Job Description
Duties
- Developing, conceiving, planning, and implementing policies, policy-development processes, and guidelines affectingbroad, emerging, and/or critical Agency priorities. Serves as an Agency authority in the formulation of new policies.
- Facilitating the identification of policy and strategic planning issues and formulation of analysis, reports, and policy recommendations for the Deputy Administrator for Policy and Planning (DA-PP), POL Director and senior Agency management.
- Ensuring that the Administrator, Deputy Administrator, and POL Director have information needed to make national security and development policy and program decisions to advance the goals of the Agency.
- Conducting or coordinating national security policy analysis to ensure the preparation of Agency position towards issues presented from the White House, NSC, State, and others analyzing sensitive data, providing recommendations.
- Establishing working relationships with counterparts at the Department of State and other executive agencies; Congressional staff; senior representatives of major corporations, foundations, think tanks, and non-governmental organizations.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- United States Citizenship is required.
- Relevant experience (see Qualifications below).
- Must be able to obtain and maintain a Secret clearance.
- Time in grade must be met by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be registered with the Selective Service.
- You may be required to serve a one year supervisory probationary period.
- You may be required to serve a one year probationary period.
Qualifications
Specialized Experience:
GS 15: You must have one year of specialized experience at a level of difficulty and responsibility equivalent to the GS 14 level in the Federal service. One year of experience refers to full-time work; part-time work is considered on a prorated basis. Examples of qualifying specialized experience at the next lower level for this position include:
A. Managing significant elements or phases of policy development or coordinating a policy response:
B. Advising with high-ranking officials such as agency heads, top congressional staff officials, state government executives, legislative leaders, and executives of comparable private sector organizations; and;
C. Providing authoritative guidance in the resolution of complex problems or issues impacting major agency projects, and programs; and;
D. Managing significant initiatives and policy for a leading International Development Agency
DEADLINE: DECEMBER 16, 2024
