Program Manager
Attention Federal Employees and Veterans:
We are recruiting for our Chief of Programs Section!!! Recruitment/Relocation incentives may be authorized.
A few nuggets:
- Great team to lead and supervise
- Strong and consistent overall District program with fun, challenging, and innovative projects
- Small town living with easy access to “big city” opportunities
- Convenient local airport with non-stop (lol!) flights to Seattle with access to anywhere in the world
- Community, community, community – suggest you take a look at the embedded video in the vacancy announcement.
Open & closing dates: 05/26/2023 to 06/09/2023
Salary: $109,908 - $135,270 per year
Duty Location: Walla Walla, WA
Duties
- Performs a wide range of current year and multi-year, budgeting, programming and funds management in support of the District's Civil Works (CW) program
- Consults with Program Managers, Project Managers, and leadership to consolidate and formulate an overall District CW program from scoping, budgeting, initiation, design, construction, and/or operations and maintenance of various projects.
- Provides advice to the District Commander and Senior Leadership on the overall District program and on program management relative to life cycle project management funding and schedules.
- Provides technical advice to the Division and other Branch/Section Chiefs, program managers, project managers, and program analysts on program policy, funding, and scheduling.
- Develops and issues guidance on program formulation and execution.
- Searches out and develops new or modified methods of approaches in formulating the District's CW program.
- Conducts training sessions for District staff on program development and management.
- Exercises significant responsibility in dealing with officials of other organizations within and outside the District.
- Performs supervisory duties for a team of Project Managers and Program Analysts.
Requirements
Conditions of Employment
- Appointment may be subject to a suitability or fitness determination, as determined by a completed background investigation.
- This position requires you to submit a Public Financial Disclosure Report (OGE 278) or a Confidential Financial Disclosure Report (OGE450) upon entry, and annually thereafter.
Qualifications
Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job. You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected. See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes utilizing project and program management business processes and tools; working on planning, engineering, construction and/or operations and maintenance projects; and budget formulation and management. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).
- Current Department of Army Civilian Employees
- Current Department of Defense (DOD) Civilian Employee (non-Army)
- Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce
- Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan
- Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act
- Military Spouses, under Executive Order (E.O.) 13473
- Non-Department of Defense (DoD) Transfer
- Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Interchange Agreement Eligible
- People with Disabilities, Schedule A
- Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible
- Reinstatement
- Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998
Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience which includes utilizing project and program management business processes and tools; working on planning, engineering, construction and/or operations and maintenance projects; and budget formulation and management. This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).
Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify. For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.
You will be evaluated on the basis of your level of competency in the following areas:
- Leadership
- Oral Communication
- Program Management
- Project Management
- Written Communication
Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-12).
