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Are you a U.S. Citizen or national?

Have you accepted a buyout from a Federal agency within the past 5 years?

Have you served in the U.S. Armed Forces?

Veterans' Preference:

Military Service Period Dates:

Special Hiring Authorities

1. Select from among the following special hiring authorities for which you are eligible and want to be considered for:

The disability-related information requested is used solely in connection with affirmative action (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission [EEOC] data collection) obligations or efforts. Identification of eligibility for any special hiring authority is entirely voluntary and information will be kept confidential in accordance with the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, as amended (29 U.S.C. Section 791). Your refusal to provide the information will not subject you to any adverse treatment if you decline to provide it, and the information will be used only once with the Rehabilitation Act. (For additional information about Special Hiring Authorities)

Veterans' Recruitment Appointment (VRA)

30% or More Disabled Veteran

Persons with Disabilities (PWD)/Persons with Targeted Disabilities (PWTD)

Geographic Preferences

Are you willing to work at the following duty location: Any Alaska Flight Service Station?

Applicant-Preferred Conditions of Employment and Federal Service

1. What is the lowest grade or payband that you wish to be considered for:

2a. Are you currently a permanent FAA employee?

2b. Are you currently a temporary FAA employee?

2c. Are you currently a temporary FAA employee serving under the Retired Military Air Traffic Controllers Program?

2d. Are you a DOT employee working in an agency other than the FAA and have completed a one year probationary period or trial period?

3. Are you a:

Former permanent employee of the FAA who had successfully completed a one-year probationary period OR
Current or former permanent civilian employee from other competitive or excepted service agencies who have completed a one-year probationary period or trial period in the competitive or excepted service.

4. Are you a preference eligible and/or veteran who was honorably discharged from the Armed Forces after completing at least three (3) years of continuous active service?
Definitions of Preference Eligible and Active Service.

5. Do any of your relatives work for the agency or government organization to which you are submitting this application? (Include: father, mother, husband, wife, son, daughter, brother, sister, uncle, aunt, first cousin, nephew, niece, father-in-law, mother-in-law, son-in-law, daughter-in-law, brother-in-law, sister-in-law, stepfather, stepmother, stepson, stepdaughter, stepbrother, stepsister, half brother, and half sister.)

5a. If question #5 is yes, please provide the relative(s)' name, relationship, and department, agency, or branch of the Armed Forces for which your relative(s) works in the space below.

7. Are you a graduate from an institution participating in the Collegiate Training Initiative (CTI) program and who has received from the institution an appropriate recommendation (see required documents section of this announcement for documents which must be provided prior to announcement closing)?

8. Are you a veteran eligible for a Veterans Recruitment Appointment (VRA) pursuant to section 4214 of Title 38 (see required documents section of this announcement for documents which must be provided prior to announcement closing)?

9. Are you an eligible veteran maintaining aviation experience obtained in the course of your military experience and/or entitled to veteran preference as identified in section 2108 of Title 5, United States Code (see required documents section of this announcement for documents which must be provided prior to announcement closing)?

10. If you have responded "Yes" to questions 7, 8, and/or 9 above, you have the option to be placed in Pool 1 or Pool 2, but not both. Please select your desired pool. NOTE: If you answered "No" to questions 7, 8, or 9 above, you will be placed in Pool 2 upon referral.

Basic Qualifications

1. Are you able to speak English clearly enough to be understood over radios, intercoms and similar communications equipment?

2a. Were you originally appointed as an FAA/DoD civilian Air Traffic Control Specialist in a terminal or center prior to age 31?

b. Were you appointed as an FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist prior to May 16, 1972?

c. Were you appointed as a DoD civilian Air Traffic Control Specialist prior to September 12, 1980?

d. Were you appointed as an FAA Air Traffic Control Specialist, Flight Service Station, prior to January 1, 1987?

3. Have you had at least 3 years of progressively responsible full-time work experience (full time is defined as a 40 hour work week) that demonstrates the potential for learning and performing air traffic control work? NOTE: The progression of responsibility must be documented in detail in the work history information. Part-time work is prorated in crediting experience. For example, working 20 hours per week for a 12-month period will be credited with 6 months experience.

Most types of paid or unpaid employment will provide progressively responsible experience as the individual doing the work learns about the organization, gains knowledge about the work, and demonstrates responsibility.

