Summary
The U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG) is an accredited botanic garden and museum that inspires people to appreciate, study, and conserve plants to enrich society locally and globally. The Garden provides educational experiences to over 1 million visitors annually, presents horticultural displays and exhibits, advances plant conservation, strives to break down barriers to inclusion, and fosters the exchange of ideas and information through national and global partnerships. Visit: U.S. Botanic Garden.
Duties
This position is located at the U.S. Botanic Garden (USBG), a jurisdiction within the Office of the Chief of Operations at the Architect of the Capitol (AOC). The Partnerships Manager helps develop and maintains the USBG partnership program with a focus on advancing conservation, botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture, and plant-focused education for the greater good.
Major Duties include:
Program Management and Liaison Activities:
Manages partnership program to reach diverse and external audiences and advance conservation, botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture, and plant-focused education.
Follows current and future trends at public gardens, museums, and related sectors to recommend opportunities for impactful USBG partnership initiatives and projects.
Maintains collaborative relationships with other federal agencies and colleagues, as well as museum, conservation, education, and public garden sector organizations and colleagues to advance industry-leading, impactful initiatives.
Contributes to partnership-related congressional queries, strategic plans, and identification and mitigation of risks.
Project Management and Communication:
Maintains partnership projects to facilitate a greater national plant science and conservation role for the USBG involving the development of conservation strategies for threatened plants, greater public knowledge and appreciation of plants, innovative plant-based education programs, increased national and international coordination of plant research and conservation efforts at botanic gardens, expanded engagement in urban agriculture, and increased engagement in botanical career fields by a greater diversity of people and organizations.
Serves as the Contracting Officers Representative (COR; e.g., USBG’s leading role) and/or as a key person for partnership-related cooperative agreements and contracts, to include leading the development of statements of work, working with partner organizations on procurement procedures and processes, and ensuring all contract-related documentation is submitted.
Records and shares information for reporting and analyses related to managed projects. Prepares, monitors and tracks partnership annual and multi-year budgets.
Collaborates with the USBG leadership and communications teams to develop internal and external communications highlighting the USBG's partnership accomplishments.
Prepares or contributes to communications materials including memos, letters, briefings, emails, articles, and presentations. Audiences include a diversity of internal and external stakeholders and customers including USBG employees, USBG visitors, collaborators, external colleagues, other AOC jurisdictions and offices, congressional members and staffers, foreign officials, and the general public.
Performs other related duties as assigned.
Conditions of Employment
- You must be a U.S. Citizen.
- You must be able to pass a drug test.
- Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
- You must meet the definition of specialized experience.
- A citizen of the United States;
- A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C. 1324b(a)(3)(B);
- A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C. 1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C. 1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible;
- A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C. 1408); or
- You must be able to pass a drug test and background check.
- Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.
- You must meet the definition of specialized experience.
Qualifications
You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications.
Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Candidates for the GS-12 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service.
- Managing partnerships in botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture or a related field;
- Monitoring, inspecting, controlling and evaluating project costs, work and contractor / collaborator performance;
- Maintaining collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
- Developing and/or managing a system to review, control and report on ; and
- Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or in an equivalent capacity overseeing the administration of contracts and/or agreements.
Candidates for the GS-13 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service.
- Developing and managing partnerships in botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture or a related field;
- Monitoring, inspecting, controlling and evaluating project costs, work and contractor / collaborator performance;
- Initiating collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders;
- Developing and/or managing a system to review, control and report on program deliverables; and
- Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or in an equivalent capacity overseeing the administration of contracts and/or agreements.
Benefits
A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new windowLearn more about federal benefits.
A variety of health insurance plans; retirement system with investment options; paid holidays; paid sick and annual (vacation) leave; life insurance; incentive systems; subsidized transportation; training and development opportunities, etc.
Selected applicant(s) may be eligible to earn a higher annual leave accrual rate credit towards annual leave accrual based on prior non-Federal or uniformed service work experience. The amount of service credit will be based on specialized experience or qualifying experience that is provided on the submitted applicant profile. As such, if you are a new employee to the Federal Government or a rehire, it is important that you provide a work history that lists all directly related positions held, and it must include the dates of employment (month/day/year).
The Architect of the Capitol offers eligible employees the opportunity to participate in the Student Loan Repayment Program.
Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.
Review your resume and responses carefully. Your eligibility for consideration and qualifications for the position will be determined based upon a review of your detailed resume and your responses to job specific self-assessment questions.
Your resume will be evaluated based on evidence of your ability to demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) for this position, possession of any specialized experience, and how well your background and experience relates to the self-assessment questions in the job announcement. The self-assessment questions relate to the following knowledge, skills, abilities, and competencies:
Knowledge of the public garden and museum sectors, including of their science, conservation, and educational programs.
Skills in oral and written communication to convey or present project goals, requirements and procedures to stakeholders.
Knowledge of administrative procedures, including procurement methods, budget proposal and estimation, writing contracts and cooperative agreements, and contract/agreement management principles and guidelines to coordinate performance and compliance between the government and contractor/cooperator.
Your responses to the self-assessment questions serve as the basis for your initial rating. You will receive a numerical score based on your responses to these questions. Next, your responses will be evaluated by a Human Resources Specialist and/or a subject matter expert against the information provided in your resume and optional cover letter. Your resume must support your answers to the self-assessment questions. Falsifying your background, education and/or experience is cause for non-selection or disqualification from further consideration.
Please note that a complete application is required for consideration. (Please review the “Required Documents” section of this job announcement to see what must be included in a complete application). You may preview questions for this vacancy.
The Architect of the Capitol's (AOC) job application process is designed to ensure you only provide information necessary to evaluate your qualifications and eligibility for the position vacancy.
To apply for this position, you only need to submit: a) your resume and b) answers to the online vacancy assessment questionnaire. The online questionnaire contains eligibility and screening questions and other relevant information. No additional documentation or attachments are required at the time of application.
Your resume should list your education, training and work experience including job titles, employment dates, duties and accomplishments.
Nothing further is required until it is requested by AOC’s Human Capital Management Division. If additional documentation is required for the position, you will be asked to provide it during the interview or selection process. At that time, you may be asked to submit documentation to support statements made in your resume.
For example, you may be asked to provide a copy of your diploma, college transcripts, or proof of Federal employment status. If the position requires licensure or certification, you will be asked to provide proof at the time of selection.
If Veterans’ preference is claimed, you will be asked to submit proof (DD-214, and, if claiming a 10-point preference, a SF-15 and the proof required by that form).
Failure to provide the required documents will end further consideration and/or result in the withdrawal of any tentative job offers.
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.
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Next steps
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