Summary Serves as an Aviation Safety Analyst in the Flight Standards Service General Aviation and Commercial Division, AFS-800. Provides review of all internal and external documents includes, but is not limited to, rule-making documents, guidance, advisory materials, technical evaluations, and safety promotion material. Develop and review regulatory requirements for new and novice operations, traditional aviation, and promoting safety in the national airspace system. Responsibilities Assists in justifying and recommending new or amended Federal Aviation Regulations. Develops policies, standards, programs, and procedures for general aviation and commercial operations. This includes, but is not limited to, rule-making documents, guidance, advisory materials, technical evaluations, and safety promotion material. Assists in establishing collaborative relationships with external aviation organizations to address safety issues and seek innovative mitigation of such issues. Analyzes safety issues and seeks a wide range of regulatory and non-regulatory responses to ensure rapid adoption of remedies to general aviation safety concerns. Participates on industry and other external work groups and teams to address specific safety and other general aviation issues. Assists in developing guidelines, standards, and certification methods and associated written products to carry out policies for addressing safety and related general aviation requirements. Responsible for ensuring the policy being developed can be implemented with minimal risk. Therefore, the individual must also be able to review and analyze a document or situation and report to managers or senior executives on the potential issues presented by the policy being developed. Responsible for assisting the subject matter experts in planning and the implementation of activities related to the continual improvement of general aviation safety. Conducts thorough research by appropriately identifying and analyzing relevant legal and factual issues and arguments. Assesses legal strengths and weaknesses of available arguments to provide accurate, complete, and practical legal advice and conclusions. Identifies and learns emerging issues, principles, and practices relevant to the legal practice area. Applies experience and advanced knowledge applicable to FS systems and the various system types, in order to support identification and successful resolution of challenging and complex issues affecting the programs. Serves as a specialist in safety policy analysis as it relates to existing and proposed FS guidance. Conducts comprehensive legal reviews of and evaluates existing regulations, as well as FAA policy and directives relating to program planning, performance measurement, program review and validation documentation for systems quality, associated security assessments, and potential conflicts across multiple LOBs. Prepares and reviews reports for the AVS leadership and may be called upon to present recommendations and findings to both internal and external stakeholders holding a shared interest and responsibility of FAA Flight Standards systems. Uses analytics and technical expertise to identify and sponsor communication with internal and external stakeholders through collaborative efforts with other offices thru participation in panels and/or workgroups. Establishes collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders to help inform risk-based decision making and mitigate policy infractions. Interfaces and participates as a member of internal/external workgroups to develop partnerships that help mitigate error submissions and enable the Service to more efficiently identify potential risk in the NAS. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To qualify for this position at the FV-I/FG-13 grade levels you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS-12. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Experience includes developing new techniques, legal processes and approaches, and requires mastery of advanced principles and concepts of a field sufficient to develop aviation safety policies, procedures, and strategies; provide expert technical advice, guidance, and recommendations to senior management, employees, outside organizations, contractors and other external personnel; and make recommendations which influence the development and modification of significant policies or programs. Mastery of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for assisting or improving management processes and systems. To qualify for this position at the FV-J/FG-14 grade levels you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I, FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Experience includes advanced knowledge of General Aviation and Commercial division archive systems, associated goals, priorities, policies, and commitments of the assigned organization and their interrelationship with other internal and external programs and activities. Mastery of a wide range of qualitative and quantitative methods for assessing or improving management processes and systems and for analyzing and measuring the effectiveness, efficiency, and productivity of administrative and technical programs. Advanced knowledge of general aviation safety policies and procedures related to FS systems and development of best practices. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. 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. 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, 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. How You Will Be Evaluated for Internal Announcements: Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA); Demonstrated Abilities; Leadership and Management Dimensions; or Other Factors listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration. Duty Location: Selectee will be required to report to an FAA Aviation Safety (AVS) Duty Location. Position is telework eligible in accordance with Agency Policy. Incomplete Applications: Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job. Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA. In-grade/Downgrade applications will be accepted. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA