Telecommunications Specialist

Qualification requirements in the vacancy announcements are based on the U.S. Office of Personnel Management (OPM) Qualification Standards Handbook, which contains federal qualification standards. This handbook is available on the Office of Personnel Management’s website located at: https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/general-schedule-qualification-standards/ Applicants must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent in difficulty and responsibility to the next lower grade level in the Federal Service. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped the applicant with the particular competencies/knowledge, skills and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. This experience need not have been in the federal government. 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. To qualify at the GS-13 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: Applying telecommunications principles to radiocommunications networks and systems, radio frequency interference policies and studies; Participating in international telecommunication union studies and conferences; Evaluating the technical, regulatory, economic, and political factors shaping spectrum management policy; and Assisting in evaluating the effect of existing and planned radiocommunication systems on the radio frequency spectrum; or providing technical telecommunications support for domestic and international policy development and long-range planning. To qualify at the GS-14 level: SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE: You must possess one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-13 in the Federal service. Specialized experience is defined as: – Directing international telecommunication union technical studies to review spectrum and spectrum policy requirements and recommend far-reaching spectrum policy changes; – Analyzing international regulations as contained in the agency policies and procedures pertaining to federal spectrum management rules and regulations; – Leading radiocommunications and radio spectrum projects and/or programs that impact national and/or international policies or national legislative direction; OR – Developing written positions issues, theories, proposals and recommendations.
This vacancy is for a Telecommunications Specialist in the National Telecommunications and Information Administration within the Department of Commerce.