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Career transition (CTAP, ICTAP, RPL)

Federal employees whose job, agency or department was eliminated and are eligible for priority over other applicants.

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Bureau of Reclamation Employees Only

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Duties

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The primary duties of this position are:

Serves as a Deputy Regional Director sharing in the responsibilities of the Regional Director in the management of assigned programs within the Interior Region 10: California-Great Basin.
Exercises strategic level supervisory and managerial control and direction over assigned programs.
Formulates and develops strategic objectives, and courses of action for the Region's work associated with hydro-electric power facilities, water resources, and the land and environmental resources management program.
Develops and implements innovative Regional policy consistent with the Regional Director's philosophies and Reclamation's priorities.
Represents and acts for the Regional Director in meetings, conferences, and interactions with representatives of State and Federal agencies, water users, contractors, landowners, media, and other local interests and the public.
Serves as the Region or Reclamation's representative to a wide range of committees and boards and makes commitments on behalf of the Region and Reclamation.
Leads the organization to ensure a workplace culture that is free of prohibited personnel practices, honors merit principles, while leveraging diversity; ensures and maintains a workplace culture where decisions are made without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, or any other non-merit factor.
Serves as second level supervisor of employees engaged in professional, technical, and administrative work.

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Conditions of employment

Candidates may apply to be considered for detail or temporary promotion. This is a temporary assignment and cannot be made permanent without further competition. To be eligible for a temporary promotion, applicants must meet the minimum qualifications requirements outlined below, to include Time-In-Grade restrictions. Applicants that do not meet the requirements for a temporary promotion may be detailed into this position with no change in pay grade.

Time-In-Grade: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees who have a break in service of less than 1 year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of 1 year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). There is no specialized experience or time-in-grade requirement for applicants interested in the detail opportunity.

Supervisory Endorsement: Current Bureau of Reclamation employees must supply proof of current supervisory endorsement to be considered for this opportunity.

Qualifications

Applicants currently at the GS-14 level may apply to be temporarily promoted into this position. Candidates applying for temporary promotion may qualify on the basis of Specialized Experience.

Specialized Experience: The candidate's resume must describe specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and complexity to at least the GS-14 level in federal service demonstrating experience in a water resources or hydropower operations organization that provided management, oversight, and direction in a variety of professional, technical, and administrative fields; experience performing program management or professional engineering; natural resources or scientific work in support of the operation and maintenance of dams and hydropower facilities, water control systems, and associated facilities; experience in planning, design, construction, operation, or maintenance of complex and difficult civil works projects related to power and/or to the storage and conveyance of water such as canals, dams, pipelines, or tunnels; experience in managing or personally performing complex and difficult work on land and/or water issues that are inherent in overall program management of water resources projects; experience with project/program development, planning, and budgeting; formulation and execution of comprehensive plans covering water resource activities; maintaining contact and collaborative working relationships with state, federal, and local agencies in implementing water resources projects; providing counsel to higher organizational levels concerning sustainable water resources issues; ability to lead and supervise a multi-disciplinary staff. These examples are not all inclusive.

Education

This position does not allow for substituting education for experience.

Additional information

Multiple selectees may be selected from this Interest Announcement.

Reclamation has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisory approval.

How you will be evaluated

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

All Bureau of Reclamation employee application packages (see Required Documents) will be reviewed for eligibility and qualifications applicable to temporary assignments.

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Applications (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documentation) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on the closing date of this announcement 01/16/2024. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button at the top of the page.

This vacancy is being announced through Bureau of Reclamation's Hiring System-USA Staffing. For more information, please visit: https://www.usbr.gov/hr/

As part of the on-line application process, applicants may be required to submit supporting documents. Failure to submit the requested supporting documents may result in the applicant not being considered for this position.

Do not submit photographs with the application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.

Agency contact information

BOR CA Great Basin Human Resources Office

Phone: 916-978-5476
Fax: 916-978-5563
Email: mpjobs@usbr.gov

Address: Office of Regional Director
Bureau of Reclamation
2800 Cottage Way
Sacramento, CA 95825
US

Next steps

Upon successful submission of the application packet, applicants will receive a confirmation email from USAJOBS. If this email confirmation is not received by the applicant, the application has not yet been accepted by the system.

After all application packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) will be reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualification requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualifications will be further evaluated on the information provided in the resume, application questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section above. Best-qualified applicants will be referred to the selecting official. After making a tentative job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigation will be conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applications. Applicants should monitor their status for positions with the Bureau of Reclamation by regularly checking their public status notifications in the USAJOBS profile.

Required Documents

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Applicants are required to apply online via USA Jobs and submit all Required Documents appropriate, as outlined below:

Resume
Most recent SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action
Signed Reclamation Interest Announcement Notification Form including Supervisory Endorsement and Employee Statement of Interest

How to Apply

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Applications (resume, assessment questionnaire, and supporting documentation) for this vacancy MUST be received online BEFORE midnight Eastern Time (Washington, DC time) on the closing date of this announcement 01/16/2024. To apply, click the blue APPLY ONLINE button at the top of the page.

This vacancy is being announced through Bureau of Reclamation's Hiring System-USA Staffing. For more information, please visit: https://www.usbr.gov/hr/

As part of the on-line application process, applicants may be required to submit supporting documents. Failure to submit the requested supporting documents may result in the applicant not being considered for this position.

Do not submit photographs with the application package. Documents with photographs may not be seen by hiring officials - applicant must remove any images from badges, licenses, etc.

Agency contact information

BOR CA Great Basin Human Resources Office

Phone: 916-978-5476
Fax: 916-978-5563
Email: mpjobs@usbr.gov

Address: Office of Regional Director
Bureau of Reclamation
2800 Cottage Way
Sacramento, CA 95825
US

Next steps

Upon successful submission of the application packet, applicants will receive a confirmation email from USAJOBS. If this email confirmation is not received by the applicant, the application has not yet been accepted by the system.

After all application packages have been received, resumes and supporting document(s) will be reviewed to ensure applicants meet the basic qualification requirements. Each applicant who meets the basic qualifications will be further evaluated on the information provided in the resume, application questionnaire, and other assessment criteria identified in the "How You Will Be Evaluated" section above. Best-qualified applicants will be referred to the selecting official. After making a tentative job offer, a suitability and/or security background investigation will be conducted. A final job offer is typically made within 40 days after the deadline for applications. Applicants should monitor their status for positions with the Bureau of Reclamation by regularly checking their public status notifications in the USAJOBS profile.