Highway Safety Specialist

You will serve as a Highway Safety Specialist and report to the Chief, Enforcement and Justice Services Division, Research and Program Development, Office of Safety Programs.  The office has national responsibility for developing and improving behavioral highway safety programs aimed at reducing highway crashes, injuries, and deaths.

Qualifications:

To meet the minimum qualifications for this position, you must meet the specialized experience requirements. consideration.

To qualify for the Grade 13, you must have at least one year of experience equal or equivalent to the GS-12, it must include:

• Experience with  behavioral highway safety, injury prevention, public health and traffic law enforcement programs.
• Experience in behavioral traffic safety program development and strategies, specifically regarding speed management, impaired driving, distracted driving, and other risky driving behaviors.
• Experience in carrying out traffic enforcement operations utilizing evidence-based components.

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:

• Behavioral Highway Safety: Knowledge of behavioral highway safety programs and research.
• Partnering: Develops networks and builds alliances; collaborates across boundaries to build strategic relationships and achieve common goals.
• Law Enforcement: Knowledge of skills required to implement advanced traffic enforcement operations utilizing evidence-based frameworks.

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.

Responsibilities:

The Highway Safety Specialist, you will:

• Oversee, and coordinate demonstration projects or programs of particular sensitivity or breadth, particularly undertakings that require the integration and synthesis of information from multiple program areas including comprehensive knowledge of programmatic content and emerging trends and issues.
• Establish and maintain effective partnerships with other Department of Transportation operating administrations, other external government agencies at the national, State and local levels with interest in highway safety by coordinating program activities, interpreting NHTSA policies and procedures, and furnishing authoritative advice.
• Serve as a Contracting Officer Representative (COR) and technical advisor for various behavioral highway safety and demonstration projects within assigned areas of responsibility by developing procurement documents including statements of work and cost estimates and coordinate implementation of programmatic efforts with appropriate NHTSA elements, contractors/consultants, State and local agencies, professional organizations, and other recognized experts in the field.
• Prepare technical reports and briefing materials regarding assigned areas of responsibility as required by Congress, the Secretary of DOT, the NHTSA Administrator, and the Associate Administrator, and other offices, which form the basis for the evaluation of ongoing and planned programs or presentation of new concepts and programs.

The ideal candidate for this position possesses experience and a solid understanding of public health issues and behavioral highway safety, injury prevention, programs, and policies, especially as they relate to traffic law enforcement countermeasures and programs. Experience as a command level law enforcement officer is preferred but not required.

Salary : $121,785