This position is located within the Department of Commerce (DOC), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Ocean Service (NOS), Office for Coastal Management (OCM) with three vacancies located in Oakland, California, Silver Spring, Maryland, Charleston Naval Center, South Carolina or Seattle, Washington.

Duties

As a Management and Program Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Support the implementation of coastal community resilience and climate adaptation programs and initiatives at regional and other scales. Conduct studies applying advanced analytical and evaluative techniques to determine effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of programs to achieve strategic goals, and participate in the development of recommendations for improvement. Serve as policy and technical analyst for the coastal community resilience and climate adaptation programs and initiatives; serves as federal program officer for cooperative agreements and grants, including the negotiation and oversight for federal funding. Support the development of program guidance, and with oversight, provide management assistance to partners, and conduct analyses to manage scope, costs, quality, and risks while monitoring the development and evaluating coastal community resilience programs and projects. With oversight, advise and collaborate with leadership on meeting organizational needs and program objectives along with resolving sensitive issues, and support communication for reports and briefings. NOTE: These duties are described at the ZA-02 level, this position is developmental leading to the ZA-03 level.

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. EDUCATION: There is no Basic Education requirement for this series. 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 for the ZA-02 or GS-07 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must also possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the ZA-1 or GS-05 in the federal service. Specialized experience MUST include all of the following: Assist in the development, interpretation, and implementation of coastal management policies and programs; Collaboratively develop qualitative or quantitative analyses of programs and policies; and Assist in development of recommendations for review by senior staff on meeting organizational needs or program or project objectives. -OR- SUPERIOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT: Demonstrated by a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university with one of the following. NOTE: It is your responsibility to ensure your application clearly states how you meet one of the provisions below: A grade point average (GPA) of 2.9 or higher based on a 4.0 scale for all completed undergraduate courses, or those completed in the last 2 full years of undergraduate study; A GPA of 3.5 or higher based on a 4.0 scale for required courses completed in a major field of study, or those courses completed in a major field of study during the last two years of undergraduate study; Class standing of upper third of the graduating class in the college, university, or major subdivision of the college. Membership in a national Scholastic Honor Society certified by the Association of College honor Societies, excluding freshman honor societies. -OR- SUBSTITUTION OF EDUCATION: One year of graduate level education, if related.

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: Monet Davis-Kelsey
• Email: [email protected]