This position serves as a planner responsible for various airport and aviation planning activities for the Office of Airports (ARP).

Duties

Reviews airport and aviation planning documents. Coordinates findings with experienced planner or manager to ensure compliance with requirements. Performs a combination of routine and multiple and varying assignments under the general direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader or more experienced professional. Acts as an individual contributor and/or member of a team for projects/programs within a defined area of responsibility. Applies experience and detailed knowledge to plan and accomplish assignments. Reviews airport master plans prepared by airport sponsors, state aeronautical agencies, and metropolitan planning agencies. Provides initial review of Airport Layout Plans prepared by airport sponsors. Collects and performs initial review of sponsor submittals for the development of the ADO/RO Airports Capital Improvements Program (ACIP). Assists environmental specialists in the collection of data and develops documents required for satisfying requirements of National Environmental Policy Act and other environmental programs. Demonstrates some independence in planning time and using assigned resources to accomplish tasks or small projects. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, but allow some discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es). Typically receives guidance on selecting approaches from a manager, projects/program, team leader or more experienced professional. Provides assistance to Airport Sponsors to ensure land use compatibility near airports. Coordinates with experienced planners and/or compliance specialists to ensure compliance with applicable Grant Assurances. Reviews land use compatibility plans, change in land use requests, land releases, and land acquisition documents. Works with experienced planners to accomplish actions including ensuring sponsor submittals are complete. Contacts are primarily internal to the organizational unit, major subdivision or LOB/SO with a manager and other employees to share information, provide data and/or written analyses and/or explain the statuses of assignments. Gathers data for preparation of correspondence including Congressional responses, briefing papers, approval letters, and guidance to sponsors associated with all aspects of airport development. Prepares project justifications and eligibility analyses to ensure projects are ready for grant funding. Inputs initial project data and updates to project status using the Office of Airports database system (SOAR). Prepares SOAR reports as needed. Performs initial project close-out review ensuring completeness of sponsor submittals. Refers problems and work issues to a manager, project/program manager, team leader or more experienced professional when guidelines are not available or applicable. Work typically is reviewed frequently during assignments and at completion to ensure timeliness, policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• This position has a positive education requirement. Transcript(s) required.
• Successful completion of a security investigation will be required.

Qualifications

In addition to the basic requirement listed below in the EDUCATION section, candidate must possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to (FV-F) or (FG 9). Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.Specialized experience for the FV-G level should include:*Experience in applying planning design principles.*Experience in evaluating planning plans, studies or reports.*Experience gathering and analyzing data from a variety of sources.Applicants should include examples of their specialized experience in their work history.Qualifications must be met by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA.In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA , in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s) if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

Education

This position has a positive education requirement: Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcripts(s) and certificates by the closing date of announcement to verify qualifications. If selected, an official transcript will be required prior to appointment. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to fax number provided in the announcement (please include announcement number on each page).

Failure to do so will result in loss of consideration.

Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Foreign education must be evaluated by a private professional organization specializing in interpretation of foreign education credentials or an accredited U.S. educational institution in terms of equivalence to a degree acquired at an American college or university. A copy of the evaluation results must be included, otherwise your foreign education will not be considered.

To qualify for this position you must have a degree in community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance or engineering. NOTE: Applicants with degrees in related fields, such as those listed above, who do not have the 12 semester hours of specified course work must have had at least 1 year of work experience in community planning or engineering acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner or professional engineer. OR Combination of education and experience -- courses equivalent to a major in one of the above disciplines, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the above disciplines of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

Applicants must submit a copy of their college or university transcript by the closing date. If selected, an official transcript will be required. You may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS or fax it to (404) 393-0493 (please include announcement number on each page). Schools must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. Accreditation may be verified at the following website: www.ed.gov/admins/finaid/accred/index.html.

You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, Veterans' Recruitment Appointment, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.

Contacts

• Address Federal Aviation Administration ASO Regional HR Services Branch 1701 Columbia Avenue AHF-S510 College Park, GA 30337 US
• Name: Angela Southerland
• Phone: 1 (404) 305-5424
• Email: [email protected]