You will serve as the Governmental Affairs Strategist and the Congressional Affairs Liaison for the Executive Director, Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command (NAVFAC) Headquarters.

Duties

You will serve as the primary congressional representative for NAVFAC, ensuring legislative positions, strategies, and communications are fully coordinated before being articulated to Navy and Office of the Secretary of Defense leadership, etc. You will oversee and serve as a single touch point for all NAVFAC congressional engagement, conducting persuasive engagement with congressional members and staff. You will analyze key congressional interest areas and program vulnerabilities in relation to all NAVFAC services/products. You will oversee the development and coordination of responses to congressional inquiries regarding NAVFAC equities to ensure consistent messaging for NAVFAC equities. You will manage all aspects of the congressional hearing preparation process for NAVFAC equities.

Requirements

• Must be a US Citizen.
• Must be determined suitable for federal employment.
• Must participate in the direct deposit pay program.
• New employees to the Department of the Navy will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov
• Generally, current federal employees applying for GS jobs must serve at least one year at the next lower grade level. This requirement is called time-in-grade. Time-in-grade requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
• Within the Department of Defense (DoD), the appointment of retired military members within 180 days immediately following retirement date to a civilian position is subject to the provisions of 5 United States Code 3326.
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service.
• You will be required to obtain and maintain an interim and/or final secret security clearance prior to entrance on duty. Failure to obtain and maintain the required level of clearance may result in the withdrawal of a job offer or removal.
• You will be required to complete training, obtain, and maintain a government credit card for travel and travel-related purchases.
• This position may require occasional travel from normal duty station. You must be able to travel on military and commercial aircraft.
• You will be required to complete ethics orientation within three months of appointment and submit a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report, OGE-450, within 30 days of appointment.

Qualifications

Your resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-14 grade level or pay band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector performing the following duties: 1) Monitoring and analyzing proposed legislation, emerging issues, trends and prepares reports and informational documents to inform and support leadership; 2) Ensuring legislative positions, strategies and communications are fully formulated and cohesive before being articulated to leadership at OSD, DON, OMB and Congress; 3) Utilizing a wide range of analytical and qualitative methods, techniques and applications to conduct comprehensive studies to assess and improve administrative systems, processes and overall program effectiveness; 4) Applying legislative process and timing of all phases of the Federal budget process and the DoD Planning, Programming and Budgeting Execution (PPBE); 5) Preparing executive level correspondence, briefings, presentations, and/or decision memoranda to support deliberations and decisions by management; 6) Applying tactful and diplomatic administrative management skill and judgment in integrating personnel and material resources for Congressional engagement and products; 7) Supporting the implementation of strategic plans and engagement objectives to develop and maintain productive relations with all levels of government authorities to achieve business goals; and 8) Application of DoD/DON philosophy, goals, vision, policy, laws, regulations and programs relating to enterprise-level business operations. Additional qualification information can be found from the following Office of Personnel Management web site: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=List-by-Occupational-Series Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (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.

Education

This job does not have an education qualification requirement.

Contacts

• Address NAVAL FACILITIES ENGINEERING SYSTEMS COMMAND 1322 Patterson Avenue SE Suite 1000 Washington, DC 20374 US
• Name: Department of Navy EIC
• Email: [email protected]