Program Analyst - SV-0343-I - Transportation Security Administration - Arlington, Virginia - EXPIRED

This Program Analyst position is located in the Security Operations Training Division (SOTD), within the Office of Training and Workforce Engagement (OTWE), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will serve as Technical Project Lead within the Security Officer Training Branch, and will be responsible for planning and carrying out complex analyses and develop solutions to a range of complex system issues involved with the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of computer based training programs, including simulators. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Analyzing and resolving complex system issues involved with the design, development, implementation, and maintenance of computer based training programs, including simulators.
• Providing tactical advice on issues and efforts involving IT systems and considers the technical capabilities/limitations of IT and non-IT devices.
• Performing project management and analytical duties for technology training projects. Defining work scope, identifying milestones and developing schedules. Monitoring cost, schedule, and performance. Developing and maintaining risk registers to identify project risk and develop mitigation strategies for each assigned project.
• Coordinating and developing project planning documentation, including project plans, cost estimates, and cost, schedule, performance and benefits baselines.
• Monitoring key technical developments and operational trends in order to identify potential improvements to existing training products.
• Serving as a technical monitor for image development tasks to assist Contracting Officer\'s Representative in monitoring contract activities and performance.
• Ensuring critical processes are used during development, delivery and quality assurance checks, image standards, and mature change control process; evaluating OTHER Training Computer Allocation Studies and networked training computer\'s IT configuration to better support TSP training and testing.
• Technical liaison for IT related requirements.
• Leveraging working relationships with OINT, improving processes and relationships with stakeholders, as well as inter-office partnerships with OS, OS, OH and OINT.

To qualify for the SV-I Pay Band (equivalent to GS-13), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-H Pay Band or GS-12 in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Such experience includes applying advanced knowledge of project management principles for information technology projects to plan, develop, implement and maintain a variety of programs and simulators; AND applying quantitative and qualitative techniques to evaluate and report the engagement and effectiveness of a program and recommending program improvements to systems or processes.


National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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: Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime.

You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.

HOW YOU WILL BE EVALUATED:

You will be evaluated based on a comparison of the position requirements against the quality and extent of the experience and/or related education as reflected in your resume and supporting documentation. You are encouraged to ensure work experiences clearly show possession of the competencies required for this position. We will compare your resume and supporting documentation to your responses on the assessment questionnaire. If, after reviewing your resume and any supporting documentation, a determination is made that you have rated yourself higher than is supported by your application materials, your category placement may be adjusted and/or you may be excluded from consideration for this job.

When completing the assessment questionnaire for this position, you will be prompted to elect if you wish for your application to be considered as External (where Veterans’ Preference applies), as Status (current or former Federal Employees), and/or Internal to TSA as a current permanent or competitive temporary employee. At that time, please select the answer(s) that apply to you and your application to this position.

Candidates will be rated and ranked using Category Grouping procedures. Under Category Grouping, candidates will be rated and ranked into one of three categories:

Best Qualified - applicants possessing experience that substantially exceeds the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are highly proficient in all requirements of the job and can perform effectively in the position;

Well Qualified - applicants possessing experience that exceed the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in most of the requirements of the job; and

Qualified - applicants possessing experience that meets the minimum qualifications of the position including all selective factors and are proficient in some, but not all of the requirements of the job.
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