Indirect Rate Specialist

Overview

Bring your expertise as an Indirect Rate Specialist to a team focused on important, mission-critical work! In this role, you will provide expert guidance on the procedural, legal, and operational requirements for terminating grants, ensuring compliance with agency and U.S. Government regulations. This is a hybrid, full-time role working closely with Contracting Officers (COs), legal counsel, technical offices, and partners.

• Support the review, analysis, and negotiation of provisional and final indirect cost rate proposals, ensuring allowability, allocability, and reasonableness in accordance with federal cost principles.
• Prepare negotiation objectives and conduct in-depth cost/price analyses, including review of expense pools, allocation bases, and business volume forecasts.
• Maintain NICRA official files; ensure accuracy and completeness of documentation in agency systems.
• Coordinate with auditors, legal counsel, and other functional specialists to solve audit findings and recommendations related to indirect costs.
• Provide technical guidance to COs and AOs on indirect cost rate application and compliance.
• Monitor provisional indirect rate performance, perform trend analysis, and recommend adjustments as needed.
• Support policy development and interpretation on cost principles, indirect rates, and related areas.

• Position requires US citizenship and ability to successfully pass a government background investigation.
• Must be able to support/work core hours of 10:00-15:00 Washington DC time regardless of hybrid location.
• Education:
  
  Bachelor's degree in Business, Accounting, Finance, or a related field.
• Experience:
  
  5 years' experience reviewing and negotiating indirect rates for a USG department/agency.
• FAC-C Professional, CFCM, CPA, or CGFM.
• Capability to quickly assimilate new information and develop proficiency with unfamiliar subject areas, e.g., Government to Government, Title II, Interagency Awards, and Public International Organizations.
• Excellent written and verbal communication with the ability to work independently in a virtual team environment.
• Proficient in Microsoft Office Suite, including Teams or similar workplace chat and videoconferencing tools.