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Form of workThe USBG is a leading public garden and museum that inspires people to appreciate, study, and conserve plants to enrich society locally and globally. Comprised of four divisions, the USBG provides educational experiences to 1 million visitors annually, presents horticultural displays and exhibits, strives to break down barriers to inclusion, and advances the exchange of ideas and information through national and global partnerships and initiatives. Learn more: U.S. Botanic Garden.
Qualifications:You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position. You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement. Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions. It is available for your review on the OPM website at http://www.opm.gov/qualifications.
Specialized experience is an experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.
Candidates for the GS-13 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service.
Specialized experience for this position includes:
- Professional knowledge of methods, techniques, and tools used to analyze organizational and mission performance. These include statistical techniques, as well as comparative, trend, diagnostic, root cause, and predictive methods that deliver key performance information used to inform decisions, actions, communications, and accountability systems.
- Comprehensive knowledge of a wide range of qualitative and/or quantitative methods for the assessment and improvement of program effectiveness or the improvement of complex management processes and systems.
- Skilled in effectively expressing information, taking into account the audience and the nature of the information, and making clear and convincing oral and written presentations for a diversity of audiences including government senior leaders, public garden colleagues, and foreign dignitaries.
- Ability to be resourceful and exercise a high level of initiative, judgment, and commitment to accomplishing work, often under short deadlines, to program goals and results in support of AOC’s mission/vision/goals.
