Summary
This position is within the Office of Workforce & Strategic Analytics, AHA-100, HR Systems & Services Branch, AHA-110, serving as the branch manager, senior technical authority, and principal advisor on human capital analytics within the HR Systems & Services Branch. The position will be subject to the AHR reorg and duties may be subject to change.
This job is open to
Internal to an agency
Current federal employees of the hiring agency that posted the job announcement.
Clarification from the agency
Open to AHR employees only
Duties
The incumbent exercises supervisory responsibility over a staff of technical specialists and blends expert, comprehensive knowledge of federal human resources management regulations with advanced data analytics methodologies. The position is responsible for directing the extraction, analysis, and translation of people data into strategic workforce solutions to guide agency-wide modernization initiatives, including supervising the transition to the OPM government-wide Cloud HCM platform, supporting a workforce of over 45,000 employees.
1. Strategic HRIS Program Evaluation & Management
*Plans, schedules, assigns, and evaluates the work of system owners and data architects executing enterprise-wide evaluations to measure the evaluation of complex, multidimensional workforce tools to identify and mitigate systemic human capital risks or disparities, ensuring strategic plans align strictly with statute, policy, and the Merit Systems Protection Principles.
*Directs the establishment of system performance metrics and interface standards to ensure system to system connections in support of secure data sharing.
*Oversees the evaluation of complex, multidimensional databases to identify and mitigate systemic risks, ensuring workforce systems align with federal statutes, privacy act requirements, and agency enterprise standards.
*Guides staff in interpreting statutory systems governance, privacy laws, and federal constraints to ensure projected automated solutions are technically sound, secure, and legally viable.
2. Technology Integration & Functional Governance
*Functions as the supervisory HR authority and lead functional systems consultant for the agency¿s migration to the OPM government-wide Cloud HCM platform, managing HRIS personnel resources and cross-functional technical deliverables.
*Directs the translation of intricate HR policies and business requirements from sister branches into precise functional specifications for IT developers and system configuration.
*Oversees the development of power platform solutions to improve effectiveness and efficiency of human capital work through automation.
*Manages and approves system integration testing, and business-logic validation during HRIS transformation initiatives. Ensures historical system availability throughout modernization activities.
*Governs the functional security access architecture for sensitive human capital tools. Audits, and enforces strict need-to-know restrictions and role-based access profiles to protect Personally Identifiable Information.
3. Executive HR Consultation & Strategic Alignment
*Translates complex HRIS functional capabilities and technological trends into highly actionable, clear executive summaries for senior HR leaders, FAA Office executives, and external oversight bodies.
*Utilizes advanced data storytelling techniques to present the business cases for strategic human capital system interventions. Provides the system generated, data-backed evidence required to justify funding for critical HR technology procurements, app development or HR systems enhancements.
*Represents the division, office, and agency on inter-agency technical task forces, OPM working groups, and federal committees as the authoritative functional expert on AHR systems integration and enterprise practices.
4. Personnel Management & Leadership
*Exercises the full range of supervisory duties over an HRIS workforce, including planning and assigning work, setting project priorities, monitoring performance, and evaluating employee contributions to HR system implementations.
*Identifies specialized training needs for employees, provides constructive feedback, and coaches staff to enhance their functional proficiencies and professional capabilities.
*Analyzes future HRIS workload requirements, designs organizational structures, and implements targeted workforce planning strategies to address internal staffing needs and pipeline development for the HR systems division.
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).
- Financial Disclosure is required
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-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 planning, scheduling, and directing enterprise-wide evaluations of complex, multidimensional workforce databases to identify and mitigate systemic human capital risks or disparities. This includes establishing technical system performance metrics, defining interface standards for secure system-to-system data sharing, and interpreting federal statutes, privacy laws, and Merit Systems Protection Principles to ensure solutions are secure and legally viable.
OR
Experience serving as a lead functional systems consultant and supervisory authority for large-scale migrations to government-wide Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM) platforms. This includes directing the translation of intricate HR policy mandates (such as Talent Acquisition, Employee Relations, and Benefits) into precise functional specifications for IT developers, overseeing Power Platform automations, and approving system integration testing and business-logic validation.
OR
Experience synthesizing highly complex HRIS functional capabilities and emerging technological trends into clear, actionable technical briefings for senior executives and external federal oversight bodies. This includes using advanced data storytelling techniques to build data-backed strategic business cases that justify funding for critical HR technology procurements, governing role-based data security access architectures to protect sensitive Personally Identifiable Information (PII), and representing an organization on inter-agency technical task forces.
OR
Experience exercising a full range of supervisory personnel authorities over an HRIS and technical data workforce. This includes planning and assigning work, setting project priorities, establishing performance standards, and holding staff accountable for individual and organizational objectives. This must also include identifying specialized training needs (e.g., HR configurations, OPM processing rules), coaching staff, analyzing future workloads, and designing targeted workforce planning strategies to build internal staffing pipelines.
You should include relevant examples of the specialized experience in your work history. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered.
Answer all questions to the best of your ability. DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD, OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE. You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process. Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification.
Education
Education cannot be substituted for experience.
Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire.
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. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements
This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about Core Compensation is available at: https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working_here/benefits
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 Managerial Selection Factor.
In lieu of providing a narrative response in the text box listed below each Managerial Selection Factor, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your 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.
Unless previously completed, the incumbent must satisfactorily complete a 1-year probationary period to remain in this supervisory or managerial position.
Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed.
This is not a bargaining unit position.
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Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.
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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.
Required Documents
ALL applicants MUST submit the following:
(1) resume with complete work history; and
(2) a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action).
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
Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluation process. This assessment aims to evaluate the competencies and qualifications essential for the position.
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.
RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information:
Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job)
- Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualifications and include job title, employer name, start/end dates, number of hours worked per week.
- Education, certification or licensure: If required, education should include school/institution name, completion date, degree type and GPA.
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.
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.
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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.