Summary This position is located in the Air Traffic Organization (ATO), Management Services, Customer Strategy Directorate (AJG-C). This Directorate is responsible for ensuring a strategic and customer-centric perspective to advocate for the Air Traffic Organization (ATO) Service Units and to monitor customer service and experience, employee engagement, strategic planning and organizational health activities. Responsibilities The senior writer-editor applies knowledge of their professional writing experience (newspaper, broadcast television, magazine, or professional trade publication) and applies analytical methods and techniques to develop various communications products. The products will articulate Management Services (AJG) and Air Traffic Organization (ATO) programs and policies. You will be responsible for researching topics and writing articles for the ATO Minute and AJG executive announcements to the ATO. As a trusted advisor, you will establish and maintain internal and external AJG client relationships to help them reach their communications goals. You will provide leadership for highly complex and challenging activities under the minimal direction of a manager or executive. This work directly affects the ATO's strategic alignment, direction, and resources to accomplish our safety mission. The senior writer-editor applies writing style guides, such as the Associated Press (AP) Style Manual and federal plain language, ensuring that content is concise, factual, and accurate. Duties include writing and editing materials, including reports, articles, newsletters, training materials, brochures, pamphlets, talking points, or scripts, to simplify complex information tailored to specific media and audiences. The ideal candidate will have professional video production and script and storyboard writing experience for broadcast television or corporate communications. Requirements Conditions of Employment We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to the FV-I, FG/GS-13 level. This experience is typically related to the line of work of the position to be filled and which has equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully perform the duties of the position. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been at least equivalent to the next lower level in the normal line of progression for the occupation in the organization. Specialized experience is defined as: -Experience using accepted writing guides to write and edit materials that convey information to target audience. AND -Experience examining project performance metrics to evaluate project progress, and identifying and implementing improvements or changes. You should include relevant examples of the specialized experience in your work history. Errors or omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered. Answer all questions to the best of your ability. DO NOT ASSUME THAT BECAUSE YOU HOLD, OR HAVE HELD THIS POSITION, YOU WILL AUTOMATICALLY BE FOUND ELIGIBLE. You may be asked to provide evidence or documentation that you have this type of experience later in the selection process. Your responses are subject to verification through job interviews, or any other information obtained during the application process. Any exaggeration of your experience or any attempt to conceal information can result in disqualification. *Applicants who fail to demonstrate possession of any of the above criteria AND who do not provide the required documentation will receive no further consideration for this position.* Applicants may be asked to verify information on your application for employment with the FAA. **All qualification requirements must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.** This Level 5 (Moderate Risk; Public Trust) position requires favorable adjudication of a Minimum Background Investigation (MBI) background investigation prior to appointment, unless a waiver is obtained. Education Education cannot be substituted for experience Additional Information We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. The U.S. Department of Transportation strives to ensure that equity, transparency, accountability, collaboration, and communication permeate all that we do for the betterment of the Department, the traveling public, and our nation. As such, DOT values a highly diverse workforce of persons who promote a culture of belonging by respecting the personal dignity and worth of each individual and fostering a positive environment where all feel safe and welcome. If these commitments coincide with your personal ideals and professional aspirations, please consider joining the DOT family. This position is covered by the FAA Core Compensation plan. Additional information about Core Compensation is available at: https://www.faa.gov/jobs/working\_here/benefits. As a part of the Federal-Wide Hiring Reform Initiative (streamlining the hiring process), the FAA is committed to eliminating the use of Knowledge, Skills and Ability (KSA) narratives from the initial application in the hiring process for all announcements. Therefore, as an applicant, you are NOT required to provide a narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA section, in your work history, please include information that 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 will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a human resource specialist as appropriate. Eligible applicants meeting the minimum qualification requirements and/or selective placement factor(s) (SPF) may be further evaluated on the Knowledge, Skills and Abilities (KSA) and/or Quality Ranking Factor (QRF) listed in the announcement. Based on this evaluation, applicants will be placed in one of the following categories: (1) score order; (2) category grouping; (3) alphabetical; or (4) priority grouping, and referred to the selecting official for selection consideration. AFSCME Interview Criteria: Article 42, Section 13 states: 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. If it is determined that interviews are required and telephone interviews are not utilized, travel expenses incidental to these interviews will be paid in accordance with the Agency's travel regulations and this Agreement. Some, all, or none of the applicants may be interviewed. This announcement is also being advertised under VA #AWA-AJG-25-0017JC-92644. Please review both vacancy announcements before making application to determine your eligibility to apply. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA