This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/625040100. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
Due to the Pandemic, and individual states with different phases of reopening, the selectee’s report date to the official duty station/facility may be delayed until such time as employees are allowed to report to the workplace. The person selected may telework up to the maximum extent possible, up to and including full time, until it is safe to relocate.
Learn more about this agency12/03/2021 to 12/15/2021
$83,458 - $129,384 per year
Salary does not include locality. Locality will be based on duty location.
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3 vacancies in the following location:
Yes—as determined by the agency policy.
25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel.
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Permanent
Full-time
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ASW-AIR-22-MS100-75825
625040100
The incumbent serves as Senior Strategic Policy Advisor in the Aircraft Certification Service (AIR). The responsibilities of the incumbent include providing direct support, aviation safety inspection expert guidance, and assistance to the Strategic Policy Manager in setting strategies and priorities for regulation, guidance, and consensus standards development for small airplanes, gliders, manned free balloons and airships.
The Aviation Safety Inspector serves as a subject matter expert on the views and policies for small airplanes, gliders, manned free balloons and airships, as well as with other salient FAA policies and airworthiness requirements. The incumbent plans and accomplishes highly complex and challenging projects/programs and other work activities under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, or team leader.
Will serve as a project/program manager or team leader on significant, complex or high priority activities. Provides recommendations to the Strategic Policy Manager relating to inspection, manufacturing and maintenance policies, priorities, practices, and procedures. Provides support in establishing safety initiatives and recommendations for setting research direction and priorities.
May represent the Strategic Policy Manager at meetings and interacts with other lines of business/staff offices, as well as internal and external stakeholders on issues related to the Strategic Policy Section, which requires an extremely high degree of tact and diplomacy. Often represents Strategic Policy Section as a principal point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the application of policies and procedures. Applies structured techniques to complex organizational initiatives, to include impact analysis, communications planning, readiness assessment, and project planning. Identifies and resolves complex and challenging problems or issues, which cross organizations, and outlines improvement goals and/or strategies.
Assignments require aviation safety inspection knowledge and experience, which is essential in addressing issues of aviation safety issues across functional and/or organizational lines. Typical assignments may include supporting establishment of strategies and priorities for the Strategic Policy Section, and outreach to industry groups, foreign authorities and other FAA offices to promote the policies of the Strategic Policy Section.
Assignments include extensive research requiring a comprehensive understanding of operations, maintenance, and/or manufacture of aircraft, direct responsibility for project/program management, regulatory or guidance material development, and participation in the development of industry consensus standards.
The incumbent has a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval prior to external distribution. Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies. Uses broad policies and historical decisions to provide general guidance for addressing issues, many of which require the development of new or improved safety approaches. Draws on aviation safety inspection experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and approaches, as the situation requires.
Provides policy guidance and instructions to others to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management. Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Works with senior management to jointly solve problems.
Responsibilities Continued below:
Responsibilities Continued: Work is reviewed rarely, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. Has broad discretion to ensure alignment of organizational goals and policies, and the requirements of the projects and/or other work activities. Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions and/or LOB's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.
Up to 25% travel required. Performs other duties as assigned.
Single Agency Qualification Standard for the General Aviation Operations option (from the Operating Manual for Qualification Standards for General Schedule Positions) is located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/1800/aviation-safety-series-1825/
Minimum Eligibility Requirements for All Positions:
General Requirements for All Positions:
Medical Requirements for All Positions:
Applicants must be physically able to perform the duties of the Aviation Safety Inspector position in a safe and efficient manner, with or without a reasonable accommodation. The minimum medical requirements include the following:
In addition, applicants for positions that require participation in the operation of the aircraft must:
Applications not requiring valid second-class medical certificates who are tentatively selected will be required to:
*Note - Recency of specialized experience and the need for a valid second-class FAA medical certificate is waived for employees currently in the 1825 series.
Specialized Experience: To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13 level. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. At least one year of specialized experience at the next lower level may include but is not limited to:
• Experience establishing milestones and goals, and preparing briefing materials containing conclusions and recommendations for assigned programs
• Experience influencing managers or team members to accept and implement findings and recommendations on policy/program effectiveness
Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
Special Note Concerning Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSA's): 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 initial 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. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire.
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/working_here/financial_disclosure_requirements
The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.
If selected, you will be required to provide information regarding your COVID-19 vaccination status for the purposes of implementing workplace safety protocols, such as protocols related to masking, physical distancing, testing, travel, and quarantine.
This position is located in AIR-615. However, this vacancy announcement may be used to fill future vacancies in any of the other AIR Divisions Offices. Duty location may be negotiated at the time of selection.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (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.
For Lateral Movements Between 1825 Specialties: To assist in determining qualification requirements, applicants transferring between specialties at the same grade level are strongly encouraged to complete the appropriate Qualifications Assessment Tool (QAT) check sheet and upload it along with their resume. Check sheets are contained in Order 3410.26, Flight Standards Service Air Carrier and General Aviation Qualifications Assessment Tool for AFS Aviation Safety Inspectors. This order is located at: https://www.faa.gov/documentLibrary/media/Order/3410.26.pdf
Interviews: The agency may choose to interview some, all or none of the candidates on the list.
Security Requirements - Moderate Risk (5): This position requires completion and favorable adjudication of a background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Subject to a 5 year period reinvestigation.
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.
REQUIRED: In addition to uploading a resume, all FAA employees MUST submit the most recent Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50), (see below on required information needed on SF-50).
If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notification of Personnel Action) containing information in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organization of record by the closing date of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line application. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy.
If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/.
Education must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education in order for it to be credited towards qualifications. Therefore, provide only the attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education.
Failure to provide all of the required information as stated in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible rating or may affect the overall rating.
You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must have a status of "Received" by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must have a status of "Received" each time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with register.
IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE OR EDUCATION.
We strongly encourage applicants to utilize the USAJOBS resume builder in the creation of resumes.
Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information:
Candidates for FAA positions are evaluated using our Automated Vacancy Information Access Tool for Online Referral (AVIATOR) system.
AVIATOR compares your skills and experience as described in your application with the requirements of the position.
If you are found to be an eligible, highly-qualified candidate, you will be referred to the selecting official for further consideration.
(In some cases, individuals with priority for special consideration must be considered and selected before other candidates.)
Whether or not you are contacted for an interview depends upon the location of the position and the judgment of the selecting official.
Important - If you make any change to your application, you must resubmit it.
If you change your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and your previous application will be considered.
All qualified applicants will be considered regardless of political affiliation, race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Information section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodation request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis. Additional information on reasonable accommodations procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office.
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This job originated on www.usajobs.gov. For the full announcement and to apply, visit www.usajobs.gov/job/625040100. Only resumes submitted according to the instructions on the job announcement listed at www.usajobs.gov will be considered.
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