PSI seeks a Cost & Pricing Officer to provide support to the development of donor specific templates, review of cost proposals and budget realignments. The Cost & Pricing Officer ensures that templates, budget notes, and policies and practices align to the greatest extent possible with funder requirements and PSI policies. This role supports the unit in cost proposals, financial realignments, and data analysis. This position is based in Washington, DC and reports to the Director of Cost & Pricing.
Areas of Responsibility:
- Communicate with program staff, including remote sites, to support cost proposal efforts in response to RFAs/RFPs and other funder solicitations.
- Review and analyze budgets for accuracy, completeness, fee structure, and indirect cost recovery.
- Modify budget templates to meet specific needs of funder solicitations.
- Provide guidance on various elements of costs, template, and budget notes to support cost proposals.
- Evaluate full cost recovery on proposals.
- Provide cost and pricing support to Grants & Contracts, Finance, Program teams, and field-based staff and other staff, especially around funder regulations and pricing models.
- Assist program staff develop cost-related responses to post submission questions; and support, as requested, staff participation in cost proposal clarifications or negotiations with client representatives.
- Assist in developing and presenting training materials to program staff.
- Seek opportunities to streamline cost and pricing processes.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Educational Background:
Minimum Bachelor’s degree in a relevant discipline and five (5) years of work experience in a similar role or relevant budget development role.
Skills/Experience:
- Experience with US government cooperative agreement and contracting rules and regulations is required.
- Familiarity with non-USG funders is a plus.
- Experience with creating and managing budgets.
- Strong computer skills and advanced ability working with spreadsheets and word processing (MS-Excel and MS-Word) required.
- Flexibility to assume a workload that frequently necessitates an adjustment of priorities.
- Excellent interpersonal, written, and oral communications skills.
- Excellent organizational skills and ability to work under time pressures.
- Foreign language skills are a plus.
- References will be required.
- Must be authorized to work in the United States. PSI will not consider work visa sponsorship for this position.
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Organization Info
Listing Stats
Post Date:
Sep 2 2018
Active Until:
Oct 2 2018
Hiring Organization:
Population Services International
industry:
Nonprofit