Air Traffic Control Specialist

Air Traffic Control Specialist Department of Transportion Federal Aviion Administrion ATO, System Ops Services, ATO Security, Stregic Ops Security, Ops Security Plans & Procedures Summary This position is loced in the Air Traffic Organizion (ATO), System Operions, System Operions Security Directore, Stregic Operions Security Group (AJR-2200). This group is responsible for a broad spectrum of the Directore's policy, planning, and procedures efforts. The Group also carries out an array of specialized programs critical to the ATO's air traffic management (ATM) security and emergency management efforts. Learn more about this agency Summary This position is loced in the Air Traffic Organizion (ATO), System Operions, System Operions Security Directore, Stregic Operions Security Group (AJR-2200). This group is responsible for a broad spectrum of the Directore's policy, planning, and procedures efforts. The Group also carries out an array of specialized programs critical to the ATO's air traffic management (ATM) security and emergency management efforts. Learn more about this agency Overview Help Accepting applicions Posted this month • Apply today Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 1, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $150,392 - $228,000 per year The salary listed includes the 33.94% locality for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Pay scale & grade FV K Promotion potential NA 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 - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series 2152 Air Traffic Control Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Drug test Yes Security clearance Top Secret Announcement number

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Control number 873687300 This job is open to Help Internal to an agency Current federal employees of the hiring agency th posted the job announcement. Clarificion from the agency Open to current permanent FAA employees -- FAA-WIDE Duties Help The Air Traffic Control Specialist (ATCS) performs complex, specialized air traffic control assignments. Provides nional-level expertise in complex air traffic control operions and procedures to analyze and evalue critical stregic issues involving Air Domain thres, the ATO's stregic use of Air Traffic Control (ATC), and other Air Navigion Services (ANS) capabilities. Performs duties to support the System Operions Security mission, including participing in the directore's response efforts addressing nural disasters and other crisis events th impact the nional airspace system. Serves as a recognized expert for critical and stregic Air Traffic Management (ATM) security issues, the ATCS advises and assists the Team Manager on a variety of air traffic control operions and stregic security issues. Uses program/project management principles to act as a senior project manager to coordine large, challenging efforts across the directore's five component security groups. Evalues ATM security thres and recommends innovive solutions to mitige the impact of those thres on the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of the Nional Airspace System (NAS). This work directly impacts the safety, efficiency, and accessibility of the U.S. aviion system. The ATCS applies experience and expert technical knowledge of air traffic control operions security issues to study, recommend and implement critical stregies for crucial ATM security mters, such as the usage of Temporary Flight Restrictions. Coordines stregies within the directore and external stakeholders. Identifies and resolves highly complex problems involving the delivery of ATM security services to mitige NAS safety, efficiency, and accessibility challenges; these challenges cross nional and internional boundaries and affect the accomplishment of Federal Aviion Administrion (FAA), Department of Transportion, and U.S. objectives. Applies experience separing and controlling air traffic to evalue and advise senior leadership on proposed policies, legislive and regulory initiives th impact ATC and ANS operions, procedures and interests. Uses accepted correspondence policies and guides to prepare reports and responses to Congressional Technical Assistance requests, White House Stements of Administrion Policy, and requests from the Nional Security Council on critical ATM security and emergency management stregies. Participes in internional forums to evalue and develop stregies for engaging in situions when internional conflicts and disasters affect U.S. operors and other interests. Contacts are internal and external and include FAA leadership, inter-agency counterparts, industry stakeholders, and representives from the Internional Civil Aviion Organizion (ICAO), Congress, and the White House. Often represents the FAA the nional level as the agency focal point for major projects or programs involving air traffic critical stregic security initiives. Recommends organizional positions on major programs and issues to agency management. Prepares and reviews reports or policies for internal and external distribution. Broad policies and objectives provide general guidance for addressing issues but almost always require the development of new and innovive approaches. Often recommends new ATM security policies. Develops ATM security procedures and approaches. As a recognized expert in ATM security operions and procedures, the specialist works independently and exercises broad discretion to ensure th work is integred with organizional objectives and policies. The Group Manager accepts work products as technically authoritive, though work is reviewed for success in achieving desired results, effectiveness, and consonance with agency goals and objectives. Conceives, plans, and directs studies involving complex issues and unique problems. Requirements Help Conditions of employment US Citizenship is required. Selective Service Registrion is required for males born after 12/31/1959. Must submit an SF50 (See Required Documents). Designed or Random Drug Testing required. In accordance with

