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Summary Serves as a Management and Program Analyst, Technology Project Manager Team Lead within the Flight Standards Service (FS), Strategic Planning and Financial Services Division, System Tools and Information (STIM) Branch, AFB-260. The STIM Branch is a multi-disciplinary team of FAA employees and contractors responsible for mission-enabling, innovative technology. Responsibilities The System Tools & Information Management (STIM) Branch is a multi-disciplinary team of FAA employees and contractors responsible for mission-enabling, innovative technology such as Big Data, Data Science, Advanced Technologies (e.g., autonomous systems, robotic systems, data streaming), Cyber Security, Mobile Technologies, Process Engineering, Advanced Analytics (e.g. artificial intelligence, machine learning) and Human Factors to name a few. STIM engages in environmental scanning to research and identify outside influencers and business innovation to Flight Standards Service (FS). The STIM Branch Team embraces agile values and a systems approach as we improve FS effectiveness through transitioning technology, infrastructure, applications, and data to the edge technology to support risk-based standards, certification, and oversight. STIM advises the Flight Standards Leadership Board and influences continuous improvement, policy and procedures. The branch also ensures standardization, consolidation, and consistency in system tools, information management, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, 508 compliance and related automation. The branch advocates on behalf of the Service to ensure infrastructure used to collect, manage, preserve, store and deliver information is efficient, effective and incorporates innovative technological platforms. The STIM Branch contributes to providing the safest, most efficient aerospace system in the world through enabling data availability and optimal timing for data-driven decisions. The Flight Standards Systems, Tools and Information Management Branch Strategic Plan is to enable decisions at the appropriate level with the necessary information for the right people, place, and time so they can make a decision in the moment. Under minimal direction from the Branch Manager, the incumbent will serve as a Technology Project Manager TEAM LEAD in the System Tools and Information (STIM) Branch (AFB-260) of Flight Standards Service (FS). The incumbent will: • Apply experience, expert knowledge, understanding of business value and leadership of: data management (principles, procedures, tools, modeling), technology, data science, autonomous systems, mobile technologies, information, science, human-machine interface, cyber-security (methods, tools, procedures, technology, threats), integrating (interfacing, collecting, connecting, sharing), artificial intelligence, a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods; in support of: planning, development and execution of STIM programs. • Provide expert advice, guidance, recommendations and briefings using oral and written communication techniques to ensure understanding complex/controversial issues and success of technology projects and services to senior executives and all levels of management and other technical specialists on significant issues or that that significantly influence important FS/AVS/Agency technology policies and problems. • Designs and conducts comprehensive management, business, programmatic, and analytical functions to support FS, Aviation Safety (AVS) and the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). • Provide team leadership across projects and initiatives under the responsibility of the STIM Branch and may provide feedback on lower level employee’s performance to the branch manager. Provides guidance to lower-level staff to address diverse, complex issues impacting the aviation/transportation industry. • Support and foster the success and leadership of other project/program managers and lower level employees to take responsibility for increasingly complex and larger projects. Performs other duties as assigned. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To qualify for this FV-J position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I (FG/GS-13). Specialized experience is experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized experience is applying knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines; designing and recommending solutions to problems; preparing and reviewing reports; analyzing and assembling information and data to be used for briefings. In addition to the qualification requirements above, this vacancy also includes a Quality Ranking Factors for which candidates will be evaluated. Please refer to the KSA section for these factors. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Please ensure your answer all questions and follow all instruction carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job. Education 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. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements 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. This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about core compensation is available on the following website: http://jobs.faa.gov/FAACoreCompensation.htm Refer to OPM's General Schedule Qualification Standards, Group Coverage Qualification Standards on Administrative and Management Positions, for more information: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=GS-ADMIN 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 information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or 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 based on the work history and experience you provided. 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 Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category rating, or alphabetical order and referred to the selecting official for consideration. All, some or none of the candidates my be interviewed. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay , COLA