This is a Senior Executive Service (SES) position responsible for providing executive-level leadership and management of the Office of Highway Safety (OHS), which investigates, analyzes, develops, and prepares detailed reports and proposed probable cause determinations of highway crashes.
As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service (SES), you must clearly articulate and describe within your two (2) page resume evidence of progressively responsible supervisory, managerial, or professional experience, within the past 10 years, which involved management of a program or organization of significant scope and complexity, normally obtained over several years by serving in positions at the GS-15 level or equivalent. Your resume must provide information regarding your professional experience and accomplishments that demonstrate your ability to perform the duties of this position and meet the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) described below. Your resume must also clearly demonstrate your ability to meet the Mandatory Technical Qualification (MTQ) described below. If you fail to do so, your application will be rated ineligible. If you are currently serving under a career SES appointment, are eligible for reinstatement into the SES (this means you were previously employed as a Career SES employee and you successfully completed a one-year probationary period) or have successfully completed a SES Candidate Development Program and been certified by OPM, your resume must clearly state that you are a current career SES, eligible for reinstatement, or SES CDP certified and year of certification. Please DO NOT submit separate documents addressing the ECQs or MTQ. Only your resume capped at two (2) pages will be accepted and considered. Any additional documents submitted will not be accepted. EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQ): ECQ 1 - Leading Change: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. ECQ 2 - Leading People: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to foster the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. ECQ 3 - Results Driven: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. ECQ 4 - Business Acumen: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. ECQ 5 - Building Coalitions: 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. MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATION (MTQ): Demonstrated experience in overseeing transportation crash investigations and emerging technologies, and leading a highly technical workforce in the development, analysis, and proposed resolutions to key safety issues that address 1) vehicle and infrastructure factors, 2) human performance 3) survival factors 4) motor carrier operations and/or 5) vehicle factors. Additional information about the SES and ECQs can be found on the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) SES Website: Executive Core Qualifications.
This position is also responsible for the oversight of the development of highway safety recommendations, program advocacy, and outreach. Major duties include, but are not limited to: Provides direction to professional engineers, highway crash investigators, and other technical and support staff to assure high quality highway crash investigations. Implements and exercises NTSB policies and guidelines. Under delegated authority, initiates highway crash investigations to implement the NTSB Congressional mandate and priorities. Ensures all factors of highway crashes have been identified, objectively examined, and documented. Determines probable cause(s) of each highway crash investigated by the NTSB. Develops a strategic and annual operating plan for the implementation of short-term and long-term objectives for the OHS. Coordinates OHS programs with other Federal, state, and local government agencies, industry groups, and foreign governments, as appropriate. Initiates activities aimed at promoting the public image of the work of the NTSB. Meets with high-ranking officials to develop and negotiate the implementation of national and international goals and objectives, as appropriate. Establishes and maintains liaison with international and domestic industry, safety groups, labor organizations, associations, Congress, Federal regulators, etc. Provides authoritative advice and expertise in the development of industry standards and regulations, technology, and new applications of existing technology. Provides Congressional testimony, as needed. Represents the NTSB and serves as a member of the U.S. delegation at international meetings on accident investigation issues.