Director, Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization

The Executive Core Qualifications are required for entry to the Senior Executive Service; to meet the minimum qualification requirements for this position, you must show in your resume that you possess the five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs) and three Technical Qualifications (TQs), listed below.

Executive Core Qualifications (ECQs):

• ECQ 1 - LEADING CHANGE: The ability to bring about strategic change, both within and outside the organization, to meet organizational goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to establish an organizational vision and to implement it in a continuously changing environment.
• ECQ 2 - LEADING PEOPLE: The ability to lead people toward meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to provide an inclusive workplace that fosters the development of others, facilitates cooperation and teamwork, and supports constructive resolution of conflicts.
• ECQ 3 - RESULTS DRIVEN: The ability to meet organizational goals and customer expectations. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to make decisions that produce high-quality results by applying technical knowledge, analyzing problems, and calculating risks.
• ECQ 4 - BUSINESS ACUMEN: The ability to manage human, financial, and information resources strategically.
• ECQ 5 - BUILDING COALITIONS: The 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.

Technical Qualifications (TQs):

1. Expert executive-level knowledge and management of small, disadvantaged, and women-owned business programs, legislation, and procedures, combined with practical experience developing and implementing policies, strategies, and initiatives to meet organizational objectives and goals.
2. Demonstrated executive experience of acquisition policies, practices, and methodology, to include Federal Acquisition Regulations (FAR) and contract competition, across multiple types of acquisition and contracting programs.
3. Demonstrated ability to effectively coordinate across offices/teams, including both senior leaders and subject-matter experts, to identify prospective and forecasted contracting and subcontracting needs, and then evaluate and engage small businesses, continuously building a pipeline of potential partner organizations.

Additional information on the Executive Core Qualifications is available at SES ECQs

Please ensure that your resume emphasizes your level of responsibilities, the scope and complexity of programs managed and your program accomplishments, including the results of your actions relating to the qualifications described above. An example of a resume showing possession of the ECQs is available at SES Resume

Please DO NOT submit separate statements addressing the ECQs/TQs as they will not be considered.

Applicants must meet all of the qualification requirements by the closing date of this announcement.