The Department of Finance has the mandate to provide leadership and direction to the public service in all areas of finance and human resource management. This mandate includes negotiating major financial arrangements with the federal government, providing analysis and advice to the Financial Management Board, and ensuring that financial and information resources are managed effectively, efficiently and economically. This mandate also includes the recruitment and retention of a competent public service that is representative of the people it serves and the development of programs and services that effectively serve the human resource needs of the public service.
Job Information
The Information Systems Contracts Specialist is primarily responsible for providing expert advice associated with contracts and agreements. Managing contracts and vendors along with cost recovery from client departments using Software as a Service (Saa S) services. Secondary responsibilities include providing expert advice and coordination of duties relating to financial submissions including Forced Growth, Variance Reports, and Year End Financial closure activities.
The incumbent maintains all Information Systems Shared Services Operations and Maintenance (O&M) contracts and agreements. The incumbent will be engaged in the contracting and agreement process as new O&M initiatives are approved.
The incumbent drafts various procurement documentation such as requests for proposals, tenders, contracts, agreements, and communication documents including briefing notes, request for information, activity reports, status reports, etc. The incumbent must work with minimal direction or supervision and does not have the benefit of peers doing similar functions, requiring expert knowledge in the business area. This position reviews and validates the budgets through the coordination of administrative and budgetary control systems such as Records of Decision and variance reports as well as through supplemental funding (e.g. forced growth) and 3rd party funding requests. Typically, the above qualifications would be attained by:
A related bachelor's degree, and two (2) years experience in contracting and procurement.
GNWT Inquiries
Inquiries Only:
Department of Finance
Government of the Northwest Territories
YELLOWKNIFE CENTRE 5TH FLOOR
BOX 1320 YELLOWKNIFE NT X1A 2L9
Tel (867) 767-9154 Extension 14106
Fax (867) 873-0445
jobsyk@gov.nt.ca
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