Supervisory Management and Program Analyst

Summary

This position is with Department of Labor, Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA), Technical Support, Approval and Certification Center (A&CC).

MSHA works to prevent death, illness and injury from mining; promote safe and healthful workplaces for U.S. miners. MSHA carries out the provisions of the Federal Mine Safety and Health Act of 1977 (Mine Act) as amended by the Mine Improvement and New Emergency Response (MINER) Act of 2006.

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Duties

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• Provides oversight of administrative activities.
• Provides advice and consultation to the Chief concerning the direction of administrative programs, facility's maintenance, and contracts.
• Manages and directs the grounds and facility program areas through a facility services contract and other special contracts for improvements, renovations, and maintenance projects.
• Ensures operating costs and expenses remain within funding levels, through the monitoring and tracking of budget expenditures.
• Provides technical oversight for the contract services, including analyzing, justifying, comparing costs and recommending whether work should be contracted out.
• Evaluates analytical results, assesses impact, and recommends administrative or programmatic avenues to reach or maintain expected level of resource utilization.
• Participates in or leads formal and informal meetings.
• Supervises a staff of specialized professional and administrative personnel.
• Plans for short- and long-range activities relating to program and policy changes, utilization of resources, changes in program authority, and cost savings methods.
• Distributes resources to meet agency mission and objectives and adjusts them to meet changing priorities.
• Selects, manages and directs use of in-house engineering talents, expertise from other governmental organizations, and contracted skills to resolve highly specialized facility problems such as noise control, illumination, waste disposal, air quality, electrical usage and distribution, etc., as available and necessary to address operational and facility issues.
• Responsible for the on-the-job safety and health of all employees of the Division. Initiates activities to assure conformity with established local and agency safety programs to satisfy this responsibility.
• Responsible for Center safety and health activities such as annual inspections, COOP, etc.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• Must be a U.S. Citizen.
• Must be at least 16 years old.
• Requires a probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Candidate required to obtain the necessary security/investigation level.
• Subject to financial disclosure requirements.
• Requires a supervisory probationary period if the requirement has not been met.
• Must obtain and maintain Federal Acquisition Certification for Contracting Officer's Representatives (FAC-COR) Level II certification within 6 months of appointment, and obtain and maintain Level III certification within 2 years of appointment.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position, your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the specialized experience requirements as defined below. Be sure these types of examples are evident in your resume.

Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level, GS-13 in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience must include at least five (5) of the following:

• Advise on program requirements and develop and implement evaluative measures to assess the effectiveness of administrative and management program activities, with an emphasis on systems for project tracking, records, reporting, etc.
• Participate in significant management planning, policy-making, and decision-making activities to accomplish agency goals.
• Manage staff and plan short- and long-term work to be accomplished by subordinates.
• Generate and manipulate data, and prepare complex reports, briefings, procedures, and guidelines to determine need for and conduct organizational and planning studies, process and method improvements, automation of processes, etc.
• Provide oversight and financial management of an operating program budget of an agency, organization, or department within a large organization.
• Interpret and apply procurement and financial laws, policies, regulations, and precedents applicable to contract administration.

Education

There is no substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience at the GS-14 grade level.

Additional information

The mission of the Department of Labor (DOL) is to protect the welfare of workers and job seekers, improve working conditions, expand high-quality employment opportunities, and assure work-related benefits and rights for all workers.

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You may not be aware, but in the regulations for agency ethics programs, there are requirements for supervisors. Section 2638.103 of Title 5 of the CFR states: Every supervisor in the executive branch has a heightened personal responsibility for advancing government ethics. It is imperative that supervisors serve as models of ethical behavior for subordinates. Supervisors have a responsibility to help ensure that subordinates are aware of their ethical obligations under the Standards of Conduct and that subordinates know how to contact agency ethics officials. Supervisors are also responsible for working with agency ethics officials to help resolve conflicts of interest and enforce government ethics laws and regulations, including those requiring certain employees to file financial disclosure reports. In addition, supervisors are responsible, when requested, for assisting agency ethics officials in evaluating potential conflicts of interest and identifying positions subject to financial disclosure requirements.

This position is subject to the confidential financial disclosure requirements of the Ethics in Government Act of 1978 (P.L. 95-521). Therefore, if selected, you will be required to complete a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE Form 450) to determine if a conflict or an appearance of a conflict exists between your financial interest(s) and your prospective position with DOL. This information will be required annually.

All MSHA employees and their spouses, and minor children are prohibited by regulation from having any interest, direct or indirect, in any mine or mining company that may be directly affected by the work of MSHA through its investigations, technical research, or other activities. These interests are prohibited under the Department of Labor's Supplemental Standards of Ethical Conduct Regulations at 5 CFR 5201.105. Certain MSHA employees are required to file a financial disclosure report. For questions, please contact Rhonda Dory at View email address on click.appcast.io or View phone number on click.appcast.io.

Based on agency needs, additional positions may be filled using this vacancy.

The Department of Labor may use certain incentives and hiring flexibilities, currently offered by the Federal government to attract highly qualified candidates. Click for more information on Pay, Leave, and Workforce Flexibilities.

The Fair Chance Act (FCA) prohibits Federal agencies from requesting an applicant's criminal history information before the agency makes a conditional offer of employment. If you believe a DOL employee has violated your rights under the FCA, you may file a complaint of the alleged violation following our agency's complaint process Guidelines for Reporting Violations of the Fair Chance Act. Note: The FCA does not apply to some positions specified under the Act, such as law enforcement or national security positions.

All Department of Labor employees are subject to the provisions of the Drug-Free Workplace Program under Executive Order 12564 and Public Law 100-71.

Candidates should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passionate about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United States Constitution.

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