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Sports Specialist (Dinghy Sailing)

Department of Transportation
Maritime Administration
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Summary

The position is established to serve as the Head Sailing Coach for the Inter-collegiate Dinghy Sailing Team, a varsity sport. The employee has complete responsibility for all planning, management, and coaching for such endeavors. Areas of responsibility include coaching the Dinghy Sailing Team, management of assistant coaches, recruiting, public relations, basic to advanced sailing and seamanship instruction, training and certification of instructors, and facility management.

Overview

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Open & closing dates
11/03/2023 to 11/20/2023
Salary
$65,113 to - $78,695 per year
Pay scale & grade
AD 00
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Kings Point, NY
Remote job
No
Telework eligible
No
Travel Required
25% or less - Some travel is required
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Appointment type
Permanent
Work schedule
Full-time - Full Time
Service
Excepted
Promotion potential
00
Job family (Series)
Supervisory status
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Drug test
No
Position sensitivity and risk
Moderate Risk (MR)
Trust determination process
Announcement number
MARAD.MMA-2024-0003
Control number
758518300

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Clarification from the agency

Applications will be accepted from any U.S. Citizen. This position is in the Excepted Service. For information on the Excepted Service, please visit: Excepted Service Appointing Authorities@ http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-authorities/excepted-service/ This is a Bargaining unit position represented by 3732.

Duties

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As a Sports Specialist (Dinghy Sailing), you will:

  • Develop and implement weekly, seasonal and annual practice and competition plans.
  • Provide instruction of the highest level in dinghy fleet and team racing to skilled members of the sailing team to prepare them for races, regattas and championships.
  • Provide content for website and social media updates on team activities.
  • Travel with midshipmen teams in inter-collegiate and open competition on weekends.
  • Recruit athlete sailors by actively instructing, racing and participation in the sport in a manner and style that attracts candidates to seek admission to the Academy. 

The ideal candidate for this position is a highly motivated and mid to senior level professional possessing integrity, stamina, and ingenuity, and capable of adjusting to various work environments, physical demands, and schedules. The individual must be customer service oriented, with unique skills to develop, manage and coach a Varsity Intercollegiate Dinghy Sailing Team.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

  • This is an Excepted Service position.
  • Submit application and resume online by 11:59 PM EST on the closing date.
  • Required documents must be submitted by the closing date.
  • You must be a U.S. Citizen and eligible for consideration.

CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT:

  • SELECTIVE SERVICE: Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered for the Selective Service.
  • TRIAL PERIOD: This is an Excepted Service position. This job will be filled by an alternative hiring process and is not in the competitive service. Applicants selected for an excepted service position may be subject to a two-year trial period.
  • GOVERNMENT TRAVEL CARD: This position involves travel.  A government contractor-issued travel card will be issued and must be retained for official business only.

Qualifications

To be qualified for this position, you must meet the education requirements and have experience teaching college level classes in the required field of study.

To qualify for a Sports Specialist (Dinghy Sailing) you must possess at least 1 sports season of full time experience coaching dinghy sailing or team racing,

  • Experience coaching dinghy sailing or team racing
  • Experience competing in inter-collegiate sailboat racing as helmsman or crew.
  • Experience in sailboat racing rules, sailboat and sail handling techniques applicable to racing

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:

Customer Service – Anticipates and meets the needs of both internal and external customers.

Oral Communications – Makes clear and convincing oral presentations. Listens effectively: clarifies information as needed.

Develops Others – Develops the ability to others to perform and contribute to the organization by providing ongoing feedback and by providing opportunities to learn through formal and informal methods. 

Teamwork – Encourages and facilitates cooperation, pride, trust, and group identity; fosters commitment and team spirit ; works with others to achieve goals. 5) Leadership – Influences, motivates, and challenges others: adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.

Education

Education Requirement for a Sports Specialist:  Bachelor’s Degree or higher

Highly Desirable:

  1. Four years competing in intercollegiate sailing with All-America or All-Conference Awards.
  2. Minimum of six years coaching youth, high school and/or collegiate sailors.
  3. US Sailing Small Boat Instructor Level 3 or higher (or equivalent).

Additional information

This announcement may be used to fill additional positions if similar vacancies occur within 90 days of the issue date of the referral certificate.

How you will be evaluated

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

DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE: PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. If your resume/application does not support your questionnaire answers, we will not allow credit for your response(s). Your resume must contain sufficiently detailed information upon which to make a qualification determination. Please ensure that your resume contains specific information such as position titles, beginning and ending dates of employment for each position, average number of hours worked per week, and if the position is/was in the Federal government, you should provide the position series and grade level

For this announcement, all applicants will be reviewed to determine if they meet the basic qualifications for this position, specifically the educational and specialized experience requirements.

Applicants will not be rated or ranked.

All applications that are verified to meet the basic qualifications will be referred to the selecting official.

The answers you select in the on-line process must be substantiated in your application package.  If upon review, it is determined that your described work history, competencies, and/or supporting documents do not support your answer choices, you may not be referred to the selecting official. Please ensure that your work history provides enough details to support your answers.


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