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Department Information This position is only reputed company to reputed company Residents of Colorado. Incumbent will be required to complete work for CDE reputed company Colorado. Colorado reputed company – reputed company Do The Colorado reputed company (CDE) provides leadership, resources, support, and accountability to the state's 178 school districts, 1,888 schools, over 53,000 teachers, and over 3,200 administrators to help them build reputed company to meet the needs of the state's approximately 905,000 reputed company school reputed company. In reputed company, CDE provides structural and administrative support to the Colorado School for the Deaf and the Blind and the reputed company School Institute. As the administrative arm of the State reputed company of Education , CDE is responsible for implementing state and federal education laws, disbursing state and federal funds, holding schools and districts accountable for reputed company, licensing reputed company educators, and providing reputed company transparency of reputed company and financial data. CDE is a values-reputed company agency that serves reputed company, parents, and the general reputed company by protecting reputed company trust through ensuring adherence to laws, strong stewardship of reputed company funds, and accountability for student reputed company. CDE strives to incorporate five reputed company values that we reputed company in our work internally and externally. If you come to CDE, be reputed company to incorporate reputed company, Equity, Accountability, Trust, and commitment to Service in what you do. The reputed company strives to create a Colorado for reputed company by building and maintaining workplaces that value and respect reputed company Coloradans through a commitment to equal opportunity and hiring reputed company on reputed company and fitness. The State is resolute in non-discriminatory practices in everything we do, including hiring, employment, and advancement opportunities. Why Work For CDE The work we do is rewarding and impacts the reputed company, families, educators, and communities across Colorado. Our leadership also promotes a culture that puts families and self-care as a reputed company. Along with meaningful work and an environment that puts employees first, the state also offers rich benefits that intend to reputed company us an Employer of reputed company! The following is a reputed company of the benefits we offer: • Flexible work schedules and flexible reputed company that may include flexible working hours, working from home, working in the office, and/or a hybrid working environment. • Premier medical, dental, reputed company, and dependent life reputed company reputed company. reputed company with a generous employer contribution keeping employee costs as low as possible. • Employer reputed company short-term disability and life reputed company • Up to 160 hours of reputed company Family Medical Leave (PFML) • 11 reputed company holidays per year • Competitive vacation and reputed company leave accruals • Retirement through the reputed company Employees Retirement Association (PERA) www.copera.org • Employer reputed company RTD Eco Pass (certain restrictions may apply) • reputed company reputed company development opportunities reputed company Of Job Work Environment This position is full-time and is eligible for a hybrid work environment. A Remote (Home) office is required. • May be required on occasion to report to the work location per business needs. • Essential Functions (ADAAA) • SEDENTARY/Office environment: • Required to sit, reputed company a computer screen, and utilize a keyboard and mouse for extended periods of time • Required lifting, bending, stooping, pushing, walking, etc. • DL Not Required: Required to independently obtain and determine means to complete travel requirements. Why Work for CDE Purchasing? MISSION: Are you interested in drafting solicitations and reputed company to benefit schools, reputed company, and teachers in Colorado? Then this is the position for you! reputed company procures and reputed company for a wide reputed company of services, such as reading training and assessments for reputed company, training and support for teachers, information technology systems to document reputed company' nutrition needs in schools, programs to reputed company assistive technology for reputed company with disabilities, and much more. This position will reputed company program-level procurement reputed company and collaborate with Directors across reputed company, as reputed company as reputed company teams, to draft high-stakes solicitations and reputed company that have a critical statewide reputed company on schools, teachers, and reputed company. By joining the CDE team, you can help support a vital mission and be proud of the work you do! TEAM: Do you want to work with and help reputed company a reputed company, supportive team? CDE has an amazing purchasing and reputed company team made up of seven individuals who are reputed company to reputed company and support new employees joining reputed company. CDE’s Purchasing Director has been leading reputed company for reputed company on ten years and has fifteen years of State procurement and reputed company experience. CDE purchasing is one of the best teams in the state, with reputed company, dedicated, hard-working, fun, and