Supervisory Probation Administrator (Lead Business Advisor)

Clarification from the agency

This vacancy announcement is open to current employees of the Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts (AO). The selectee of this position may be assigned to an official duty station within or outside the Washington, DC commuting area. Accordingly, pay will be set based on the locality area/official duty station assigned.

The supervisory probation administrator will serve as the business lead of the Probation and Pretrial Services Office's IT product portfolio. The executive level administrator will own the product vision, strategy, and business implementation for current and future IT products, connecting product development with overall business goals and enterprise-wide objectives.

The Lead Business Advisor (LBA) works in close partnership with the Lead Technical Advisor (LTA), ensuring that business strategy and technical execution remain aligned without duplicating system-ownership authority. This role is essential for ensuring that current and future probation and pretrial services IT product development and implementation maintain strategic integrity, preventing unauthorized scope or schedule shifts while ensuring that user engagement remains productive and aligned with enterprise-wide.

The duties of this position include, but are not limited to:

1. Exercising executive oversight of Business Owner responsibilities, ensuring that all project execution, change management, and product strategies are strictly aligned with the overall enterprise business strategy
2. Enforcing a formal governance framework for PPSO IT products, requiring that all changes to scope, schedule, or resources be vetted against strategic business objectives and formally authorized by the Executive Management Group (EMG) before implementation. Ensure that any change with material impact on scope, schedule, or budget is documented, analyzed, and decided through EMG governance.
3. Establishing and maintain an authoritative, single product roadmap that clearly articulates scope, sequencing, and release timing, ensuring all stakeholders, including the field and the EMG, operate from a unified vision to prioritize highest-impact capabilities that deliver measurable operations value to the field.
4. Providing the EMG with high-level, transparent visibility into project status, proactively highlighting the tension between project constraints (scope, schedule, budget) and field-level demands. Co-chair regular executive sessions with AO leadership to review program progress, confirm alignment with EMG decisions, rapidly surface emerging issues, and enable agile but disciplined executive decision-making.
5. Developing and execute a comprehensive stakeholder leadership engagement strategy that balances the needs of the Probation and Pretrial Services leadership community with the product's technical and fiscal parameters.
6. Developing a business-focused governance strategy for evaluating future AI integration proposals, ensuring any AI capability considered for the roadmap is vetted and formally authorized by the EMG before adoption.

Conditions of employment

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT

1. All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
2. Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO. If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status or when it is confirmed by the AO Human Resources Office there are no qualified U.S. citizens for a competitive status position (unless prohibited by a law or statue), non-citizens must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation. Additional information on the employment of non-citizens can be found at USAJOBS Help Center | Employment of non-citizens/. For a list of documents that may be used to provide proof of citizenship or authorization to work in the United States, please refer to Form I-9, Employment Eligibility Verification.
3. All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
4. New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights/responsibilities, visit https://www.e-verify.gov/.
5. All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
6. You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor. Failure to successfully complete the trial period may result in termination of employment.
7. If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Qualifications

Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below. This requirement is according to the AO Classification, Compensation, and Recruitment Systems which include interpretive guidance and reference to the OPM Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions.

Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position. Specialized experience must demonstrate experience in ALL areas defined below:

• Experience identifying and mitigating program and governance risks and advising senior leadership on corrective actions.

• Experience managing implementation, training, knowledge-sharing, and lessons-learned processes.

• Experience coordinating budgets, contracts, compliance, governance, and program documentation.

• Experience evaluating data quality, integrity, and readiness while establishing safeguards for AI, automation, and machine-learning solutions.

How you will be evaluated

You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

We will review your resume and supporting documentation and compare this information to your responses on the occupational questionnaire to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications for this job. If you meet the minimum qualifications for this job, we will evaluate your application package, to assess the quality, depth, and complexity of your accomplishments, experience, and education as they relate to the requirements listed in this vacancy announcement.

You should be aware that your ratings are subject to evaluation and verification. If a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your resume and/or narrative responses, you will be assigned a rating commensurate to your described experience. Failure to submit the mandatory narrative responses will result in not receiving full consideration and/or rating credit. Deliberate attempts to falsify information may be grounds for not selecting you, withdrawing an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.

For this job announcement the following documents and/or information are required:

• Resume - Any written format you choose to describe your job-related qualifications.
• Citizenship - Include country of citizenship on resume.
• Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) - All applicants outside of the AO must submit a copy of your latest SF-50 to verify current or former Federal employment status.
• Veterans Preference documentation - Certificate of Release or Discharge from Active Duty (DD Form 214), if applicable Application for 10-Point Veteran Preference (SF-15) and an official statement, dated 1991 or later, from the Department of Veterans Affairs or from a branch of the Armed Forces, certifying to the veteran's present receipt of compensation.

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