Edge Dairy Farmer Cooperative was built on a foundation of added value the cooperative could offer farmer members and continues to lead the way in giving every farmer a strong voice in Congress, with customers and within their communities. Founded in 2010 as the Dairy Business Milk Marketing Cooperative, Edge has advanced to one of the top cooperatives in the country in terms of milk volume represented.
The climate-smart program will expand climate-smart markets and establish dairy and sugar as climate-smart commodities by implementing climate-smart production practices, like cover crops and stripcropping, improving business practices for climate-smart commodities, and making use of data and information collected to inform future standards. Each farmer-led project under the proposal will be encouraged to create enhanced financial incentives for underserved and small farmers to encourage participation. The project plans to encourage on-ramps into available business opportunities and increase revenue streams associated with the adoption of climate-smart actions. Marketing plans focus on a bottom-up approach to establishing markets through farmer leadership in areas with farmer-led projects.
Overview
Serves as the contracting and procurement lead for a dynamic and growing organization. Our new team member will help us to establish and execute a high level of compliance by managing contracts with a wide range of collaborators including federal, state, and local governments, as well as private and non-profit organizations.
This exciting role will give our new team member the opportunity to work on a variety of contract structures all the way from procurement to contract close out.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities
· Development of organizational policies and procedures to ensure administrative and grant compliance obligations are fulfilled.
· Evaluation and execution of organizational grant funding opportunities that align with the strategic goals and mission of the organization. This individual will monitor existing organizational contracts, collaborations, and grants to ensure compliance.
· Facilitate and coordinate with internal partners across functions involved in the contracting process, ensuring their comments flow through to the contract and requisite approvals are obtained.
· Identify issues that are disseminated to potentially impacted internal partners for review, discussion, negotiation and resolution.
· Ensure that all completed contractual documentation is properly filed and in compliance with internal procedural and regulatory requirements.
· Ability to negotiate and establish federal, and other public and private contracts.
· Ability to manage and oversee the full life cycle of delivery of federal, and other public and private contracts.
· Find opportunities for process and client experience improvements.
· Support the climate-smart management team with contractual documentation queries.
Education
· Bachelor’s degree or higher in a business field such as accounting, business administration, or organizational management.
- Priority given to candidates with previous federal grant experience.
· Priority given to candidates with training or certificates in project management and contract review
Experience
· Minimum of 5 years of demonstrated experience in performing the fulling duties
· Negotiating and establishing contracts with vendors through sole source, qualifications, and proposal based selections.
· Establishment and oversight of vendor selection processes through sole source, qualifications, and proposal based selections.
· Administration and oversight of contracts on behalf of the owner.
· Administration and oversight of contracts with vendors.
· Procurement and administration of contracts from public and private organizations
Core Skills
· Best practices for formalized Project Management
· Proficiency with Microsoft Office 365
· Proficiency in accounting software packages a plus
· This position is a grant funded role over the course of the 5 year grant award period.
· Strong customer service attitude and approach
· Strong relationship building skills
· Strong individual and team collaboration skills
· Strong verbal and written communications skills
· High attention to detail and capability to work on multiple projects in parallel
· Able to diagnose and solve problems when a solution is not known
· Ability to thrive in a team-oriented environment and work seamlessly with all staff and partners.
This position is a grant funded role over the course of the 5 year grant award period.
Job Type: Full-time
Pay: From $65,000.00 per year
Benefits:
- 401(k)
- Employee assistance program
- Flexible schedule
- Health insurance
- Health savings account
- Paid time off
Schedule:
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Green Bay, WI 54311