Program Coordinator

This position is located at a Forest Service Regional Office within Region 6. The incumbent serves as an Assistant Director reporting to the Director of Fire & Aviation Management. Provides delivery of programs related to business operations of the Fire & Aviation Management organization. For additional information about the duties of this position, please contact Colleen Kingsbury at Colleen.Kingsbury@usda.gov or Jacquelyn Ayers at jacquelyn.ayers@usda.gov.

Major duties

• Interpret complex program requirements, identifies areas for improvement and provide advice to accomplish the desired outcome.
• Accountable for financial planning, execution and monitoring in collaboration with specialists in agency's budget and finance organizations.
• Supports coordination of multiagency interactions related to Fire and Aviation Management collaborative response to preparedness as well as emergency incidents.
• Coordinate Fire and Aviation Management business operations including policy, guidance, analysis, evaluation and training functions.
• Serve as a liaison on budget and financial management activities.
• Provide technical and administrative supervision to employees in a variety of professional and non-professional occupations.
• Respond quickly and effectively to unexpected and rapidly changing conditions.
• Collaborate or develop business approaches with a broad array of stakeholders
• Analyze emerging and critical issues and develop strategies and recommendations responding to those issues.

Qualifications

In order to qualify, you must meet the eligibility and qualifications requirements as defined below by the closing date of the announcement. For more information on the qualifications for this position, visit the Office of Personnel Management's General Schedule Qualification Standards. Your application and resume must clearly show that you possess the experience requirements. Transcripts must be provided for qualifications based on education. Provide course descriptions as necessary. 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. Note on Experience: Your resume must clearly document the following for each block of work experience; the beginning day, month and year the work assignment started and ended; the hours worked per week; position title, and series and grade if applicable; and description of duties performed. This information must be provided for each permanent, temporary or seasonal appointment/work assignment or volunteer work and should be clearly documented as a separate block of time. Incomplete, inaccurate or conflicting work history may not be credited for qualifications purposes. This can result in an applicant not being considered for the position. Specialized Experience Requirement: For the GS-14: You must have one year specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 in the Federal service. Qualifying specialized experience includes meeting four or more of the following: Demonstrate leadership competences at an advanced or expert level of proficiency - to include building coalitions and business acumen (Financial Management); and/or Participated in the development of program guidance, processes, and procedures related to business aspects of a Fire & Aviation Management organization; and/or Conducted analysis of relevant stakeholder information or training needs; and/or Convened stakeholders to communicate detailed information and deconflict issues; and/or Provided guidance or training to agency and interagency personnel; and/or Identified issues, gathered and analyzed information, and developed advice to resolve substantive problems affecting efficiency of interagency business operations; and/or Directed and conducted review of the effectiveness of financial management and other business practices for the program areas within scope; and/or Served as an advisor and technical resource to officials on cooperative fire agreements and similar instruments. TIME IN GRADE REQUIREMENT: If you are a current federal employee in the General Schedule (GS) pay plan and applying for a promotion opportunity, you must meet time-in-grade (TIG) requirements of 52 weeks of service at the next lower grade level in the normal line of progression for the position being filled. This requirement must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To receive consideration for this position, you must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of the announcement.

Education

There is no substitution of education for speciallized experience.

Requirements

Must be a U.S. Citizen or National. Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt. Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check. Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution. Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit e-verify.gov Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period (unless prior service is creditable). New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required new supervisory training program before the end of their probationary period.