Job opening: Community Planning and Development Specialist
Salary: $60 863 - 102 166 per year
Published at: Nov 06 2023
Employment Type: Full-time
This position is located at Department of Housing and Urban Development, Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development.
This opportunity is also open to Status eligibles under announcement 24-HUD-216. Please refer to that announcement for details on open period, eligibility, and how to apply.
Duties
The following are the duties of this position at the GS-13. If you are selected at a lower grade level, you will have the opportunity to learn to perform all these duties, and will receive training to help you grow in this position.
As a/an Community Planning and Development Specialist, you will:
Act as a liaison or handles the communication with persons and or groups within and outside of an organization or office. Act as primary liaison with critical persons and groups both inside and outside of the organization; exercising full commitment authority.
Research and/or analyze problems, issues, or program requirements.
Provide expert analysis and advice on complex program issues.
Provide recommendations to CPD senior level staff to eliminate audit findings, improve program performance, and develop innovative policy or procedural changes to enhance program performance or operations.
Plan and/or accomplish special projects. Manage special projects for major office or program issues of broad impact.
Conceive and implement new initiatives and projects to strengthen, facilitate, and integrate programs.
Analyze appropriate data to develop and recommend operation policy and procedural option on complex issues relating to competition management and financial system for Office of Block Grant Assistance (OBGA) programs.
Qualifications
You must meet the following requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Specialized Experience: For the GS-11 grade level, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-9 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes:
Supporting a community development or economic development program at the federal, state, or local government or at a lending institution or non-profit organization; AND
Reviewing, and giving feedback on program or organizational policies and procedures; AND
Assisting with monitoring community or economic development activities.
OR Education: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree or three full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.M.; if related.
OR Combination: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the specialized experience requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the education requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
For the GS-9 grade level, you must have one year (52 full weeks) of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS-7 grade level in the Federal service. Specialized Experience for this position includes:
Supporting a community development or economic development program at the federal, state, or local government or at a lending institution or non-profit organization; AND
Applying program or organizational policies and procedures; AND
Tracking data on programs or special project outcomes to ensure that program requirements and goals are met.
OR Education: You may substitute education for general or specialized experience as follows: A Masters or equivalent graduate degree or two full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree or LL.B. or J.D.; if related.
OR Combination: You may qualify by a combination of experience and education. To combine education and experience, the total percentage of experience at the required grade level compared to the specialized experience requirement, as well as the percentage of completed education compared to the education requirement must equal at least 100 percent.
Experience may have been gained in either the public, private sector or volunteer service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. To ensure full credit for your work experience, please indicate dates of employment by month/day/year, and indicate number of hours worked per week on your resume.
Education
The education generally must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of creditability of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency. Refer to the
OPM instructions.
Contacts
- Address Asst Secretary for Community Planning and Development
Administrative Resource Center
Parkersburg, WV 26101
US
- Name: Applicant Call Center
- Phone: 304-480-7300
- Email: [email protected]