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Office: Office of Fiscal Strategy

Date Posted: 6/22/2026

Salary Range: 1-5 / $72,711 - $82,055

NTE Date: N/A

Position Overview

The Office of Fiscal Strategy (OFS) is a catalyst for ensuring excellence, equity, and efficiency to ensure DCPS achieves our goals for our students. We want employees who recognize and embrace the importance of a strong partnership between schools and Central Services. When Central Services runs efficiently, and provides high-quality customer service, our school-based employees can concentrate on educating our children and leading our schools. By combining financial planning with strategic planning, this office supports DCPS with actively identifying resources, costs and budget and aligning them with our mission and goals.

Divisions/Teams: The Office of Fiscal Strategy is organized into four divisions

• Finance: Ensures school and central services finances are allocated and expended in alignment with the agency’s strategic plan, in a manner that fosters transparency, maximizes funds, promotes equity, and ensures compliance with requirements.
• Contracts and Acquisitions: Provides procurement services to schools and Central Services programs through contract and purchase order processes in alignment with District and Federal procurement laws and regulations. Manages and facilitates the procurement of goods and services for all DCPS schools and central services, that fosters transparency, maximizes buying power, promotes equity of spending with local vendors, and ensures compliance with contractual requirements.
• Operational Finance (Core): Works to improve organizational effectiveness and to ensure daily fiscal operations are managed efficiently across DCPS. The Operational Finance Team advocates for DCPS programs and schools by shepherding collaboration with procurement, budget, and HR teams. Operational Finance provides oversight to ensure equitable, transparent, and compliant personnel and non-personnel spending through quality customer service.
• Fiscal Operations Systems: Supports schools and central services by leading OFS’s efforts to design efficient and effective operational finance structures and processes. Promotes agency financial data literacy by leading finance data visualization initiatives that equip DCPS stakeholders with comprehensive information.

The Contract Specialist ensures all contracting and procurement activity is consistently executed in accordance with District of Columbia laws and regulations while working independently in managing all procurement assignments. The Contract Specialist generally focuses primarily on procurements valued between $10,000 and $100,000.

This position has been designated as Security Sensitive. Pursuant to section 410 of Chapter 4 of the D.C. Personnel Regulations; in addition to the general suitability screening, individuals applying for or occupying security sensitive positions are subject to the following checks and tests: Criminal background check; Sex Offender Registry check; Traffic record check (as applicable); Consumer credit check (as applicable); Reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol test; and Post-accident or incident drug and alcohol test. The Contract Specialist will report to the Manager, Contracts and Acquisitions.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities

The below statements are intended to describe the general nature and scope of work being performed by this position. This is not a complete listing of all responsibilities, duties, and/or skills required. Other duties may be assigned.

• Advises program and school officials in procurement planning meetings, advises program and school officials of the procurement objectives to be used, and assists in the preparation of statements of work.
• Monitors acquisition plans, appropriate milestone charts, and related procurement tasks until contract award.
• Implements and reacts to procurement strategies including overall goals and metrics, and identifies the level and type of services to be provided, particular groups or individuals to be contacted, acceptable results, and alternative courses of action.
• Monitors procurement acquisition plans and objectives in conjunction with school and key program stakeholders via multiple procurement methods and contract types for mid-level price ranges and constructs the appropriate contractual vehicle to facilitate the procurement.
• Advises on pre-negotiation positions, determines the types of contracts and negotiation authority to be used, prepares applicable justification, and adheres to negotiation plans to facilitate savings for DCPS.
• Prepares applicable determination and findings, sole source, and competitive solicitation documents that agree with the procurement methods and requirements, such as Request for Proposal, Invitation for Bids, and Cooperative Agreements, as appropriate.
• Performs detailed analyses of all elements of cost in contractor proposals, and recommends competitive range determinations.
• Conducts pre-proposal/pre-bid conference(s) with prospective contractor(s) and program staff to arrive at a clear understanding of what is required under the proposed competitive solicitations and resulting contracts; and issues necessary amendments to clarify questions concerning such topics as specification changes, language ambiguities, or clarification of contact clauses.
• Explores new and innovative contracting approaches to arrive at an equitable contract arrangement which supports schools, programs, and C&A operations.
• Serves as lead negotiator for sole source and competitive procurement while planning the negotiation strategy, coordinates strategy with negotiation team, and leads the negotiations that are conducted with contractors to address the contract prices and terms.
• Conducts Post Award Conferences upon contract award and provides contract administration guidance to the school or program, key stakeholders, and the contractors.
• Prepares rate and cost adjustments, coordinates time extensions, issues modifications, develops change orders, recommends stop work orders, and documents recommendation cure notices or show causes letters, as applicable.
• Recommends termination of contracts for convenience or contractor default on behalf of DCPS as applicable and necessary.
• Consistently analyzes and reviews the procurement process to ensure that proper procedures are followed; and recommends changes in the process to improve procurement activities in DCPS.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree and three to five years of related work experience.
• Master's degree preferred.
• Previous exposure to or experience in the education sector a plus.
• Demonstrated strong writing, analyzing, and research skills.
• Advanced knowledge of contracting methods, contract types, and acquisition planning and implementation of contracts.
• Knowledge of the District of Columbia procurement laws and regulations strongly preferred.

DCPS Values

• STUDENTS FIRST: We recognize students as whole children and put their needs first in everything we do.
• COURAGE: We have the audacity to learn from our successes and failures, to try new things, and to lead the nation as a proof point of PK-12 success.
• EQUITY: We work proactively to eliminate opportunity gaps by interrupting institutional bias and investing in effective strategies to ensure every student succeeds.
• EXCELLENCE: We work with integrity and hold ourselves accountable for exemplary outcomes, service, and interactions.
• TEAMWORK: We recognize that our greatest asset is our collective vision and ability to work collaboratively and authentically.
• JOY: We enjoy our collective work and will enthusiastically celebrate our success and each other.

We are an equal opportunity employer and are committed to creating an inclusive, accessible workplace. We welcome and encourage applications from individuals with disabilities. Accommodation and/or application assistance is available upon request at all stages of the application and employment process. To request accommodation, please contact dcps.eeo-ada@k12.dc.gov.