative and Supervisory

• Provides first-line coordination and oversight for pharmacist and technician work activities, including staff leave and scheduling, staff work assignments, order verification processes, veteran and non-veteran customer services, and regulatory compliance regarding medication control and security.
• Develops, implements, and manages programs to optimize drug therapy costs, including participation in the development of disease management programs.
• Establishes programs for the appropriate and cost-efficient use of selected drugs (target drugs) that are high cost and subject to misuse. May serve as the approval authority of target drugs.
• Coordinates medication conversions and to comply with local, VISN, and National contracts or approved formulary substitutions. Provides information to patients, providers, and other healthcare personnel regarding the conversion process to promote a safe and efficient transition.
• Develops and conducts medication use evaluations (MUE) in areas of needs from a cost-effective and patient outcome perspective and makes recommendations based on results.

• Incumbent is responsible for daily functions related to fund control management.
• Responsible for processing 1358s, 2237s, and purchase card orders for obligating appropriate funds for pharmacy service budget.
• Acts as a purchase cardholder approving official for the Pharmacy Service and oversees purchases of pharmacy procurement technicians.
• Incumbent complies with all Federal, VA, and local acquisition policies and regulations.
• Responsible for making decisions concerning cost containment related to pharmacy transactions.

• Incumbent is responsible for inventory management of all pharmaceuticals and supplies for the pharmacy service.
• Assures the proper pharmacy storage of all pharmaceuticals and supplies.
• Coordinates the purchase and record keeping of REMS medications.
• Responsible for the annual wall-to-wall inventory preparation.

• Serves as a resource and provides information and education to staff, residents, and students in areas of formulary management and approved clinical guidelines to reduce unnecessary and inappropriate use of drugs.
• Educates medical staff regarding formulary management, approved clinical guidelines and the cost-efficient use of drugs. Education is provided through in-services and one-on-one encounters. Where possible, uses before and after data to assess the impact of these educational interventions.
• Provides input and assistance to Pharmacy Administration on issues related to areas of practice and expertise.

• Actively works to add to the body of knowledge by supporting the research and quality improvement initiatives of pharmacy service, residents, other clinical pharmacy staff, and other practitioners within the facility and/or network.
• Performs other pharmacy related duties as needed to help fulfill our mission and abide by our organization's values.

This is a Direct Hire Public Notice, under this recruitment, applications will be accepted for each location and/or installation identified in this Public Notice and selections are made for vacancies as they occur. There may or may not be actual/projected vacancies at the time you submit your application.

This Public Notice is to gather applications which may or may not result in a referral or selection.

This position is being filled under Direct Hire Authority (DHA) in accordance with USD(P&R) memo of DEC 22, 2023, Direct Hire Authority for Certain Personnel of the Department of Defense, Title 5, United States Code, Section 9905. Per 3. Covered Positions E. Table 1.

Please read this Public Notice in its entirety prior to submitting your application for consideration.

Incumbents typical work assignments may include the following:

• Provides advice and guidance on cross-cutting procurement regulations or policy development and advises senior management officials on such matters as they relate to the work of the organization.
• Ensures compliance with FAR, DFAR, and CFR guidance related to small business goals and programs.
• Analyze the implementation and effectiveness of organization wide procurement policies, standards and procedures to ensure current and future compliance with all applicable provisions of acquisition regulations, statutes, or policy memoranda.
• Identifies and advises customers and procurement staff of possible vendor sources to provide enhanced levels of small business participation in the program.
• Participates in forums involving intra- and inter-agency and private industry participation for the purposes of policy development and coordination of relationships and activities of the DoD with other Federal agencies state and local governments, Defense prime contractors, small and socioeconomic businesses, and educational institutions.
• Interprets and applies relevant laws, regulations, policies, standards, or procedures to specific contracting issues.
• Serves as the Action Officer responsible for researching, developing, preparing and publishing all contracting policies and procedures.
• Resolves complex problems not directly addressed by existing regulations or which require a decision by a higher authority.

• Hand Receipt Management: The incumbent is assigned to the Deputy Chief of Staff (DCS), G-8 and is responsible for the detailed accounting of non-expendable Government property issued to DCS, G-8 and Financial Management and Comptroller.
• Supply and Furniture Management: Performs property disposal functions. Determines and arranges for disposition of excess property in accordance with pertinent regulations/polices.
• Office Automation, Space Management and Safety: Performs various general office duties such as answering telephone calls, receiving visitors, supplying general information as authorized or referring calls to supervisor or appropriate staff members.

