Intergovernmental Affairs Director
What you'd do
The Intergovernmental Affairs Director serves as the primary bridge between WAPA leadership and the DOE Headquarters. This critical, high-visibility role ensures that WAPA's business operations, policies, and programs are strategically positioned to navigate complex national, state, tribal, and regional policy landscapes.
Major duties
As a Intergovernmental Affairs Director, you will: Evaluate, coordinate, advise upon, and support critical agency policies, programs, budgets, power rates, contracts, marketing plans, financial policy, management services, and engineering decisions. Serve as a key policy developer and decision-maker on the Senior Executive Team for both long- and short-range strategic planning to support the overall agency mission. Manage the resources and staff allocated to the office by assigning and reviewing work, determining training needs, recommending or selecting employees and contractors, administering discipline, and evaluating staff performance.
What you need to qualify
SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS: A qualified candidates application and 2-pg resume must demonstrate at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade. Specialized experience for this position must include all of the following: Advises the relevant authorizing and appropriations committees and subcommittees (i.e. Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and Subcommittee on Water and Power; the House Natural Resources Committee and Subcommittee on Water, Wildlife and Fisheries; Senate Committee on Appropriations and Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development; and House Committee on Appropriations and Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development), and the House and Senate Members and their staff. Analyzes budget and appropriations process, as a budget analyst in a federal agency, to develop logical strategies to advance agency and Administration goals. Acts as a policy negotiator and conducts sensitive communications sessions with the Department of Energy, Bureau of Reclamation headquarters, Army Corps of Engineers headquarters, the Office of Management and Budget, and Congressional staff on federal power marketing issues. AND Provides substantive advice and recommendations to management on Washington, D.C. political developments and the formulation and implementation of Administration policy, Executive and Legislative Branch strategies, and Federal budgets, on federal power marketing matters. Time-in-Grade: Current career or career-conditional GS employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional GS employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). Note: Time-In-Grade requirements also apply to current career or career-conditional federal employees applying for a Veterans Employment Opportunities Act of 1998 (VEOA) appointment.
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