Supervisory Aviation Safety Specialist

About the role

This position serves as a Supervisory Aviation Safety Specialist within Aviation Safety (AVS), Flight Standards (AFX), Office of Safety Standards (AFS-1), General Aviation and Commercial Division (AFS-800).

Provide front-line supervision to subordinate employees with overall program responsibility for the activities of a section within the General Aviation and Commercial Division.

What you will do

• Plans, evaluates, and oversees aviation safety activities within a complex and dynamic National Airspace System (NAS) involving general aviation operations.
• Applies broad knowledge of aviation operations, safety management principles, and regulatory frameworks to assess compliance, analyze safety data and trends, identify hazards, and support risk management strategies.
• Maintains overall program management responsibility for aviation safety initiatives, including the development and evaluation of concepts, standards, policy, criteria, guidance, procedures, programs, documentation, interpretive materials, and approval frameworks associated with assigned programs.
• Programs address complex aviation safety issues associated with established policies, procedures, and organizational objectives that frequently leave room for discretion.
• Oversees planning, prioritization, and execution of work across multiple projects, functions, and disciplines and integrates efforts across organizations to support strategic goals of the Branch, Division, Flight Standards, and the FAA.
• Provides leadership and oversight to assigned staff and coordinates with internal and external stakeholders to support consistent application of aviation safety policies and programs.
• Provides analytical support to Flight Standards Executive staff, field, headquarters, and national program offices, and provides authoritative advice, guidance, oversight, and leadership in the formulation, development, and conduct of highly complex, controversial and significant analytical tools, using U.S. and global data to evaluate safety risks and hazards.
• Manages and sets clear performance standards that promote accountability, a sense of individual responsibility, professionalism, and pride for organizational performance.
• Ensures effective managerial work and work quality across all units and cross-organizational relationships while maintaining unit and individual well-being.
• Responsible for the leadership, planning, prioritizing, direction, communication, tasking, training, and scheduling of work.
• Responsible for time and attendance, leave approval, performance evaluations, corrective and disciplinary actions, and sets the front-line office goals and objectives.
• Delegate work and empower subordinates to decentralize decision-making.
• Ensures subordinates communicate progress and barriers, and coordinate decisions across organizational boundaries as appropriate.
• Applies advanced knowledge of budget and human resource management, and other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the major subdivision.
• Makes effective resourcing decisions across several work teams; making certain they deliver expected output within required time frame and budget.
• Adjusts resourcing plans as needed to meet changing work conditions.
• Holds others accountable to make good business decisions in meeting the needs of Flight Standards (FS).
• Work is typically governed by established policies, procedures, and organizational objectives that frequently leave room for discretion.
• Resolves all but unique problems without the intervention of higher-level management.
• Holds subordinates accountable for maintaining mutually productive partnerships with stakeholders as demonstrated by productive conflict and effective action taking to address issues impeding effectiveness.
• Meets with stakeholders regularly to identify potential impediments to team and organizational effectiveness.
• Sets and maintains expectations for integrating stakeholder feedback into services provided.
• Oversees aviation safety program functions that require access to classified information and systems up to the secret level.
• Attends meetings with executive leadership on topics that are sensitive or contain classified information.
• Manages or has access to sensitive information in effort to provide aviation safety administration.

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

• Notification of Personnel Action (SF-50) must be submitted.
• 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. *** This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program.

Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designated position (TDP)" will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.

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, 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.

How You Will Be Evaluated for Internal Announcements: Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA); Demonstrated Abilities; Leadership and Management Dimensions; or Other Factors 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. Duty Location: Selectee will be required to report to an FAA Aviation Safety (AVS) Duty Location. This is a temporary position not-to-exceed 2 year(s).

If this position remains temporary, upon completion of this assignment, the selected employee shall return to his/her original permanent position or an equivalent position in the same commuting area. This position may be extended, terminated early, or made permanent without further competition. This is not a bargaining unit position.

Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA