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The Aviation Safety Program Compliance Specialist represents the ODA Office on a wide variety of technical issues, policy issues, and tasks related to the principles and practices, as it applies to the Aviation Safety mission, to effectively deliver quality and timely services. The employee responsible for bringing diverse viewpoints together, effectively acquiring support for decisions and actions, and anticipates and resolves conflicts.
05/29/2025 to 08/26/2025
$94,544 - $146,571 per year
Locality increase will be determined at time of job offer.
FV J
few vacancies in the following location:
Yes—Situational telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy.
25% or less - The job may require up to 25% travel.
No
Permanent
Full-time
Excepted
NA
No
No
ACT-AVS-25-AVS060-95274
837678900
U.S. Citizens, Nationals or those who owe allegiance to the U.S.
Veterans of the U.S. Armed Forces or a spouse, widow, widower or parent of a veteran, who may be eligible for derived preference
Military spouses relocating under PCS orders or whose spouse is 100% disabled or died while on active duty.
Individuals who are eligible under Schedule A.
Individuals who have served at least 2 years with the Peace Corps or 1 year with AmeriCorps VISTA.
Individuals eligible under a special authority not listed in another hiring path.
U.S. Citizens, Individuals with Disabilities, Military
The Aviation Safety Program Compliance Specialist performs multiple, varying and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist. Acts as principal technical specialist or as a project manager or team leader for large work activities. Applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge of aviation statutory regulations to ensure compliance. Conducts regulatory compliance reviews, outreach, staffing support, writing, research, and other functions to facilitate timely submission of AVS deliverables.
Applies regulatory experience and expert technical knowledge of aviation safety regulations, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems. Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Monitors the execution of the program portfolio and its component projects, ensuring that it continues to meet the original design objectives. Plans and implements solutions to address quality control issues and selects appropriate qualitative or quantitative methods to be used in quality control of key safety system programs to assess and identify shortfalls and recommends solutions for preventive action, measure progress, continuous improvement and success.
Uses experience planning and implementing projects to define, organize, and assign resources to accomplish organizational objectives. Allocates resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Works with manager in defining project scope, goals and deliverable; defining tasks and required resources; collecting and managing project team inputs, managing budget, and allocating project resources. Participates in technical working groups and ad hoc advisory committees.
Collaborates and engages in discussions related to the Agency's mission and ensuring the operation and safety of the National Airspace System (NAS). Participates in a variety of complex studies and researches projects to measure, assess, and evaluate the effect of changes and trends pertinent to the activities of the agency’s aviation safety programs. Identifies and resolves complex individual transactional or aviation safety programmatic issues and interprets regulatory and policy and compliance issues related to statues, regulations and program requirements to develop improvement to technical processes or systems. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally.
Contacts are internal and external. Often represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally (within an LOB/SO or across LOB's/SO's) and externally, including senior level executives and program sponsors/owners. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations provide input, coordinate approvals, and to measure and report progress. Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations. Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports for final approval prior to external distribution.
Contributes to the preparation and dissemination of the Office's written materials by drafting and editing talking points, fact sheets, briefing materials, memorandum, and other materials for conducting, facilitating, and supporting committee meetings, external outreach, briefings, reports, and speeches. Ensures information on activities are communicated in an effective and timely manner throughout the Agency.
Work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity.
To view the complete qualification standard, applicants should reference- U.S. Office of Personnel Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Inspection Investigation Enforcement and Compliance Series, 1801:
General Inspection Investigation Enforcement and Compliance Series 1801
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. 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 is: Experience providing program management skills on a wide variety of regulatory, technical and policy compliance, delegated authority, and/or other tasks related to the principles and practices as it applies to aviation safety.
Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.
Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
Interview Policy: Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed.
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/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements
Leave Enhancement: FAA organizations may offer enhanced annual leave accrual to newly appointed or reappointed employees. In order to receive consideration for such a benefit, applicants' prior non-Federal service or active duty uniformed service must directly relate to the duties of the position to which appointed. Granting enhanced annual leave is at the sole discretion of the hiring organization, and granting such benefit is not an entitlement nor guaranteed to any newly hired employee.
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.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
The duty location will be an approved FAA AVS facility.
The referral list will be issued every two (2) weeks and provided to the hiring official.
This is not a bargaining unit position.
Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA
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.
To qualify based on education, you must upload or fax a copy of your high school or college transcripts or certificates at time of application. If selected, official transcripts will be required prior to employment.
Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50), upon request.
Only supplemental documentation, e.g. transcripts or veteran's documentation will be accepted in combination with your on-line application. These documents must be uploaded or emailed to monique.heriegel@faa.gov on or before the closing date of this announcement. All submitted documents should reference the announcement number.
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 be submitted 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 be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register.
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