Clarification from the agency

This announcement is open to: All U.S. Citizens.

As the EXECUTIVE OFFICER TO THE DIRECTOR you will be responsible for the following duties:

• Serves as Executive Officer to the DCSA Director, using knowledge of DCSA missions and programs to ensure the Director's strategic objectives, goals, and intent for DCSA's organizational climate and priorities are conveyed to DCSA Program Managers and Headquarters Staff
• Attends internal and external meetings with the Director and collaborates with senior leaders and staff officers across the enterprise to address action items emanating from those meetings to ensure common understanding of substantive requirements and suspense dates.
• Represents and advocates for the DCSA in various enterprise forums in order to bring the operational perspective to development and coordination of various policies, interagency resource sharing agreements.
• Identifies systemic difficulties and coordinates cross-agency activities to develop solutions and new programs, products and services; implements new procedures and local policies to drive compliance, efficiency, effectiveness.
• Coordinates across all functional areas in the development of products and materials for use by Agency personnel or the general public.
• Reviews and evaluates work products from DCSA organizational elements that respond to the Director, DCSA tasking requirements; ensures products contain cogent and complete responses to the tasking.
• Oversees administrative workflow and products assigned to the immediate Office of the DCSA Director.

Conditions of employment

• Must be a US citizen
• Selective Service Requirement: Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service. For more information http://www.sss.gov
• Resume and supporting documents received by 11:59PM EST will be considered
• This is a Drug Testing designated position
• Position is a (DCIPS) position in the Excepted Service under U.S.C. 1601
• Work Schedule: Full Time
• Overtime: Occasionally
• Tour of Duty: Flexible
• PCS (Permanent Change of Station): May be Authorized
• Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA): Exempt
• Financial Disclosure: Not Required
• Telework Eligibility: This position is telework eligible, but is not a full time telework position. The incumbent will be required to report to the office on a routine basis.
• If selected, the incumbent must obtain and maintain appropriate security clearance as indicated in job announcement.
• This position is designated as "Mission essential" for purposes of continuity of operations in an emergency.
• A bachelor's degree or equivalent experience is highly desired for this position; a master's degree is preferred.
• The position may require frequent temporary duty travel (TDY) and/or local travel.
• The work is predominately sedentary with no unusual physical requirements. The work is performed in an office setting, with some walking, bending, and carrying of files required.

Qualifications

The experience described in your resume will be evaluated and screened from the Office of Personnel Management's (OPMs) basic qualifications requirements. See: Miscellaneous Administration and Program Series 0301 (opm.gov) for OPM qualification standards, competencies and specialized experience needed to perform the duties of the position as described in the MAJOR DUTIES and QUALIFICATIONS sections of this announcement by 04/09/2024

Applicant must have directly applicable experience that demonstrates the possession of the knowledge, skills, abilities and competencies necessary for immediate success in the position. Qualifying experience may have been acquired in any public or private sector job, but will clearly demonstrate past experience in the application of the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities necessary to successfully perform the duties of the position.

You must have specialized experience sufficient to demonstrate that you have acquired all the competencies necessary to perform at a level equivalent in difficulty, responsibility, and complexity to the next lower grade GS/GG-14 in the Federal service and are prepared to take on greater responsibility.
Generally, this would include one year or more of such specialized experience.

Specialized experience for this GG-15 position includes:

1. Directly supporting senior leadership to ensure the strategic objectives, goals, and priorities are conveyed to subordinate elements. Compiling a wide range of inputs into cogent, complete programs and responses that are in consonance with the agency goals and priorities.
2. Preparing senior executives for engagements, supporting the engagement, capturing action items, and developing suspense's to ensure items are completed by agreed upon timelines.
3. Reviewing responses to ensure quality and completeness and producing final product for the Director's approval.
4. Leading numerous high priority special projects of critical importance to executive leadership producing substantial, detailed research and provides recommendations that involve unprecedented solutions to intransigent problems.

Specifically you will be evaluated on the following competencies:

1. Strategic Thinking - Formulates objectives and priorities, and implements plans consistent with the long-term interests of the organization in a global environment. Capitalizes on opportunities and manages risks.

2. Management Analysis - Conducts research and solves organizational inefficiencies to increase the effectiveness of the organization.

3. Problem Solving - Identifies and analyzes problems; weighs relevance and accuracy of information; seeks/generates and evaluates alternative perspectives/solutions; makes timely/ effective recommendations, based on potential implications of findings or conclusions. Critically evaluates to identify the causes of problems, and chooses courses of action that balance the interests of the mission and stakeholders.

4. Communication - Communicate orally and in writing.

How you will be evaluated

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

Read the job opportunity carefully to make sure you have included all required contact information.
Include dates, hours, level of experience and examples for each work experience
For each work experience you list, make sure you include:

• Start and end dates (including the month and year).
• The number of hours you worked per week.
• The level and amount of experience-for instance, whether you served as a project manager or a team member helps to illustrate your level of experience.
• Examples of relevant experiences and accomplishments that prove you can perform the tasks at the level required for the job as stated in the job announcement. Your experience needs to address every required qualification.

If your resume does not clearly outline details for each position as noted, you may be deemed "not referred" for this position.

Once the application process is complete, your resume and supporting documentation will be used to determine whether you meet the job qualifications listed on this announcement. If you are minimally qualified for this job, your resume and supporting documentation will be compared to your responses on the Occupational Questionnaire. If you rate yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your responses may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job If you are found to be among the top candidates, you will be referred to the selecting official for employment consideration.