This position is located with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Southern Plains Region, Deputy Regional Director - Trust Services, Transportation in Anadarko, Oklahoma. This is a Bargaining Unit position, for more information see What are bargaining units? NOTE: TRAVEL AND RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL BE AUTHORIZED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE FEDERAL TRAVEL REGULATIONS.

Duties

*Serves as a project team member, providing technical and professional assistance to Tribes and other organizations for road maintenance and transportation facility inventories. *Develops Regional equipment management policies for effective equipment use. *Investigates and analyze transportation facilities to identify condition, deferred maintenance needs and identify structural deficiencies. *Conducts road maintenance program reviews and site visits of tribal road maintenance programs. *Manage the transportation database systems; prepare and generate various reports. *Provide technical guidance to Agency personnel and Tribes on operations, equipment, funding, personnel planning, and evaluation of new products and procedures for implementation of a maintenance program. *Provide training and technical guidance to Tribes on service ratings and maintenance reports.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Form BIA -4432 must be submitted with the application if claiming Indian Preference.
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Incidental Operator position. If you are required to operate a motor vehicle in order to properly carry out assigned duties, the 25 IAM 4 Motor Vehicle Safety Program Policy applies. A Link is provided in the Additional Information Section.

Qualifications

EXPERIENCE AND EDUCATION REQUIREMENTS: (OPM Operating Manual, Qualification Standards for Administrative and Management Positions, GS-0301). SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-9: I have at least 1 year of specialized experience or the equivalent, comparable to at least the GS-7 in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sector). This experience involves assignments working with Right-of-Way acquisitions and coordination approvals for transportation projects; provide archeological evaluation of transportation design and construction projects for compliance with the National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) regulations; assist with inventory and reporting systems; provide technical assistance to Tribes & Tribal organizations on all Transportation Improvement Programs from beginning to project completion; coordinate with tribal representatives on development of long-range transportation plans; do on-site program reviews and evaluations and recommend technical improvements; and serves as technical specialist on highway regulations, legislation, policies, and procedures. OR EDUCATION: Master's or equivalent graduate degree OR I have completed 2 full years of progressively higher-level graduate education leading to such a degree OR LL.B. or J.D., if related. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE GS-11: I have at least 1 year of specialized experience or the equivalent, comparable to at least the GS-9 in the Federal Service (obtained in either the public or private sector). This experience involves working with tribes in developing transportation plans and programs; prepare plans, program development, project delivery, and accomplishment reports; establish official road inventories; efficient and effective stewardship of maintenance resources for highways, bridges, culverts, and other drainage structures; schedule and conduct site visits, road and bridge level of service inspections, and program review meetings with stakeholders including tribes and government officials; experience in Road Maintenance Program standards, specifications, methods and procedures; provide technical guidance to tribes and Agency Engineers on operations, equipment, funding, personnel planning, and evaluation of new products and procedures for implementation of a maintenance program; and contract management; serve as the Contracting Officer's/Awarding Official Technical Representative to implement road and bridge maintenance contracts, and service and supply contracts. OR 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 to this position. GRADUATE EDUCATION: Graduate education must be related to the occupation and demonstrate the knowledge, skills, and abilities necessary to do the work. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform successfully the duties of the position and is typically in or related to the position to be filled. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Merit Promotion candidates must also meet time-in-grade requirements by the announcement closing date. Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with the Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472). Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: FOREIGN EDUCATION

Contacts

• Address BIA Center for Recruitment Anadarko P.O. Box 1487 Anadarko, OK 73005 US
• Name: BIA Human Resources
• Phone: 405-247-1600
• Email: [email protected]