Summary This position is located in the Office of Nuclear Security and Incident Response, Division of Physical and Cybersecurity Policy. The supervisor is Anthony Bowers. The position is non-Bargaining Unit. This position is subject to Confidential Financial Disclosure and security ownership restriction reporting requirements. Responsibilities As an integral member of the Division’s leadership team, the Technical Assistant supports the accomplishment of the Division’s mission through communication and coordination on the policy, programmatic, and administrative activities of the Division. Duties include but are not limited to: Serves as a highly qualified technical specialist assisting the Division management. Provides leadership and support at the Division level for a broad variety of program management, resource assessment, scheduling, program evaluation, policy development, and other technical review activities related to division workload responsibilities. Provides expert technical guidance and advice for the Division management in assessing and resolving issues within the division. Provides overall technical coordination within the Division, with the other divisions in the office, and with business line partners as needed. Accomplishes special projects requiring technical coordination among various branches within the division. Provides technical and administrative coordination among other divisions in the office, business line partners, and other offices. Coordinates resolution of policy and programmatic issues that affect the division and provides policy advice and assistance to the Division management and to other members of the division. Develops and provides oversight of division activities and documents for human resources management, budget formulation and execution, contracts, program planning and monitoring, and information technology to ensure consistent implementation of policies. Assists Division management in the preparation of technical presentations, reports, and special studies, involving technical issues or work activities that have a significant impact on budgeted technical staff resources. Gathers data from a wide variety of sources and subjects this data to analysis in order to produce the essential information in a cogent, interesting, and convincing fashion. Prepares responses to certain categories of assigned principal correspondence for the Division management, including communications from Members of Congress, state and local officials, foreign officials, Tribal leadership, non-governmental organizations, and others. Performs special projects as assigned by the Division management or as initiated individually. Develops and implements improvements in handling technical aspects of day-to-day operations. Serves as liaison with other divisions in the office to support the Division management’s participation in management meetings and other forums. Performs studies and analyses with recommendations on programs, projects, plans, and policies that significantly impact the effectiveness and efficiency of the Division. Assists in the development of the office’s Performance and Internal Controls Plans. Coordinates inputs from the various Division branches. Monitors progress against the Performance and Internal Controls Plans during the fiscal year and recommends corrective action, as necessary to the Division management. Participates in organizational planning for full utilization of division staffing and fiscal resources to attain program objectives, and in assessing division performance against established goals. Develops, reviews, analyzes, and presents the division budget. Coordinates responses to budget questions from various sources. Analyzes division operations and utilization of staffing and fiscal resources to formulate required basis and justification for preparation of the division's budget and human capital needs. As assigned, assists Division management in the preparation of the division staffing plans and makes recommendations regarding utilization of personnel resources, organizational changes, and staff assignments. As assigned, coordinates training activities for the Division, including scheduling, prioritizing requests, and coordinating with other organizations on the delivery of training. As assigned, coordinates awards and recognition activities for the Division and interfaces with other organizations regarding award activities. Requirements Conditions of Employment U.S. Citizenship Required This is a Drug Testing position. Background investigation leading to a clearance is required for new hires 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 grade level (GG-13) 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 knowledge of the functional activities and primary interfaces of the agency sufficient to carry out the duties described above. 2. Demonstrated ability to communicate information, ideas, and advice in a clear, concise, and logical manner, both orally and in writing, for a variety of complex technical and non-technical matters and stakeholder audiences. 3. Demonstrated analytical ability sufficient to plan, organize and perform a variety of program and administrative management functions and activities involving competing priorities and deadlines. 4. Demonstrated ability to work effectively with other division or office representatives in building consensus and issue coordination. SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE is experience in the field of engineering or physical science which has equipped the candidate with the ability to evaluate, coordinate, review, monitor, and advise Division management on technical, policy, programmatic, and administrative issues within a division's area of responsibility. A description of how you possess the specialized experience as well as how you meet the qualifications desired in an ideal candidate should be addressed in your resume. Education Qualification for All Professional Engineering 0800 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.) GG-1301, (General Physical Science 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.