Duties

Summary

The Office of Construction and Facilities Management (CFM) is responsible for the planning, design, and construction of all major construction and major lease projects for the Department. CFM provides policy oversight for Architect/Engineer and Major Construction contracting and Real Property contracting and ensures comprehensive and effective facilities acquisition process and procedures nationwide.
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Responsibilities

The responsibilities include, but not limited to:

• Oversees and directs program activities for one of the six major organizational elements within the Office of Construction & Facilities Management.

• Serves as the principal advisor to the Executive Director (CFM), providing policy oversight for A/E & construction contracting, real property contracting, and Federal Acquisition Certification - Contracting (FAC-C) program management; and ensures creative, comprehensive and effective facilities acquisition processes and procedures nationwide.

• Develops policy and guidance for the oversight of contracting support for VA's construction program. This includes oversight of A/E and Construction Contracting policy and procedure, real property contracting policy, and oversight of FAC-C program management, which includes the warrant program, acquisition training management, and acquisition training standards.

• Oversees policy and procedure for the development, negotiation, and approval for all contracts for VA construction projects. Ensuring adherence to the competitive bidding process procedures as mandated by government, that projects are managed soundly, with good judgment, and with a positive approach in order to deliver state-of-the-art facilities for the nation's veterans.

• Provides oversight of FAC-C program management in order to ensure establishment of core requirements for education, training, and experience for VA contracting professionals having involvement with VA construction projects.

• Oversees programs to support operational assessment and performance metrics usage to ensure facility resource enterprise success. Oversight will ensure integrity of internal assessments, audits, performance measures, and reporting to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of business lines.

Travel Required

25% or less - You may be expected to travel for this position.

Supervisory status
Yes

Promotion Potential
00

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• US citizenship is required.
• One year probationary period required for initial SES appointment.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.
• Successful completion of drug screening required.
• Public Financial Disclosure Report (SF-278) is required.
• May be subject to reassignment geographically or organizationally.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum qualifications, applicant must possess the following technical and executive core qualifications. These qualifications would typically be gained through progressively responsible management or executive level assignments such as director of a regional office, medical facility or program manager. An individual's total experience, education and volunteer work experience must demonstrate the ability to perform the duties of the position.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g. Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

MANDATORY EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs): All applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following ECQs. Your narrative must address each ECQ separately. Additional information on ECQs is available at: http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/senior-executive-service/executive-core-qualifications/ . Applicants are encouraged to follow the Challenge, Context, Action and Results model outlined in the guide. It is recommended that you draft your ECQs in a Word document and then upload into the system.

1. Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.

2. Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.

3. Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.

4. Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial and information resources strategically.

5. Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals.

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (TQ)s: In addition, all applicants must submit a written narrative response to the following TQ(s). Please give examples and explain how often you used your skills, the complexity of the knowledge possessed, the level of people you interacted with, the sensitivity of the issues you handled managing a large public or private sector organization that administers complex, rules-based benefits or services, etc. It is recommended that you draft your TQ(s) in a word document and then upload into the system.

TQ1: In depth knowledge of Federal acquisition practices, policies, regulations, and public law.

TQ2: The incumbent must possess knowledge and experience in analyzing complex programs and devising highly successful acquisition requirements. Inherent to this qualification is the demonstrated ability to asses and prioritize customer needs, to develop with management a strategy to address those needs and organizational plan to execute the strategy.

Education

BASIC AQUISITION REQUIREMENT

To meet basic requirements for the 1102 series, applicants must have completed a course of study leading to a bachelors degree, that included, or was supplemented by, at least 24 semester hours in any contribution of the following fields: accounting, business, finance, law, contracts, purchasing, economics, industrial management, marketing, quantitative methods or organization and management. COPIES OF TRANSCRIPTS MUST BE PROVIDED AS PROOF, CANDIDATES WHO DO NOT PROVIDE PROOF WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.

AQUISITION CERTIFICATION

Applicants must possess or be eligible for Level III certification by the Federal Acquisition Institute (Federal Acquisition Certification-Contracting (FAC-C)), Department of Defense Acquisition Workforce (Defense Acquisition Workforce Improvement Act (DAWIA) Certification in Contracting), or industry equivalent.

Additional information

Veteran Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service.: https://www.opm.gov/faqs/QA.aspx?fid=fcd37029-d607-4fec-a8d6-faecbdb08eef&pid=6d668276-0086-49e3-aa1e-bccfb2bcb379 .

Drug Testing: All applicants tentatively selected for VA Senior Executive Service employment in any position are subject to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug use prior to appointment. Applicants who refuse to be tested will be denied employment with VA.

Incumbents of this position will be subject to a background investigation commensurate with the risk and sensitivity level of the position.

How You Will Be Evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Step 1: ECQ qualifications

Step 2: Technical Qualification(s)

Step 3: VA Executive Resources Board

Step 4: Nominating Organization may conduct interviews

Step 5: Approval by the Selecting Official (may include additional screening)

Step 6: OPM Qualifications Review Board certification

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
Yes

Position sensitivity and risk
High Risk (HR)

Trust determination process
Suitability/Fitness

Required Documents

A complete application for this position includes the following items:

1. Resume not to exceed 5 pages;

2. Written narrative response to address each Technical Qualification(s) not to exceed 2 pages each; and

3. Written narrative responses to address each Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) not to exceed 2 pages each for a total of 10 pages; or

4. Proof of non-competitive eligibility (if applicable). Proof consists of an SF-50 showing career status in the SES and proof of certification of your Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) from the OPM administered Qualifications Review Board (QRB).

Non-Competitive Consideration: You are considered a non-competitive applicant if you are a current career Senior Executive, Qualifications Review Board (QRB) certified graduate of a Senior Executive (SES) Candidate Development Program (CDP) or an individual with SES reinstatement eligibility. You may be considered non-competitively for appointment to this position if you meet the mandatory technical qualifications requirements.

Non-competitive applicants do not need to submit ECQ narratives but you must clearly state your status in your resume and submit a written narrative response to the Technical Qualification (s); not more than 2 pages per each TQ with a font size no smaller than 12 points. Proof of non-competitive eligibility is required. The agency has the option of considering you non-competitively or including you in the competitive process.