Government Contract Manager
Washington, District of Columbia, United States
Published
10/24/2024
Government Contract Manager (similar in level to Senior Finance Manager) 2024
Job Summary
Our team in Washington, DC is seeking a Government Contract & Pricing Manager to be involved in all facets of government contracts. You will report directly to the Executive Vice President, Finance – South Region. This is a hybrid role with the expectation that you will work from the Washington D.C. office at least three times a week.
Responsibilities
- Provides guidance to internal teams on relating to contract and task order regulations and requirements.
- Maintain and update internal policies and procedures to ensure compliance with all government requirements
- Assist in the evaluation of RFPs and Task Orders and existing contrac modifications/amendments for business and financial requirements
- Monitors primary Weber Shandwick project (contract) progress and partner/subcontractor performance to flag substantive or administrative problems and work w/ teams to outline corrective action with respect to modifications in program/project content, direction, funding, staff levels, etc.
- Focal point for all communication with law, finance and business team disciplines for resolution of contract issues and disputes
- Manages contract change control process (internally) and helps prepare package for client submission and review
- Lead contract renewal process for various contracting vehicles including GSA, BPA and IDIQ
- With appropriate IPG legal coordination, analyzes significant, and/or unique contract requirements, special provisions, terms and conditions to ensure compliance with appropriate laws, regulations, and corporate policies and business unit procedure. Inter-Agency Partnerships, Subcontracts & Vendors*
- Support contract and subcontract negotiations
- Work with Project Managers in creating purchase orders, subcontractor and vendor selection, travel compliance and compliance w/ prime contract/task orders
- Oversees competitive bid process for outside partners and/or prepares justification memoranda for funding and implementation of inter-agency agreements or subcontracts
- Tracks implementation and evaluation of inter-agency agreements or subcontracts to ensure acceptable quality and conformance to agreed requirements
- Maintain adequate back up documentation and files for competitive and sole source arrangements Financial and Business
- Maintain adequate systems for compliance with government cost accounting standards
- Prepare and submit annual incurred cost proposal and provisional rates using SAP and Excel
- Submit filings with appropriate government agencies including small business, and GSA Industrial Funding Fee (IFF)
- Monitor the actual indirect rates during the year
Qualifications
Basic Qualifications:
- Bachelors’ degree and 6+ years’ experience with government contracts & pricing
- Extensive working knowledge in GAAP, FAR, FTR and government cost accounting standards
Additional Qualifications:
- Ability to work with all levels of people across functional organizations within the company and the Government
- Knowledge of advanced functions in Excel
- Excellent written, verbal and interpersonal communication skills
- Detail oriented and able to work independently
- Prior working experience with CMS, CDC, and GSA; and Experience performing full accounting cycle is a plus
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Washington DC Salary range: $100,000 – $110,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Junior Editor / Videographer
Junior Editor/Videographer
Job Summary
Weber Shandwick Boston is seeking a talented Junior Editor with strong animation chops to join our growing creative team. As part of the team, you’ll have the opportunity to bring big ideas to life, creating high-profile video content for high-profile clients across the health, wellness, and consumer space.
Our ideal candidate will have a strong understanding of the fundamentals of video editing, animation, and visual storytelling and be chronically online, tapping into the latest social media trends and video styles to bring high quality brand content to life. This candidate should also be a problem-solver, able to think on their feet, and be passionate about everything from editing techniques to music.
Experience working with Premiere and After Effects is required.
Job Description
Responsibilities
- Support Creative Directors, Art Directors, Copywriters to execute or translate creative concepts into compelling digital content ( short form / long form videos, GIFs, animations).
- Edit high-quality video content with a heavy focus on delivering for social media audiences.
- Ensure all creative adheres to existing brand guidelines and social media best practices.
- Usher projects through the post-production workflow – creative editing, motion graphics, audio mixing and color correction – to ensure high-quality and timely deliverables.
- Work closely with Project Managers to ensure timelines and content deliveries
Qualifications
- College degree or 0 – 1.5 years working in an agency or related digital video production/post production environment.
- Please provide portfolio or examples of work for review.
- Demonstrated creative eye for composition and visual storytelling.
- Strong knowledge of Adobe Creative Suite software
- Premiere and After Effect Experience required
- Chronically online with a strong understanding of social platforms and video content formats and trends
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Salary range: $50,000 – $58,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Copywriter
Copywriter
Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a Copywriter to join their growing creative team to work across several high-profile health, wellness, and consumer accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work on these accounts alongside a team of creative directors, art directors, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 2-3 years of experience and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented copywriter.