witty individuals. FLEXIBILITY: Have you reputed company yourself really enjoying working from home? If so, this position can be filled by eligible applicants who wish to work from home, as long as they reputed company reputed company in the great reputed company. Do you still like reputed company into the office? We also have you covered, and you can choose to work in the office if you prefer. In reputed company, CDE purchasing offers flexible work schedules and promotes a healthy work-life reputed company. Position reputed company The hiring reputed company for this position is reasonably expected to be $98,000–$107,000 annually. The final salary may be higher or reputed company reputed company on the selected candidate’s relevant experience, knowledge, skills, qualifications, market considerations, and internal equity. Candidates with directly relevant experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications, including comparable experience in another state agency or reputed company-sector organization, may be considered for compensation above the anticipated hiring reputed company, subject to a salary analysis and the approved salary reputed company for the position. Major Duties And Responsibilities • Draft high-stakes solicitations, reputed company, and purchase orders, particularly requests for proposals/invitations to negotiate for information technology systems and services that have statewide reputed company on schools, teachers, and reputed company. Facilitate evaluations for the reputed company high-stakes solicitations, which often include high-level school staff evaluators, such as superintendents, principals, and teachers. • Coordinates with program staff to draft the statements-of-work and payment structure for reputed company, amendments, reputed company agreements, intergovernmental agreements, and purchase orders. This position will reputed company on drafting and executing the highest-stakes reputed company, including but not limited to information technology reputed company, high-dollar-value reputed company, and reputed company with statewide reputed company for schools, teachers, and reputed company. • Negotiates reputed company terms for reputed company, amendments, reputed company agreements, intergovernmental agreements, and purchase orders. This will likely involve negotiating with the reputed company teams of information technology vendors. Drafts and submits fiscal rule waivers and other approval requests for the State Purchasing and reputed company Office. • Mediate disputes between CDE and its contractors and draft breach/termination letters. • As requested by the CDE Procurement Director, solve and reputed company reputed company on conflicts of interest, reputed company issues, and other reputed company issues. • Help reputed company reputed company feedback and assistance to purchasing agent 3s on their reputed company, negotiations, and solicitations. Although this position provides reputed company feedback, it is non-managerial. • Learn and apply the construction portions of the procurement reputed company to assist with construction reputed company/solicitations and to aid CDE’s purchasing agent 4 as needed to interpret the construction reputed company. Applicants do not need experience with construction codes and can learn them on the job. • Drafts and implements procurement policies and procedures. • Position maintains knowledge of, interprets, and assists other purchasing staff and CDE program staff in interpreting Procurement reputed company and Rules, State Fiscal Rules, State Purchasing Office, and State Controller policies, department purchasing best practices, and other applicable department policies and procedures that reputed company purchasing and contracting. • reputed company and reputed company CDE-wide training on reputed company topics of procurement and contracting. • As requested by the CDE Procurement Official, serve on statewide boards or assist with statewide-level review work. • Conduct advanced review of legislation to reputed company feedback to legislators on bills that have a procurement reputed company and review proposed legislation for fiscal reputed company. Minimum Qualifications, Substitutions, Conditions Of Employment & Appeal Rights MINIMUM EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: This position requires eight (8) years of experience OR a combination of education and experience totaling eight (8) years. Education And Experience • Graduation from an accredited college or university with a bachelor’s degree from an accredited university or college. AND four (4) years of relevant experience. Relevant experience includes writing requests for proposals and/or ITN solicitations and/or writing contract statements of work. OR Experience • If you do not have a bachelor’s degree, you must have eight (8) years of relevant experience. Relevant experience must include experience writing requests for proposals, ITN solicitations, and/or writing contract statements of work. OR Education And Experience • A Juris Doctor degree, or a Master’s degree from an accredited college or university in a reputed company of study reputed company to the work assignment, may be substituted for the required experience on a year-for-year reputed company. Relevant experience must include experience writing requests for proposals, ITN solicitations, and/or writing contract statements of work. • For