Programming Director U.S. Agency for Global Media Voice of America Summary The Programming Director serves Voice of America within the U.S. Agency for Global Media with responsibility for planning, directing and coordining VOA Studio and Production Operions, the VOA News Center and VOA programming activities on digital, radio, television, web and for overall management and effective use of all human and financial resources employed in VOA's regional language service divisions. Learn more about this agency Summary The Programming Director serves Voice of America within the U.S. Agency for Global Media with responsibility for planning, directing and coordining VOA Studio and Production Operions, the VOA News Center and VOA programming activities on digital, radio, television, web and for overall management and effective use of all human and financial resources employed in VOA's regional language service divisions. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion Washington, DC 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $151,661

• $228,000 per year Pay scale & grade ES 00 Promotion potential 00 Learn more about pay scale and grade Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 1001 General Arts And Informion Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Senior Executive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Top Secret Position sensitivity and risk Critical-Sensitive (CS)/High Risk Jobs require a background check and some require a security clearance . The type depends on the job. Background check type Nional security Financial disclosure required Yes Some jobs require financial disclosure to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

ERB-13033704-26-BN

Control number 880300500 This job is open to Help Federal employees

• Competitive service Current federal employees whose agencies follow the U.S. Office of Personnel Management's hiring rules and pay scales. Federal employees
• Excepted service Current federal employees whose agencies have their own hiring rules, pay scales and evaluion criteria.

Senior executives Individuals looking for an executive-level job and who meet the five Executive Core Qualificions (ECQs). Clarificion from the agency Applicions accepted from all qualified candides. Duties Help As Programming Director, you responsible for duties to include, but are not limited to: Manages regional news divisions, Language Services, the VOA News Center, and Studio and Production Operions, provides oversight and guidance to operional, production, and programming elements. Exercises news and editorial judgment in evaluing usage of all news products and other output to ensure th programming needs are being met with timely, high-quality merial th is on a level competitive with th produced by other targeted news and informion markets. Advises VOA Director on broadcast and programming stregies to incorpore new ideas and technologies, as well as enhancements and improvements to existing programming forms to ensure th mission objectives are being met, including introducing new forms, upding presentions and increasing live coverages to provide an approprie media mix of programming in the various target regions depending on the individual needs of each market. Establishes and assures adherence to production and journalism standards to achieve quality VOA studio and production operions to further policy objectives of the U.S. Government. Provides advice to top Agency officials on long-range operional and programming plans and requirements. Monitors the production of programs for various media (digital, radio, TV, web) and ensures the proper mix is produced in the Language Services. Deploys resources in an equitable manner to ensure approprie balance between media plforms depending on the needs of various markets. Ensures th merial used in programs meets the requirements of the VOA Charter, including requirement to provide consistently reliable and authoritive news th is accure, objective, balanced and comprehensive and to project significant American thought and institutions. Monitors technological developments of various delivery systems. Advises the VOA Director on programming impact, costs and long-term benefits. Participes in planning and development of cooperive cross media ventures and with other broadcast outlets. Works closely with approprie organizional elements to facilite the accomplishment of overall programming objectives. Maintains contact with other internional broadcasting entities and stays abreast of internional broadcasting developments to advise and assist in the implemention of decisions, which will impact VOA programming. Maintains contact with other U.S. government policy officials to keep up to de on U.S. domestic and foreign policy issues. In conjunction with the Studio and Production Operions, News Center, and Language Service Division Directors, establishes and maintains competitive production values and creive and journalistic standards and practices for all original programming. Ensures standards and practices are followed by Language Services and the News Center. Assures effective integrion of the physical and operional resources in VOA. This includes policy aspects of long-range planning for broadcast facilities and operions, news coverage and programming on all media plforms for all languages, and the technical and personnel support required for VOA's worldwide broadcast and programming activities. Works with the VOA Director to ensure consistency in VOA operional and editorial stregies and policies. Serves as Acting Voice of America Director in Director's absence. Manages and supervises the staff of the Programming Directore, Studio and Production Operions, regional divisions and language services, and the VOA News Center through subordine managers, and supervisors. Exercises deleged authority to oversee the overall planning, direction, and timely execution of the operions of the Programming Directore, including development, assignment, and higher-level clearance of goals and objectives for supervisors or managers of subordine organizional units or lower organizional levels. Approves multiyear and longer-range work plans developed by the supervisors or managers of subordine organizional units and subsequently manages the overall work to enhance achievement of the goals and objectives. Oversees the revision of long-range plans, goals and objectives for the work directed. Manages the development of policy changes in response to changes in levels of appropriions or other legisled changes. Manages organizional changes throughout the organizion directed, or major change to the structure and content of the program or program segments directed. Exercises discretionary authority to approve the allocion and distribution of funds in the organizion's budget. Requirements Help Conditions of employment U.S. citizenship is required. If you are a male applicant born after December 31, 1959, certify th you have registered with the Selective Service System or are exempt from having to do so. Complete a Declarion for Federal Employment to determine your suitability for Federal employment, the time requested by the agency. This position is not eligible for inclusion in a bargaining unit. All federal employees are required to have direct deposit. You may be subject to a one-year probionary period effective from the de in which you are appointed unless this probionary period has already been served. Selected candide required to submit Executive Branch Personnel Public Financial Disclosure Report, OGE Form 278. Veterans' preference is not applicable to the Senior Executive Service. You must meet all minimum qualificions to be deemed eligible. Only experience obtained by closing de of this announcement Qualificions Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Candides will not be hired based on their race, sex, color, religion, or nional origin. To meet the minimum qualificion requirements for this position, you must show th you possess the Executive Core Qualificions (ECQ) and Technical Qualificions (TQ) reled to this position within your resume•

