Attachment 8 Labor Category Descriptions.pdf

Attachment 8 – AFRIMS IDIQ Sample Labor Categories with Descriptions

Labor Category

Description

Project Manager

Responsible for the coordination and completion of projects. Oversees all aspects of projects.

Sets deadlines, assigns responsibilities, and monitors and summarizes progress of project.

Leads team on large projects or significant segment of large complex projects. Provides a project execution plan by obtaining and review scientific, budgetary, and timeline requirements. Analyzes new and complex project related problems and creates innovative solutions involving finance, scheduling, technology, methodology, tools, and solution components. Provide progress reports including a list of activities and milestones with the responsible party, the expected timeline to completion, and progress relative to the expected timeline will be updated monthly based on updates from communications with scientific parties and/or from the routine calls to discuss science.

Administrative Asst.

Performs a variety of administrative duties and responsibilities in support of a program, project, department, or facility. May perform word processing and general secretarial functions to include but not limited to composing memos, transcribing notes, and researches and creates presentations. Familiar with a variety of the field's concepts, practices, and procedures. Relies on experience, direction and judgement to plan and accomplish goals.

Responsible for administration and adherence to standard policies and procedures such as time charging, expense reporting, and business travel. Under general supervision may collect and analyze data for assigned projects. A degree of creativity and latitude is expected.

Typically reports to a manager or head of a unit/department.

Translation Services

Translation services must be sufficient to allow the Program Management to provide accurate verbal or written communication/reports between the local PI and AFRIMS personnel/COR, as well as, any documents necessary to submit invoices in an English based web service.

Accounting Services

Compute, classify, and record numerical data to keep financial records complete. Perform any combination of routine calculating, posting, and verifying duties to obtain primary financial data for use in maintaining accounting records. May also check the accuracy of figures, calculations, and postings pertaining to business transactions recorded by other workers.

Assist with preparing budget for labor, travel, supplies, consumables, and purchased technical services within provided budget cap. Monitor project expenditures. Provide a report with details of real time expenditure levels. Communicate and assist in developing a mitigation plan if budgetary overruns for materials and/or supplies are impending. Track and reimburse surveillance related travel ensuring that travel complies with FAR 31.205-46 Travel Costs, subject to local policy and procedure regulations and prepares and monitors invoices and expense reports.

QC/QA

Responsible for activities involving quality assurance and compliance with applicable regulatory requirements. Assures quality of task products, services, and deliverables, including participating in reviews, audits, and site visits. Performs quality review of specifications for internal and external delivery of products and deliverables. Assists in the review and evaluation of surveillance protocols and products to ensure adherence to customer quality standards. Reviews and administers programs to include policies, standards, guidelines, training programs, and a viable quality assurance process. Works under general supervision. Ensure that maintenance and sharing of data is in accordance with DoD data management policies

Principle Investigator

Initiates, directs, and executes advanced-level scientific research and/or development studies.

Plans and performs advanced scientific studies on new and varied problems where only general objectives are stated; acts as technical liaison with customers and sponsors, to include the preparation and presentation of high-level technical information; interprets, organizes, and coordinates overall project assignments within an assigned scientific functional area; plans and executes laboratory research; analyzes, evaluates, and plans methods of approach for projects and organizes means to achieve the solution of problems; serves as technical team or task lead; may provide supervision to lower-level staff; establishes and defines the theoretical bases and principles which should apply and the empirical test procedures to be used; conducts complex investigations or tests pertaining to the development of new designs, methods, materials, or processes and investigates possible applications of results; interprets and evaluates test data and results of investigations and develops recommendations; recommends necessary corrections in technical analyses and design to ensure successful project completion; specifies equipment, materials and suppliers required for completion and implementation of projects; evaluates vendor capabilities to provide or build required services, supplies, or equipment; maintains a current knowledge of technologies through the careful review of reports, patents, literature and other data;

demonstrates creative ability through problem solving, scientific reports or technical papers and articles; participates in special projects as required.

Lab Technician

Participate in basic scientific surveillance. Need considerable training on basic scientific techniques, methodologies and mentoring. Assist more senior personnel in executing animal surveillance, documenting results and preparing lab equipment. Perform tasks as instructed and follows guidelines. Write and maintain laboratory records and becomes familiar with computer skills and software required for the work. Maintain clean and safe laboratory environment and may contribute to ordering/maintaining of supplies. Works exclusively under supervision and relies on instructions and pre-established guidelines to perform the job.

Primary job functions do not require exercising independent judgment and reports to a manager or supervisor.

Local Hires

Support surveillance for vectors and pathogens by providing local knowledge and expertise to inform the surveillance design, collection of vector and pathogen sample with corresponding data. Assist with non-standard collection methodologies based on local knowledge of vector ecology. Perform tasks as instructed and follows guidelines.

Drivers

Assist more senior personnel in mapping out driving routes ahead of time to determine the most expedient and safest trip. Pick up personnel from the place and at the time they’ve requested. Assist with loading and unloading field equipment. Listen to news, traffic and weather reports to stay up-to-date on road conditions and safe travel routes. Adjust the route to avoid heavy traffic or road constructions, as needed. Maintain clean and safe vehicles and safety equipment. Schedule regular car service appointments and report any issues. Perform tasks as instructed and follows guidelines.