Deputy Regional Administrator

Responsibilities Continued: With the RA, is responsible for creating and maintaining an atmosphere that promotes positive human relations and open communication between employees and their supervisors. Assures that all employees have the opportunity to effectively contribute to accomplishing, FAA, APL and ARA goals and objectives. Serves as the regional focal point for constant, high level contacts with recipients of regional services to ensure that services provided meet or exceed requirements. Carries out the full range of the RA’s duties and responsibilities in his or her absence or as delegated during crises or emergency situations. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Managerial Selection Factor (MSF) 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 MSF. In lieu of providing a narrative response in the text box listed below each MSF in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each MSF. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your MSF 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 quality ranking factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the MSF & QRF 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. Interviews: Some, all or none of the applicants may be interviewed. This is not a bargaining unit position. Minimum Qualifications: To qualify for this FV-0301-K position, you must possess one year of specialized experience equivalent to the next lower grade level, FV-J/FG-14/GS-14. Specialized experience includes: Experience in managing agency and/or organizational performance, resources, outreach and facilities programs for effective service delivery and experience representing an organization to congressional and aviation community officials, the media, and/or the general public. Experience with managing a workload in a fast-paced, high profile, and politically sensitive environment. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.
As a supervisor/manager, the selectee for this position will be eligible to receive a Manager Performance Incentive (MPI) provided eligibility requirements noted in agency policy are met. The MPI is an annual lump-sum incentive payment that considers agency performance, the managers individual performance, and available funding. This position serves as the Deputy Regional Administrator in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Western-Pacific Region.