Sr. Contract Compliance Specialist

Pay Range: $31.52 - $40.98/hr. | $65,563 - $85,232 annual compensation
Job Posting Closing on: Wednesday, October 29, 2026 📅
Workdays & Hours: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm; Some evening/weekend work required.
Benefits for this position include: 11 Paid Holidays, Medical, Dental, Vision, Paid Time Off, Pension Plan, Professional Development Opportunities. Find out More!
The City of Fort Worth is one of the fastest growing large cities in the U.S. Our employees serve the needs of nearly 1,000,000 residents, promoting our values of exceptional customer experience, mutual respect, embracing our diversity, continuous improvement, ethical behavior, and accountability. 🌆
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Minimum Qualifications:
Bachelor’s degree in public administration, business administration, and finance
3 years of experience preparing and monitoring contracts, grants, or community programs in the public or private sector, including but not limited to federal, developer funded, or other capital improvement project agreements
Preferred Qualifications:
Strong contract management background, including experience reviewing, interpreting, and enforcing contract terms and compliance requirements
Demonstrated ability to manage, organize, and prioritize multiple projects, deadlines, and competing assignments effectively
Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex compliance-related issues to internal staff, external partners
Knowledge of contract monitoring, vendor compliance, purchasing regulations, and procurement policies.
The Sr. Contract Compliance Specialist job responsibilities include:
Prepare, review, and maintain contracts, amendments, renewals, extensions, and supporting documentation
Monitor contract expiration dates, renewal options, spending limits, available capacity, and funding requirements
Reviews revenue, expenditures and balances for all accounts; analyzes expenditures to ensure transactions are accurate and appropriate; examines purchase requests; and maintains, reviews and monitors financial records and requests for payments
Coordinating purchasing activities with other City departments, divisions, and external agencies, including inter‑local and cooperative purchasing agreements
Coordinate formal solicitations, including Invitations to Bid (ITBs), Requests for Proposals (RFPs), and other competitive procurement processes, as assigned
Create and process purchase orders (POs) for goods and services in PeopleSoft in accordance with City purchasing policies and procedures
Assist with Chapter 252 exemptions and sole-source justifications when applicable
Coordinate with receiving Accounts Payable, and purchasing personnel to address purchase order and invoice discrepancies
Other duties as assigned
Working Conditions and Physical Demand
Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically require touching, talking, hearing, seeing, grasping, standing, walking and repetitive motions.
Sedentary Work – Depending on assignment, positions in this class typically exert up to 10 pounds of force occasionally, a negligible amount of force frequently, and/or or constantly having to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.
Conditions of Employment
The City of Fort Worth is proud to be an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is the policy and practice of the City to recruit, hire, train and promote a diverse workforce without regard to race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, parental status, military service, or another non-merit factor.
The City of Fort Worth is committed to full compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable qualified individuals with disabilities to participate in the job application or interview process and to perform essential job functions.
Candidates who do not meet the Education requirement, may be considered if they have more relevant work experience than the position requires. Those selected for employment will be required to pass Pre-Employment checks depending on the position requirements. Those could include, but are not limited to: criminal background check, drug screen, education verification, etc. criminal convictions will be considered on a case-by-case basis. Employees are paid by direct deposit only.