NOT TO EXCEED 2 PAGES

. Resumes over the 2-page limit, will not be reviewed beyond page 2 or may be disqualified. Your resume should include examples of experience, educion, and accomplishments applicable to the qualificion(s). If your resume does not reflect demonstred evidence of these qualificions, you may not receive considerion for the position. There is NO requirement to prepare a narrive stement specifically addressing the Executive Core Qualificions (ECQs) or the Technical Qualificions (TQs).

TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS

(TQs) : Your resume should demonstre accomplishments th would sisfy the technical qualificions. TQ 1:

Foreign Policy, Media, Communicions, Broadcasting and Journalism Acumen:

This qualificion requires extensive subject mter expertise and coverage experience in a majority of regions and locions where VOA broadcasts and distributes content, enabling deeply considered editorial oversight of programming. It also requires knowledge and understanding of domestic and internional affairs and U.S. foreign policy; experience leading coverage of major and sensitive events in large news organizions; demonstred success in managing a newsroom or major division of a significant news operion with internional reach; knowledge of internional media and communicions practices and procedures; demonstred success in applying knowledge to grow audience size, increase engagement, and/or achieve industry recognition; programming development and implemention for digital, radio, television and web; cutting-edge communicion techniques and emerging technologies; an awareness of, and sensitivity to, cultural and political influences affecting global audiences; and broad experience in journalism, news reporting, broadcasting and media. The position requires a basic level of proficiency in least two to the stutory VOA languages (i.e., Pashto, Kurdish, Persian, Ukrainian, Russian, Korean, and/or Mandarin).

Competencies:

External Awareness, Foreign Affairs, Journalism, News and Current Events, and Political Savvy. TQ 2:

Organizional Acumen:

This qualificion requires an extensive background in and understanding of the USAGM's key mission and functions and proven record of progressively responsible work experience the top executive and managerial levels in government and/or the prive sector, including the ability to deal with Congressional Representives, Senors, senior Congressional office and committee staff, and executive level officials of Federal agencies. It also requires knowledge of management principles pertaining to large government and corpore organizions; and demonstred ability to lead change, lead people, and achieve results through building partnerships and coalitions. TQ3:

Organizional Management and Administrive Acumen:

This qualificion requires experience the senior or executive level managing large organizions through multiple layers of managers and supervisors; knowledge of administrive processes, including budget and finance, human resources, and contracting; ability to analyze organizional and operional problems and develop solutions to improve business performance, and the ability to communice in writing and orally, including meeting and dealing with others in a leadership capacity.

Competencies:

Administrion and Management, Budget Administrion, Change Management, Creive Thinking, Decision Making, Human Capital Management and Interpersonal Relions.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS

(ECQs): In addition to the Technical Qualificion Requirements listed above, all new entrants into the Senior Executive Service (SES) under a career appointment assessed for executive competency against the following five mandory ECQs. If your 2-page resume does not reflect demonstred evidence of the ECQs and TQs, you may not receive further considerion for the position. There are five

ECQs:

ECQ 1: Commitment to the Rule of Law and the Principles of the American Founding

• This core qualificion requires a demonstred knowledge of the American system of government, commitment to uphold the Constitution and the rule of law, and commitment to serve the American people. ECQ 2: Driving Efficiency
• This core qualificion involves the demonstred ability to stregically and efficiently manage resources, budget effectively, cut wasteful spending, and pursue efficiency through process and technological upgrades. ECQ 3: Merit and Competence
• This core qualificion involves the demonstred knowledge, ability and technical competence to effectively and reliably produce work th is of exceptional quality. ECQ 4: Leading People
• This core qualificion involves the demonstred ability to lead and inspire a group toward meeting the organizion's vision, mission, and goals, and to drive a high-performance, high-accountability culture. This includes, when necessary, the ability to lead people through change and to hold individuals accountable. ECQ 5: Achieving Results
• This core qualificion involves the demonstred ability to achieve both individual and organizional results, and to align results to sted goals from superiors.

