Management and Program Analyst

Summary Serves as the Western Service Center focal for Air Traffic Organization (ATO) capitalization issues and actions. Responsibilities 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 Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To qualify for the FG-13 level, you must demonstrate in our application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS-12 in the Federal Service. 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 includes: Comprehensive knowledge of laws, policies, and regulations that govern assigned, substantive programs. Skill in providing guidance to less experience professionals in day-to-day operations, analyzing and recommending solutions for complex/difficult problems, and recommending improvements to systems and processes. Education 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