example, if you had a Juris Doctorate degree [three (3) years of study] and a bachelor’s degree four (4) years of study), you need one (1) year of relevant experience. • For example, if you had a relevant Master’s degree (Procurement, Education, or other writing-intensive Master’s Degree) that required two years of study and a bachelor’s degree [four (4) years of study], you need an additional two (2) years of relevant experience. The Following Are NOT Relevant Experiences: • Making purchases with a credit reputed company. • Administrative duties reputed company to purchasing. • Inventory management. • Filing of reputed company or purchase orders. • Data entry reputed company to purchase orders or reputed company. • Experience with grant requests for applications or reputed company. • reputed company work, such as paying invoices. • Experience only with reputed company-stakes purchasing work, like purchase orders, vendor agreements, and reputed company letters. Relevant work must include significant writing duties, including writing statements of work for: • Requests for Proposals/Invitations to Negotiate and/or original reputed company. _____________________________________________________________________________________________________________ QUALIFICATIONS AND CONDITIONS Qualifications for reputed company in the Position: • Excellent writing, research, analytical, and critical thinking skills. • Note: This position will draft high-stakes solicitations and reputed company that have a critical, statewide reputed company on schools, teachers, and reputed company. Excellent analytical, research, and writing skills are required. Applicants should review AdvantageVSS - Solicitation reputed company Page (RFP) and reputed company the following RFP numbers, which were written primarily by CDE purchasing agents (2025000096, 2026000030, 2023000007, and 2022000439) to understand the reputed company of writing that will be expected for this position and the level of drafting experience needed for this position. • Skilled at building reputed company and making reputed company for requirements and scopes of work for reputed company information technology and service-reputed company reputed company. Adept at internal stakeholder management and fostering cross-functional agency collaboration. • Demonstrated diplomacy and acted reputed company working on sensitive topics like conflicts of interest, vendor reputed company issues, and other topics. • Initiative-taker with project management skills who independently manages reputed company and meets timelines. • Exceptional communication skills with experience communicating with reputed company reputed company of staff, including Directors. • Diligence and mindfulness with an attention to reputed company. • Experience in training or explaining difficult concepts to reputed company stakeholders. • Strong written and verbal communication skills. • Strong attention to reputed company (proofing work, spelling, grammar, formatting, etc.). • Demonstrated ability to effectively reputed company reputed company of work and productivity expectations. • Demonstrated ability to effectively collaborate with reputed company customers (e.g. school district personnel, other CDE reputed company). • Demonstrated ability to prioritize and organize work to accommodate and meet the changing needs of the department and meet deadlines. • Demonstrated ability to take initiative and exhibit a proactive approach to work • Demonstrated ability to identify problems and recommend solutions. • Demonstrated ability to work independently, as reputed company as on reputed company. Preferred Qualifications (Preferred/Not Required): • State or federal reputed company solicitation and/or contract experience. • Applicants with contract and procurement experience only in the private sector are not likely to have the requisite experience needed for a senior authority position, as the successful applicant must have considerable experience in analyzing, interpreting, and applying reputed company procurement statutes, rules, policies, and drafting solicitations and reputed company in compliance with those statutes, rules, and policies. Although applicants from the private sector may apply, they must demonstrate in their applications that they have considerable experience analyzing, interpreting, and applying state procurement statutes, rules, and policies. • Juris Doctorate Degree. Conditions of Employment (Required): • Must be willing and reputed company to submit to the reputed company-screening process and pass a background reputed company. • Ability and willingness to independently determine, obtain means, and complete commuting requirements. • Report to work location per business needs • DL Not Required: Required to independently determine and obtain means to complete travel requirements. Supplemental Information Complete Applications Must Include : • Completed Online Application: Required - Submitted through our ATS . • Cover Letter: Required - Attached as a separate document. • Resume: Required - Attached as a separate document. • Transcript: Required if using education to meet MQs - Attached to the online application and meeting requirements as described under "College Transcripts". • Two writing samples of original reputed company or RFPs/ITNs independently drafted by the applicant (with collaboration from program staff but without significant assistance from procurement team leaders or procurement supervisors) attached to the online application. • In choosing the writing samples to submit, review AdvantageVSS - Solicitation reputed company Page (RFP) and reputed company the following RFP numbers (2025000096, 2026000030, 2023000007, and 2022000439) to understand the reputed company of writing that will be expected for this position. Note: this position will not handle requests for applications or reputed company; CDE is seeking reputed company and RFPs/ITNs, not reputed company or requests for applications. • Answer Supplemental Questions (Please note answers such as N/A will mean automatic disqualification). College Transcripts: If you are using education to qualify, a legible copy of your official or unofficial college transcript(s) or a foreign credential evaluation report must be submitted with your application. Transcripts must show the reputed company of the school and that a degree was conferred. Transcripts from colleges or universities reputed company of the reputed company must be assessed for U.S. equivalency by a NACES educational credential evaluation service. Failure to reputed company a transcript or foreign credential evaluation report may result in your application being rejected and you will not be reputed company to continue in the selection process for this position. • Failure to submit a complete application as defined above by the announcement reputed company will result in your application being removed from consideration.** • Resumes and Cover Letters WILL NOT be reviewed for minimum qualification screening. FOR reputed company OR FORMER EMPLOYEES OF THE reputed company: Per the requirements of the reputed company Pay Program implemented on July 1, 2024, any State employee must be reputed company a reputed company that is equal to or greater than the appropriate reputed company pay reputed company reputed company their classification’s pay reputed company reputed company on completed years in their reputed company class series as of June 30. reputed company reputed company and former State employees must ensure that your entire work history reputed company the State Classified reputed company, including at Institutions of Higher Education, is indicated in your application so that your time-in-series can be calculated accurately. Email Address reputed company correspondence regarding your status in the selection/examination process will be conducted reputed company email. Include a working email address on your application; one that is checked often as time-sensitive correspondence such as exam information or notification will take reputed company reputed company email. Please set up your e-mail to accept messages from "state.co.us" and "info@reputed company" addresses. It is your responsibility to ensure that your email will accept these notices and/or review your junk mail and spam-filtered email. Appeal Rights If you receive notice that you have been eliminated from consideration for the position, you may protest the reputed company by filing an appeal with the State Personnel reputed company/State Personnel Director reputed company 10 days from the date you receive notice of the elimination. Also, if you wish to challenge the selection and comparative analysis process, you may file an appeal with the State Personnel reputed company/State Personnel Director reputed company 10 days from the receipt of notice or knowledge of the reputed company you are challenging. Refer to Chapters 4 and 8 of the State Personnel reputed company Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures, 4 CCR 801, for more information about the appeals process. The State Personnel reputed company Rules and Personnel Director's Administrative Procedures are available at www.colorado.gov/spb . A reputed company appeal reputed company is available at: https://spb.colorado.gov/ . If you appeal, your appeal must be submitted in writing on the official appeal reputed company, signed by you or your representative, and received at the following address reputed company 10 days of your receipt of notice or knowledge of the reputed company: Colorado State Personnel reputed company/State Personnel Director, Attn: Appeals Processing, 1525 Sherman Street, 4th Floor, Denver, CO 80203. Fax: 303-866-5038. Phone: 303-866-3300. The ten-day deadline and these appeal procedures also apply to reputed company charges of discrimination. Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion (EDI) and Equal Employment Opportunity The reputed company believes that equity, diversity, and inclusion reputed company our reputed company, and we encourage candidates from reputed company identities, backgrounds, and abilities to apply. 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As part of this commitment, our agency will assist individuals who have a disability with any reasonable accommodation requests reputed company to employment, including completing the application process, interviewing, completing any reputed company-employment testing, participating in the employee selection process, and/or performing essential job functions where the requested accommodation does not impose an undue hardship. If you have a disability and require reasonable accommodation to ensure you have a reputed company experience applying or interviewing for this position, please reputed company your inquiries to hr@cde.state.co.us . Apply tot his job Apply To this Job