This position is located in the Indian Affairs, Office of Facilities, Property and Safety Management, Division of Facilities Management and Construction (DFMC), Branch of Planning and Design. The mission of the DFMC is to ensure the efficient and effective stewardship of resources for new construction, renovation, and maintenance of Bureau-funded facilities, for the Bureau of Indian Education; Bureau of Indian Affairs Office of Justice Services; and BIA administrative programs.

Duties

Provides guidance and oversight to the national Indian Affairs-wide design and construction programs. Provides operation oversight of pre-planning, planning, and design of all renovations, major improvements and repairs of complex, large dollar value, high profile capital investment projects in Indian Affairs funded facilities. Plans work, sets priorities, assigns work and evaluates performance, counsel on technical and administrative matters. Interviews perspective candidates, recommends and assigns new employees work, hears and resolves complaints, affects minor disciplinary measures, and identifies developmental and training needs to subordinates. Develops business cases and has overall program oversight of projects schedules, cost estimates, budgets, technical reviews of designs, shop drawings, specifications, and contractor performance. Ensures conformance with contract provisions and standards, and contractor requests of modification. Leads meetings with planning and design managers, environmental and technical engineering staff that are responsible and accountable for accomplishments, milestones, tasks, and action items of action plans. Ensures managers and technical staff understand contents of action plans and determines progress. Evaluates planning documents and designs for conformance to established programs of requirement, codes and standards compliance, energy efficiency, constructability, and overall functionality. Consults with stakeholders, makes all required corrections and changes to the design as determined to be necessary. Develops and manages relative priorities and implantation plans for replacement and FI and R projects in accordance with division plans and goals. Coordinates with Branch of Asset Management for the development of Housing Needs Analysis. Reviews Facility Condition Index with Branch of Asset Management team.

Requirements

• U.S. Citizenship Required
• Indian Preference applies - Preference in filling vacancies is given to qualified Indian candidates in accordance with Indian Preference Act of 1934 (title 25, USC Section 472).
• You will be required to have federal payments made by Direct Deposit.
• You may be required to successfully complete a probationary/trial period.
• A background security investigation will be required for all new hires. Appointment will be subject to the applicant's successful completion of a background security investigation and favorable adjudication.
• If you are a male applicant born after 12/31/1959 and are required to register under the Military Selective Service Act, the Defense Authorization Act of 1986 requires that you be registered or you are not eligible for appointment in this agency.
• Incumbent is required to operate a government motor vehicle, must possess a valid driver's license, and have a safe driving record within the 4 year period immediately preceding submittal of GSA Form 3607.
• The full performance level of this position is GS-13.
• This is a supervisory position. Under provision of the Civil Service Reform Act, first-time supervisors are required to serve a one year supervisory probationary period before their appointment becomes final.
• Supervisors who do not satisfactorily complete this probationary period will be returned to positions of no lower grade and pay than those they occupied before assuming their supervisory assignment.
• Additional selections may be made from this announcement if identical vacancies occur in the same location within 90 days from the closing date.
• Indian Affairs has determined that the duties of the position are suitable for telework, and the selectee may be allowed to telework with supervisor approval.
• You must possess a license or registration as a Professional Architect. Your license or registration must be held in a state, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.
• All applicants must submit copies of a full set of transcripts and Professional Architect license/registration along with their application to verify qualification requirements.
• This position is required to annually complete the OGE-450 Confidential Financial Disclosure Report and have the document approved by the ethics officer.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience:GS-13: To qualify at the GS-13 grade level, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at or equivalent to the GS-12 grade level performing of the following: (1) Managing a facilities planning and design program; (2) Preparing or reviewing planning and design cost estimates and/or budgets; (3) Presenting program information orally and in writing; and (4) Assigning work to subordinates in an engineering or architectural field. Selective Placement Factor Requirement: This position has the following Selective Placement Factors that will be used to screen candidates: Registration as a professional Registered Architect is required. Your license or registration must be held in a State, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States. All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement.

Education

If you are qualifying based on your education, you MUST provide transcripts or other documentation to support your educational claims. Unless otherwise stated: (1) official or unofficial transcripts are acceptable, or (2) you may submit a list with all of your courses, grades, semester, year, and credit for the course. All materials must be submitted by the closing date of the announcement.

If more than 10 percent of your undergraduate course work (credit hours) were taken on a pass/fail basis, your claim of superior academic achievement must be based upon class standing or membership in an honor society.

One academic year of graduate education is considered to be the number of credits hours your graduate school has determined to represent one academic year of full-time study. Such study may have been performed on a full-time or part-time basis. If you cannot obtain your graduate school's definition of one year of graduate study, 18 semester hours (or 27 quarter hours) should be considered as satisfying the requirement for one year of full-time graduate study.

If you are using education completed in foreign colleges or universities to meet the qualification requirements, you must send a Certificate of Foreign Equivalency with your transcript in order to receive credit for that education which shows the education credentials have been evaluated by a private organization that specializes in interpretation of foreign education programs and such education has been deemed equivalent to that gained in an accredited U.S. education program; or full credit has been given for the courses at a U.S. accredited college or university. For further information, visit: https://www2.ed.gov/about/offices/list/ous/international/usnei/us/edlite-visitus-forrecog.html

Contacts

• Address AS-IA Human Resources 12220 Sunrise Valley Dr., Room 4047 Reston, VA 20191 US
• Name: Diane Manzavinos
• Phone: 000-000-0000
• Email: [email protected]