Deputy Director for Management, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics

Position description

Using sound science as a compass, OCSPP’s mission is to protect you, your family, and the environment from potential risks from pesticides and toxic chemicals. Through innovative partnerships and collaboration, we also work to prevent pollution before it begins. This reduces waste, saves energy and natural resources, and leaves our homes, schools and workplaces cleaner and safer.

 

Duties

 

Together with the Director and Deputy Director for Programs, the incumbent is responsible for the implementation of several important environmental statutes with broad cross-media impacts and is critical to helping OCSPP and the Agency meet its chemicals management goals and obligations. In support of the Director, the Deputy Director for Management has operational leadership responsibility across the full range of programmatic and mission support activities with the primary responsibility of ensuring a high performing organization capable of meeting the required deadlines in a sustainable fashion over time with high quality deliverables.

Specific responsibilities of the position include:

-Participating in resource and strategic planning and determining the appropriate utilization of existing staff and other resources to ensure appropriate allocation and expenditure, as well as overseeing OPPT’s execution of the budget.
-Assisting in formulating policy and strategies to support requests for staffing and financing to implement Agency plans.
-Providing leadership in developing and maintaining an effective workforce, capable of managing the program’s workload, including overseeing the implementation of foundational programmatic training associated with on-boarding new staff; in addition to other duties posted in the vacancy announcement on USAJOBS.gov.

Qualifications

The work of this position is classified in the Program Management, 0340 series where the qualifications include both general management skills and characteristics that are applicable to all SES positions and technical or program responsibilities specific to this position. Applicants must have substantive general experience which provides a good basic or general knowledge of the principles of organization, management and administration; and substantive specialized (operating administrative or managerial) experience in a type of work or a combination of functions directly related to this position.

All applicants must have one year of specialized experience at a level close to the work of this job that demonstrates the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities required to successfully perform in this role. Typically this experience can be found in work within this field or a field that is closely related.

As a basic requirement for entry into the Senior Executive Service, applicants must also provide evidence of progressively responsible leadership experience that is indicative of senior level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under the Executive Core Qualifications and Technical Qualifications listed in the vacancy announcement on USAJOBS.gov.

 

 

Application instructions

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