Deputy Assistant Director – Chief Learning Officer

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) – Mandatory (Current members of the career SES, former career SES members with reinstatement eligibility, and OPM/QRB certified candidates need not address the ECQs). You are required to submit information describing your experience in each of the five ECQs. The narratives should be clear, concise, and illustrate your overall record (professional and volunteer experience, education and training, accomplishments, awards and potential) in these ECQs. Be sure to furnish examples and describe the context in which you applied your knowledge, discuss how you used skills relevant to the position, indicate the complexity and scope of your work, discuss the impact of your work, note the level of people with whom you interacted, and explain the sensitivity and criticality of the issues you addressed. Structure your statements in terms of the challenges you faced, the context or environment in which the actions were taken, the actions taken, and the outcome or results from such action (i.e., Challenge-Context-Action-Result {C-C-A-R} Model). Additional information on the ECQs is available at http://www.opm.gov/ses/recruitment/ecq.asp. Executive Core Qualifications – Please attach written responses, limited to two pages per ECQ (i.e., for a total of ten typewritten pages for all five ECQs). 1. Leading Change – Involves the ability to bring about strategic change, within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. 2. Leading People – Involves the ability to lead people toward meeting the organization’s vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. 3. Results Driven – Involves the ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. 4. Business Acumen – Involves the ability to manage human, financial, and information services strategically. 5. Building Coalitions – Involves the ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, state and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. Technical Qualifications (TQs) – Mandatory – Please attach written responses, limited to one typewritten page per TQ, for a total of 4 typewritten pages. 1. Demonstrated experience in providing vision related policy, advice, and guidance to senior leadership on planning, coordinating, and directing learning and workforce development policies and programs for a multi-level organization. 2. Broad management experience in planning, developing, administering, and directing a training organization, including overall responsibility for short- and long-range program planning, allocation of human and material resources, development of operational guidelines and policies, implementation of technology solutions, and creation of new methods and procedures to develop training incentives for an organization. 3. Demonstrated experience to prepare the annual training budget, and projects annual resource requirements and submits requests/justifications. Based on resource allocations, determines which programs and/or projects to initiate, curtail, or drop. Monitors and justifies major program expenditures. 4. Experience with attending meetings and conferences with high-ranking government officials, representatives from federal, state, and local governments, officials from private and/or public organizations, and the public and establishes and maintains a network of contacts with counterparts in these agencies to exchange key training and learning information to further the existing and future training initiatives of an organization..
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