Job opening: Writer-Editor
Salary: $78 592 - 122 459 per year
Published at: Jul 12 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
The Bureau of Safety & Environmental Enforcement (BSEE) works to promote safety, protect the environment, and conserve resources offshore through vigorous regulatory oversight and enforcement. For information about our bureau go to: http://www.bsee.gov/
Duties
This position is located within the Department of the Interior, Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement, Office of the Director, in Washington, DC.
At the full performance level (GS-12) the major duties of this position include, but are not limited to the following:
Evaluates the content, format, and organization of documents submitted by staff to the Director, Deputy Director, or other senior officials in the Department.
Obtains, analyzes pertinent information; determining the most logical and effective sequence of the narrative; determines the overall length and tone based on the objectives, the medium, and the audience; and writing the material.
Ensures compliance with good writing practice and conformance with established policies and guidelines.
Reviews documents for uniformity, logic, clarity of expression, and edits/rewrites phrases without changing original meaning.
Prepares pre-briefing material for the senior leaders as necessary.
Independently disseminates procedures and policies to Bureau staff and assists with training staff on matters of correspondence procedures and processes.
Enhances the correspondence program, while managing the network of BSEE correspondence liaisons.
The Office of the Director has determined that the duties of this position are suitable for telework and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.
Salary Information (per annum)
GS-11: $78,592 - $102,166
GS-12: $94,199 - $122,459
First time hires to the Federal government normally start at the lower salary range of the grade level.
This vacancy may be used to fill additional positions as vacancies become available.
This vacancy is also announced as BSEE-EEAA-23-LL-160(DEU) for those applicants who wish to apply and be considered under Competitive Examining procedures.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualification Requirements:
To qualify for this position you must meet A, B, or C defined below for the grade to which you are applying.
GS-11
A. To qualify for the GS-11, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience:
Experience writing and editing documents; and
Publishing concepts, standards, and technologies.
(MUST MEET ALL)
OR
B. Possess 3 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education or Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree
OR
C. Possess a combination of graduate level education beyond the first 2 years of progressive graduate study and appropriate experience that together meets 100% of the qualification requirements for this position.
GS-12
A. To qualify for the GS-12, you must possess at least one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service, or comparable experience not gained through Federal service. Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the work of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as demonstrated experience:
Experience writing and editing scientific papers or environmental documents;
Publishing concepts, standards, and technologies;
Developing and monitoring short- and long-range plans for news, feature stories, information products, articles and images.
(MUST MEET AT LEAST TWO OF THE THREE ABOVE)
*NOTE: At the GS-12 and above level you may NOT substitute education for experience.
Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualification Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions and is available at OPM's website: https://www.opm.gov/qualifications/standards/indexes/num-ndx.asp
All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Merit Promotion candidates must also meet Time-in-Grade requirements by the closing date of the announcement.
Education
Education: If this position requires specific educational course work to qualify, or you are qualifying based in whole or part on education, you are required to provide transcripts as proof of meeting the requirements.
Foreign Education: Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the specific educational requirements as stated above. You must provide acceptable documentation that the foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated, visit:
http://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4
Contacts
- Address Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement
45600 Woodland Road
Sterling, VA 20166
US
- Name: HR Assistant
- Phone: 703-787-1446
- Email: [email protected]
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