Supervisory Program Specialist, GS-0301-14 (All U. S. Citizens & Status Candidates)
JOB DETAIL
This position is in the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW., Washington, DC, in the Bureau for Conflict Prevention and Stabilization (CPS) at the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID).
Duties
- Serves as Deputy Division Chief for OTI’s Operations and Management Division, exercising strong leadership and performing management functions and effective workforce planning.
- As an expert in Federal, Agency, and Office policies and regulations, provides advice, guidance, and mentoring on administrative operations in support of crisis operations contingency programs.
- Strategically plans, organizes, and carries out analytical studies involving crisis operations support functions, preparing and contributing to reports and proposing solutions to management issues.
- Liaises with other Office divisions, Agency management and human resource offices, and institutional contractors, sharing procedures and systems to improve efficiency and effectiveness.
- Analyzes, identifies and resolves problems related to contingency operations, providing specialized knowledge management support such as tracking documents, lessons learned, and best practices.
- Makes decisions on business processes that ensure efficiency and rapid response, providing recommendations for the resolution of administrative problems.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- United States Citizenship is required.
- Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret Security clearance.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
- Direct Deposit/Electronic Funds Transfer is required.
- If you have no prior Federal experience or are selected under Delegated Examining procedures, you will be required to serve a one-year probationary period.
- If you select to be considered under Merit Promotion requirements, you must meet the Time-in-Grade requirements before the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
- These are Testing Designated Positions (TDP’s) under the Agency’s approved Drug-Free Work Place Program. All applicants selected for this position will be subject to random drug testing once they begin working for the Agency.
- You may be required to serve a one year Supervisory probationary period.
Qualifications
ALL QUALIFICATION REQUIREMENTS MUST BE MET BY THE CLOSING DATE OF THIS ANNOUNCEMENT. Your resume must include detailed information as it relates to the responsibilities and specialized experience for this position. Evidence of copying and pasting directly from the vacancy announcement without clearly documenting supplemental information to describe your experience will result in an ineligible rating. This will prevent you from receiving further consideration.
Specialized Experience:
GS-14You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-13 level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position include:
- (a) Providing technical direction in the conceptualization and management of rapid response, contingency program operational support for, or in support of, a federal international assistance organization;
- (b) Experience improving mission-critical business policies, workload, resources, procedures, and/or methods to support an operational rapid response assistance organization; And
- (c) Supervising staff providing a range of operational functions in support of a global rapid response workforce that includes multiple hiring mechanisms.
Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience relevant to the position’s duties to be filled, including volunteer experience.
CTAP/ICTAP candidates will be referred to the selecting official if they are found well qualified. Well-qualified means an eligible applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities that clearly exceed the position’s minimum requirements. In addition, a well-qualified employee must meet the qualification and eligibility requirements of the position, including any medical qualifications, suitability, and minimum education and experience requirements, meet all selective factors (where applicable); meet quality ranking factors and are assigned to the Silver Category or higher Category; be physically qualified with reasonable accommodation to perform the essential duties of the position; meet any special qualifying U.S. OPM-approved conditions; AND be able to satisfactorily perform the duties of the position upon entry without additional training.
A well-qualified candidate will not necessarily meet the definition of highly or best qualified when evaluated against other candidates who apply for a particular position. Therefore, selecting officials will document the job-related reason(s) for qualification determinations without selective and quality ranking factors.
Education
This position does not have a positive education requirement. Therefore, no transcripts are required.
