IT Specialist

Duties

The office works closely with all FAA Lines of Business (LOB) and Staff Offices (SO) to ensure and manage the delivery of privacy requirements (e.g. privacy compliance documents and assessments, privacy policy and providing training and awareness. The office currently responds to Privacy Incidents and manages the Identity Monitoring Code issuance process. It additionally oversees the handling and work loading of privacy act requests, appeals and complaints. The office also provides guidance for contractual terms involving privacy data. The office works closely with the Security Operations Center (SOC) when incidents involve privacy data.

The incumbent is responsible for developing and maintaining long-range privacy plans for IT systems to anticipate, identify, evaluate, mitigate, and minimize privacy risks associated with systems vulnerabilities and developing strategies, and policies to support and align with organizational privacy initiatives and regulatory compliance. The incumbent plans and conducts privacy assessments for the Authority to Operate (ATO) and is responsible for all matters concerning information privacy procedures that ensure compliance with the requirements of safeguarding personal and other sensitive data pursuant to the Privacy Act of 1974, FISMA, E-Government Act, and compliance with OMB Guidance and other laws and directives.

If selected in addition to the above, you will be responsible for the following:
Support the organization's privacy compliance program, and work closely with the Chief Privacy Officer and other stakeholders to ensure compliance with federal privacy laws, regulations, and policies.Performs multiple, varying, and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist. Assignments typically involve expert knowledge to develop new and innovative approaches to problems or issues that often cross organizational boundaries and impact the accomplishment of FAA strategic objectives related to information security and privacy. Provides guidance in the form of broad policies and work is typically reviewed only at completion for success in achieving planned results. Provides expertise and oversight for privacy requirements both across the IS&P service areas as well as the enterprise.Applies experience and comprehensive privacy and technical knowledge applicable to his/her discipline, as well as an understanding of new privacy technologies and methodologies to solve complex problems and develop improved processes. Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems. Assignments frequently require expert knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.Typical assignments include guiding less-experienced professionals as well as senior managers and executives; leading project/program teams; designing and recommending solutions to complex problems, leading special projects and initiatives, initiating milestones, and performing special assignments.Prepare and provide high-level briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies; play a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval before external distribution; develop and recommend improvements to systems and/or processes to improve privacy, conducting extensive research and analyses; performing investigation and inspection activities; compliance and enforcement actions and direct responsibility for project management.

Requirements

Conditions of Employment

US Citizenship is required. Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Designated or Random Drug Testing required.

Qualifications

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Information Technology (IT) Management Series 2210 (Alternative A) )

To qualify for this position you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-I / FG/GS-13. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position.

Specialized experience is: Experience in preparing and reviewing privacy compliance documents, such as Privacy Threshold Assessment (PTA), Privacy Continuous Monitoring (PCM), Privacy Impact Assessments (PIA), System Disposal Assessment (SDA) and System of Record Notices (SORNs) and assessing privacy controls.

Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history.

Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.

If the Agency decides to interview any qualified employee on the selection list, then all on the list who are qualified must be interviewed. If the selection list is shortened to a best qualified list through a comparative process, then the best qualified list shall be considered to be the selection list.

You may also be considered for this vacancy based on eligibility under the 30% or More Disabled Veteran Program, and Persons with Disabilities/Persons with Targeted Disabilities. To be considered for one of these special hiring authorities, you must identify your eligibility in your questionnaire in the Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment section. In addition, you must submit documentation that provides evidence of eligibility as indicated in the Required Documents section of the announcement.

Selection may be made from this announcement or from ACT-AIT-24-AIS

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Additional information

We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
Position may be subject to a background investigation.
A one-year probationary period may be required.

The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies.

The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family.

This position is covered by the Department of Transportation's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Any applicant tentatively selected for this position will be subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designated position (TDP)" will be subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing.

As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of the Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) 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 KSA.

In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, please include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA 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 selective factor(s), if applicable, may be further evaluated on the KSAs listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: score order, category grouping, or priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for consideration.

This is a bargaining unit position. This position is represented by NATCA: Multi-Unit.

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