Program Manager (Partnerships)

Summary The U.S.

Botanic Garden (USBG) is an accredited botanic garden and museum that inspires people to appreciate, study, and conserve plants to enrich society locally and globally.

The Garden provides educational experiences to over 1 million visitors annually, presents horticultural displays and exhibits, advances plant conservation, strives to break down barriers to inclusion, and fosters the exchange of ideas and information through national and global partnerships.

Visit: U.S.

Botanic Garden.

Responsibilities This position is located at the U.S.

Botanic Garden (USBG), a jurisdiction within the Office of the Chief of Operations at the Architect of the Capitol (AOC). The Partnerships Manager helps develop and maintains the USBG partnership program with a focus on advancing conservation, botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture, and plant-focused education for the greater good.

Major Duties include: Program Management and Liaison Activities: Manages partnership program to reach diverse and external audiences and advance conservation, botanical science, urban agriculture, horticulture, and plant-focused education.

Follows current and future trends at public gardens, museums, and related sectors to recommend opportunities for impactful USBG partnership initiatives and projects.

Maintains collaborative relationships with other federal agencies and colleagues, as well as museum, conservation, education, and public garden sector organizations and colleagues to advance industry-leading, impactful initiatives.

Contributes to partnership-related congressional queries, strategic plans, and identification and mitigation of risks.

Project Management and Communication: Maintains partnership projects to facilitate a greater national plant science and conservation role for the USBG involving the development of conservation strategies for threatened plants, greater public knowledge and appreciation of plants, innovative plant-based education programs, increased national and international coordination of plant research and conservation efforts at botanic gardens, expanded engagement in urban agriculture, and increased engagement in botanical career fields by a greater diversity of people and organizations.

Serves as the Contracting Officers Representative (COR; e.g., USBG’s leading role) and/or as a key person for partnership-related cooperative agreements and contracts, to include leading the development of statements of work, working with partner organizations on procurement procedures and processes, and ensuring all contract-related documentation is submitted.

Records and shares information for reporting and analyses related to managed projects.

Prepares, monitors and tracks partnership annual and multi-year budgets.

Collaborates with the USBG leadership and communications teams to develop internal and external communications highlighting the USBG's partnership accomplishments.

Prepares or contributes to communications materials including memos, letters, briefings, emails, articles, and presentations.

Audiences include a diversity of internal and external stakeholders and customers including USBG employees, USBG visitors, collaborators, external colleagues, other AOC jurisdictions and offices, congressional members and staffers, foreign officials, and the general public.

Performs other related duties as assigned.

Requirements Conditions of Employment You must be a U.S.

Citizen.

You must be able to pass a drug test.

Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.

You must meet the definition of specialized experience.

A citizen of the United States; A person who is lawfully admitted for permanent residence and is seeking citizenship as outlined in 8 U.S.C.

1324b(a)(3)(B); A person who is admitted as a refugee under 8 U.S.C.

1157 or is granted asylum under 8 U.S.C.

1158 and has filed a declaration of intention to become a lawful permanent resident and then a citizen when eligible; A person who owes allegiance to the United States (nationals of American Samoa, Swains Island, and the Northern Mariana Islands, and nationals who meet other requirements described in 8 U.S.C.

1408); or You must be able to pass a drug test and background check.

Your resume and question responses must demonstrate the job-related KSAs.

You must meet the definition of specialized experience.

Qualifications You must meet the United States Office of Personnel Management's (OPM) qualification requirements (including specialized experience and/or educational requirements) for the advertised position.

You must meet all eligibility and qualifications requirements by the closing date of the job announcement.

Additional information on the qualification requirements is outlined in the OPM Qualifications Standards Handbook of General Schedule Positions.

It is available for your review on the OPM web site at Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled.

To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level.

Candidates for the GS-12 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-11 grade level in the Federal Service.

Managing partnerships in botanical science, conservation, urban agriculture, horticulture or a related field; Monitoring, inspecting, controlling and evaluating project costs, work and contractor / collaborator performance; Maintaining collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders; Developing and/or managing a system to review, control and report on ; and Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or in an equivalent capacity overseeing the administration of contracts and/or agreements.

Candidates for the GS-13 grade level must have at least 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-12 grade level in the Federal service.

Developing and managing partnerships in botanical science, conservation, urban agriculture, horticulture or a related field; Monitoring, inspecting, controlling and evaluating project costs, work and contractor / collaborator performance; Initiating collaborative relationships with internal and external stakeholders; Developing and/or managing a system to review, control and report on program deliverables; and Serving as a Contracting Officer’s Representative (COR) or in an equivalent capacity overseeing the administration of contracts and/or agreements.

Education . Additional Information Welcome Veterans.

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Veterans' preference is applied on this vacancy announcement.

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Satisfactory completion of a drug test is a condition of employment with the Agency.

A candidate must test negative prior to being eligible for appointment into a position.

We will schedule, provide and cover the cost for the drug test.

The selectee(s) under the vacancy announcement for this position is subject to a criminal record check by the U.S.

Capitol Police and satisfactory adjudication to be eligible for employment at the Architect of the Capitol.

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The decision on granting reasonable accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.

Moving expenses are not authorized.

Relocation expenses are not authorized.

Probationary Period - A newly appointed selectee is subject to the completion of a one-year trial/probationary period, regardless of whether or not a trial/probationary period has been completed previously with the Architect of the Capitol or another Federal agency.

This vacancy announcement may be used to fill additional vacancies in any of the jurisdictions of the Architect of the Capitol.

Please be advised that federal retired annuitant candidates may only be considered as a temporary employee if the role can be filled in that capacity.