Management and Program Analyst

About the role

Serves as the Western Service Center focal for Air Traffic Organization (ATO) capitalization issues and actions.

What you will do

• Participates in national work groups and efforts to improve national capitalization policy and procedures.
• Provides training, oversight, and guidance to lower-level analysts in the capitalization program.
• Serves as liaison to counterparts in other Service Center locations to maintain standardization across the Service Areas.
• Works across organizational and functional lines in the ATO Service Area, with Regions and Center Operations (ARC) Logistics organization, and with Headquarters.
• Tracks and maintains Audit Requests, Joint Acceptance Inspections (JAIs), and Capital Investment Plan (CIP) backlog for the ATO Service Area.
• Compiles reports on CIP backlog and candidate cap packages, including Contractor Acceptance Inspection (CAI) and JAI.
• Analyzes project data to identify and provide solutions to capitalization problems.
• Recommends improvements to capitalization processes to improve operational efficiency.
• Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge applicable to capitalization to design and recommend solutions to complex problems.
• Provides leadership to lower-level employees who set up projects to prepare for capitalization, including Regional Capitalization Team (RCTs), Delphi maintenance, and asset creation.
• Provides briefings to the District Offices and other internal and external customers on capitalization processes and procedures.
• Determines from a programmatic perspective the viability, consistency and accuracy of plans and projections and conducts reviews to determine resource levels required to accomplish programs in a sound and efficient manner.
• Plans, organizes, and directs team study work and negotiates effectively with management to accept and implement recommendations, where the proposals involve substantial agency resources, require extensive changes in established procedures or may be in conflict with the desires of the activity studied.
• Performs continuous appraisal of the utilization of command resources in accomplishing program objectives and goals.
• Develops new approaches to identifying meaningful workload factors and performance quality levels and determining accurate measurement techniques.
• Performs other duties as assigned.

Requirements

• We are not accepting applications from noncitizens.

How you will be evaluated

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.

Documents you must provide

• You MUST submit a copy of your most recent (non-award) SF-50, Notification of Personnel Action, or equivalent document that verifies tenure (block 24, code 1 or 2).
• Failure to provide the required documentation by the closing date of this announcement will result in non-consideration for this position.
• If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your online application, e.g. transcripts, SF-50 or veterans' documentation, you may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS.
• Supplemental documentation can also be faxed to (206)231-4150 on or before the closing date of this announcement.
• Please include your name and the vacancy announcement number on each of your faxed pages and redact all Personally Identifiable Information (PII), such as social security number and date of birth.
• In addition, 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 ***

What to expect next

Once we receive your complete application, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluation of your qualifications. Eligible and qualified candidates will be referred to the hiring manager for consideration. You will be contacted directly if selected for an interview.

For instructions on how to check the status of your application, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide. Important - If you make any changes to your application, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your application and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your application package, and only your previously submitted application will be evaluated.

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.

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. *** 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 WORK HISTORY THAT DESCRIBES HOW YOU MEET THE 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. 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 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.

Security Requirement - Moderate Risk (5): This position requires completion & favorable adjudication of a Moderate Risk Background Investigation (Tier 2) background investigation prior to appointment, unless waiver is obtained. Interviews: If one applicant is interviewed, then all qualified applicants must be interviewed. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA