Property Management Specialist
What you'd do
Securing Travel, Protecting People - At the Transportation Security Administration, you will serve in a high-stakes environment to safeguard the American way of life. In cities across the country, you would secure airports, seaports, railroads, highways, and/or public transit systems, thus protecting America's transportation infrastructure and ensuring freedom of movement for people and commerce.
Major duties
This Property Management Specialist position is located in the Property Management Division (PMD),Facilities and Administration (F&A), Mission Support (MS), Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Duties include but are not limited to: Serves as a Property Management Specialist for PMD's Policy, Compliance, & Disposal Branch. Ensures inventory accountability, care, protection, and disposal of assets. Interprets policy and providing support to TSA programs that purchase and deploy accountable property to TSA HQ and field locations. Assignments may require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines and may include tracking and analyzing data to ensure compliance with policies and procedures, providing guidance to less-experienced professionals in daily operations, identifying, analyzing, and recommending solutions for complex/difficult problems, and recommending improvements to systems and processes. Provides customer service; collaborates with TSA internal and external stakeholders and promotes awareness of property management policies, requirements, and programs. Contacts typically are internal and external, with regular contacts among major subdivisions, customers, and other external parties to share information about the TSA and explain the applications of policies and procedures. Provides advice and guidance to professionals, managers, and employees sufficient to resolve recurring problems or those requiring adaptation of past precedents through the sharing of information or recommending alternative approaches, including the review of policies and precedents under limited guidance. Undertakes extensive research and analysis and coordinates with more senior specialists and/or supervisor as necessary to ensure that the most recent guidance is applied when making technical decisions or advising managers, staff, and employees. May recommend unprecedented interpretations of guidance consistent with mission requirements and compliance with underlying statutes applying considerable discretion in advocating specific courses of action. Identifies and proposes technically sound and administratively compliant solutions to a range of recurring issues requiring considerable judgment to ensure that recommendations and approaches best meet TSA operational needs.
What you need to qualify
To qualify for the SV-H Pay Band (equivalent to GS-12), you must have one year of specialized experience equivalent to the SV-G or GS-11 Pay Band in the Federal service or equivalent experience in the private sector. Specialized experience is defined as experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position to be filled. Specialized experience is defined as: Providing guidance on personal property transactions (e.g. acquisition, disposal, transfer, loss, etc.); AND Utilizing property management systems to track data. Credit for experience is given based on a 40-hour workweek. Part-time experience is credited on a part-time ratio, i.e., working 20 hours per week for two months equals one month of experience. No additional credit is given for overtime. National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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. 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. You must meet the qualification requirements for this position no later than the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
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