Note:

If you are a member of the SES or have been certified through successful participion in an OPM approved SES Candide Development Program (SESCDP), or have SES reinstement eligibility, you do not need to respond to the ECQs. Instead, you should tach proof (e.g., SF-50, Certificion by OPM's SES Qualificions Review Board (QRB)) of your eligibility for noncompetitive appointment to the SES. Educion This job does not have an educion qualificion requirement. Additional informion Actual salary for Senior Executive Service positions may vary depending on the scope and the complexity of the qualificions and current compension of the selectee. Veteran's Preference does not apply to the Senior Executive Service. Applicants must meet all of the qualificion requirements by the closing de of this announcement. There are three key documents th contain important informion about your rights and obligions. Please read and retain these documents: Noncriminal Justice Applicant's Privacy Rights , for those who undergo an FBI fingerprint-based criminal history record check for personnel vetting, which includes Rap Back, FD-258 Privacy Act Stement

• FBI (this is the same stement used when your fingerprints are submitted as part of your background investigion), and SEAD-3-Reporting-U.

pdf (dni.gov) , (applicable to those who hold a sensitive position or have eligibility for access to classified informion) Expand Hide additional informion Candides should be committed to improving the efficiency of the Federal government, passione about the ideals of our American republic, and committed to upholding the rule of law and the United Stes Constitution. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits 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 informion on the specific benefits offered. How you evalued You evalued for this job based on how well you meet the qualificions above. We will review your resume and required documents to ensure you meet the basic qualificion requirements. Applicants th meet the qualificions requirements evalued based on the quality and extent of their experience, training, and/or educion indiced on their resume and the qualificion responses described in the separe narrive stements. Applicions evalued by a ring and ranking panel; the panel may conduct interviews with the top candides and then make a recommendion to the selecting official. The best qualified candides may be invited to participe in a structured interview. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention. Once a selection is made, the selectee's applicion forwarded to the Office of Personnel Management (OPM) for approval by an OPM independent Qualificions Review Board, unless the selectee is a current SES executive or has successfully participed in an OPM approved SES Candide Development Program. Applicants who do not submit required documention or demonstre sufficient possession of the ECQs and MTQs in their applicion determined ineligible for further considerion. Benefits Help A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package. As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits th are designed to make your federal career very rewarding. Opens in a new window Learn more about federal benefits . Review our benefits 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 informion on the specific benefits offered. Required documents Required Documents Help 1.

RESUME:

All applicants are required to submit a resume limited to two (2) pages showing all relevant experience. Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service (SES) must include evidence of the ECQs and TQs. 2.

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

Applicants are required to submit the following supporting documention if applicable:

CURRENT OR FORMER SES MEMBERS

Must provide your SES appointment SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action), and an SF-50 showing current career SES stus or career SES reinstement eligibility.

SES CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

(SESCDP)

GRADUATES

Verificion of successful completion of an OPM-approved SESCDP and

OPM SES QRB

certificion.

CURRENT FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE

Must provide a copy of your Notificion of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting you are a current Federal Civil Service employee.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED

Most recent performance evaluion. How to Apply Help You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the stus of your applicion. If you cannot complete the Applicion Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement. To apply for this position, you must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents and any approprie Accepted Documents. To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to cree a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Click the following link to pre-view and print the occupional questionnaire https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13033704 . After completing the questionnaire and uploading approprie documents, click the Submit Applicion to submit your applicion package. It is applicant's responsibility to verify th informion entered in the profile is accure and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 08/26/2026 of the announcement to receive considerion. Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your applicion. If a document is not in legible form, applicant will not be able to view it in Applicion Manager which means applicant must again upload the documention to the system by the closing de of this announcement. To verify your applicion is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the stus of each applicion. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand informion about the job. Next click on Upde Applicion to complete the applicion process.

Note:

Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete applicion. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Informion, and How to Apply sections of the announcement. Applicion packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applicions received the addresses listed in the Contact Informion or Agency Informion destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact HROperions@usagm.gov or 202-920-2400 to request this. Agency contact informion HR Executive Resources Phone 2029202400 Hrexecutiveresources@usagm.gov Next steps After the announcement closes, the Human Resources Office will conduct a review of your applicion package. If your applicion is complete and you meet basic qualificion requirements, it forwarded to a Ring Panel/Executive Resources Board (ERB) for further review of your narrive stements addressing the required ECQs and MTQs. The best qualified candides may be invited to participe in a structured interview. The Ring Panel/ERB will decide which Best Qualified applicants referred to the Selecting Official. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention. All applicants notified of the outcome of their applicions once a final selection is made. Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Required Documents Help 1.

