Chief Technology Officer

As a basic requirement for entry into the SES, applicants must provide evidence of progressively responsible executive leadership and supervisory experience that is indicative of senior executive level management capability and directly related to the skills and abilities outlined under Executive Core Qualifications and Mandatory Technical Qualifications listed below.

The application process used to recruit for this position is the RESUME-BASED Method. The applicant must address the Mandatory Technical Qualifications (MTQs) and Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) in detail within their resume. Resumes must not exceed eight pages.

We recommend that your resume emphasize your level of responsibilities, the complexity of the position, situation, or programs you've managed, and scope and breadth of the results or outcomes of your actions. You will be evaluated to determine if you meet the minimum qualifications required for the position and on the extent your application demonstrates that you possess the knowledge, skills, and abilities required.

EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs):

YOUR RESUME MUST CLEARLY DOCUMENT AND DEMONSTRATE THE FOLLOWING EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS (ECQs) EVIDENCE WITHIN YOUR RESUME NOT TO EXCEED EIGHT PAGES:

1: Leading Change: Ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals and establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment. Leadership Competencies: Creativity & Innovation, External Awareness, Flexibility, Resilience, Strategic Thinking, Vision

2: Leading People: Ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals and provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts. Leadership Competencies: Conflict Management, Leveraging Diversity, Developing Others, Team Building

3: Results Driven: Ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations and make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks. Leadership Competencies: Accountability, Customer Service, Decisiveness, Entrepreneurship, Problem Solving, Technical Credibility

4: Business Acumen: Ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically. Leadership Competencies: Financial Management, Human Capital Management, Technology Management

5: Building Coalitions: Ability to build coalitions internally and with other Federal agencies, State and local governments, nonprofit and private sector organizations, foreign governments, or international organizations to achieve common goals. ?Leadership Competencies: Partnering, Political Savvy, Influencing/Negotiating

Detailed information on each ECQ, the underlying and fundamental competencies, sample narratives and a tips sheet for writing effective ECQs are available in the "Guide To Senior Executive Service Qualifications" Senior Executive Service Executive Core Qualifications and Senior Executive Service Qualifications & Fundamental-Competencies.

MANDTORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs):

IN ADDITION TO THE ECQS, YOU WILL BE EVALUATED ON ALL OF THE FOLLOWING MANDATORY TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS (MTQs): Your responses to the MTQs should be embedded/addressed in detail within your resume, not to exceed eight pages

1. Describe your ability to manage and/or oversee large and complex commercial and/or government research and technology programs in the areas of chemical, hazardous and/or radioactive materials to enable achieving organizational performance and operational objectives.
2. Describe your ability to resolve difficult and or controversial technical issues, in support of operations, in a large enterprise organization which provides management and advisory services to a broad spectrum of nuclear and waste management program operations.

A sample 8-page resume that incorporates ECQs and MTQs can be viewed on this link (indexed at page 29-37)

http://www.opm.gov/ses/references/GuidetoSESQuals_2012.pdf.