This position is located in the Office of the Commissioner for Patents. The incumbent of the position will serve as a Senior Advisor for Patents Financial Management to the Commissioner for Patents, Deputy Commissioners for Patents, and Assistant Commissioners for Patents on matters related to budget and financial management, acquisition, contract administration, and procurement functions associated with the Patents organization.

Duties

The Senior Advisor for Patents Financial Management provides strategic guidance and direction to ensure patent financial resource administration is controlled, monitored, and consistent with organizational priorities in order to achieve an efficient and effective spending program. The Senior Advisor for Patents Financial Management makes high level technical decisions and recommendations required for successful program development, administration, and management.

Requirements

• You must be a U.S. Citizen or National.
• Required to pass a background investigation and fingerprint check.
• You must meet all qualification requirements upon the closing date of this announcement.
• Submit a Financial Disclosure Report (OGE-278) upon appointment.
• 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 Professional/Technical Qualifications (PTQs). Please provide your narrative responses to the Professional Technical Qualification (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 Professional Technical Qualifications (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 (PTQs) for this position are: Demonstrated ability to plan and execute high level programs and/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. Expert knowledge of and demonstrated experience in the federal budget process -formulation, justification, and execution; forecast and analysis concepts; cost accounting principles; contract administration; and strategic and performance management as applied to the planning and assessment of the organization. Comprehensive knowledge of the concepts, processes, and methodologies used in the patent examination process to develop and recommend the best course of action in response to planning the budgetary and resource requirements necessary to ensure achievement of the organization's strategic and performance goals. Demonstrated skill in advising senior management officials on all aspects of financial management and program performance; recommending strategies and establishing plans for implementing activities and organizational visions; and monitoring progress towards key patent program goals and priorities. Ability to communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, to understand, defend and negotiate complex processes and procedures governing financial management to senior management using expert presentation and persuasion skills.

Education

There is not an educational requirement for this position.

Contacts

• Address EXRD - Patents Branch 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]