RESUME:

All applicants are required to submit a resume limited to two (2) pages showing all relevant experience. Applicants seeking initial career appointment to the Senior Executive Service (SES) must include evidence of the ECQs and TQs. 2.

ADDITIONAL REQUIRED DOCUMENTS

Applicants are required to submit the following supporting documention if applicable:

CURRENT OR FORMER SES MEMBERS

Must provide your SES appointment SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action), and an SF-50 showing current career SES stus or career SES reinstement eligibility.

SES CANDIDATE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAM

(SESCDP)

GRADUATES

Verificion of successful completion of an OPM-approved SESCDP and

OPM SES QRB

certificion.

CURRENT FEDERAL CIVIL SERVICE EMPLOYEE

Must provide a copy of your Notificion of Personnel Action, Standard Form 50 (SF-50) or equivalent personnel action form reflecting you are a current Federal Civil Service employee.

STRONGLY RECOMMENDED

Most recent performance evaluion. How to Apply Help You are encouraged to apply online. Applying online will allow you to review and track the stus of your applicion. If you cannot complete the Applicion Package online, please contact the Human Resource Specialist listed in this vacancy announcement. To apply for this position, you must complete the occupional questionnaire and submit the documention specified in the Required Documents and any approprie Accepted Documents. To begin, click Apply in the announcement; then, choose to cree a new USAJOBS account or Sign-in into your existing account. Follow the prompts to select your resume and/or other supporting documents to be included with your applicion package. You will have the opportunity to upload additional documents to include in your applicion before submitting it. Your uploaded documents may take several hours to clear the virus scan process. Click the following link to pre-view and print the occupional questionnaire https://apply.usastaffing.gov/ViewQuestionnaire/13033704 . After completing the questionnaire and uploading approprie documents, click the Submit Applicion to submit your applicion package. It is applicant's responsibility to verify th informion entered in the profile is accure and all required documents are uploaded and submitted before 11:59 PM (EST) on 08/26/2026 of the announcement to receive considerion. Human Resources will not modify or change any part of your applicion. If a document is not in legible form, applicant will not be able to view it in Applicion Manager which means applicant must again upload the documention to the system by the closing de of this announcement. To verify your applicion is complete, log into your USAJOBS account. The page will display the positions for which you've applied as well as the stus of each applicion. To return to an incomplete applicion, log into your USAJOBS account and click on the plus sign (+) next to the job title to expand informion about the job. Next click on Upde Applicion to complete the applicion process.

Note:

Submission of a resume alone IS NOT a complete applicion. This position requires the completion of additional forms and/or supplemental merials as described previously. Please carefully review the complete job announcement, including the Required Documents, Other Informion, and How to Apply sections of the announcement. Applicion packages will NOT be accepted via mail or e-mail. All resumes/applicions received the addresses listed in the Contact Informion or Agency Informion destroyed and will not be considered for this vacancy announcement. This agency provides reasonable accommodion to applicants with disabilities on a case-by-case basis; contact HROperions@usagm.gov or 202-920-2400 to request this. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion HR Executive Resources Phone 2029202400 Hrexecutiveresources@usagm.gov Next steps After the announcement closes, the Human Resources Office will conduct a review of your applicion package. If your applicion is complete and you meet basic qualificion requirements, it forwarded to a Ring Panel/Executive Resources Board (ERB) for further review of your narrive stements addressing the required ECQs and MTQs. The best qualified candides may be invited to participe in a structured interview. The Ring Panel/ERB will decide which Best Qualified applicants referred to the Selecting Official. If selected, you may be required to provide supporting documention. All applicants notified of the outcome of their applicions once a final selection is made. Expand Hide next steps Fair and transparent The Federal hiring process is set up to be fair and transparent. Please read the following guidance. Criminal history inquiries Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) Policy Financial suitability New employee probionary period Privacy Act Reasonable accommodion policy Selective Service Signure and false stements Social security number request Overview Help Accepting applicions Locion Washington, DC 1 vacancy No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—as determined by the agency policy. Remote job No Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $151,661

• $228,000 per year Pay scale & grade ES 00 Promotion potential 00 Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel
• You may be expected to travel for this position.

Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus Yes Federal service type This job is in the Senior Executive Service Represented by a union No Drug test No Security clearance Top Secret Position sensitivity and risk Jobs require a and some require a . The type depends on the job. Background check type Financial disclosure required Yes Some jobs require to identify conflicts of interests. Announcement number

ERB-13033704-26-BN

Control number 880300500