Aeronautical Information Specialist Jobs

Duties
The incumbent will perform multiple, varying and complex assignments. Considers the objectives of FAA LOB/SOs when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems. Assignments require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines on topics including data and information management, System Wide Information Management (SWIM), quality management system (QMS), competency management, and aeronautical, weather and flight information.
Typical assignments include the following:
Plans, leads, conducts or participates in surveillance activities to measure and determine compliance with established FAA orders, rules, procedures and policies for the purpose of promoting continued operational safety around data and information management.
Develops strategies to support the oversight of information management (aeronautical, weather, flight) products and services.
Monitors and evaluates the processing of aeronautical data into information products and services, including the messaging systems used to produce aeronautical information services and products by the FAA and its partners.
Demonstrates knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines by accomplishing extensive research and analysis, management and development of data and information standards, investigation and inspection activities, compliance and enforcement actions, and direct responsibility for project/program management.
Support oversight of information management in both international and domestic forums. Conducts program analysis to provide oversight of data and information processed while adhering to criteria, policy, and procedures for all aeronautical information products and services disseminated in compliance with International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) Annexes 4, 10, 11, 14 and 15, related Procedures for Air Navigation Services (PANS) and US government orders and regulations.
Interacts between all areas of the FAA’s aeronautical information services, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, and various military and civilian charting organizations to provide oversight of data and information related to the National Airspace System (NAS).
Applies experience and comprehensive technical knowledge as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, including quality management principles, (i.e. competency and training) when developing, integrating, implementing, and evaluating standards to diverse, complex problems.
Conducts program analyses to provide oversight of, adherence to criteria, policy, and procedures for aeronautical data and information processed and disseminated, including delivery of information services through SWIM, and expansion into flight and meteorological data and information.
Employee works independently with work being reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities. Plans, leads, conducts or participates in surveillance activities to measure and determine compliance with established FAA orders, rules, procedures, and policies while promoting continued operational safety.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• U.S. Citizen

Qualifications
Reference - OPM Group Coverage Qualification Standards for Administrative and Management Positions in conjunction with Individual Occupational Requirements for 1361: Navigational Information Series. To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of Specialized Experience equivalent to the FV-I or GS/FG-13 level 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 possessing advanced technical knowledge in aeronautical data and information standards and how those standards are used in aeronautical products and services to support NAS operations, including air traffic management.
Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this announcement.
Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA.
Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their Work History.
Make sure your resume includes detailed information to support your qualifications and answers to the job questionnaire.
Additional information
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.
The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.
The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.
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 WORK HISTORY THAT DESCRIBES HOW YOU MEET THE 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. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate.
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSA's listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or category rating and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
If the selecting official decides to interview any employee on the selection list for a vacancy, then all who remain under consideration for the position at that point in the process must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.
This is a bargaining unit position. This position is represented by AFSCME Local 1653.
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