Senior Federal Contracts Compliance Lead

At Aleut Federal, we believe the company and its mission are just as important as the job for which you are applying. Aleut Federal is an Alaska Native-owned enterprise whose purpose is to support our shareholders, the Unangax̂ people of the Aleutian and Pribilof Islands of Alaska. People are at the core of everything we do. We support our shareholders by delivering excellent service and quality results to customers across the federal government, and community service is embedded in how we operate.

Our culture strengthens our workforce through mentorship, coaching, professional development, and competitive benefits. We support and encourage diversity, inclusion, accountability, and growth at every level.

The Aleut Federal motto is “We Are One” because we believe that with one heart, one mind, and one purpose, we can accomplish our mission and build an organization that employees are proud to be part of.

The Senior Federal Contracts Compliance Lead is a senior, hands-on individual contributor who performs the full range of compliance activities across assigned Aleut Federal entities, federal prime contracts, task orders, and contract vehicles. Working within the framework established by the Federal Contracts Compliance Manager, the Lead independently manages recurring and moderately complex SBA 8(a), entity, limitations-on-subcontracting, performance-of-work, bona fide place-of-business, Business Activity Target, federal reporting, SAM.gov, and GSA or other vehicle requirements. The position also manages an assigned portfolio of federal prime contracts, performs cradle-to-grave administration, and promptly escalates novel, material, cross-entity, or high-risk matters.

• Implement and maintain the federal contracts compliance framework across assigned entities, prime contracts, task orders, subcontracts, and contract vehicles, translating requirements into practical controls, calendars, and documentation standards.
• Maintain a centralized obligations register identifying each requirement, source, applicability, owner, reviewer, due date, submission method, and required support.
• Evaluate new awards, modifications, clauses, regulatory changes, and organizational actions for new or changed obligations; assign ownership and coordinate cross-functional inputs.
• Review and validate submissions for completeness, accuracy, consistency, timeliness, and adequate support, reconciling contract, financial, labor, subcontract, entity, and system data as needed.
• Perform compliance reviews, spot checks, and file assessments; document exceptions, recommend and monitor corrective actions, and promptly escalate novel, material, cross-entity, or high-risk matters.
• Maintain audit-ready evidence and coordinate responses to government or SBA reviews, customer inquiries, audits, findings, requests for information, and corrective-action plans.
• Maintain procedures, desktop guides, checklists, templates, workpapers, decision tools, and training materials; monitor regulatory and system changes and communicate required actions.
• Develop dashboards and leadership reporting for upcoming obligations, completed submissions, overdue inputs, open exceptions, corrective actions, and emerging risks; identify opportunities to improve data quality and automate recurring work.

• Maintain accurate entity profiles and ensure legal name, UEI, CAGE, NAICS, size status, representations and certifications, 8(a) status, points of contact, and related records remain consistent across SAM.gov, SBA and GSA systems, Costpoint, and contract files.
• Coordinate annual 8(a) reviews, continued-eligibility support, business-plan updates, offering and acceptance packages, and required notifications or approvals involving ownership, control, management, structure, address, CAGE, UEI, or other material changes.
• Monitor Business Activity Targets, classify and reconcile 8(a) and non-8(a) revenue, forecast performance, support annual reporting, and maintain calculation workpapers and submission evidence.
• Identify work subject to limitations on subcontracting, performance-of-work requirements, or similarly situated entity rules; establish the measurement method and monitor actual and forecast compliance using labor, subcontract, invoice, and cost data.
• Validate subcontractor size and socioeconomic status, applicable NAICS codes, similarly situated entity qualifications, assumptions, exclusions, reviews, and approvals.
• Manage bona fide place-of-business compliance for applicable 8(a) construction procurements, including location inventories, geographic eligibility reviews, personnel and lease support, SBA determinations, and changes affecting continued eligibility.

