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Administrative Officer

Department of Transportation
Federal Aviation Administration
Office of National Engagement and Regional Administration, Eastern Region

Summary

This position serves as the Administrative Lead in a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Service Center Region and Region, Office of Policy, International Affairs & Environment (APL), National Engagement & Regional Administration (ARA). The position directly supports the Regional Administrator and reports to the Deputy RA Regional.

Overview

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Accepting applications
Location
1 vacancy in the following location:
Work site options
Telework eligible
Yes—Situational telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy.
Relocation expenses reimbursed
No
Salary
$88,713 - $137,513 per year

The salary above includes locality rate of 37.95%.

Pay scale & grade
FV H
Promotion potential
NA
Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job.
Work schedule
Full-time
Travel Required
Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-related duties.
Appointment type
Permanent
Occupations and job series
Supervisory status
No
Federal service type
This job is in the Excepted Service
Drug test
No
Security clearance
Not Required
Announcement number
AEA-ARA-26-SLF-99964
Control number
879546300

This job is open to

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Clarification from the agency

Open to current permanent employees FAA wide

Duties

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Oversees a variety of administrative support programs such as FOIA, records management, property inventory, and annual data calls. Responsible for managing various programs as assigned, and assists with regional programs and other special events including, but not limited to, Hotline Operations, international Notifications, NASAO meetings, all-hands meetings, etc.
- Serves as administrative official for budget, personnel, performance planning, directives and records, training, and policies and procedures, as needed. Serves as the RA's Purchase Credit Cardholder and performs all associated activities for purchase and validation. Serves as the timekeeping coordinator for the RA/DRA and employees assigned to these offices.
- Plans, coordinates, and schedules RA/DRA meeting schedules including participants from multiple internal and external groups. Collects and organizes documentation for all meetings. Provides administrative support on workgroups and participate on special programs as identified by the RA/DRA. Manages Regional Administrators visitors, ensuring visits are well coordinated, materials are available, and appropriate staff members are available for support. Ensures detailed itineraries are complete and briefing materials are ready. Works with Senior Advisor to coordinate tracking of follow-up actions.
- Handles special assignments of a confidential nature discretely, ensuring information and actions are accurate, timely, applicable, maintained on a need-to-know basis, and securely stored. Ensures RA office Vital Records are current, and back-up copies are maintained.
- In collaboration with the supervisor, articulates and communicates assignments to the Administrative Specialist. Incumbent articulates the project, problems to be solved, actionable events, milestones, and/or program issues under review, and deadlines and time frames for completion. Monitors and reports on the status and progress of work, checking on work in progress and reviewing completed work to see that the supervisor's instructions on work priorities, methods, deadlines and quality have been met.
- Represents the administrative functions in dealings with the supervisor for the purpose of obtaining resources, and securing needed information or decisions on major work problems and issues that arise. Routes inquiries, Congressional correspondence, HQ requests and other correspondence to appropriate office(s) and composes or tracks
timeliness of responses.
- Works in a team environment to ensure all front office activities are completed. Provides backup for other administrative positions as necessary and ensures continuous support coverage for the Regional Administrator.

Requirements

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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).

Qualifications

To qualify for this position at the FV-H (FG/GS 11-12) level you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G (FG/GS 5/7/9) level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience must demonstrate experience in processing travel, procurement, record management, property inventory, correspondence administration and skill in interpreting policy. Applicants must provide sufficient information within resume work history to show how the specialized experience is met.

Education

Education substitution for FV-H:Not applicable at the H band.

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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

Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

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 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 KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSA listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

This is not a bargaining unit position.

Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA

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.

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.

Federal Aviation Administration

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Agency contact information

Shawn Farmer
Phone
1 (718) 553-4175
Fax
1 (718) 995-5688
Email
Shawn.Farmer@faa.gov
Address
Federal Aviation Administration
AEA Regional HR Services Branch
1 Aviation Plaza, Room 207
AHF-N610
Jamaica, NY 11434
US

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