Major duties and responsibilities include:

• Inventory Management and Control: Responsible for the management and control of an assigned class of expendable material; serves as the point of contact for the coordination of material support and resolution of logistic problems; conducts forecasting and quantitative analysis; conducts spot checks; and complies with special requirements for firearms, ammunition, and sensitive equipment
• Returns, Recalls, and Reutilization: Implements federal and agency programs for the return and reutilization of medical supplies; coordinates disposal of surplus or excess supplies; makes emergent procurement decisions; and participates in root cause analysis process
• Performs other related duties as assigned.

• You will analyze the effectiveness and efficiency of a supply program.
• You will analyze inventories to forecast operation needs.
• You will execute policies to influence and control assets, use, or disposition of material and property
• You will analyze supply issues to resolve discrepancies with inventory programs or operations
• You will brief management to provide status, updates, or other business information.

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices, and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

• Duties and Qualifications
• How to Apply (including a preview of the assessment questionnaire, if applicable)
• How You Will be Evaluated

• You will maintain the centralized property and acquisition databases.
• You will resolve material support problems to include reprioritizing acquisition workload data.
• You will serve as the Government Purchase Card accountable official with pecuniary liability for any erroneous purchase card reconciliations and payments.
• You will be the contact for the day-to-day condition of the facility and perform routine walk-throughs of building locations observing all facility issues.
• You will develop a preventive maintenance schedule to ensure major mechanical equipment is maintained appropriately and remains operational.
• You will coordinate the assignment and adjustment of the supply work performed by the military enlisted and civilian Supply Technician located in the Department.

What will I do in this position if hired?

In this Inventory Management Specialist position, you will manage and coordinate inventory systems and processes to support disaster operations for FEMA.

Typical assignments include:

• Advising leadership on matters relating to disaster property management and accountability.
• Training and reviewing activities of property personnel and automated personal property systems.
• Assessing disaster property programs and presenting findings to leadership.
• Performing the duties of an APO while maintaining, updating and managing data within the property accountability System of Record.

What else do I need to know?

At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.

This announcement is for a position as a CORE (Cadre of On-Call Response/Recovery Employee). CORE employees are full-time employees hired to directly support the response and recovery efforts related to disasters. Employees are hired under the Robert T. Stafford Act and are excluded from the provisions of title 5, United States Code, governing jobs in the competitive service. They can be hired under a streamlined process instead of a competitive process. After three years of continuous service, Stafford Act employees may be granted competitive eligibility to apply for permanent full-time positions at FEMA.

This position will be hired into a temporary 2 -year, excepted service appointment. Appointments may be renewed based on workload, funding, and supervisory approval.

FEMA is committed to ensuring that its workforce reflects the diversity of the nation. At FEMA, our workforce includes the many identities, races, ethnicities, backgrounds, abilities, ages, cultures, and beliefs of the people we serve. To learn about FEMA's ongoing diversity and inclusion efforts, reasonable accommodation process, and the FEMA Core Values, please visit www.fema.gov.

• Maintaining adequate stock of resale items.
• Identifying any obvious spoilage, damage, and out-of-date merchandise.
• Receiving supplies, equipment, and resale items.
• Operating a computer system that calculates and marks prices and determines weights of merchandise.
• Transporting items to shelving and display areas.

Functions as a Warehouse Worker Foreman in the institution's Federal Prison Industries (FPI) warehouse operation at a Federal Bureau of Prisons' facility.

Supervises inmate workers who are responsible for receiving, storing, shipment, and issue of a wide variety of supplies, materials, equipment and commodities required in the operation of the FPI factory.

Responsible for inventory control of FPI's raw materials and finished goods.

Determines sequences for loading materials and organizing incoming shipments for maximum space utilization, safety considerations, and damage protection.

Orders, transports, ships and stocks a wide variety of specialized materials used in the warehouse and factory operations.

Along with all other correctional institution employees, incumbent is charged with responsibility for maintaining security of the institution. The staff correctional responsibilities precede all others required by this position and are performed on a regular and recurring basis.