Compliance Oversight Advisor

Compliance Oversight Advisor

Department: Department of Transportation

Location(s): Washington, District of Columbia, Atlanta, Georgia, Fort Worth, Texas, Des Moines, Washington

Salary Range: $95489 - $148037 Per Year

Job Summary: The incumbent serves as a Compliance Oversight Advisor in the Air Traffic Safety Standards Oversight Division of the Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service (AOV). The incumbent is responsible for evaluating the impact of proposed changes in procedures, equipment, and technologies within the National Airspace System (NAS).

Major Duties:

• Leads and/or participates in activities designed to determine compliance with air traffic operations, regulations, and requirements. Evaluates safety compliance and risk mitigation issues. Identifies issues requiring management attention. Develops recommendations for modifying existing plans and programs. Develops new policies, plans, and/or programs. Distills essential elements into concise decision briefings for management. Provides advice on safety oversight issues as related to risk assessments, technical reviews, human/system performance measures and safety assurance documentation. Synthesizes complex, interrelated concepts. Conducts detailed studies requiring application of inspection, safety management methods and techniques to examine programs and procedures. Determines if the overall direction of policies supports AOV programs and objectives. Develops potential courses of action to enable the planning of short- and long-term efforts. Monitors all phases of air traffic operations and recommends system safety improvements. Incumbent performs multiple, varying and complex assignments under the minimal direction of a manager, project/program manager, team leader, or more experienced technical specialist. Acts as principal technical specialist or as a project manager or team leader for large work activities. Applies experience and comprehensive knowledge of air traffic control procedures and operations, as well as an understanding of new technologies and methodologies, to solve complex problems and develop improved technical processes or systems. Considers the objectives of the major subdivision and LOB/SO when developing, integrating, and implementing solutions to diverse, complex problems. Assignments frequently require knowledge and experience working across functional and/or organizational lines. Defines, organizes, and assigns resources to accomplish organizational objectives. Allocates resources to accomplish large work activities within established schedules. Represents FAA as a senior technical point of contact on projects, programs and other work activities. Communicates results to all levels internally and externally. Plays a lead role in drafting, reviewing, and editing reports or contractual documents for final approval prior to external distribution. Presents briefings to obtain consensus/approval on policies. Coordinates significant technical matters with representatives of external organizations. Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but allow considerable discretion to develop new and innovative approaches. Draws on experience to solve unusual problems and may create new solutions and policy interpretations as the situation requires. Provides policy guidance and instruction to others, both internally and externally. Provides guidance to lower-level staff on how to solve difficult technical issues. Resolves all but unique technical problems without the intervention of management or a more experienced technical specialist. Develops plans, techniques, and policies to address current or anticipated problems and issues. Works with management to solve problems. Work is rarely reviewed, typically through status reports and at project completion, to ensure technical compliance and alignment with the requirements of the project or other work activity. Work activities typically impact directly on the objectives of one or more major subdivisions or LOB's/SO's and may impact on the objectives of the FAA.

Qualifications: To view the complete qualification standard, applicants should reference- U.S. Office of Personnel Group Coverage Qualification Standard for General Inspection Investigation Enforcement and Compliance Series, 1801: General Inspection Investigation Enforcement and Compliance Series 1801 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: Experience evaluating the proposed changes in procedures, equipment, and technologies within the National Airspace System (NAS). Experience providing advice on safety oversight issues such as risk assessments, technical reviews and safety assurance documents. Applicants should include examples of specialized experience in their work history. All qualification requirements shall be posted on the vacancy announcements at the time the announcement is made. Interview Policy: If the selecting official decides to interview any employee on the selection list for a vacancy, then all who remain under consideration for the position at that point in the process 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.

How to Apply: Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluation process. This assessment aims to evaluate the competencies and qualifications essential for the position. You must apply online to receive consideration. Your application must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close Date for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associated with FAA registers, your application must be submitted at the time a referral list is created in order to receive consideration for positions associated with a register. RESUMES ARE LIMITED TO TWO PAGES. IN DESCRIBING YOUR WORK EXPERIENCE AND/OR EDUCATION, PLEASE BE CLEAR AND SPECIFIC AND INCLUDE INFORMATION AS IT RELATES TO THE QUALIFICATIONS AND SPECIALIZED EXPERIENCE REQUIREMENTS OF THIS POSITION. Please ensure EACH work history includes ALL of the following information: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualifications and include job title, employer name, start/end dates, number of hours worked per week. Education, certification or licensure: If required, education should include school/institution name, completion date, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information and failure to provide ALL of this information may result in a finding of ineligible. You may upload completed documents to your USAJOBS Account. This will provide you the opportunity to utilize the uploaded information again when applying for future vacancies. Please see this guide, Document Upload Guide, for more information on uploading and re-using the documents in your applications.

Application Deadline: 2026-04-02