Community Planner

Full Job Description

This is a Direct Hire Authority (DHA) solicitation utilizing the DHA for Certain Competitive Service Positions to recruit and appoint qualified candidates to positions in the competitive service.

About the Position: Located at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), MD. APG sits on more than 72,500 acres in Harford County, MD and offers recreation, sports, golf, pools, child and day care facilities.

The area offers housing, public, private & parochial school systems, and major colleges.

Who May Apply: US Citizens In order to qualify, you must meet the education AND experience requirements described below.

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).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document. Basic Requirement for Community Planner: A.

Degree: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in community planning; or related field such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration that included at least 12 semester hours in the planning process, socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, urban and regional economic analysis, and development finance.

OR B.

Degree and Work Experience: Bachelor's degree (or higher degree) in a field related to community planning such as urban affairs, architecture, landscape architecture, engineering, sociology, geography, economics, political science, or public administration and possess at least one-year of work experience in community planning acquired under the supervision and guidance of a community planner.

OR C.

Combination of Education and Experience: Courses equivalent to a major in one of the disciplines, as shown in A above, or a combination of related courses totaling at least 24 semester hours in any combination of the disciplines, as shown in A above, of which at least 12 semester hours were in the planning process, and socioeconomic and physical elements of planning, plus appropriate experience or additional education.

In addition to meeting the basic requirement above, to qualify for this position you must also meet the qualification requirements listed below: Specialized Experience: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal service which includes: 1) Prepares correspondence, technical reports, estimates, fact sheets, budgets, status reports, and schedules to complete assignments; 2) Sorts, Analyzes, and contextualizes data from real property and force management systems of record to identify discrepancies, patterns, and relationships, deficiencies and excesses for the purpose of provisioning adequate facilities to support the installation and its supported mission commands.

And 3) Composes and prepares decision and information papers for proposed real property management and stationing plans to ensure they follow regulation, reduce risk, adequately support mission requirements, and safeguard the health and wellbeing of the public.

Time in Grade Requirement: Applicants who have held a General Schedule (GS) position within the last 52 weeks must have 52 weeks of Federal service at the next lower grade or equivalent (GS-11).

Major Duties:

• Develop, review and coordinate project justifications, cost estimates, infrastructure repair and modernization conceptual designs and restoration and modernization
• Prepare and recommend changes to the Real Property Master Plan for the purpose of infrastructure stewardship.
• Develop innovative space utilization strategies to respond to alternative work environments.
• Develop feasible operational approaches for infrastructure consolidation and stewardship to include, but not limited to recapitalization, modernization, leasing, conversions, diversions, and demolition.
• Interview Commands and installation tenants to determine operational and mission real property requirements for the purpose of improving efficiencies and reducing excessive expenditures consequent of excess or inefficient real property inventory.
• Derive holistic and innovative urban planning strategies and presents findings to Master Planning Real Property Division Chiefs and Director of Public Works.
• Present findings and space management strategies to community stakeholders and mission command leadership at formal planning boards, meetings, workshops, and planning practicums.
• Coordinate, host, and lead planning practicums, studies, planning workshops, and planning boards to include but not limited to the Real Property Planning Board, Space Management Board, and Real Property Utilization Reconciliation Board.
• Participate, facilitate, and organize master planning conferences with supported Army mission commands and intra-DOD tenant organizations.
• Provide recommendations addressing program development, mission accomplishment, organizational and Command relationships, engineering considerations, local civilian impact, and environmental impact.
• Review and develop strategies for modifying the Real Property Master Plan components to ensure that they support the Army and the Installation's stated goals and objectives.
• Compare available assets in the Real Property Inventory (RPI) with tabulations of mission required facilities in Real Property Planning and Analysis System (RPLANS).
• Advise the Commander and Installation staff on policies and procedures for facility management.
• Manage the Real Property Planning and Analysis System (RPLANS), Enterprise Proactive Real Property Interactive Space Management System (ePRISMS), and Army Stationing and Installation Plan (ASIP).
• Serve as the RPLANS and space utilization manager in support of infrastructure consolidation efforts.
• Conduct complex and wide-ranging space utilization studies in coordination with the Real Property Offices through their annual physical inventory, facility utilization survey, and tenant reconciliation processes and boards.