Positions are in Division of Financial Responsibility Filings, Office of Registration, in the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration. This office delivers high quality customer service to all companies required to register with FMCSA to receive a USDOT, operating authority, or other FMCSA registration. Work to ensure motor carriers, freight forwarders and brokers comply with applicable FMCSA regulations including financial responsibility filings and process agent designation requirements.
Qualifications:
To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR) and the specialized experience requirements.
Individual Occupational Requirement (IOR):
- Experience that demonstrated a knowledge of the transportation function(s) of the position to be filled.
In addition to meeting the IOR requirement for this position, to qualify for the Grade 12, you must have at least one year of specialized experience equal or equivalent to the GS-11, it must include:
- Experience in providing oversight, guidance, and/or analysis regarding financial responsibility filings such as financial institutions that issue trust fund agreements and/or Insurance Companies that issue surety bonds or commercial insurance policies and/or designation of process agents (Form BOC-3); or
- Experience researching, interpreting, and applying laws, regulations, policies, or procedures in order to aid in motor carrier transportation (specifically safety or registration); or
- Experience in developing and documenting business or information system requirements, conducting user acceptance testing (UAT) to validate system functionality, or providing customer service on how to use an information system (specifically transportation registration systems such as the USDOT Registration System: Motus).
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES (KSAs): Your qualifications will be evaluated on the basis of your level of knowledge, skills, abilities and/or competencies in the following areas:
- Information Management - Identifies a need for and knows where or how to gather information; organizes and maintains information or information management systems.
- Manages and Organizes Information - Identifies a need; gathers, organizes, and maintains information; determines its importance and accuracy and communicates it by a variety of methods.
- Problem Solving - Identifies problems; determines accuracy and relevance of information; uses sound judgement to generate and evaluate alternatives, and to make recommendations.
- Written Communication - Writes in a clear, concise, organized, and convincing manner for the intended audience.
For all types of consideration, experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional, philanthropic, religious, spiritual, community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
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All applicants must meet all qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.
Education:
Undergraduate and Graduate Education: Major study -- accounting, business administration, business or commercial law, commerce, economics, engineering, finance, industrial management, statistics, traffic management, transportation, motor mechanics, or other fields related to the position.
(Check the Qualifications section for other ways to meet the IOR for this series)
Employment Type: OTHER