Project Manager

**Duties**:
The Project Manager is responsible for performing multiple, varying, and complex activities necessary to meet the deliverables associated with a Special Program or Project in the Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Office (AUS). Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines.

Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of project management strategies, principles, and concepts to help organize teams and complete projects according to their success criteria while engaging stakeholders. Ensures open and effective communication, cooperation, and coordination with internal and external stakeholders. Plans, coordinates, monitors, and reports on the progress of multiple ongoing projects. Identifies, plans, and organizes available resources to accomplish projects/programs/activities. Makes optimal use of resources to complete activities within established schedules and assigned milestones. Works with program manager in formulating, defending, and executing project budgets and schedules. As a Project Manager for activities, participates in phase,
milestone, final project reviews, and other project meetings.

Leads small project teams in achieving organizational objectives and goals, ensures project team follows the organization’s mission. Identifies project deliverables and ensures that they adhere to qualify standards. Works with manager or program manager to coordinate and integrate project activities. Identifies and evaluates project risks/issues and recommends ways to either avoid or minimize impact. Communicates with project members to determine the status of various projects and issues that will need to be resolved. Provides guidance to less-experienced professionals. Develops and recommends approaches to address current and anticipated problems and
issues. Works with management and/or more experienced professionals to solve problems. Develops and recommends improvements to systems and/or processes to improve operational efficiency.

Established policies/procedures provide guidance for most assignments, but allow considerable discretion for employee to select the most appropriate approach(es) or develop new approaches. Assignments regularly require interpretations of internal and external policies and extrapolations from precedents.

Work involves interaction with FAA employees and contract support staff and may require interaction with a variety of stakeholders including federal, state, and local government organizations, private organizations, and the general public. Provides guidance and support to ensure team members can effectively complete their tasks and achieve project goals.

The work is reviewed rarely, typically though status reports and at project completion, to ensure policy compliance and alignment with the requirements of projects and/or other work activities. The work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more organizational units, major subdivisions, and/or LOB's/SO's and may affect the objectives of the FAA. In some specialties, the work often affects internal and external customers.

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

- US Citizenship is required.
- Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959.
- This is not a remote position. You will be required to report to the duty location. Telework eligible.

**Qualifications**:
To view the complete OPM qualification standard for the Group Coverage Qualification Standard for **Administrative Series, 0301**, please refer to:
Specialized experience includes: Experience in interpreting, using and writing UAS and UTM regulations for the development and implementation of rules to enable more complex drone operations.

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

Applicants should provide examples of the specialized experience in their work history.

This is not a remote position. You will be required to physically report to the duty location. This position is telework eligible.

A selection will be made from this announcement or ACT-AVS-25-AUS440-93274.

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**Additional information**:
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions.
A one-year probationary period may be required.

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 aspirat