Summary Chief Data Office, ADO-001 concentrates on the opportunities, threats, capabilities, and gaps related to managing FAA information as a strategic asset and potentially a liability. Responsibilities The office leverages data and information for decision-making, engages industry, manages information for operational efficiency, and manages risk inherent in massive and fast changing data resources through effective governance. The Director has authority to make changes in structure, authority or responsibility to adjust roles and responsibilities to fit its business needs at the directorate level and below, and authority to enforce changes in FAA IT policy and procedures as directed by the CIO. The Data Governance office, ADO-010's major function is the orchestration of people, processes, and technology to manage critical data assets. This is done by using roles, responsibilities, policies, and procedures to ensure the data is accurate, consistent, secure, and aligns with the agency’s mission. Data governance supports decision rights and accountability around the use of data to encourage desirable behaviors and nurture a corporate culture of managing data as an enterprise asset. Enterprise Information Management (EIM) has the goal of transforming the FAA into an information-driven enterprise. The EIM initiative represented a strategic shift from an organization-centric approach to IT towards a common enterprise approach in order to enable the FAA workforce to easily and securely share common technology, resources, information, and capabilities across the agency. One major goal is to fully utilize the data assets both within and external to the FAA, the first key step is ensuring that there is a systematic way to locate the available data sources. Centralizing core data sources will require: catalog tools that enable ease of search and data collection, analytic tools to create information outputs, and virtualization tools that enable visualization and insight to the analytic outputs. Democratizing the cataloging efforts is key to ensuring that the custodians of data can document the key attributes of the data set. Serves as project/program manager or team leader planning, coordinating, and conducting projects associated to the Data Cataloging and Data onboarding efforts. Provides support to management and coordinates EIM Data On-boarding activities within the Data Governance and EIM Platform teams in support of FAA Data Strategy objectives. Researches and documents new or improved business and management practices/processes for programs or operations. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines. Typical assignments may include: providing guidance to less-experienced professionals; leading small project/program teams; designing and recommending solutions to complex problems; preparing and reviewing management reports; and developing and recommending improvements to systems and/or processes to improve operational efficiency. Independently plans time. Identifies, plans, and organizes available resources to accomplish projects/programs/activities. Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, but allow considerable discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es) or develop new approaches. Assignments regularly require interpretations of internal and external policies and extrapolations from precedents. Resolves most problems and work issues without the assistance of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced professional. Develops and recommends approaches to address current and anticipated problems and issues. Works with management and/or more experienced professionals to solve problems. Contacts are internal and external. Often represents the major subdivision and LOB/SO as a principal point of contact to provide advice and guidance on the applications of policies and procedures. Formulates and recommends to senior management positions on major projects/ policies/issues. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications For additional information please view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for Program Analyst, please visit: Management and Program Analysis Series 0343 (opm.gov) To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I / FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized Experience is: Experience leading projects that involve developing, designing, and implementing enterprise wide awareness campaigns. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement. Interview Policy: If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list. You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement. Selection may be made from this announcement or from: ACT-AIT-25-ADO010-90320. Education Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant for this announcement, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for consideration. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA