As a Supervisory Policy Analyst (Unit Chief), you will:
1. Serve as Unit Chief and support the Deputy Assistant Director of OPPA with full delegated authority to lead the development and management of a robust policy process.
2. Provide administrative and technical supervision necessary for accomplishing the work of OPPA:
- Plan and assign work to subordinates, establishes time frames and priorities
- Develop performance standards and evaluate staff performance
- Counsel employees on work and administrative matters
- Interview candidates for positions
- Take or recommend personnel actions
- Identify training needs for staff
- Approve leave
- Adhere to affirmative action and equal employment opportunity requirements.
- Assures that work products meet standards in terms of timeliness, accuracy, and quality
- Identify means of improving the efficiency and effectiveness of the function
- Ensure that the OPPA policy group establishes and maintains effective working relationships with subject matter experts across the Agency.
3. Evaluate the quality of policy documents, and the efficiency, and effectiveness of the policy development and management process. Develop and implement long and short-range improvement plans.
4. Facilitate process mapping and other workgroups that establish mission-critical operational frameworks for policy development.
5. Initiate studies to identify possible operational improvements. Based on analysis, recommend strategies to reshape the major elements of programs to include goals, objectives, approaches, measurements, timelines, resources, and implementation steps.
6. Identify metrics and perform high-level quantitative and qualitative analysis on policy related data to provide management with periodic updates. Provide timely analysis and reporting of data that clearly shows the status of new and existing polices and operational instructions and any obstacles to the process.
7. Develop concise reports following plain writing principles that reflect in-depth analysis and interpretation of policy matters. Prepare a variety of written documents, such as project summaries, status updates, briefing materials, presentations, and meeting minutes.
8. Coordinate and integrate the planning, programming, development, oversight, scheduling, and overall management of resources for major multi-phase projects. Provide leadership and reliable expert advice and assistance in all phases of the policy development and management process, inclusive of the effective use of SharePoint. Serve as an advisor and technical authority on policy, program, and implementation planning issues. Provide authoritative advice and counsel to leadership on all policy matters.
9. As an expert advisor and technical authority on complex and precedent-setting policy and program issues, develops policies, strategies, and plans for application in all policy program areas. Provide specialized expertise to units in designing and monitoring policies, strategies, and programs, which ensure uniformity across organizational components. Maintain effective working relationships with component subject matter experts and leadership with a high degree of integrity.
10. Lead task forces, committees, and workgroups necessary to improve the policy process. Work in collaboration with other offices within PSA, identify key issues and constraints that can be overcome by policy, legislative, process improvement, or other initiatives. In collaboration with the Training and Career Development Unit, develop or acquire training in policy for PSA staff.
11. Provide authoritative guidance and leadership to programs impacting one or several major agency organizations. Continually scans the internal and external environments to identify changed business needs, emerging trends, laws, regulations, executive decisions, or other local or national initiatives that may have policy implications for the Agency, and timely provides independent, authoritative, and thorough judgement and guidance to leadership.
12. Investigate options to policy and legislation including analyzing and reporting on current strategies and their success and proposes modifications or new strategies when appropriate.