Whether helping to drive a big project like a multi-channel campaign or handling a real-time newsjacking opp, we need a nimble copywriter who consistently delivers exciting, culture-first ideas and writing across just about any platform. If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, we play in that space. We look for well-rounded, immersive creators who can tell a great story.
The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented art directors and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Help drive overall creative vision for client projects.
- Craft overall messaging direction while maintaining consistency.
- Ability to flex between short- and long-form copy including concept manifestos, digital/social copy, video script, pitches and a range of campaign support material.
- Mentor junior writers.
- Take direction and work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
- Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations that meet client objectives.
- Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
- Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers.
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2-3 years of copywriting experience in a related agency or department (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations)
- Must have a portfolio.
- This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office up to two days per week.
- Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables
- Knowledge of brand development, marketing/advertising, and the creative process
- Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Salary range: $59,000 – $75,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Art Director
Art Director
Weber Shandwick Boston is looking for a rockstar Art Director to join their growing creative team and help push the craft across several high-profile health, wellness, and consumer accounts. They will help to spearhead the creative work alongside a team of creative directors, copywriters, and designers. The ideal candidate should have 2-4 years of experience and be both a conceptual thinker as well as a talented designer.
If there’s a medium that gets people engaged in our brands’ stories, get ready to play in that space. Whether driving a big project (a multi-channel campaign) or overseeing social creative, this candidate will be expected to deliver exciting, cutting-edge, brand-focused visuals.
The candidate must be comfortable directly engaging with clients and bringing their creative ideas to life. Working with some of the most talented copywriters and designers, this candidate must meet the following criteria:
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Help lead design across a wide range of assignments, including identity work, campaign creative, social content, video, mockups, and infographics.
- Experience in designing for social media (Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Snapchat, LinkedIn and YouTube.) with an advanced understanding of best practices for creative, design, and layout.
- Ensure all visual design adheres to existing brand guidelines.
- Create design solutions that meet or exceed strategic objectives.
- Work collaboratively with colleagues across teams.
- Help develop long-term creative plans and recommendations for client objectives.
- Join client meetings, brainstorms and planning sessions for ongoing projects.
- Build and maintain strong rapport with creative team colleagues, client leads and project managers
- Cultivate an inclusive culture as a part of the team that values trust, honesty, and team accountability towards defined goals and results
BASIC QUALIFICATIONS
- 2-4 years of art direction and/or design experience in a related agency department or industry (advertising, digital, social media, publishing/content or public relations).
- Must have a portfolio.
- This role will be required to work onsite in our Boston office up to two days per week.
- Be curious, self-motivated, hard-working, well-organized, thick skinned and resilient to ever-changing timelines, requests, and deliverables.
- Ongoing drive to learn and incorporate new and emerging techniques, trends and philosophies in design, technology, interaction and social media.
- Knowing what makes for compelling work – be it on social platforms, in video, or in launch ideas that get talked about, reported on, and pointed to by other agencies with an “I wish we’d thought to do that” envy.
- Ability to work quickly, efficiently, and accurately within all required aspects of the Adobe Creative Suite (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator) as well as presentation software (PowerPoint); any After Effects animation skills will be utilized.
- Bonus skills: illustration, photography, retouching, filmmaking, videography, editorial, animation, HTML.
The Weber Shandwick Collective recognizes that your health and wellbeing are a priority. This is why we offer a full suite of benefits including:
- Medical
- Dental
- Vision
- 401k (with employer match)
- Tuition Reimbursement
- Juice Money – $60 monthly reimbursement to be used towards purchases that nourish your health, mind, body, and soul
- MyDays – Flexible holiday schedules
- Short-Term Disability
- Paid Employee Family Leave
- Family Building Benefit
Salary range: $59,000 – $75,000
Where an employee or prospective employee is paid within this range will depend on, among other factors, actual ranges for current/former employees in the subject position; market considerations; budgetary considerations; tenure and standing with the company (applicable to current employees); as well as the employee’s/applicant’s background, pertinent experience, and qualifications.
Weber Shandwick is proud to be an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action employer. Weber Shandwick recruits qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, gender, age, ethnic or national origin, protected veteran status, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status or citizenship status.
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We make our careers website accessible to any and all users. If you need an accommodation to participate in the application process, please contact us at JobAppAccommodation@ipgdxtra.com. This email address is not for general employment inquiries or vendors; rather it is strictly for applicants who require special assistance accessing our employment website. Due to volume, messages sent to this email address that are not related to an accommodation cannot be answered.