• Maintain a master calendar for annual, semiannual, quarterly, monthly, and event-driven contract, entity, task-order, and vehicle reporting requirements.
• Prepare or coordinate applicable subcontracting-plan, first-tier subcontract, executive-compensation, subaward, contractor-manpower, service-contract, and agency-specific reports.
• Administer Contracts-owned SAM.gov registrations, representations and certifications, reporting workspaces, portal roles, permissions, and points of contact; resolve validation failures, rejected reports, and government questions.
• Administer assigned GSA schedules, GWACs, IDIQs, multiple-award contracts, and other vehicles, maintaining compliance matrices, contract files, awarded categories or domains, and vehicle-specific obligations.
• Review solicitation refreshes, ordering guides, modifications, and program-office communications; coordinate mass modifications, options, updates to labor categories or pricing, and required recertifications or re-representations.
• Prepare and reconcile task-order, invoice, transactional, sales, Contract Access Fee, and Industrial Funding Fee reporting and payments; support vehicle proposals, on-ramps, expansions, renewals, and discrepancy resolution.

• Manage an assigned portfolio of federal prime contracts and perform cradle-to-grave administration from solicitation and proposal support through closeout.
• Review solicitations, awards, task orders, modifications, funding actions, and other contract documents; identify risks and prepare compliance matrices, assumptions, notices, certifications, and correspondence.
• Advise program and growth personnel on scope, funding, periods of performance, options, deliverables, reporting, changes, and customer communications.
• Monitor funding, deliverables, notices, options, reporting requirements, and performance milestones, and maintain complete, current, audit-ready contract files.
• Support contract closeout, including final deliverables, releases, funding reconciliation, property disposition, and record completion.
• Provide backup or surge support for federal subcontract administration, including solicitation support, flowdown review, modifications, funding actions, deliverables, compliance monitoring, reporting, and closeout, in coordination with Procurement and Subcontracts personnel.

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, contracts management, finance, accounting, law, supply chain management, or a related field is required.
• Significant directly relevant federal contracts and compliance experience may be considered in lieu of a degree.
• NCMA certification or willingness to obtain an appropriate certification is preferred.

• Five to eight years of progressively responsible U.S. federal prime contract experience is required, including at least three years of hands-on cradle-to-grave contract administration and at least two years of direct federal contracts compliance experience.
• Direct experience supporting the SBA 8(a) Business Development Program is preferred.
• Experience supporting an Alaska Native Corporation-owned, tribally owned, Native Hawaiian Organization-owned, or other entity-owned 8(a) participant is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated knowledge of limitations on subcontracting, similarly situated entity requirements, and performance-of-work monitoring is required.
• Knowledge of bona fide place-of-business requirements applicable to 8(a) construction procurements is strongly preferred.
• Experience administering federal GWACs, IDIQs, multiple-award contracts, or GSA contract vehicles is required.
• Direct experience administering one or more GSA vehicles or systems is preferred; demonstrated ability to interpret and implement unfamiliar contract-vehicle requirements may substitute for experience with a specific vehicle.
• Experience coordinating task-order, transactional, sales, invoice, subcontracting, Contract Access Fee, or Industrial Funding Fee reporting is preferred.
• Federal subcontract administration or management experience is preferred.
• Ability to independently develop and manage compliance calendars, reporting matrices, reconciliations, standard operating procedures, and audit-ready support documentation is required.

• Advanced knowledge of FAR, DFARS, SBA 8(a), agency, contract, task-order, and federal contract-vehicle requirements.
• Ability to convert complex requirements into practical controls, workpapers, procedures, and guidance and to reconcile contract, financial, labor, subcontract, revenue, and portal data.
• Sound judgment, attention to detail, and ability to identify, document, resolve, and escalate compliance risk while managing multiple entities, calendars, vehicles, and contract priorities.
• Clear written and oral communication with employees, leadership, government personnel, and external parties.
• Advanced proficiency with Microsoft Excel, Word, Outlook, Teams, and SharePoint and ability to learn and administer federal systems and portals.

• Must be able to remain in a stationary position for prolonged periods.
• Must be able to perform repetitive tasks or motions for prolonged periods.
• Must be able to communicate and exchange information effectively in person and through electronic means.

• This is a hybrid position requiring onsite attendance at the Reston, Virginia office Tuesday through Thursday. Remote work may be performed on Monday and Friday, subject to business needs.
• Occasional travel may be required for company meetings, customer meetings, audits, training, or professional development.