4. Select the one statement from the following list that best describes your education:

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A. I have not completed high school or obtained a high school equivalent.
B. I am a high school graduate or equivalent.
C. I have 1 year of formal education above high school, but no degree.
D. I have 2 years of formal education past high school, but no degree.
E. I have 2 years above high school leading to an Associate's degree or I have an Associate's degree.
F. I have 4 years above high school leading to a Bachelor's degree or I have a Bachelor's degree.

5. Do you have a combination of experience and education that equates to 3 years?
NOTE: Education and experience can be combined to meet the minimum qualification requirements. To combine education and experience, we will:
a. determine the applicant's total qualifying experience as a percentage of the experience required;
b. determine the applicant's education as a percentage of the education required; and add the two percentages. The total must equal 100%.
At the undergraduate level, successfully completed education that has not led to possession of a degree is credited based on its relationship to 120 semester hours or 180 quarter hours. For example, 30 semester hours or 45 quarter hours is comparable to 1 year of undergraduate education. Four years of progressive study or 120 semester hours meets the degree requirements. For study at a business or technical school, 36 weeks of study (20+ classroom hours per week) is comparable to 1 academic year above high school.

6. Do you have specialized experience in a military or civilian air traffic facility that demonstrates possession of the knowledge, skills, and abilities required to perform air traffic control work? This experience must have provided a comprehensive knowledge of appropriate air traffic control laws, rules, and regulations.

If you are qualifying based on specialized experience; you must provide supporting documentation that verifies the specialized experience requirement being met (e.g., FAA certificate, military certificate or training record).

7. Alternative Requirements:

a. Do you hold or have held an appropriate facility rating and have actively controlled air traffic in civilian or military air traffic control terminals or centers?

b. Do you hold or have held an FAA certificate as a dispatcher for an air carrier?

c. Do you hold or have held an instrument flight rating?

d. Do you hold or have held an FAA certificate as a navigator or have been fully qualified as a Navigator/Bombardier in the Armed Forces?

e. Do you have 350 hours of flight time as a copilot or higher and hold or have held a private certificate or equivalent Armed Forces rating?

f. Have you served as a rated Aerospace Defense Command Intercept Director?

Additional Information

1. The FAA has Flight Service Stations (FSS) throughout the state of Alaska. Please indicate below your desired locations, in preference order. Locations include: Cold Bay, Dillingham, Fairbanks, Homer, Juneau, Kenai, Ketchikan, Palmer, Sitka and Talkeetna.

Please rank, in order of preference, the following Alaska Flight Service Station locations: Your preferences may be considered, but no guarantees on geographic area preference are made. Placement will ultimately be based upon agency needs.

1^st Preference

2^nd Preference

3^rd Preference

4^th Preference

5^th Preference

6^th Preference

7^th Preference

8^th Preference

9^th Preference

10^th Preference

2. Do you have any aviation related education?

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Yes
No

3. How many credits of formal aviation coursework have you completed (including courses with an aviation-specific curriculum but excluding general education and other degree requirements)?

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0
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-24
25+

4. How many credits of formal air traffic control coursework have you completed?

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0
1-4
5-8
9-12
13-16
17-24
25+

5. Have you earned an Air Traffic Control degree from a CTI school?

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Yes, I have earned an Air Traffic Control two-year degree from a CTI school.
Yes, I have earned an Air Traffic Control Bachelor's degree from a CTI school.
Yes, I have attended a CTI school, but did not attain a degree.
No, I have not earned an Air Traffic Control degree from a CTI school.
No, but I earned an Air Traffic Control degree from a non-CTI affiliated school.
No, but I have aviation related education from a non-CTI affiliated school.

5a. If you answered "Yes" to question 5 above, select the CTI school you earned your degree from or if no degree was earned from a CTI school, select the most recently attended CTI school from the following dropdown list:

6. Please check all certificates or ratings currently held from the list below:

Control Tower Operator - Visual Flight Rules Tower Rating

Control Tower Operator - Non-Radar Approach Tower Rating

Pilot - Airline Transport Pilot

Pilot - Commercial Pilot

Pilot - Instrument Rating

Pilot - Flight Instructor

Pilot - Ground Instructor

Pilot - Private

Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service - Flight Service

Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service - Tower Rating

Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service - Radar Approach Control Rating

Air Traffic Safety Oversight Service - Enroute Rating