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U.S. AGENCY FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
OFFICE OF
INSPECTOR GENERAL
VACANCY ANNOUNCEMENT
SENIOR EXECUTIVE
SERVICE OPPORTUNITY
Announcement Number: SES-06-33JD
Opening Date:
09/26/06
Closing Date: 10/24/06
Area of Consideration: All Qualified Persons
Position: Deputy Assistant Inspector General for
Investigations
ES-0511 (SES Career Reserved)
Location: Washington, D.C.
Salary Range: $109,808 to $165,200 per annum
INFORMATION ABOUT THE OFFICE OF INSPECTOR GENERAL:
The United States has a long history of extending a helping hand
to those people overseas struggling to make a better life,
recover from a disaster or striving to live in a free and
democratic country. The U.S. Agency for International
Development (USAID) has been a principal U.S. agency to extend
assistance to countries recovering from disaster, trying to
escape poverty, and engaging in democratic reforms.
Major responsibilities of the Office of Inspector General
(OIG) are to prevent and detect fraud, waste, abuse, and
violations of law and to promote economy, efficiency and
effectiveness in the operations of the USAID. The OIG is
responsible for providing audit and investigative services to
the USAID. The OIG is organized into four operational units:
Audit, the Millennium Challenge Corporation, Investigations,
and Management. There are also seven overseas field offices,
each headed by a Regional Inspector General, located in
Baghdad, Iraq; Cairo, Egypt; Dakar, Senegal; Frankfurt,
Germany; Manila, Philippines; Pretoria, South Africa; and San
Salvador, El Salvador.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
The incumbent serves as the
Deputy Assistant Inspector General for Investigations and reports to the
Assistant Inspector General for Investigations (AIG/I). He/she
assists the AIG/I in planning, developing, and carrying out an
investigation program.
Serves as a key member of the AIG/I decision and policy-making
staff with responsibility to provide continuity of leadership during
periods of absence by the AIG/I and shares the agenda of policy
and operational matters, interagency coordination, and supervision
of the Inspector General's global investigation program.
Shares with the AIG/I responsibilities for serving as the Agency's point of
contact on investigative matters in relation to senior officials of other
government investigative and law enforcement agencies.
Recommends to the AIG/I policies and operations that will promote economy and
efficiency and the prevention and detection of fraud and abuse in the Agency's
programs and operations.
Please refer to the following website for additional information on the Senior
Executive Service:
SES Basic Qualifications: www.opm.gov/ses/handbook.html
HOW TO APPLY:
All application packages must include four collated and
fastened copies of the following documents:
1. Resume or OF-612, Optional Application for Federal
Employment. Your application must contain all of the following
information or it will be marked incomplete.
- Announcement number, and title and grade(s) of position.
- Full name, date of birth, social security number,
complete mailing address and day and evening phone numbers,
country of citizenship, veterans preference, if applicable,
reinstatement eligibility, and highest Federal civilian
grade held;
- High school - name city and state, date of diploma or
GED;
- Colleges and universities - name, city, and state,
major, type and year of any degrees received;
- Job title, duties and accomplishments; employers name
and address, supervisor=s name and phone number, hours per
week, salary; do not incorporate or attach position
descriptions;
- Indicate whether we may contact your current supervisor;
and
- Job-related training courses, job-related licenses and
certificates, job-related honors, awards, and special
achievements.
2. Written narrative addressing the executive core
qualifications and desirable technical qualification
factors.
EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS:
To be eligible for consideration, candidates must meet all
of the following five factors:
- Leading Change
- Leading People
- Results Driven
- Business Acumen
- Building Coalitions/Communication
TECHNICAL QUALIFICATIONS:
- Demonstrated knowledge of laws, rules, regulations, criminal and administrative
procedures, investigative techniques, and law enforcement standards.
- Demonstrated ability to formulate policies, regulations, procedures, and
standards governing criminal and administrative investigative operations.
3. Current performance appraisal dated within the last
18 months if currently employed by the Federal Government or
written explanation if it is not available.
INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS WILL NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Application packages should be submitted to:
U.S. Agency
for International Development
IG/M/Human Capital
Division
Ronald Reagan Building, Room 8.07-A
1300
Pennsylvania Avenue, NW
Washington, D.C.
20523-8700
ATTN: Joyce Douglas
If you need further information, please call (202)
712-4189.
Applications must be postmarked by the closing date and
postmarks will be accepted up to five days after the closing
date. Candidates who fail to submit all of the foregoing
documents cannot be evaluated for further consideration.
