[Hiring] Supervisory Probation Administrator @Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Role Description

The supervisory probation administrator will serve as the business lead of the Probation and Pretrial Services Office's IT product portfolio. The executive level administrator will own the product vision, strategy, and business implementation for current and future IT products, connecting product development with overall business goals and enterprise-wide objectives.

The Lead Business Advisor (LBA) works in close partnership with the Lead Technical Advisor (LTA), ensuring that business strategy and technical execution remain aligned without duplicating system-ownership authority. This role is essential for ensuring that current and future probation and pretrial services IT product development and implementation maintain strategic integrity, preventing unauthorized scope or schedule shifts while ensuring that user engagement remains productive and aligned with enterprise-wide.

• Exercising executive oversight of Business Owner responsibilities, ensuring that all project execution, change management, and product strategies are strictly aligned with the overall enterprise business strategy.
• Enforcing a formal governance framework for PPSO IT products, requiring that all changes to scope, schedule, or resources be vetted against strategic business objectives and formally authorized by the Executive Management Group (EMG) before implementation.
• Establishing and maintaining an authoritative, single product roadmap that clearly articulates scope, sequencing, and release timing, ensuring all stakeholders operate from a unified vision to prioritize highest-impact capabilities that deliver measurable operations value to the field.
• Providing the EMG with high-level, transparent visibility into project status, proactively highlighting the tension between project constraints (scope, schedule, budget) and field-level demands.
• Co-chairing regular executive sessions with AO leadership to review program progress, confirm alignment with EMG decisions, rapidly surface emerging issues, and enable agile but disciplined executive decision-making.
• Developing and executing a comprehensive stakeholder leadership engagement strategy that balances the needs of the Probation and Pretrial Services leadership community with the product's technical and fiscal parameters.
• Developing a business-focused governance strategy for evaluating future AI integration proposals, ensuring any AI capability considered for the roadmap is vetted and formally authorized by the EMG before adoption.

Qualifications

• Applicants must have demonstrated experience as listed below.
• Specialized Experience: Applicants must have at least one full year (52 weeks) of specialized experience which is in or directly related to the line of work of this position.
• Specialized experience must demonstrate experience in ALL areas defined below:
• Experience identifying and mitigating program and governance risks and advising senior leadership on corrective actions.
• Experience managing implementation, training, knowledge-sharing, and lessons-learned processes.
• Experience coordinating budgets, contracts, compliance, governance, and program documentation.
• Experience evaluating data quality, integrity, and readiness while establishing safeguards for AI, automation, and machine-learning solutions.

Requirements

• All information is subject to verification. Applicants are advised that false answers or omissions of information on application materials or inability to meet the following conditions may be grounds for non-selection, withdrawal of an offer of employment, or dismissal after being employed.
• Selection for this position is contingent upon completion of OF-306, Declaration of Federal Employment during the pre-employment process and proof of U.S. citizenship for competitive status positions or conversion to a competitive status position with the AO.
• If non-citizens are considered for hire into a temporary or any other position with non-competitive status, they must provide proof of authorization to work in the U.S. and proof of entitlement to receive compensation.
• All new AO employees will be required to complete an FBI fingerprint-based national criminal database and records check and pass a public trust suitability check.
• New employees to the AO will be required to successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check.
• All new AO employees are required to identify a financial institution for direct deposit of pay before appointment.
• You will be required to serve a trial period if selected for a first-time appointment to the Federal government, transferring from another Federal agency, or serving as a first-time supervisor.
• If appointed to a temporary position, management may have the discretion of converting the position to permanent depending upon funding and staffing allocation.

Benefits

• A career with the U.S. government provides employees with a comprehensive benefits package.
• As a federal employee, you and your family will have access to a range of benefits that are designed to make your federal career very rewarding.
• Eligibility for benefits depends on the type of position you hold and whether your position is full-time, part-time or intermittent.