Purchasing Agent 2 - Iowa Veterans Home

The Iowa Veterans Home is now accepting applications to fill a Purchasing Agent 2 position to coordinate purchasing for the Iowa Veterans Home. The successful candidate will review and evaluate all departmental purchase requests.

Duties Include But Are Not Limited To

• Lead strategies and initiative to determine best practices with state contracts, federal contracts, targeted small businesses, non-contractual request and personal service contract agreements.
• Assist the agency with credit card issues, policies and procedures, competitive bidding, state contracts, dollar limitation and travel.
• Act as the lead worker in the Purchasing Office.
• Lead negotiations with vendors for best pricing and service.
• Maintain records to confirm all vendors are compliant with all purchases and services.

What we offer as a full time Iowa Veterans Home employee:

• Medical and Dental Insurance Benefits:
• Paid time off (sick leave and vacation) plus nine paid holidays per year
• Opportunity for professional growth and development
• Team oriented, positive work environment

Monthly optional Medical Insurance Premium (Iowa Choice*) for 2023:

Single: $56/mo = employee share; $715/mo = state share

Family: $187/mo = employee share; $1,624/mo = state share

• National Choice option also available

Monthly Optional Dental Insurance Premium For 2023

Single: Free

Family: $45

• Optional flexible spending accounts for health and dental expenses, and dependent care
• Exceptional retirement package: IPERS (Iowa Public Employee Retirement System)
• $20,000 basic life insurance at no cost
• Wellness Program: Onsite fitness center available to staff 24/7 for only $36 per year
• Lactation rooms throughout our campus
• Optional 401(a) Plan with employee contribution: The State makes match contributions into the employee’s selection of investments in a 401(a) employer match account. The match is $1 for every $1 contributed up to a $75 monthly maximum.
• All applicants are subject to a Criminal Background Check Dependent Adult Abuse and Child Abuse Check.

Under the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS’s) new vaccine mandate for healthcare workers (published on November 5, 2021 and affirmed by the United States Supreme Court on January 13, 2022), all potential employees of this facility must have received, at a minimum, the first dose of a primary series or a single dose vaccine OR have an approved religious or medical exemption (as determined by the Iowa Veterans Home) OR have documentation reflecting a temporary delay in vaccination (as determined by the agency in accordance with CDC allowances), prior to the start date.

Minimum Qualification Requirements

Graduation from high school, or G.E.D., and six years of full-time work in the procurement of technical, standardized, expendable and non-expendable items;

OR

graduation from an accredited four-year college or university with a bachelor's degree in business or public administration, accounting or economics and two years of the required experience;

OR

an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of education (30 semester hours or one year) for each year of the required experience;

OR

employees with current continuous experience in the state executive branch that includes experience equal to eighteen months as a Purchasing Agent 1.

For additional information, please click on this link to view the job description.