Summary
This position is located in the Agency and Client Services Section, Federal Research Division, Library Enterprises Directorate, Chief Operating Officer.
The position description number for this position is 463338.
The salary range indicated reflects the locality pay adjustments for the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan area.
The incumbent of this position will work a flextime work schedule.
This is a non-supervisory, non-bargaining unit position.
Duties
Reviews current laws, directives, policies, and initiatives established by the federal government and individual agencies to evaluate potential new opportunities for research and analysis. Analyzes research opportunities, and competitive landscape of the federal research industry, and makes recommendations to FRD management. The research needs of agencies may be complex in nature, with few precedents and little supporting information. Research requirements may have far ranging economic, political, and national defense implications, such as immigration policy, defense analysis and policy, and program evaluation. Research questions and related outcomes may have important, widespread, and highly visible impacts on agency policy and public perception.
Market analysis requires a high level of responsibility, with little to no instructions or direction received. Findings and recommendations will be presented to a wide range of agency representatives, including program managers, division chiefs, and agency directors at the SES level. Findings and recommendations may have significant impacts on division, directorate, and agency-level decision making.
Serves as project lead for centrally managed business development activities. Works closely with Division management and client agency counterparts. Prepares or contributes to planning and implementation documents, and monitors their timely clearance and execution. Provides business portfolio strategic management, aligning and translating the organizational strategies to the short- and long-term plans. Develops plans for business and funding by researching, planning and recommending target business development initiatives.
Formulates and evaluates business prospects, understanding authorities, concepts, principles, theories, and methods used. collaboration with Division leadership, identifies funding streams and anticipates potential clientele needs.
Serves as a point of contact for agency leaders and program managers across the federal government. Represents the agency and program at assigned and identified events, meetings, conferences, or other outreach activities. Serves in an advisory capacity to organizational management on business leads, business needs, and organizational activities and issues. Analyzes public relations and community relations needed to ensure the consistency of communications and the accuracy of communications to convey program mission and goals, strategic goals, and critical product/program services and priorities. Provides advice, guidance and training to new staff on marketing, business development, and organization activities. Identifies and develops short- and long-term goals and strategies to achieve them. Contributes to strategic plans and drafts written materials for inclusion in various reporting methods. Examines and provides advice on policy issues and strategic planning with a long-term perspective.
Prepares technically complex responses to inquiries with an expert-level depth and breadth of subject area knowledge. May communicate findings through written and oral reports, abstracts, summaries, charts, graphs, or other products. Identifies, examines, and analyzes major publications and electronic resources in fields of expertise for use in preparing in-depth and highly complex and specialized research reports and studies. May synthesize and simplify complicated issues, topics, subjects, and responses.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
Conditions of Employment
Library of Congress employees are prohibited from using illegal drugs, including marijuana. The Library is part of the Federal Government and abides by federal law, so regardless of individual state or District of Columbia laws, marijuana use is illegal, considered criminal activity, and can affect your employment at the Library. In addition, past or current drug use and activities (e.g., selling or distributing) may deem you ineligible for employment.
Qualifications
Applicants must have had progressively responsible experience and training sufficient in scope and quality to furnish them with an acceptable level of the following knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform the duties of the position without more than normal supervision.
Ability to conduct market analysis.**
Ability to provide liaison and consultation services.**
Ability to provide business development activity oversight.
Ability to communicate in writing.
Ability to communicate effectively other than in writing.
Benefits
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How to Apply
Please carefully follow all instructions under the How to Apply tab to ensure you are considered for the position.
You are required to apply online for this announcement. We are unable to accept mailed or emailed documents. You must complete the entire application process, including submission of all documents BEFORE this announcement closes. To do so, complete the following steps.
Step 1: If you do not already have one, create a resume on USAJOBS. Although you must enter your Social Security Number for USAJOBS, this information will not be provided to the Library of Congress.
Step 2: Review the Job Announcement. We recommend you go to the end of the Qualification and Evaluation section of the job announcement to preview the online questions that you will answer in Step 4. You may wish to customize your USAJOBS resume to ensure that it supports your responses to these questions.
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Next steps
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