Director, Contracts & Procurement

About Rewiring America

Rewiring America is the leading electrification nonprofit, focused on electrifying our homes, businesses, and communities. We develop accessible, actionable data and tools, and build coalitions and partnerships to make going electric easier for households and communities. Rewiring America helps Americans save money, tackle nationwide emissions goals, improve health, and build the next generation of the clean energy workforce. We believe in an abundant, flourishing, climate-safe future, and know that, together, we can realize one.

Position Summary

The Director of Contracts & Procurement will play a critical role in supporting Rewiring America's mission by overseeing and managing all contracts and procurement activities, with a particular focus of compliantly servicing Rewiring America’s federal grants. This role will also serve as the customer service layer to our staff, helping them to procure services for the organization and ensuring that they receive the resources needed to achieve their goals. This role will set and maintain an SLA for contract procurement, develop and sustain a gorgeous documentation system, and will be an insightful, service-oriented team player to complement the rest of the back-of-house teams (Ops, Legal, Finance) and departments. Reporting to the Head of Operations and Deputy Chief of Staff, This position will work closely with program teams, finance, and legal to ensure that contracts are executed efficiently, effectively, and in compliance with all relevant laws and regulations. 

What You’ll Do

• Contract Management:
• Develop, review, negotiate, and administer contracts with vendors, contractors, and service providers for new and ongoing projects.
• Ensure that contracts align with Rewiring America's strategic goals and comply with all applicable federal, state, and local regulations.
• Maintain vendor relationships to handle administrative aspects of contracting and related compliance.
• Monitor contract performance, identify potential risks, implement mitigation strategies, and take corrective action as needed.
• Oversee a contract management platform, implementing automations to streamline contract life cycle management.
• Build and maintain dashboards and reports to visualize all contract data.
• Maintain back-of-house vendor relationships for both federal contracts and non-EPA contracts, acting as first point of contact for contract set up and follow up.
• Procurement:
• Oversee the procurement of goods and services related to Rewiring America’s strategy while remaining compliant with the federal Uniform Guidance. 
• Develop a procurement structure that helps achieve supporting minority and women-owned businesses.
• Receive and evaluate proposals and bids, working cross-functionally to shepherd teams through the procurement process.
• Ensure Rewiring America is implementing and adhering to our already defined procurement policies and procedures.
• Maintain documentation of our procurement processes and decisions
• Work with the Deputy Chief of Staff and Operations Manager to ensure we’re implementing scalable solutions to deliver on compliance needs.
• Assist in training our teams on procurement processes to ensure compliance.
• Lead and facilitate the procurement process with our teams to ensure they are conducting competitive bidding processes, including RFIs, RFPs, and vendor evaluations in alignment with federal grant requirements.
• Compliance & Risk Management:
• Work with our legal team to identify potential areas of contract risk.
• Work with our legal team to ensure compliance with all relevant laws, regulations, and industry standards.
• Work with the contract team to conduct regular audits and reviews to identify and address compliance issues.
• Work with the finance team to ensure compliance with internal financial procedures including budget review.
• Co-develop and assist in prescribing and administering operational procedures governing the procurement functions of all departments, and the disposal, transfer and reutilization of personal property and equipment.
• Team management:
• Lead a small contracts team and evolve it over time to meet the growing needs of the organization.

The successful candidate is energized by processes and systems that can produce a standard of excellence that our internal team not only can trust but brags about. Do you love when a process you designed and administer delivers its product on time and with the desired result? Does your heart skip and prance when your documentation system is so intuitive that it takes mere seconds to pull a contract of inquiry? Are you motivated by delivering an internal service to your colleagues that they can trust and believe in? If these questions electrify you, this could be the role for you.

Core Qualifications:

• Minimum of 7 years of experience in contract management and procurement, with a strong focus on government grants and, preferably in a non-profit or public sector setting.
• Experience working in a grant-funded environment.
• Experience working in an organization receiving government grants with associated compliance requirements, specifically CFR 200 and/or FAR
• Excellent negotiation and communication skills
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team
• Strong organizational and time management skills  

Preferred Qualifications:

• Procurement related certifications (FAC-C, CPPO, etc.)
• Experience working within Google Workspace products (Docs, Sheets, etc.)
• Experience with e-signature platforms

Compensation and Benefits

The salary range for this position is $130,000 - $170,000 USD, commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Rewiring America is proud to offer a comprehensive benefits package that includes:

• 100% employer-paid health, dental, and vision insurance for employees (and their families). 
• 100% employer-paid short term and long term disability insurance and life insurance policies.
• Employees automatically receive a 6% safe-harbor employer contribution to their 401k retirement plan, regardless of their own contributions.
• Employees are also eligible for pre-tax transportation benefits. 
• Full Time Employees will receive 160 hours of vacation time, 80 hours of health leave, up to 2 days of casual leave, and 24 hours of volunteer leave annually. 
• Employees will also receive 11 paid holidays throughout the calendar year (13 days during Presidential and Congressional elections). 
• We have an office closure between Christmas and New Year. 
• Regular, full-time employees and part-time employees are eligible to take up to sixteen weeks of parental leave, in all cases related to birth, adoption, or foster care starting from the first day of employment. 
• We offer access to professional development resources including up to $2000 per calendar year to use towards your growth and development.

Commitment to Racial Equity, Diversity and Inclusion

Rewiring America values diversity in all its forms and is committed to inclusive and transparent recruitment, hiring and promotion processes. Candidates of diverse backgrounds and lived experience are strongly encouraged to apply. 

Hiring Statement 

Rewiring America, Inc. is a 501(c)(3) public charity that incubates new and innovative public-interest projects and grant-making programs. Rewiring America is safe and open to all employees and partners, respecting the full spectrum of race, color, religious creed, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, political affiliation, ancestry, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status and all other classifications protected by law in the locality and/or state in which you are working. 

Application Procedure 

To apply or nominate a candidate, please submit an application and resume via the Rewiring America page at Workable.This position is open until filled, and we are moving quickly to fill this position -- apply as soon as possible. Candidate review and phone screens begin immediately and will be conducted throughout the search period.

E-Verify 

Rewiring America, Inc.  participates in E-Verify and will provide the federal government with employees’ Form I-9 information to confirm authorization to work in the United States. Job candidates and employees authorized to work may not be discriminated against on the basis of national origin or citizenship status.