Trade and Industry Analyst

Full Job Description

This vacancy is for a Trade and Industry Analyst in the Defense Programs Division (DPD), Office of Strategic Industries and Economic Security (SIES), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Export Administration (EA), Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) within the Department of Commerce.

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards.

This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management's website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/#url=Occupational-Series Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position.

This experience need not have been in the federal government.

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.

SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: To qualify at the GS-13 level, you must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service.

Specialized experience is defined as: Advising on programs or policies related to U.S.

defense trade, and/or other programs or initiatives related to trade, industry, national security, and/or critical technologies; and Performing analysis and/or evaluating technical information or quantitative data related to the U.S.

defense trade, industry, national security, and/or critical technologies; and Producing memos, reports, briefing documents, white papers, memoranda, correspondence, testimony, and/or other written documents for management; and Providing briefings to senior leaders, industry representatives, and/or interorganizational partners.

Major Duties:

As a Trade and Industry Analyst, you will perform the following duties: Support office's activity on offsets in defense trade, Defense Priorities and Allocations System, and other defense trade programs.

Independently perform complex business and industry program management regulatory and associated functions which address mission elements critical to agency priorities and objectives.

Provide substantive support, assistance, and government products/services to U.S.

businesses and industries or to other government and private institutions which themselves address, support or oversee conduct of business and industry.

Develop and implement significant new program strategies; analyze and interpret key business and industry policy questions and contribute to significant agency decisions, policy recommendations and positions; and represent the agency authoritatively to key government and business officials and organizations.

Communicate with poise, tact and objectivity in all interactions with the business community and other government organizations.

This includes the preparation and delivery of presentations in a variety of forums; and explaining complex and contentious issues, verbally or in writing.

Promotional Potential: This position is being filled below the full performance level, you may be noncompetitively promoted to the next higher grade level after meeting all regulatory requirements, and upon the recommendation of management.

Promotion is neither implied nor guaranteed.

This Job Opportunity Announcement may be used to fill other Trade and Industry Analyst, GS-1101-13, Full Performance Level (FPL) GS-14 positions within the Department of Commerce in the same geographical location with the same qualifications and specialized experience.