Manager of Contract Compliance

Job Title: Manager of Contract Compliance

Location: Reston, VA

Work Type: Hybrid

Remote Work: 4 Days onsite and 1 Day remote

Job Description

Gridiron is looking to hire a Manager of Contract Compliance to lead the organization’s contracting function, ensuring efficient operations, governance, and regulatory compliance across prime contracts, subcontracts, MSAs, and related agreements. This role designs and manages workflows, maintains audit-ready repositories, enforces escalation and approval controls, and oversees agreement reviews and negotiations in alignment with FAR/DFARS, agency requirements, and client-specific requirements. Acting as a strategic partner, the Manager supports proposals and prime contract management and drives risk mitigation. This position will advance contracts system modernization and security compliance initiatives to safeguard contractual integrity and enable business growth.

Responsibilities

• Oversee day-to-day contract operations across all contracts
• Maintain central repositories to ensure audit readiness and traceability
• Define and enforce escalation pathways and thresholds for terms and conditions
• Implement controls for clause deviations, redline, and approvals
• Create and manage a centralized contracts playbook, including approved language, clause interpretations, escalation guidance, and approval frameworks
• Lead subcontract and MSA review / negotiation
• Ensure compliance with, and promote organizational training and awareness of, applicable federal regulations including the Service Contract Act
• Coordinate CUI handling expectations and CMMC / security-related contract requirements with our IT and FSO units
• Provide front-end contractual guidance in capture and proposals, shape T&Cs, exceptions lists, and risk registers
• Develop standard compliance matrices and assumptions
• Partner with finance to validate contract terms related to revenue recognition, billing and invoicing
• Support onboarding new programs to ensure contract compliance readiness
• Design and deliver training programs on FAR/DFARS, contract compliance, and company policies for account managers, capture teams, and recruiters
• Act as a subject matter expert and resource for contract-related questions across the organization
• Support pricing and compliance reviews for proposals (e.g. wage determinations, flowdowns, and contract type risks

Qualifications

• Knowledge of FAR, DFARS, agency supplements, and federal contracting requirements, including flow downs and OCI mitigation
• Experience with contract lifecycle management systems and process automation
• Exceptional organizational skills with a focus on audit readiness and risk management
• Strategic thinker with capability to support capture and proposal efforts
• Demonstrated ability to lead, mentor, and develop a contracts administration team
• Skilled in capacity planning and building training programs

Compensation and Benefits

Salary Range: $100,000 - $150,000 (Compensation is determined by various factors, including but not limited to location, work experience, skills, education, certifications, seniority, and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.)

Benefits: Gridiron offers a comprehensive benefits package including medical, dental, vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), disability & ADD insurance, life and pet insurance to eligible employees. Full-time and part-time employees working at least 30 hours per week on a regular basis are eligible to participate in Gridiron’s benefits programs.

Gridiron IT Solutions is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status or disability status.

Gridiron IT is a Women Owned Small Business (WOSB) headquartered in the Washington, D.C. area that supports our clients' missions throughout the United States. Gridiron IT specializes in providing comprehensive IT services tailored to meet the needs of federal agencies. Our capabilities include IT Infrastructure & Cloud Services, Cyber Security, Software Integration & Development, Data Solution & AI, and Enterprise Applications. These capabilities are backed by Gridiron IT's experienced workforce and our commitment to ensuring we meet and exceed our clients' expectations.