Summary This position is located in the Office of the Executive Director for Operations The supervisor is Sherri Miotla This position is Non-Bargaining Unit This position IS subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure reporting requirements. This position IS subject to security ownership restriction reporting requirements Responsibilities As the Executive Technical Assistant (ETA), you will be responsible for: (1) developing, evaluating, coordinating, reviewing, monitoring and, as otherwise assigned, advising the Executive Director for Operations (EDO), Deputy Executive Directors for Operations (DEDOs), Associate Director for Operations (ADO), and Deputy Associate Director for Operations on administrative and technical issues affecting the effectiveness and efficiency of NRC offices responsible for implementing agency-wide policies, programs, and assigned work products; (2) timely review of work products for alignment on EDO key messages in the assigned NRC program areas; (3) maintaining a general knowledge of major OEDO and assigned NRC program work underway; (4) identifying major issues requiring OEDO management attention to improve office effectiveness in completing assigned work; (5) coordinating with and remaining cognizant of key interfaces and issues between NRC program offices, with ACRS, with the Commission staff, with offices that report to the Commission, and with key external stakeholders and industry groups; (6) remaining cognizant of selected activities and assignments of other OEDO ETAs and Senior Communication Specialists; and serve as a backup to related activities; and (7) as assigned, representing the OEDO on interoffice or interagency Task Groups to prepare recommended NRC policy and practice. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Must be able to meet/maintain security & suitability requirements. You must meet the qualifications for this position by no later than 30 calendar days after the closing date of this announcement and before placement in the position. Qualifications In order to qualify for this position, you must have at least one year of specialized experience at the next lower (GG-14) grade level in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private or public sector. The ideal candidate will be able to demonstrate the following: 1. Demonstrated broad knowledge of, and ability to interpret and apply, applicable NRC rules, regulations, policies, practices and procedures, including regulatory guides and industry codes and standards, to nuclear reactors, nuclear materials, nuclear waste, regulatory research, or security of nuclear facilities and materials. Describe specific experience (internal and external) that demonstrates knowledge of, and breadth of experience in applying, NRC regulations, policies, practices and procedures in areas related to one or more of: nuclear reactors, nuclear fuel cycle, medical and industrial use of nuclear by-products and source materials, nuclear waste, health physics, regulatory research, or security of nuclear facilities and materials. Describe specific experiences that demonstrate your ability to carry our nuclear regulatory functions and understand the associated technical issues and impacts. Description of experience should include the types and results of projects.\ 2. Demonstrated knowledge and understanding of functional responsibilities, authorities and official relationships within the NRC organization including both Headquarters and Regional Offices. Describe relevant work experience that demonstrates ability to understand and work across organizational boundaries and successfully coordinate completion of major projects. Discuss experience dealing with senior agency management and commission offices that demonstrates ability to understand roles and responsibilities and both informal and formal communications protocols. Describe experience or education that demonstrates or supports your ability to represent the agency effectively in dealing with outside organizations and professionally representing the positions or your organization. 3.Demonstrated ability to make independent analyses and evaluate the technical soundness and merit of the activities and proposals stemming from major NRC programs including the ability to distinguish technical from policy issues. Provide multiple (at least 3) examples that describe your involvement in, and contribution to, the final resolution, including as appropriate: (1) experience in identifying and evaluating complex technical or policy issues and proposals, specifically discussing any assessments associated with major NRC program areas; (2) where you were able to distinguish policy issues from technical issues; and (3) experience in analyzing operational events for safety significance including evaluation of Region and Program Office follow-up activities. 4.Demonstrated ability or potential to provide leadership, effectively utilize human resources, and resolve conflicts. Describe your specific experience, training, and developmental assignments that demonstrate your ability or potential to provide leadership as evidenced by success in areas such as: resolving difficult and complex problems; formulating program goals and objectives; managing the simultaneous completion of many tasks with competing resource demands; providing coordination, oversight, guidance, and direction to personnel of diverse backgrounds to foster a motivated team atmosphere. Describe instances that required you to use tact, diplomacy, and negotiation skills to achieve cooperation and develop consensus. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is defined as: Experience that demonstrates a broad knowledge of, and ability to interpret and apply, applicable NRC rules, regulations, policies, practices and procedures; the ability to identify major issues; and demonstrate analytical ability to plan and organize a variety of program functions with effective communication skills. Education Qualification for 0801 Series: Basic Requirements: 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 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 A. 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.) More detailed information about these alternatives are described in the U.S. Office of Personnel Management Qualification Standards Operating Manual which may be accessed at the following website: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/0800/general-engineering-series-0801/ Qualification for 1301 series: Basic Requirements: Degree: physical science, engineering, or mathematics that included 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science such as mechanics, dynamics, properties of materials, and electronics. OR Combination of education and experience -- education equivalent to one of the majors shown in A above that included at least 24 semester hours in physical science and/or related engineering science, plus appropriate experience or additional education. Additional Information The duty location of this position is Rockville, MD. In general, employees are expected to be in the office at a minimum of 4 days per pay period. Telework schedules, including full-time telework, are approved, on a case-by-case basis. If selected, telework will be determined in accordance with Agency policy and the Collective Bargaining Agreement, if applicable.