This vacancy is for a Supervisory Electronics Engineer in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) within the Department of Commerce. In this position you will serve as Division Chief of Staff Spectrum Affairs and Information Division (SAID) responsible for guiding a staff of senior telecommunications and radiocommunications technology and policy experts to address spectrum policy issues.

Duties

As a Supervisory Electronics Engineer, you will perform the following duties: Evaluate the current and future use and allocation of the radio spectrum. Assess proposals to resolve problems related to spectrum management and telecommunications issues. Analyze a variety of spectrum management problems and related telecommunications issues, questions, or conditions in order to evaluate current programs, to resolve problems, and/or to formulate proposals to meet future needs. Develop, assess, and negotiate federal government positions pertaining to the use of the radio frequency spectrum resource, taking into account the technical, legal, political, economic, and national security factors. Evaluate the effect of existing and planned radiocommunication systems on the radio frequency spectrum and provides technical engineering support for domestic and international policy development and long-range planning. Serve as the Division Chief of Spectrum Affairs and Information Division (SAID) and supervises and guides staff of senior telecommunications and radio communications technology and policy experts. Sets priorities, prepares schedules, assigns tasks, manages and reviews the work products of team members, and reports on work progress based on established objectives. Review and recommend initiatives or actions on spectrum technical and policy issues to organization senior management that support the effective development and implementation of administration policy. Plan and communicate proposed policy changes with federal agencies and private sector organizations, both foreign and domestic. Attend briefings and provides advice on sensitive and controversial domestic (including classified) matters. Advise and assist senior management officials on classified Spectrum policy matters. Represents the organization on spectrum management matters with outside organizations. This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Supervisory Electronics Engineer GS-0855-15 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience. This position is also advertised under NTIA-OSM-ST-24-12311715, which is open to Merit Promotion eligible applicants. You must apply to both announcements if you want to be considered for both.

Requirements

Qualifications

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ BASIC REQUIREMENT: A. Degree: Engineering. To be acceptable, the program must: (1) lead to a bachelor's degree in a school of engineering with at least one program accredited by ABET; or (2) include differential and integral calculus and courses (more advanced than first-year physics and chemistry) in five of the following seven areas of engineering science or physics: (a) statics, dynamics; (b) strength of materials (stress-strain relationships); (c) fluid mechanics, hydraulics; (d) thermodynamics; (e) electrical fields and circuits; (f) nature and properties of materials (relating particle and aggregate structure to properties); and (g) any other comparable area of fundamental engineering science or physics, such as optics, heat transfer, soil mechanics, or electronics. OR B. Combination of education and experience -- college-level education, training, and/or technical experience that furnished (1) a thorough knowledge of the physical and mathematical sciences underlying engineering, and (2) a good understanding, both theoretical and practical, of the engineering sciences and techniques and their applications to one of the branches of engineering. The adequacy of such background must be demonstrated by one of the following: Professional registration or licensure -- Current registration as an Engineer Intern (EI), Engineer in Training (EIT)1, or licensure as a Professional Engineer (PE) by any State, the District of Columbia, Guam, or Puerto Rico. Absent other means of qualifying under this standard, those applicants who achieved such registration by means other than written test (e.g., State grandfather or eminence provisions) are eligible only for positions that are within or closely related to the specialty field of their registration. For example, an applicant who attains registration through a State Board's eminence provision as a manufacturing engineer typically would be rated eligible only for manufacturing engineering positions. Written Test -- Evidence of having successfully passed the Fundamentals of Engineering (FE)2 examination or any other written test required for professional registration by an engineering licensure board in the various States, the District of Columbia, Guam, and Puerto Rico. Specified academic courses -- Successful completion of at least 60 semester hours of courses in the physical, mathematical, and engineering sciences and that included the courses specified in the basic requirements under paragraph. The courses must be fully acceptable toward meeting the requirements of an engineering program as described in paragraph A. Related curriculum -- Successful completion of a curriculum leading to a bachelor's degree in an appropriate scientific field, e.g., engineering technology, physics, chemistry, architecture, computer science, mathematics, hydrology, or geology, may be accepted in lieu of a bachelor's degree in engineering provided the applicant has had at least 1 year of professional engineering experience acquired under professional engineering supervision and guidance. Ordinarily there should be either an established plan of intensive training to develop professional engineering competence, or several years of prior professional engineering-type experience, e.g., in interdisciplinary positions. (The above examples of related curricula are not all-inclusive.) Note: An applicant who meets the basic requirements as specified in A or B above, except as noted under B.1., may qualify for positions in any branch of engineering unless selective factors indicate otherwise. AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. To qualify at the GS-15 level, you must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Implementing spectrum regulatory programs on radio frequency interference and ensuring future program compliance with national and international regulations; and Participates in national or international spectrum planning regulatory meetings and conferences; and Provides technical analysis and engineering expertise in various issues such as Radiocommunications, Telecommunications, Satellite communications or broadband wireless communications etc.; and Leads and inspires teams to accomplish long-term strategic goals. 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.

Education

See Qualifications section above. Transcripts are required.

Contacts

• Address National Telecommunications and Information Administration 1401 Constitution Ave NW Washington, DC 20230 US
• Name: Yoscheanea Green
• Email: [email protected]