The United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is seeking a motivated professional to serve as Senior Advisor for the Forecasting and Analysis Division located in the Office of the Chief Financial Officer (OCFO), Office of Planning and Budget (OPB). As a fee funded agency, analyzing and tracking fee collections and revenue, modeling working forecasts, as well as adjusting patent and trademark fee structures, are essential functions for USPTO's financial sustainability.

Duties

As the Senior Advisor for the Forecasting and Analysis Division, you will serve as a principal advisor to the Director of the OPB. The Advisor will also serve as the director and will provide technical leadership and oversight to the Forecasting and Analysis staff and division. This position requires a highly technical expert requiring specialized knowledge on the complexities of fee setting, fee reviews, application forecasts, statistical analysis and fee collection forecasts and other related policies and regulations. If you consider yourself an expert on the federal rule making process this may be the job for you. Here are some of the exciting duties you'll engage in:

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or a National.
• Required to pass a background investigation and fingerprint check.
• Must be registered for Selective Service, if applicable (www.sss.gov) if applicable.
• Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) will be required upon appointment and annually.
• You must use the questionnaire text boxes when submitting narrative responses to the PTQs (10,000-character limit each)
• Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related competencies.

Qualifications

To meet the minimum requirements for this position, candidates must demonstrate their experience in their narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualifications (PTQs) questions and all narrative responses must be fully supported within their resume. *Applicants must use the USA Jobs text boxes to submit their narrative responses to the PTQs. Do not write "see resume" or "see attached documents". Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. Uploaded documents addressing the PTQs will not be accepted. Experience must have been at a sufficiently high level of difficulty to clearly show that the candidate possesses the required professional/technical qualifications set forth below. 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. Professional Technical Qualifications: Applicants must clearly demonstrate in their application materials that they possess technical attributes in the PTQs. Please provide your narrative responses to the PTQs questions - Do not write "see resume" or "see attached document". Uploaded documents addressing the PTQs will not be accepted. Applicants are required to input narrative responses to the PTQs in the text boxes as prompted by USAJobs. Each PTQ has a 10,000-character limit (to include spaces) that must be adhered to. Applicants must use the USA Jobs text boxes for submitting their PTQs responses. The Professional Technical Qualifications for this position are: Demonstrated skill in advising senior level and management officials; recommending expert strategies and establishing plans for implementing activities; and monitoring progress towards program goals. Demonstrated knowledge and experience of refining forecast modeling and work output and collection of fee forecasting in concert with global and international economic conditions. Demonstrated ability to effectively plan organize, implement and execute high level programs or projects that are highly specialized and impact the agency or organization level. This includes setting vision and strategy, making decisions and influencing others, having a direct and major impact on the quality of the program or project results. Demonstrated ability to communicate orally and in writing, and through data visualization to effectively present a variety of persuasive briefings to senior management on complex financial issues/experience in briefing senior executives and management officials. Demonstrated comprehensive expertise with the federal rule-making process.

Education

There is no education requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address EXRD - Office of the Chief Financial Officer Office of Human Resources Mail Stop 171 P.O. Box 1450 Alexandria, VA 22313-1450 US
• Name: John Edmond
• Phone: 571-272-8479
• Email: [email protected]