HRPM EMP

1.29/1.29a, this position MAY be a Career Enhancement Program/Career Progression (CE/CP) assignment. The selectee(s) may be eligible for pay retention. Career Diversity is not enhanced when an employee is assigned to a staff or supervisory position in which they previously held on a permanent basis. CE/CP selectees required to certify eligibility. Pay retention is not guaranteed. This position is not covered by

PL 92-267

for early retirement purposes, and is therefore, not eligible for "good time" credit. Position is ineligible for true time and one half. Qualificions To qualify for this position, you must demonstre in your applicion th you possess least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the

FV-J, FG/GS-14

level. This experience is typically reled to the line of work of the position to be filled, which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be credible, specialized experience must have been least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupion in the organizion.

Specialized experience is defined as:

- Experience evaluing and advising leadership on proposed air traffic policies, legislive, and regulory initiives. - Experience participing in internional forums to evalue and develop stregies for engaging in situions during internional conflicts and disasters. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualificion requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evalued on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluion, applicants will be placed in one of the following cegories: (1) score order; (2) cegory grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping and referred to the selecting official for selection considerion. Experience in a military or civilian air traffic facility th demonstres possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform the level of work of the specializion for which applicion is made. This experience must have provided a comprehensive knowledge of approprie air traffic control laws, rules, and regulions. You should include relevant examples of the specialized experience in your work history. Errors or omissions may impact your ring or may result in you not being Answer all questions to the best of your ability.

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 THIS

POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE.

You may be asked to provide evidence or documention th you have this type of experience ler in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verificion through job interviews, or any other informion obtained during the applicion process. Any exaggerion of your experience or any tempt to conceal informion can result in disqualificion. Applicants who fail to demonstre possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documention will receive no further considerion for this position. All qualificion requirements must be met by the closing de of the vacancy Educion Educion cannot be substituted for experience. Preview job questionnaire Make sure your resume includes detailed informion to support your qualificions and answers to the job questionnaire. Additional informion We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigion. A one-year probionary period may be required. The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure stement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviion-reled companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements This position is covered by the Department of Transportion's Drug and Alcohol Testing Program. Any applicant tentively selected for this position subject to pre-employment or pre-appointment drug screening. Persons occupying a "testing designed position (TDP)" subject to random drug and/or alcohol testing. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiive (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to elimining the use of Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narrives from the initial applicion in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant, you are NOT required to provide a narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrive response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include informion th provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers evalued further to valide whether the level th you selected is approprie based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as approprie. Please ensure th you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or omissions may impact your ring or may result in you not being considered for the job. This position is covered by the FAA Core Compension Plan. Additional informion about core compension is available on the website: https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working_here/benefits This is a Level 4 (

Special-Sensitive:

TS/SCI) position requires favorable adjudicion of a Special Sensitive Background Investigion) background investigion prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Management may choose to interview all, some, or none of the referred candides. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to

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Locality Pay , COLA 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.

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Applicants may be red on the extent and quality of experience, educion, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantied. Ensure th your applicion package/resume supports your responses. 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 All applicants MUST submit the following: (1) resume with complete work history; and (2) a copy of your most recent SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) For guidance on how to cree a Federal resume, http://www.archives.gov/careers/jobs/forms/resume-guide.pdf . Failure to submit all required documents by the closing de will result in a finding of ineligible. We are not responsible for incomplete, illegible or missing documents. Please DO NOT email your applicion documents. We cannot accept documents received via the email system. Documents sent via email will NOT receive considerion. If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/ . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed 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 informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion 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 informion again when applying for future vacancies.

