This position is in the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), Office of the Assistant Administrator (OAA), with one vacancy located in Silver Spring, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number NMFS OAA-23-12027854-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Policy Analyst, some of your duties will include: Serve as senior subject matter expert on legislative, regulatory, and policy issues relevant to scientific development and conduct analyses involving complex variables and processes that significantly impact the development, interpretation, or implementation of important internal and external policies. Oversee the development of policy responses, briefing documents, views letters, and technical drafting assistance and develop recommendations for leadership action. Serve as a senior representative in stakeholder meetings and interagency policy forums and coordinate with other federal and state agencies. Assess management information requirements to influence mission and administrative reporting systems including systems requirements, data gathering and analytical techniques, data evaluation, and reporting methodology and utilize results of analyses to effect process improvement and provide recommendations to Senior Leadership. NOTE: These duties are described at the Full Performance Level of the ZP-4, the ZP-3 is developmental leading to such performance.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations e.g., professional; philanthropic, religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies; knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To qualify at the ZA-03 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-02 pay band or GS-09 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assist in contributing to the analysis of policy issues relevant to fisheries, protected resources and habitat conservation; and Assist in contributing to recommendations, policies, or management plans that improve organizational effectiveness. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M., if related. OR COMBINATION OF EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE: A combination of education and experience as described above. NOTE: Only graduate education in excess of two years is qualifying for combination. To qualify at the ZA-04 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-3 pay band or GS-12 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Contributing to the analysis of policy issues relevant to fisheries, protected resources and habitat conservation; and, Developing and evaluating recommendations, policies, or management plans that improve organizational effectiveness; and, Coordinating with stakeholders to advance an organization's mission.

Education

College Transcript: If you are qualifying based on education, submit a copy of your college transcript that lists college courses detailing each course by the number and department (i.e., Bio 101, Math 210, etc.), course title, number of credit hours and grade earned. You must submit evidence that any education completed in a foreign institution is equivalent to U.S. education standards with your resume. You may submit an unofficial copy of the transcript at the initial phase of the application process. If course content cannot be easily identified from the title of the course as listed on your transcript, you must submit an official course description from the college/university that reflects the content at the time the course was taken.

Note: Your college transcript is used to verify successful completion of degree, or college course work. An official college transcript will be required before you can report to duty.

Special Instructions for Foreign Education: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities must be evaluated in terms of equivalency to that acquired in U.S. colleges and universities. Applicants educated in whole or in part in foreign countries must submit sufficient evidence, including transcripts, to an accredited private organization for an equivalency evaluation of course work and degree. A listing of these accredited organizations can be found on the Department of Education's website. You MUST provide a copy of the letter containing the results of the equivalency evaluation with a course by course listing along with your application. Failure to provide such documentation by the closing date of the announcement will result in lost consideration. For more information on how foreign education is evaluated visit: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation.

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services OHCS 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Kimberly Hicks
• Email: [email protected]