Duties

• Incumbent provides national level coordination, leadership, and guidance for the Directorate, other divisions located within Headquarters, State and BLM field offices, and the National Operations Center (NOC).
• Responsible for improving and integrating our processes and information to more effectively satisfy the mission requirements of the mineral and realty programs nationwide.
• Coordinates with the extended leadership team to provide the direction and management needed to meet the goals and objectives within the Directorate and BLM as a whole in accordance with current policies.
• Provides program direction of system development including minerals and realty systems; integration with other BLM systems and decision processes; administration, coordination and integration into all appropriate BLM management systems and processes.
• Provides agency leadership and direction for all minerals and realty automation matters.
• Serves as chief representative of the Assistant Director with IT leadership on complex and significant problems regarding enterprise architecture, business process improvement/re-engineering, information management, and systems development.
• Ensures database and application requirements are coordinated with, and where appropriate, integrated with other requirements and systems in BLM, DOI, and our other partners and customers.
• Coordinates the strategic and capital planning activities with the Information Technology Investment Board (ITIB), NOC and national IT-related entities.
• Develops and maintains business cases for national energy, minerals, and realty systems.
• Develops systems, procedures, regulations, standards, manual guidance, and policy for minerals and realty business transformation and incorporation of data and information, goals and objectives and development of alternatives.
• Provides input to budget, programming and annual work planning and to monitoring and evaluation functions where appropriate.
• Provides expertise and/or program oversight on process, data, and automation issues related to the Directorate and serve as an interface between the business and Information Technology.
• Leads and manages the Minerals and Realty Business Transformation projects and develop project charters for approval by the AD.
• Provides coordination, leadership, and guidance for improving and integrating processes and information to more effectively satisfy the mission requirements of the energy, minerals, and realty programs.
• Leads and coordinates the teams to enhance and integrate business processes and information management.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

• U.S. Citizenship is required. Direct Deposit Required.
• Be sure to read the "How to Apply" and "Required Documents" Sections.
• You cannot hold an active real estate license; nor can you have an interest or hold stocks in firms with interest in Federal Land.
• DOI uses E-Verify to confirm employment eligibility of all newly hired employees. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, please visit: www.dhs.gov/e-verify
• Appointment will be subject to a favorably adjudicated suitability determination.
• BLM may use certain incentives, currently offered by the Federal government, to attract high quality applicants.
• If selected for this position, you will be required to annually complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450 within 30 days of reporting to duty.
• May require a one year probationary period.
• THIS IS A DRUG TESTING DESIGNATED POSITION. This position is subject to both pre-employment and random drug testing as a condition of employment. Applicants will not be appointed to the position if a verified positive drug test is received.

Qualifications

In order to be rated as qualified for this position, we must be able to determine that you meet the qualification requirements - please be sure to include this information in your resume. No assumptions will be made about your experience.

You must possess one (1) full year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-13 level that is equivalent in difficulty and complexity as indicated by the following examples: experience leading interdisciplinary project teams, improving and/or automating complex business processes for regulating and managing energy, mineral, and realty resources and the associated data and records; experience working with user/stakeholder teams to define goals, processes, and data requirements; and experience developing and adopting data and records management requirements.

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.

There is no substitution of education for specialized experience at this grade level.

Applicants must meet both eligibility and qualification requirements for the position of interest by the closing date of the announcement.

Federal employees in the competitive service are also subject to the Time-In-Grade requirement in accordance with 5 CFR 300.604. If you are a current Federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks at the next lower grade level.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Additional information

Career Transition Assistance Plan (CTAP)/lnteragency Career Transition Assistance Program (ICTAP): These programs apply to employees who have been involuntarily separated from a Federal service position within the competitive service or Federal service employees whose positions have been deemed surplus or no longer needed. To receive selection priority, you must: 1) meet CTAP or ICTAP eligibility criteria; 2) be rated well qualified for the position with a score of 85 or above; and 3) submit the appropriate documentation to support your CTAP or ICTAP eligibility. For more information: CTAP or ICTAP

Males born after 12/31/59 must be registered for Selective Service

Tax Law Impact for PCS: Moving expenses reimbursement is a taxable benefit. However, the Federal Travel Regulation 18-05 issued by General Services Administration has authorized agencies to use the Withholding Tax Allowance and Relocation Income Tax Allowance to pay for "substantially all" of the increased tax liability resulting from the "2018 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act" for certain eligible individuals.

The official worksite for the selectee is the duty station identified in this vacancy announcement. The selectee will typically report to this duty location on a regular and recurring weekly basis. The selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.

Applicants who apply under this job opportunity announcement agree to have their application, associated documents and applicable personal information shared with other Bureaus/Offices within the Department of the Interior (DOI) who have vacancies within the same occupational series, grade, full performance level and in the same geographic location(s), including within the same metro/commuting area. Applying to this announcement does not replace the need to apply to other job opportunity announcements for which you wish to receive consideration.

If you are unable to apply online or need to fax a document, you do not have in electronic form; view the following link for information regarding an Alternative Application