Supervisory Technical Information Specialist

**Duties**:

- Engage in strategic planning and ensures that business goals are being met.
- Conduct regular outreach and evaluation activities with customers, partners, and stakeholders to more effectively and serve the worldwide body of users.
- Promote, publicize, and explain services and activities through well -coordinated web-based communications, formal presentations, personal contacts, and other means of communication.
- Coordinate the implementation of advanced IT solutions to optimize the provision of specialized Web-based information programs, products, and services.
- Develop and implement strategies and management guidelines for complex and changing products and services.
- Identify and translate strategic issues, concerns, trends, and policies into effective information programs and partnerships.
- Lead in the development and implementation of new training and information programs, products, and services critical to the researcher, practitioner, and consumer community.

**Requirements**:
**Conditions of Employment**:

- You must be a US Citizen or US National.
- Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
- Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
- Subject to one-year supervisory/managerial probationary period unless prior service is creditable. New USDA supervisors must successfully complete all components of the required training program before the end of their probationary period.
- Direct Deposit: Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
- Supervisory Responsibilities (EEO Statement).

**Qualifications**:

- Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as defined below.
- **Basic Requirements**:

- **OR**
- **OR**
A combination of education and experience as described above.
- **In addition to meeting the basic requirements described above, applicants must also meet additional qualification requirements as stated below.**

**GS-13**:
**Specialized Experience**: Specialized experience is experience directly related to the position to be filled. Specialized experience must be described for each grade level advertised. The specialized experience requirements for this position are: Qualifying experience for GS-13 includes one year of specialized experience comparable to GS-12 which is directly related to the work of this position and which has equipped the applicant with the knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. For this position, specialized experience is experience planning, evaluating, and implementing nutrition or food safety programs; understanding scientific research, developing web content and training related to food safety or nutrition for researchers, professionals, policy makers, and general public; and conducting public and research outreach activities related to nutrition or food safety.
- 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 and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

**Education**:
Please see above for education qualification requirement information.

**Additional information**:

- Recruitment Incentive may be authorized. Final determination to pay an incentive will be made by the hiring official at time of job offer.
- Travel and relocation expenses will not be paid by the Department of Agriculture. Any travel, transportation and relocation expenses associated with reporting for duty in this position will be the responsibility of the selected employee.
- Benefits

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Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent. Contact the hiring agency for more information on the specific benefits offered.

**How You Will Be Evaluated**:
You will be evaluated for this job based on how well you meet the qualifications above.

Applications will be evaluated in accordance with Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) Delegated Examining Procedures and USDA policy using category rating. Applicants who meet basic minimum qualifications will be placed in one of _two or three_ categories: Best Qua