Description:
This position serves as an Environmental Protection Specialist for the Office of Airports (ARP), Eastern Regional Airports Division, New York Airports District Office (NYADO) in support of the Airport Improvement Program (AIP).
Requirements:
Specialized experience is experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must be at least equivalent to the next lower grade or band level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization.
To qualify for this position at the FV-G level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-F or FG/GS-4 level.
To qualify for this position at the FV-H level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-G, FG/GS-5-9 levels. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Synthesizing the written work products across a wide variety of environmental disciplines. 2) Editing technical documents, and writing for a wide audience so that complex issues can be conveyed to the general public. 3) Overseeing the environmental regulatory process, including scoping, public participation and public notice and the ability to communicate this process to others.
To qualify for this position at the FV-I level, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-H, FG/GS-10-12 levels. Examples of specialized experience include: 1) Experience in reviewing or developing environmental documents such as Environmental Impact Statements (EIS), Environmental Assessments (EAs), or Categorical Exclusions (CATEX).
Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or alphabetical and referred to the selecting official for consideration.
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.
NOTE: THIS POSITION IS BEING ANNOUNCED AS AN FV-0028-G/H/I. If position is filled at the FV-G level incumbent may be promoted to the FV-H and FV-I levels without further competition. However the grade of a position is based on the duties officially assigned and actually performed by the incumbent of the position. These duties are affected by the Supervisor's willingness to delegate higher graded duties and incumbent's capacity to perform the duties. Therefore, the indication of maximum grade is to be considered neither guarantee nor a commitment that the position will so develop.