This position is with the Small Business Administration, GCBD-GC-Area 6-SanFrancisco at one of the listed locations. This position ensures that small business concerns obtain a fair share of contracts, commodities and real and/or personal property handled by the federal government.

Duties

Timber Sales Management Monitor federal timber sale programs in assigned market areas and develop small business timber sale programs to ensure that small businesses receive their fair share. Maintain and analyze current records of timber sales plans, timber offerings and timber sale bids and awards for all federal agencies selling timber. Deal directly with Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management representatives to accomplish program goals. Select each timber sale to be offered exclusively for small business. Analyze each sale in terms of location, size, character of timber, topography, accessibility, contractual forest management requirements, access road construction requirements, community stability implications and market area competition to assure each sale can meet the needs of small businesses and that small businesses are capable of each sale. Provide a primary SBA point of contact and facilitate communication between the forest products industry (owners, operators, trade associations) to determine program effectiveness and/or need for change. Provide periodic review and adjustment of the timber sales program. Maintain and analyze records of timber sales. Compute and verify small business fair shares in each market area. Recommend, negotiate and approve periodic reestablishment of market shares by the timber-selling agency. Provide surveillance of the small business timber sale program to ensure compliance with procedures and the Code of Federal Regulations. Address apparent non-compliance situations. Program Analysis and Advice Resolve issues that are beyond the scope of established guidelines. Coordinate government contracting programs with other SBA program offices. Collect, analyze and provide information on specific cases to respond to Congressional or other inquiries. Serve as principal agency spokesperson/representative in dealing with small business concerns. Attend and participate as regional, area or local agency representative at procurement conferences involving small business, trade associations, other federal agencies and Congressional staff, to explain and publicize SBA government contracting programs. Apply and respond to fraud risk factors linked to assignments and program specialty(ies). Manage a portfolio, including prime contractors and other-than-small subcontractors, and perform a variety of on- and off-site compliance reviews and visits to ensure that contractors in the portfolio are providing maximum practicable opportunity to small business in accordance with Section 8(d) of the Small Business Act. Perform subcontracting orientation and assistance reviews, performance reviews and program compliance reviews. Recommend contractors that are not making good-faith efforts to meet their small business subcontracting goals for material breach of contract and/or liquidated damages. Participate in surveillance reviews of federal buying activities to ensure that contracting officials are adhering to small business subcontracting regulations. Instruct other-than-small businesses how to post opportunities for small business and show small businesses how to identify those subcontracting opportunities. Contact various organizations to promote procurement matches with small business concerns.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen.
• You must successfully complete a background investigation.
• You may be required to serve a one-year probationary period.

Qualifications

GS-13 Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience (equivalent to GS-12 grade level in the federal service) obtained in either the private or public sector: (1) Executing a government timber sales program; AND (2) Analyzing or evaluating the effectiveness of a government timber sales program; AND (3) Developing innovative solutions and strategies for solving problems identified in such analyses PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC WHEN DESCRIBING YOUR EXPERIENCE IN YOUR RESUME. WE WILL NOT MAKE ASSUMPTIONS REGARDING YOUR EXPERIENCE. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on OPM's Qualifications web site: Industrial Specialist Series 1150 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. TIME-IN-GRADE: If you are a current career or career-conditional federal employee applying for promotion under Merit Promotion you must have completed a minimum of 52 weeks in positions at the next level lower than the position being filled. All qualification requirements must be met by 11:59 pm (Eastern Time) on 02/14/2024.

Education

Education may not be substituted for experience for this position.

Contacts

• Address GCBD-Area 6-SanFrancisco 455 Market Street Suite 600 San Francisco, CA 94105 US
• Name: Christina Ly
• Email: [email protected]