This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries (ONMS) with one vacancy located in Silver Spring, MD. This position is also announced under vacancy number NOS-23-12054735-ST, which is open to Status Candidates. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Duties

As a Program Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Formulate, plan and administer federal actions, policies, guidance, and regulations pursuant to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act and the National Environmental Policy Act. Perform analysis, conduct evaluations, and advise management on program, operations and management efficiency and productivity. Provide support to incident response, injury assessment, or restoration or monitoring program planning. Develop recommendations for policy decisions regarding permit issuance, permit terms and conditions, consultation requirements, environmental compliance, and reporting. Provide analytical support for the development and coordination of activities and documentation associated with permitting and interagency consultation pursuant to the National Marine Sanctuaries Act and provide analysis for policy decisions regarding permit issuance, permit terms and conditions, consultation requirements, environmental compliance, administrative records, and record tracking and reporting. Identify and define major legislative, policy and regulatory issues impacting marine sanctuaries. Develop sources of information and review appropriate source materials. Perform analyses of issues.

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-3 or GS-11 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-2 or GS-09 in the Federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: - Developing and implementing policies or programs to meet resource protection goals; - Analyzing and advising management on the effectiveness and efficiency of administrative or programmatic operations; and - Analyzing legislation, executive orders, or regulations to determine impact on science-based program operations and preparing policy documents. OR SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree in a related field, 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: An equivalent combination of education and experience as described above. Note: Only graduate education in excess of two years if qualifying for combination.

Education

• 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.
• Education completed in colleges or universities outside the United States may be used to meet the above requirements. 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: OPM Foreign Education Evaluation

Contacts

• Address NOAA Office of Human Capital Services (OHCS) 1315 East West Hwy SSMC4 Silver Spring, MD 20910 US
• Name: Antoinette Gartrell
• Phone: 703-259-9452
• Email: [email protected]