Vessel Traffic Management Specialist

Duties

You will be responsible for promoting the safe and efficient movement of maritime traffic in an assigned geographic area. You will ensure that vessel traffic is properly informed, advised or directed in order to reduce the probability of collisions, ramming, grounding, and ensuing environmental damage.

Being a Coast Guard civilian makes you a valuable member of the Coast Guard team.

Typical work assignments include:

• Monitoring, controlling, and directing the movement of vessel traffic.
• Gathering, analyzing and disseminating a variety of nautical data.
• Coordinating advisory information between participating and non-participating vessels and small craft.
• Assisting other Federal agencies in carrying out operational activities.
• Operating a variety of surveillance sensors, communications, data processing, keyboard, and other electronic equipment.
• Participating in training exercises to prepare for maritime accidents or natural disasters.

This position requires shift work consisting of six 12 hour shifts and one 8 hour shift every two weeks with occasional overtime.

Qualifications

Qualifications for GS-11: Applicants must possess at least one year of specialized experience directly related to the occupation equivalent to at least the GS-09 grade level; OR a Ph.D. or equivalent doctoral degree; OR 3 full years of progressively higher level graduate education leading to such a degree; OR LL.M., if it is a related field of study.

Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular ability, skill, and knowledge to successfully perform the duties of this position and is typically in or related to this line of work. Examples include: Working in a transportation facility or terminal which involved utilizing Federal, State, and municipal regulations governing the use of maritime vessels to perform duties, promoting the safe and efficient movements of maritime traffic; ensuring that vessel traffic is properly informed, advised, or directed in order to reduce the probability of collisions, rammings, groundings, and ensuing environmental damage and gathering, validating, and analyzing navigational safety information. The following examples of professional maritime experience are desirable: The use and skill in applying nautical charts, tide and current tables; knowledge of a variety of classes of ships and application navigation rules and regulations.

Equivalent combinations of education and experience are qualifying.

National Service Experience (i.e., volunteer experience): 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.

Education

This position does not have a positive education requirement. If you are including education on your resume, report only attendance and/or degrees from schools accredited by accrediting institutions recognized by the U.S. Department of Education. See Required Documents section for detail.

FOREIGN EDUCATION: Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet Federal qualification requirements if you can show that your foreign education is comparable to education received in accredited educational institutions in the United States. It is your responsibility to provide such evidence with your application.