Program Analyst - SV-0343-H/I - Transportation Security Administration - Glynco, Georgia - EXPIRED

This Program Analyst position is located in the Office of Training and Workforce Engagement (OTWE), Security Operations Training Division (SOTD), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). If selected for this position, you will be responsible for collaborating with Headquarters and field course sponsors, program managers, instructional systems design specialists, and other stakeholders to ensure work products fully support agency training initiatives, goals, and performance objectives. Typical duties include, but are not limited to:

• Providing guidance and recommendations to ensure all agency training initiatives, coordinated through Security Operations Training Division at Headquarters, meet established delivery schedules; identifying and scheduling resources (i.e., funding, instructor staff, cadre personnel, training materials) to implement training initiatives.
• Serving as a field training program expert to monitor and evaluate the overall system of training delivery (methodology, curricula design, and implementation plans) to ensure training programs, goals, and objectives are met.
• Evaluating the efficiency and effectiveness of training delivery processes through detailed analysis and observation of operations. Assessing and validating training effectiveness to support agency training needs. Providing observations and timely feedback to managers and subject matter experts regarding all aspects of the training management program.
• Communicating orally and in writing to provide status reports to management, colleagues, and senior leadership regarding all aspects of the training products and delivery process.

To qualify for the SV-H Pay Band (equivalent to GS-12), you must have one year of specialized experience at the SV-G Pay Band or GS-11 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 using qualitative and quantitative techniques for measuring the efficiency, effectiveness, and economy of an operational training development and delivery organization; assisting with records management to maintain a training record system in accordance with applicable Federal policies, procedures, and guidelines; and experience presenting analysis and findings orally and in writing at meetings or in working groups.

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 records management principles, policies/regulations to maintain a training record system in accordance with applicable Federal policies, procedures, and guidelines; working as a principal technical specialist advising, guiding, and directing instructional staff, course sponsors, managers, and senior leadership on critical training related issues; and applying adult learning principles, concepts, regulations, and analytical methods and techniques to plan, organize, deliver, and evaluate a national level training program.


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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