This position serves as a Community Engagement Officer in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Great Lakes Region, Office of Policy, International Affairs & Environment (APL), Office of National Engagement and Regional Administration (ARA). May develop new and innovative approaches, methodologies, and/or techniques; and direct challenging projects/programs/activities.

Duties

The position is expected to fully plan, implement, manage and coordinate all community outreach activities related to aviation issues in their assigned areas. This position is a subject matter expert and responsible for planning, organizing, and controlling the activities necessary to deliver an effective community outreach program for the Regional Administrator’s Office.

Requirements

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Designated or Random Drug Testing required.

Qualifications

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13 in the Federal Service. 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 includes: Experience organizing and leading aspects of community outreach activities. Experience with managing a workload in a fast-paced, high profile, and politically sensitive environment.Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.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 under the Evaluation Criteria section. 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.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 initial 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.This position is also open to Current and Former Federal Employees and applicants eligible under Expanded Veterans Hiring Opportunity (EVHO) under vacancy AGL-ARA-24-0004-90674. Current or former federal employees must have met a one-year probationary period or trial period in the competitive or excepted service. Applications will be accepted from preference eligibles and veterans who are honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least 3 years of continuous active-duty service.In addition to the minimum qualifications, the following has been determined to be a selective factor for this position. This means possession of this criterion is part of the minimum qualifications and is essential to perform the duties and responsibilities of this position. Applicants who do not possess this criterion are ineligible for further consideration.This is a screen-out element which will be used to determine eligibility for this job. The Screen Out Element for this position is: Previous government relations, public affairs, public policy and/or community engagement experience on transportation-related topics. IMPORTANT: Ensure that your work experience supports your Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA), and Other Factors answers. Your answers and associated work experience will be evaluated further to validate whether the answers that you selected are appropriate.

Education

Education cannot be substituted for experience at the FV-J level.

Contacts

• Address Federal Aviation Administration AGL Regional HR Services Branch 2300 E. Devon Ave., Room 250 AHF-N310 Des Plaines, IL 60018 US
• Name: Michele McNamara
• Phone: 1 (847) 294-7755
• Email: [email protected]