Duties

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The incumbent serves as a Division Manager with overall authority and responsibility for the implementation of the Technical Operations and Analysis Division. The incumbent manages the work of various national programs: Cyber Counterintelligence (CI), eDiscovery, and CI Analysis in support of CI Operations, International Travel Security, Insider Risk, and General Threat Management. The incumbent manages and leads the Division with authority and responsibility for its operational and administrative direction. Typical duties include, but are not limited to the following:

Applies advanced knowledge of leadership, budget, human resources, and other administrative policies to accomplish program objectives. Exercises the full range of leadership and managerial duties, including strategic planning, resource allocation, establishing priorities, communicating the organization's and agency's vision and strategic goals and objectives, assigning work and providing guidance and instructions, monitoring and evaluating performance and communicating expectations, coaching and developing staff members, approving leave, recommending personnel actions, and taking or approving corrective and disciplinary actions as appropriate.

Applies technical knowledge of Intelligence Analysis, CI, and Human Intelligence (HUMINT) procedures, concepts, principles, and practices to review, analyze, prioritize, and effectively manage national-level activities that support multiple agency stakeholders and organizations, spanning multiple geographical areas in direct support of FAA objectives.

Provides oversight, support, and operational management of the FAA Cyber CI, eDiscovery, and CI Analysis activities in support of Counterintelligence, Insider Risk, Foreign Travel Security/Personnel Recovery, and General Threat programs.

Evaluates and approves reports and other deliverables provided by the Division and work with FAA and external stakeholders to remediate any identified vulnerabilities and deficiencies. Liaison and engagement with the Intelligence Community (both Title 50 and non-Title 50), Law Enforcement, and foreign partners. Oversees and manages the development of threat analysis and effective mitigation strategies designed to protect FAA personnel, missions, systems, facilities, and information from foreign and domestic threats.

Maintains a technical understanding of technologies used by the Branches, evaluates how the Division utilizes technologies, and works with appropriate stakeholders to remediate deficiencies. Reviews and approves/disapproves proposed changes to rule sets, signature sets, software versions, configurations, and other characteristics that might impact the way the technology is used.

Serves as an authoritative source of information and expertise to the Deputy Director on a myriad of Counterintelligence, Cyber CI, CI Analysis, Insider Risk, International Travel Security, General Threat, HUMINT, and inter-agency operations subject matter issues affecting managers and employees for more than one organizational unit, project, and program. Confers regularly with the Deputy Director and other Division Managers to provide status reports ensuring higher-level authorities have adequate information from a historical perspective as well as current data for decision-making.

Works under the broad program direction of the Deputy Director for the Office of Counterintelligence and Technical Operations, with delegated authority to independently manage and direct the functions of the Counterintelligence Operations Division. The incumbent has broad discretion to ensure projects and programs align with the strategic objectives of the Office of Investigations and Professional Responsibility. Keeps the Deputy Director informed of overall program progress and unusual or potentially controversial issues and proposed approaches to address and resolve those issues.

Requirements

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Conditions of employment

• US Citizenship is required.
• Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
• Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents).
• Designated or Random Drug Testing required.

Qualifications

To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the 1801 series, please refer to the following:

General Schedule Qualification Standards

To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-J, FG/GS 14. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skill, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized Experience includes: Experience leading resources to evaluate and act on information related to activities and possible threats from foreign intelligence entities, organizations, and/or malicious actors, threats from non-state actors, oversee activities to identify and mitigate insider threat risks and collaborate with stakeholders, and experience with relevant issues involving safety and security of official international travelers, Personnel Recovery concepts, and more generalized threats.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

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.

Current/Former Federal Employees MUST provide an SF-50.

Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed.

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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.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements

Leave Enhancement: FAA organizations may offer enhanced annual leave accrual to newly appointed or reappointed employees. In order to receive consideration for such a benefit, applicants' prior non-Federal service or active duty uniformed service must directly relate to the duties of the position to which appointed. Granting enhanced annual leave is at the sole discretion of the hiring organization, and granting such benefit is not an entitlement nor guaranteed to any newly hired employee.

This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designated position (TDP)" will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating to 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 each Leadership and Management Dimensions, 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.

Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualifications requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Leadership and Management Dimensions and 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.

Only one selection will be made for Washington, DC or El Segundo, CA.

This is not a bargaining unit position.

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Benefits

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