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LOB wanted to change the close de to 10 days instead of 5. Agency contact informion Christine McNeil Phone 1 (202) 267-3722 Fax 1 (202) 267-7032 christine.mcneil@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion HQ Employment Services Branch 800 Independence Ave, SW, Room 523 AHF-110 Washington, DC 20591 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide . Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. 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 All applicants MUST submit the following: (1) resume with complete work history; and (2) a copy of your most recent SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) For guidance on how to cree a Federal resume, http://www.archives.gov/careers/jobs/forms/resume-guide.pdf . Failure to submit all required documents by the closing de will result in a finding of ineligible. We are not responsible for incomplete, illegible or missing documents. Please DO NOT email your applicion documents. We cannot accept documents received via the email system. Documents sent via email will NOT receive considerion. If you are an FAA employee, you MUST provide a copy of your SF-50 (Notificion of Personnel Action) containing informion in Blocks 15, 17, 18, 19, 22, and 24 so it can be used to verify your position title, series, grade, tenure, and organizion of record by the closing de of the announcement. You may fax your SF-50 or upload it into the on-line applicion. If faxing the SF-50, please ensure you include the vacancy announcement number on the faxed copy. If you are an FAA employee, you can access and print your SF-50 from the eOPF system https://eopf.opm.gov/dot/ . If you are relying on your educion to meet qualificion requirements: Educion must be accredited by an accrediting institution recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion in order for it to be credited towards qualificions. Therefore, provide only the tendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Educion . Failure to provide all of the required informion as sted in this vacancy announcement may result in an ineligible ring or may affect the overall ring. How to Apply Help Applicants may be required to complete one or multiple assessments as part of the evaluion process. This assessment aims to evalue the competencies and qualificions essential for the position. You must apply online to receive considerion. Your applicion must be submitted by 11:59 PM Eastern Time on the Close De for it to be accepted. If you are applying for positions associed with FAA registers, your applicion must be submitted the time a referral list is creed in order to receive considerion for positions associed 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 informion: Job Title (include series and grade if Federal Job) Relevant work experience: should align to the Job Announcement and address all required qualificions and include job title, employer name, start/end des, number of hours worked per week. Educion, certificion or licensure: If required, educion should include school/institution name, completion de, degree type and GPA. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above informion and failure to provide ALL of this informion 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 informion again when applying for future vacancies.

Amendment De:

06/22/2026

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LOB wanted to change the close de to 10 days instead of 5. Expand Hide how to apply Agency contact informion Christine McNeil Phone 1 (202) 267-3722 Fax 1 (202) 267-7032 christine.mcneil@faa.gov Address Federal Aviion Administrion HQ Employment Services Branch 800 Independence Ave, SW, Room 523 AHF-110 Washington, DC 20591 US Next steps Once we receive your complete applicion, the Human Resources Office will conduct an evaluion of your qualificions. Eligible and qualified candides referred to the hiring manager for considerion. You contacted directly if selected for an interview. For instructions on how to check the stus of your applicion, please go to: USAJOBS Help Guide . Important - If you make any changes to your applicion, you must resubmit it. If you make changes to your applicion and do not resubmit it, your changes will not be considered part of your applicion package, and only your previously submitted applicion evalued. All qualified applicants considered regardless of political affiliion, race, color, religion, nional origin, gender, sexual oriention, marital stus, age, disability, or other non-merit factors. DOT provides reasonable accommodions to applicants with disabilities. If you need a reasonable accommodion for any part of the applicion and hiring process, please notify the agency contact listed in the Agency Contact Informion section of this announcement or the hiring manager. An employee with a disability must notify the decision-maker of the accommodion request. Job applicants and employees are required to follow up oral requests in writing. Decisions on granting reasonable accommodion made on a case-by-case basis. Additional informion on reasonable accommodions procedures or on EEO Programs is available on Office of Civil Rights (ACR) or by contacting the local FAA Civil Rights Office. 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 Posted this month • Apply today Due by 11:59 p.m. ET on July 1, 2026 Locion 1 vacancy in the following locion: Washington, DC No mching locions found. Work site options Telework eligible Yes—Situional telework may be permitted in accordance with agency policy. Relocion expenses reimbursed No Salary $150,392 - $228,000 per year The salary listed includes the 33.94% locality for the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Area. Pay scale & grade FV K Promotion potential NA Pay scale and grade determines the salary of the job. Work schedule Full-time Travel Required Occasional travel - The job may require travel from time-to-time, but not on a regular basis. The travel may be for training or other work-reled duties. Appointment type Permanent Occupions and job series Supervisory stus No Federal service type This job is in the Excepted Service Drug test Yes Security clearance Top Secret Announcement number

AWA-AJR-26-5850CM-99249

Control number 873687300