Supervisory Program Analyst

Full Job Description

This position is located in the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Office of Strategy, Policy, and Plans; Executive Secretariat.

The primary purpose of this position is to serve as the Director of the PLCY Executive Secretariat (ExecSec). Non-BU: This is a non-bargaining unit position.

Specialized Experience: You qualify for the GS-15 grade level if you possess one year of specialized experience, equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal government.

For this position, specialized experience is defined as: Developing and managing executive secretariat functions to develop, coordinate, and finalize written products for senior level executive officials within an organization; Rewriting submissions to organize, ensure clarity and accuracy; and applying a consistent sense of style and grammar to finished products; Managing the composition, assignment, and finalization of written materials, including policy memoranda, executive correspondence, briefing materials, reports, testimony, and Questions for the Record (QFRs); AND Determining the overall length, organization, and tone of policy documents based on the purpose of the document, the medium, and the audience and ensuring that all content reflects Administration policy positions.

(NOTE: Your resume must explicitly indicate how you meet this requirement, otherwise you will be found ineligible.) Substitution of education in lieu of specialized experience may not be used for this grade level.

All qualifications and eligibility requirements must be met by the closing date of the announcement.

Time-in-grade: Current General Schedule (GS) federal employees, and those that have served in GS positions within the last 52 weeks, must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade, or a combination of the next lower grade level and an equivalent band in the federal service by the closing of this announcement.

Note: Current or former Federal employees MUST submit a copy of their SF-50 Form which shows competitive service appointment ("position occupied" block 34 on the SF-50 should show a "1"), tenure group (block 24 should show a 1 or 2), grade, and salary.

If you are applying for a higher grade, please provide the SF-50 Form which shows the length of time you have been in your current/highest grade (examples of appropriate SF-50s include promotions, With-in Grade/Range Increases, and SF-50s dated a year apart within the same grade/job).

If you have promotion potential in your current position, please provide proof. Employees applying with an interchange agreement must provide proof of their permanent appointment.

IF YOU DO NOT SUBMIT ALL OF THE REQUIRED DOCUMENTATION, YOU WILL NOT RECEIVE CONSIDERATION AS A STATUS CANDIDATE.

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).

Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment.

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

Current or Former Political Appointees: The Office of Personnel Management (OPM) must authorize employment offers made to current or former political appointees.

If you are currently, or have been within the last 5 years, a political Schedule A, Schedule C, Non-career SES or Presidential Appointee employee in the Executive Branch, you must disclose this information to the Human Resources Office.

Major Duties:

The Director, PLCY ExecSec manages the composition, assignment, and finalization of written materials, such as policy memoranda, executive correspondence, briefing materials reports, testimony, Questions for the Record (QFRs) prepared by PLCY and other Department's Component organizations to ensure that the information provided is consistent, accurate, and describes the Department's position on strategic program matters and agency operations.

As a Supervisory Program Analyst, GS-0343-15, your typical work assignments may include: Serving as Director, PLCY ExecSec and advisor to the Under Secretary, Deputy Under Secretary, Chief of Staff, and other PLCY senior management officials on matters relating to the coordination and development of written policy materials and executive correspondence.

Providing advice and management on the oversight of PLCY's response to interrogatories, testimony, Congressional questions for the record, etc.

and PLCY inputs into very high-level officials' briefing books.

Developing, implementing, and managing business processes for written communications, to include briefing and policy materials, for the Secretary and the Deputy Secretary, and the Office of the Under Secretary.

Writing, editing, and preparing final correspondence, briefing materials, policy memoranda, and other documents for PLCY and DHS leadership on a wide variety of policy-related issues.

Developing tracking and reporting systems to monitor the flow of critical documents and executive commitments, to gather critical information, to resolve significant issues, and to share pertinent information with Departmental principals.

All DHS-HQ announcements have a 5 business day open period due to the number of applications received.

This announcement will be open for 5 business days OR until the first 100 applications have been received, whichever happens first.

View common definitions of terms found in this announcement: Common Definitions.