Transportation Specialist

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Summary

This position is located in the U.S. Peace Corps, Office of Management/Administrative Services, Travel and Transportation Division. The Travel and Transportation Division is responsible for the planning, management, administration and implementation of policies and procedures related to Peace Corps extensive international and domestic travel and transportation programs.

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Responsibilities

The Transportation Specialist performs the following major duties:

• Troubleshoots one or more areas that may be resistant to traditional approaches. Corrects discrepancies based on extensive practical experience.
  
  Makes recommendations to the Traffic Manager regarding new or revised operating procedures to meet changing business needs. Develops and promotes positive working relationships with customer agencies and client personnel;

• Provides input to the Traffic Manager and assist in the development of management responses to recommendations from the Office of Inspector General and Government Accountability Office audits.

Travel Required

Not required

Supervisory status

No

Promotion Potential

04

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2101 Transportation Specialist

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Conditions of Employment

• Please refer to "Conditions of Employment".

Intelligence Background Information

Peace Corps Manual Section 611 is applicable to this position. This section prohibits the employment of certain persons previously engaged in intelligence activities or connected with intelligence agencies within the past 10 years. If you have ever worked for the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), you are not eligible for employment at the Peace Corps in any capacity, and you should not apply for employment.

PC-1336 Form: Applicants who are found to be otherwise qualified will be required to submit upon request in the future a completed PC-1336 form, or narrative signed statement, indicating whether the applicant has been involved in or has had any connection with intelligence activities or related work and, if so, the nature and dates of his or her involvement.

Failure to meet this requirement will result in the applicant being rated ineligible for further consideration. If you have any other type of possible intelligence connection, your application will not be further considered until you submit this form. Except when the CIA or the National Security Agency (NSA) is involved (see below), if your connection with an Intelligence Agency involves an immediate family member who works or has worked in intelligence, the immediate family member should complete the form, not the applicant.

Usually relying on memory is sufficient to answer most if not all of the questions. If you have an immediate family member who works or has worked for the CIA, you should not give them this form to complete. Please contact your relative in person-not by phone, email, social networking, or any other means that is not in person- and ask him or her to contact the Office of General Counsel at the CIA.

If you or an immediate family member have been employed by or associated with the NSA, you or your family member must contact the NSA Prepublication Review Office at 443-634-4095.

Qualifications

Specialized Experience:

You must meet the specialized experience at the grade level(s) in which you choose to be considered by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Standard Time (EST) on the closing date of the announcement.

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. To ensure full credit for your experience, please indicate dates of employment by month, day, and year and the number of hours worked per week in your resume.

This vacancy is being announced at two (2) grade levels:

FP-5

Qualifying experience for the FP-5 level includes one year of specialized experience at least equivalent to the FP-7 or GS-7 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes: Experience using a wide range of Federal and Foreign deployment and traffic and travel management policies, principles, and practices involving various modes of transportation; Experience using transportation and travel automated systems to satisfy user requirements, or to develop or interpret transportation security policies, procedures, and guidelines.

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master's or equivalent graduate degree

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2 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree

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LL.B. or J.D., if related

NOTE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for all grade levels for which both education and experience are acceptable.

FP-4

Qualifying experience for the FP-4 level includes one year of specialized experience at least equivalent to the FP-5 or GS-9 level which is in or directly related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. Specialized experience includes:

Along with the FP-5 specialized experience, the FP-4 requires experience working with the automated Vehicle Management Information System (VMIS) or similar system in order to review, understand, and take necessary action based on input of commercially owned and GSA leased vehicles; Experience with providing input to leadership and assist in the development of management responses to recommendations from the Office of Inspector General and Government Accountability Office audits; Experience with troubleshooting one or more areas that may be resistant to traditional approaches; Experience with correcting discrepancies based on extensive practical experience. Experience with making recommendations to leadership regarding new or revised operating procedures to meet changing business needs. Experience with developing and promoting positive working relationships with customer agencies and client personnel.

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Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree

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3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree

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LL.M., if related

NOTE: Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying for all grade levels for which both education and experience are acceptable.

Selective Placement Factor: In addition to meeting the specialized experience, please upload a writing sample (e.g. a previously written policy, SOP or memo). Please ensure you upload your writing sample with your required documentation.

Additional information on qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM web site at https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/classification-qualifications/.

Time-in-Grade Requirements:
Internal applicants and Federal employees who are currently holding, or who has held within the previous 52 weeks, a position under a non-temporary appointment in the competitive or excepted service, must meet "time-in-grade" requirements (have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade of the grade for which you are applying). NOTE:

All current or former Federal employees (including internal employees) must provide a copy of their SF-50 (you may need to submit more than one), "Notice of Personnel Action" that indicates proof of status and time-in-grade eligibility. The SF-50 must include your position, title, series, grade, step, tenure, and type of service (Competitive or Excepted).

All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this announcement. Qualification claims will be subject to verification.

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