The candidate will serve as a conference planner in the NIST Conference Program and AV Services group. The candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing NIST conferences and special events.

Duties

The candidate will serve as a conference planner in the NIST Conference Program and AV Services group. The candidate will be responsible for planning, managing, and executing NIST conferences and special events. The candidate will independently lead pre-conference meetings with NIST Conference Chairs to obtain conference requirements, provide guidance, and develop conference budgets. The candidate will independently create and manage online registration sites, webpages and applications; coordinate audio-visual services, food and beverage functions, meeting room setups, and hotel room blocks.

Requirements

• U.S. citizenship
• Males born after 12-31-59 must be registered for Selective Service
• Suitable for Federal employment
• Merit applicants must meet time-in-grade/band requirements, as applicable
• Completion of Confidential Financial Disclosure, Form OGE-450
• Applicants must provide 1 writing sample, as specified below under qualifications.
• Bargaining Unit Position: No

Qualifications

ZA-III: Applicants must have 1 year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-11 (ZA-II at NIST) level. Specialized experience is defined as experience supporting conferences, such as booking meeting room space, coordinating AV services and food and beverage services requests. The candidate must have working knowledge of technologies that support conferences (webpages, online registration systems, conference apps and virtual meeting platforms) with the ability to troubleshoot technical issues, manage timelines for multiple events and projects simultaneously, collaborate with other team members to address client needs, maintain client and customer satisfaction by responding to requests in a timely manner and resolving issues, make recommendations in processes and operations, maintain strong organizational skills with the ability to prioritize tasks, and proven writing skills to communicate services to registrants. Applicants must provide one original writing sample/conference planning document of either : 1) An event run of show 2) a conference project plan for a 500-person event that includes meeting room rental, audio/visual services and equipment, food and beverage services, speaker selection and communication, lodging accommodations, promotion, staffing. The writing samples shall demonstrate specialized experience in managing technical conferences, and the ability to write clear, concisely, and grammatically correct. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done. We will credit all qualifying volunteer experience in your application. The qualification requirements in this vacancy announcement are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook. If requesting reconsideration of your qualification determination, please refer to the following site: Applicant Reconsideration

Education

Qualifications are based upon meeting specialized experience only. Education cannot be used to qualify for this position.

Contacts

• Address Public Affairs Office 100 Bureau Drive Gaithersburg, MD 20899 US
• Name: Audrey Zimmerman
• Phone: 301-975-4926
• Email: [email protected]