Continuous Improvement Planner

Full Job Description

About the Position: This position is within the Office of the Director in the Strategic & Organization Excellence Division, Research, Planning and Monitoring Branch in Alexandria, Virginia.

This position is not covered by a bargaining unit. This position may be eligible for situational telework as determined by the agency policy.

Who May Apply: Only applicants who meet one of the employment authority categories below are eligible to apply for this job.

You will be asked to identify which category or categories you meet, and to provide documents which prove you meet the category or categories you selected.

See Proof of Eligibility for an extensive list of document requirements for all employment authorities.

Current Competitive Service Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Civilian Employee Domestic Defense Industrial Base/Major Range and Test Facilities Base Civilian Personnel Workforce Interagency Career Transition Assistance Plan Land Management Workforce Flexibility Act Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Reserve (MR) and National Guard (NG) Technician Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD Military Spouse Preference (MSP) Eligible Priority Placement Program, DoD MR and NG Preference Eligible Tech Receiving Disability Retirement Priority Placement Program, DoD Retained Grade Preference Eligible Veterans Employment Opportunity Act (VEOA) of 1998 In order to qualify, you must meet the 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.

Specialized Experience: At least one year of specialized experience leading a strategic planning process; leading development, implementation, and use of planning processes to support organizational improvement; and coaching/supporting others to ensure effective implementation and monitoring of strategic initiatives.

This definition of specialized experience is typical of work performed at the next lower grade/level position in the federal service (GS-12).

Some federal jobs allow you to substitute your education for the required experience in order to qualify.

For this job, you must meet the qualification requirement using experience alone--no substitution of education for experience is permitted.

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-12).

All candidates must reside within the local commuting area where the position is located.

Local commuting area is defined as the geographic area surrounding a work site that encompasses the localities where people live and reasonably can be expected to travel back and forth daily to work based on the generally held expectations of the local community.

(5 CFR 575.203) Major Duties:

• Leading development, implementation, and use of planning tools across the organization.
• Leading strategic planning across the organization.
• Supporting development and implementation of a strategic planning system.
• Leading development of the continuous improvement policy, process, and guidance.
• Creating high-level, important, lasting partnerships outside of the division.
• Fostering positive working relationships by giving and receiving feedback.
• Prioritizing competing demands and ensuring improvement efforts are deployed, implemented, and monitored system-wide.
• Producing communication materials with short deadlines and rapidly changing situations.
• Preparing written instructions, operating policies, procedures, guidelines, and training manuals.
• Drafting strategic planning policy and guidance in coordination with subject matter experts.
• Directing and shaping communication strategies.
• Using results from system-level data analysis to inform organizational priorities.
• Using results from system-level data analysis to inform system improvement and strategic-level planning.
• Growing and developing the strategic planning process to improve organizational performance.