About the Agency 

This part-time position presents a unique opportunity for a Transportation Specialist with law enforcement experience on roadways. it is located in the Office of Transportation Operations (HOTO) in the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Operations. The position serves as the FHWA national expert in Traffic incident management (TIM) leading programs, policy development, and communications. the employee serves to improve the effectiveness and efficiency to TIM, which affects the Nation's incident responders to including firefighters, rescue workers, emergency medical services (EMS), law professionals, towing and recovery experts, and safety service patrols.

This position closes Monday, October 17, 2016. 

The ideal candidate will be a mid- to late-career transportation safety and/or traffic operations professional, with experience from civilian city, county, tribal, State or Federal law enforcement organizations and experience derived from work in highway safety, accident reconstruction, planning, or enforcement of highway laws.

As a Transportation Specialist, you will:

• Contribute to team and office efforts to formulate a multiagency vision for external TIM and other areas of highway transportation operations efforts, while assisting internal efforts to the Office of Transportation Operations’ overall vision, goals, objectives, and annual performance plan including supporting the development of program area budgets and spending plans and justifying budget requests.
• Serve as a national authority to other public and private organizations in the promotion of TI&EM areas, especially TIM. Identify research and development needs for TIM program products from research and development through testing and evaluation to implementation and deployment, In coordination with the FHWA Resource Center, transfers technologies and strategies to State and local agencies by developing demonstrations, outreach, and/or promotional materials.
• Interact to create relationships and partnerships among mid-level professionals from non-traditional stakeholders in other Federal, State and local agencies’ traffic and public safety disciplines (such as law enforcement, fire and rescue, EMS, safety service patrols, towers, public works) and professional organizations, emergency management offices, and private sector organizations to promote TI&EM programs and activities, especially TIM. Communicate transportation issues, gaps, needs, goals, and objectives to these partners and to gain their support for FHWA initiatives in these areas.
• Advance the state-of-the-practice in TIM by promoting and identifying the successful practices, lessons learned, and measures for evaluating system performance and state-of-the-art by promoting the enhancement of regional and statewide multi-disciplinary traffic operations for non-recurring events, such as incidents.
• Serve on working groups and committees of these organizations to develop and implement standards, policies, and procedures to improve transportation operations and traffic management procedures.
• Prepare and present articles and speeches, and develops training courses on TI&EM topics and participates in regional and national meetings for FHWA, State, and local transportation professionals and related organizations.

Please be reminded that this is a part-time position (20 hours/week) and as such, the pay will range $46,000 to $70,500 per annum.  Relocation is authorized; therefore, there is funding to move the selected candidate to the DC Metro area.

·        Series & Grade:  GS-2101-13/14

·        Promotion Potential:  14

·        Supervisory Status:  No

·        Control Number:  451533300

·        Job Announcement Number:  FHWA.HOP-2016-0024 (all citizens); FHWA.HOP-2016-0024 (current/former Feds with Status or Veterans)