Duties
Directs and supervises staff with regard to acquisition, design, and acceptance of highly complex FAA-wide training systems. Manages agency-wide training programs or program segments associated with the overall support of all training, development, implementation, and maintenance of the National Airspace System (NAS). Applies an advanced knowledge of the technical aspects of the work directed, an advanced knowledge of budget, human resources, other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the organization.
Managerial duties typically affect employees in more than one organizational training and course development project/program and includes planning; communicating the organization's vision and objectives; setting priorities; assigning tasks and responsibilities; monitoring and evaluating performance; coaching and developing employee capabilities; approving leave; and taking, recommending or approving corrective/disciplinary actions as appropriate. Responsible for establishing goals and objectives, managing fiscal and staffing resources, and coordinating significant training program issues within the branch. Prepares workload and course schedule projections, determines material support requirements, layout plans, resource requirements, etc.
The work requires substantial coordination, integration, and decisions involving various complex and critical work assignments, projections, and administrative issues. Promotes teamwork and strives to improve the branch's business practices. Establishes budget requirements, priorities, staff and required resources for branch operations. Makes recommendations and/or final decisions involving technical, financial, organization and administrative issues. Recommends resource allocation for applicable program segment.
Communicates and reinforces EEO policies and programs in all areas of responsibility, including selection, training, and promotion. Maintains a work environment where all employees are treated in a fair and equitable manner. This position has frequent contact with FAA and external agency personnel. Contacts occur in meetings, briefings, job-related activities, and other Aeronautical Center forums.
The purpose of these contacts is to discuss, plan, and coordinate work efforts; exchange information; ensure that information provided to outside parties is accurate and consistent; and resolve differences of opinion among managers, supervisors, employees, contractors, or others. Incumbent is required to interact, on a routine basis, with FAA Academy, Regional and Washington Headquarters personnel, contracting officials, high-ranking officials, and high-level technical staff of large industrial firms to discuss the status of projects/ programs and to plan for the future.
Work is typically governed by established policies, procedures, and organizational objectives that frequently leave room for discretion. These include FAA policy, and other required extensive coordination, integration, and decision-making involving various complex NAS and administrative issues. Resolves all but unique problems without the intervention of higher-level management.
Individual performance is based on ensuring combined efforts are directed at satisfying FAA Academy, Aeronautical Center, Service Areas, Headquarters, International, and Service Center needs and is typically reviewed periodically by higher-level management, usually through status reports and organizational performance measures.
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).
- Successful completion of security investigation may be required.
- A one-year supervisor/managerial probationary period may be required.
- Please review Required Documents & Additional Information.
Qualifications
To qualify for this position at the FV-J level, 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. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.
Specialized Experience includes: Working on or, managing, and overseeing the delivery of Technical Training of Air Traffic control systems and related programs e.g., Navigational Landing and/or Radar and/or Automation and/or Environmental, and/or Communication systems; experience delivering technical training, research, and goal setting for large complex programs.
Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their Work History.
Education
Information Regarding KSAs:
As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, 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 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities 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.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) or Other Factors listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
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Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire.
Benefits
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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.
Required Documents
Documentation, i.e., Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50), will be accepted in combination with your online application. These documents must be uploaded to your profile or emailed to 9-AMC-AHF-S210@faa.gov on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.
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.
How to Apply
You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION.
We strongly encourage applicants to utilize the USAJOBS resume builder in the creation of resumes.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information:
- Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
- Duties (be specific in describing your duties)
- Employer's name and address
- Supervisor name and phone number
- Start and end dates including month and year (e.g. June 2007 to April 2008)
- Full-time or part-time status (include hours worked per week)
- Salary (optional)
Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information and failure to provide ALL of this information may result in a finding of ineligible.You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded information again when applying for future vacancies. Please see this guide,
Document Upload Guide, for more information on uploading and re-using the documents in your applications.
Next steps
Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.
For instructions on how to check the status of your application, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide.
Important - If you make any changes to your application, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and only your previously submitted application will be evaluated.
All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.