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Summary

Due to the Pandemic, and individual states with different phases of reopening, the selectee's report date to the official duty station/facility may be delayed until such time as employees are allowed to report to the workplace. The person selected may telework up to the maximum extent possible, up to and including full time, until it is safe to relocate.

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Responsibilities

This position is located in the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Safety and Technical Training, Director of Technical Training, Training Technologies Group (AJI-2100). This group is responsible for ensuring standards, technology management, and acquisition outcomes for technical training are in compliance with FAA policy.

As a Management and Program Analyst, he/she applies expert knowledge of analytical and evaluative methods and techniques to develop project plans and a strategy to manage complex and challenging programs using commonly accepted project management tools. Under the minimal direction of the team manager, he/she provides leadership for highly complex and challenging activities involving the re-engineering of Technical Training's business processes, infrastructure, simulation product and project requirements. This work is critical to technical training and the modernization of the ATO's operational workforce and the safety of the National Airspace System.

As a principle specialist, he/she applies experience as a project team leader over a combined federal contractor team to deliver complex software development and implementation projects. He/she applies experience in program management and strategy development as demonstrated by certification as a Project Management Professional to develop project plans and a strategy to manage and report on project constraints and status. He/she applies skill with skill with business process engineering methods to re-engineer and automate complex information technology related projects. He/she identifies and resolves challenging problems or issues that often cross organizational boundaries and impact on the accomplishment of strategic objectives.

He/she applies experience using quantifiable techniques to analyze and verify project deliverables and non-deliverables, data requirements and customer supplied data. He/she applies using a variety of automated software programs, such as Microsoft Office Suite, Microsoft Project Server and other spreadsheet, graphics and word processing programs to prepare documents, reports and presentations and to track planned project milestone dates and variance from planned cost, schedule scope. He/she analyzes and develops guides for directing and controlling projects and for creating a framework for integrating activities essential to the development of technical training strategies and the acquisition of operational training products or services. He/she uses experience developing technical requirements for requests for proposals and project plans to analyze alternatives. He/she works with technical specialists in testing, evaluating and implementing training technology systems and to participate in configuration management and system owner meetings.

He/she interprets federal acquisition management system guidelines to outline technical training acquisition strategy objectives and constraints. He/she analyzes and evaluates industrial processes and products to improve acquisition methods. He/she establishes the budget and schedule and develops the project resource and stakeholder involvement plans.

Contacts are internal and external and include representatives from ATO operational service units, FAA contracting organizations and industry. He/she consults with technical and specialized subject matter experts to evaluate air traffic training needs and to identify methods of enhancing and ensuring greater employee engagement. Collaborates with FAA organizations to learn and share industry best practices. Prepares, reviews, and recommends approvals of major reports on projects, programs and other work activities for internal and external distribution. Develops briefings to convey strategic vision and/or organizational policies to internal and external audiences.

Although broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issue, he/she is often required to develop new approaches.

Travel Required

25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel.

Supervisory status
No

Promotion Potential
NA

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents)

Qualifications

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I, FG/GS-13 level. This experience is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.

Specialized Experience is defined as:

Experience in program management and strategy development as demonstrated by certification as a Project Management Professional to develop project plans and a strategy to manage and report on project constraints and status; AND

Experience delivering a custom software development project as a project team leader over a combined federal/contractor team.

Education

Education cannot be substituted for experience.

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Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.

1. This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website: http://iobs.faa.gov/FAACoreCompensation.htm.

2. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a human resource specialist as appropriate.

3. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: (I) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping, and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration.

4. Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

5. This Level I (Low Risk) position requires favorable adjudication of a National Agency Check and Inquiries (NACI) background investigation prior to appointment.

This is not a bargaining unit position.

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How You Will Be Evaluated

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

IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses.

Background checks and security clearance

Security clearance
Other

Drug test required
No

Required Documents

ALL applicants MUST submit the following:

(I) resume with complete work history; and

(2) a copy of your most recent SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action)

For guidance on how to create a Federal resume, visit http://www.archives.qov/careers/iobs/forms/resume-guide.pdf

Failure to submit all required documents by the closing date will result in a finding of ineligible. We are not responsible for incomplete, illegible or missing documents.

Please DO NOT email your application documents. We cannot accept documents received via the email system. Documents sent via email will NOT receive consideration.

If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.

If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/ .

If you are relying on your education to meet qualification requirements:

Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education .

Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.