The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) is sponsoring a Senior Executive Service Candidate Development Program (SESCDP) which is targeted to begin in May 2025.  We are anticipating a class size of 20-25 participants. The SES CDP prepares individuals who have demonstrated executive potential for senior leadership positions at the NRC.  The selecting official for this program will be the Executive Director for Operations.    

Duties

Program Curriculum

Requirements

• You must be a United States Citizen to apply.
• You must be a current Federal Civil Service employee.
• You must qualify; see "Qualifications Required" below.
• Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires.
• You must meet the requirements of this announcement by the closing date.

Qualifications

NOTE: We are accepting 350 applications for this vacancy.  When 350 applications have been received, the vacancy will close effective midnight.  The NRC’s SES CDP requires that individuals have at least one year of supervisory/leadership experience and have demonstrated exceptional executive leadership potential.  Leadership experience is normally obtained by serving in positions at the Grade 15 or equivalent.Applicants must demonstrate competence or potential for development in the five SES Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) listed below.  The ECQs are the leadership criteria defined by the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) to certify candidates for SES positions. OPM will certify candidates primarily on their demonstrated mastery of the ECQs. All applicants must submit an online resume and online written statements (narrative or bullet format acceptable) describing your accomplishments against each of the ECQs.  Note: A proven sustained record of accomplishments and the recency of experience are factors in the selection. You must address each ECQ separately and are required to respond to all ECQs.  Abbreviated responses to the ECQs, such as "significant experience" or "see resume" do not provide enough information and should not be used. You will not be considered for this position if you leave any of the ECQs and vacancy questions unanswered.  Additional information on the ECQs is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp. When addressing the ECQs, applicants should include one or two notable examples using the Challenge-Context-Action-Result (CCAR) model:Challenge: Describe a specific problem or goal. Context: Talk about the individuals and groups you worked with, and/or the environment in which you worked, to tackle a particular challenge (e.g., clients, co-workers, members of Congress, shrinking budget, low morale).Action: Discuss the specific actions you took to address a challenge.Result: Give specific examples of the results of your actions.  These accomplishments demonstrate the quality and effectiveness of your leadership skills.Each accomplishment should be clear, concise, and emphasize your level of responsibilities; the scope and complexity of the programs, activities, or services you managed; program accomplishments; policy initiatives undertaken; level of contacts; the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed; and the results of your actions.  You should use action oriented leadership words to describe your experience and accomplishments (e.g., Led the development and implementation of…) and quantify your experience wherever possible to demonstrate your accomplishments (e.g., number of employees supervised; size of budget managed; amount of money saved, etc.). You should provide a reference (name, position, organization, contact information), preferably a current senior executive familiar with your specific accomplishments, for every example in your ECQ submission. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:ECQ 1 - Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Competencies: Creativity and Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, VisionECQ 2 - Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team BuildingECQ 3 - Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical CredibilityECQ 4 - Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology ManagementECQ 5 - Building Coalitions: The ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, non-profit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating

Education

Please select the most applicable series related to your work experience and/or education. Depending on the series you select, educational requirements may apply. See educational requirements per series below. 

GG-0801 (General Engineering Series):

Basic Requirements:

• Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor’s degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. 

OR

Combination of education and experience: college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following:

1. Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions.
2. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico.
3. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph A. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A.
4. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor’s degree in engineering, provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.)

GG-1301, (General Physical Science Series):

Basic requirements:

• Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. 

OR

• Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

General Attorney series 0905:

You must be a graduate of an accredited law school with a J.D., LL.B., or equivalent degree, and you must be an active member in good standing of the Bar of a state or territory of the United States or the District of Columbia. 

GG-0340 (No educational required)

You must include an unofficial or official copy of your college and/or university transcripts with your application.  Transcript must include the School Name, Student Name, Degree and Date Awarded (if applicable). Education must be from an accredited (or pre-accredited) college or university recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. If you are qualifying based on foreign education, you must submit proof of credibility of education as evaluated by a credentialing agency.  If you have multiple degrees (e.g., BS, MS, PhD) please submit transcripts for each degree.  Applicants can verify accreditation at the following website: https://www.ed.gov/accreditation.

Contacts

• Address NUCLEAR REGULATORY COMMISSION 11555 Rockville Pike Rockville, Maryland 20852 United States
• Name: Lindsey Redden
• Phone: 301-287-0519
• Email: [email protected]