About this role

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience qualifications. To qualify for the Grade 15, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equal or equivalent to the GS-14, it must include: Experience directing multi-disciplinary professional, technical, and administrative teams while managing the organizational, human resource, and budgetary parameters vital to national highway traffic safety initiatives.

Experience communicating with system managers, rulemaking engineers, researchers, technicians, traffic safety administrators, Governor's Representatives for Highway Safety, State and local officials, national data system program managers and others associated with the application of data as it applies to helping solve complex safety issues. Experience establishing policy and overseeing large federal data divisions to ensure data completeness, security, and rigorous quality control.

Examples include working with executive leadership to plan, develop, and manage large-scale national data collection systems and multi-level crash investigation programs. KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas: Technical Knowledge: Knowledge of federal budgeting to manage large divisional funds, appropriations, large-scale national data architecture, data collection methodologies, complex procurement or contracting mechanisms and systems engineering principles required to build and sustain nationwide databases.

Leadership and Supervision: Management and/or team leader skills, including the ability to direct, manage, and develop a diverse, high-performing human resources workforce of technical and administrative staff. Communication: Communication, presentation, and negotiation skills, including the ability to secure community support, build strategic intergovernmental alliances, and establish private-sector data-sharing partnerships.

Reasoning: Ability to collaborate across federal, state, and private boundaries to improve data accessibility while balancing competing stakeholder priorities. For all types of consideration, 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. For additional information about applying to Federal positions, please click on the following link: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-policies/#url=e4 All applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement

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