
Supervisory Program Management Specialist (Middle Manager)
Federal Aviation Administration
San Juan, PRFull-time$112–174K/yrPosted today
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Job overview
This Middle Manager supervises employees and manages a Flight Standards organization, executing the FAA’s aviation safety mission. The role directs organizational work, standardization efforts, program changes, and budgets while aligning projects with tactical objectives. It involves leading change, managing resources and performance, supporting collaboration with stakeholders, and ensuring programs meet organizational goals and applicable requirements.
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Summary
This position serves as a Middle Manager providing supervision to subordinate employees and manages the activities of a Flight Standards organization. The incumbent will report to the applicable Senior Manager and will execute the Agency's aviation safety mission, while communicating and building change coalitions; seeking out opportunities to involve their teams in supporting change across the organization and employing best practices for sponsoring change and managing resistance.
Duties
The position manages the work of a multi-level organization through subordinate managers and employees. Works interdependently with multiple organizations internal and external stakeholders to meet strategic goals of ACSA and the FAA, leads and directs ACSA standardization efforts, program changes, budget, etc. Directs the work of subordinate employees and/or managers and across multiple functions and/or disciplines. Work includes complex projects/programs based on the objectives of the major subdivision, the LOB/SO, and frequently the FAA. Manages and sets clear performance standards that promote accountability, strong organizational health, a sense of individual responsibility, professionalism, and pride for organizational performance to subordinates. Responsible for the leadership, planning, prioritizing, direction, communication, tasking, training, and scheduling of work. Also responsible for time and attendance, leave approval, performance evaluation, corrective and disciplinary actions, and the setting of office goals and objectives. Supports effective problem solving by ensuring subordinates are equipped and accountable to address challenges and barriers and are clear about roles and responsibilities for decision-making. Ensures that collaboration occurs beyond the organization and that solutions fully consider and represent all relevant perspectives/interests. Models creative thinking and innovation. Delegates work and empowers subordinates to decentralize decision-making. Confirms subordinates take on expected work and produce intended results with minimal intervention. Ensure subordinates communicate progress and barriers, and coordinate decisions across organizational boundaries as appropriate. Applies an advanced knowledge of budget, human resource, and other administrative policies and procedures, and an advanced understanding of the objectives of the major subdivision. Makes effective resourcing decisions across several work teams; making certain they deliver expected output within required time frame and budget. Adjusts resourcing plans as needed to meet changing work conditions. Holds others accountable to make good business decisions in meeting the needs of ACSA, Flight Standards (FS) and the larger FAA. Resolves all but unique problems without the intervention of higher-level management. Holds subordinates accountable for maintaining mutually productive partnerships with stakeholders as demonstrated by productive conflict and effective action taking to address issues impeding effectiveness. Meets with stakeholders regularly to identify potential impediments to team and organizational effectiveness. Set and maintain expectations for integrating stakeholder feedback into services provided. The manager and organizational performance is reviewed periodically by higher-level management through status reports and organizational performance measures. The incumbent ensures the alignment of projects/programs with tactical objectives. Requirements
We are not accepting applications from noncitizens. Qualifications
To qualify for this position, you must demonstrate in your application that you possess at least one year of specialized experience equivalent to FV-J, FG/GS-14. Specialized experience is experience that has equipped you with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities to perform successfully the duties of the position. Specialized Experience must demonstrate experience monitoring and evaluating programs for compliance with regulations and standards. Qualifications must be met by the closing date of this vacancy announcement.
How You Will Be Evaluated
IMPORTANT: Applicants may be rated on the extent and quality of experience, education, and training relevant to the duties of the position(s). All answers provided in the on-line process must be substantiated. Ensure that your application package/resume supports your responses. Other Information
We may use this vacancy to fill other similar vacant positions. Position may be subject to a background investigation. A one-year probationary period may be required. The person selected for this position may be required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days of entry on duty. FAA policy limits certain outside employment and financial investments in aviation-related companies. www.faa.gov/jobs/workinghere/financial-disclosure-requirements Interviews: All, some or none of the candidates may be interviewed. Incomplete Applications: Please ensure you answer all questions and follow all instructions carefully. Errors or Omissions may impact your rating or may result in you not being considered for the job. Your application/resume must have your official title, grade, series and employment dates in your work history. In lieu of providing a KSA narrative response in the text box listed below each KSA, in your work history, you must include information that provides specific examples of how you meet the response level or answer you chose for each KSA. Your work history examples should be specific and clearly reflect the highest level of ability. Your KSA answers will be evaluated further to validate whether the level that you selected is appropriate based on the work history and experience you provided. Your answers may be adjusted by a Human Resource Specialist as appropriate. Applicants must apply online to receive consideration for this vacancy announcement. Faxed, mailed or e-mailed applications cannot be accepted. If you need to submit additional documents to supplement your on-line application, e.g. SF-50, you may upload these documents with your application in USAJOBS. This is not a bargaining unit position. Links to Important Information: Locality Pay, COLA
How this job compares
Set against the 10,761 open Program Management jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 4, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$112–174K/yr
- US median$127–201K/yr7,738 salary ranges
This range's midpoint, $143K, is 15% below the US median midpoint ($168K) — in the middle half of Program Management salary ranges across the US.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 10,761 open Program Management jobs across the US. 5% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience — less than three in four Program Management postings that state a minimum ask for (median 7 years, across 9,212 postings).
- Education
- 4,188 of the 10,761 open Program Management jobs (39%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 4, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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