Time-in-grade does not apply for SES positions. Applicants
for this position must demonstrate the level and breadth of
experience necessary to assume an SES position.
EVALUATION METHODS:
Current SES career appointees, career SES reinstatement
eligibles and eligible SES Candidate Development Program
Graduates will be considered under noncompetitive appointment
procedures.
Qualified candidates who must compete, will be ranked by a
panel of senior executives based upon the executive core (see
exhibit attached) and desirable technical qualifications
factors.
APPROVAL AND PROBATIONARY PERIOD:
An individual entering this position on an initial SES
career appointment must have his or her qualifications
approved by an Office of Personnel Management Qualifications
Review Board. Successful completion of a one-year probationary
period is required before the appointment becomes final.
NOTE: JOB FINALISTS MAY BE REQUIRED TO COMPLETE A
DECLARATION FOR FEDERAL EMPLOYMENT (OF-306).
DRUG TESTING: This position is subject to drug testing in
accordance with the Department of Health and Human Services
guidelines, as required under Executive Order 12564. All
applicants tentatively selected for this position will be
required to submit to urinalysis to screen for illegal drug
use prior to appointment.
SELECTIVE SERVICE:
As a condition of employment, male applicants born after
December 31, 1959, must certify that they have registered with
the Selective Service System, or/are exempt from having to do
so under the Selective Service law.
SECURITY CLEARANCE: This position requires a top secret
security clearance. Upon selection, applicants must provide
sufficient information to support the investigation.
EQUAL EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITY: In selecting personnel for
appointment to USAID, OIG positions, there will be no
discrimination based on race, color, religion, sex, national
origin, politics, marital status, physical handicap, age, or
membership or non-membership in an employee organization.
Applicants must be U.S. citizens.
REASONABLE ACCOMMODATIONS: This agency provides reasonable
accommodations to applicants with disabilities. If you need a
reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and
hiring process, please notify the agency. The decision on
granting reasonable accommodation will be on a case-by-case
basis.
PLEASE NOTE: NO RELOCATION EXPENSES WILL BE PAID.
SENIOR EXECUTIVE SERVICE EXECUTIVE CORE QUALIFICATIONS This
exhibit contains information on the scope and content of the
five Executive Core Qualifications (ECQ's) that are considered
necessary for effective performance in any Senior Executive
Service (SES) position. Note that the ECQ's do not include
professional, technical and program knowledge, skills, and
abilities, which are covered in the qualifications standard
for the particular SES position being filled.
The basic definition for each ECQ is supplemented with a
list of those Leadership Effectiveness Framework (LEF)
Competencies which are particularly important to it and Key
Characteristics which reflect possession of the ECQ.
Definitions of the LEF Competencies are attached.
1. Leading Change: This core qualification encompasses the
ability to develop and implement an organizational vision that
integrates key national and program goals, priorities, values,
and other factors. Inherent to this ECQ is the ability to
balance change and continuity; to continually strive to
improve customer service and program performance within the
basic government framework; to create a work environment that
encourages creative thinking; and to maintain focus, intensity
and persistence, even under adversity.
Key Characteristics:
- Exercising leadership and motivating managers to
incorporate vision, strategic planning, and elements of
quality management into the full range of the organization's
activities; encouraging creative thinking and innovation;
influencing others toward a spirit of service; designing and
implementing new or cutting-edge programs/processes.
- Identifying and integrating key issues affecting the
organization, including political, economic, social,
technological, and administrative factors.
- Understanding the roles and relationships of the
components of the national policy making and implementation
process, including the President, political appointees,
Congress, the judiciary, state and local governments, and
interest groups; formulating effective strategies to balance
those interests consistent with the business of the
organization.
- Being open to change and new information; tolerating
ambiguity; adapting behavior and work methods in response to
new information, changing conditions, or unexpected
obstacles; adjusting rapidly to new situations warranting
attention and resolution.
- Displaying a high level of initiative, effort, and
commitment to public service; being proactive and
achievement-oriented; being self-motivated; pursuing
self-development; seeking feedback from others and
opportunities to master new knowledge.
- Dealing effectively with pressure; maintaining focus and
intensity and remaining persistent, even under adversity;
recovering quickly from setbacks.
2. Leading People: This core qualification involves the
ability to design and implement strategies that maximize
employee potential and foster high ethical standards in
meeting the organization's vision, mission, and goals.
Key Characteristics:
- Providing leadership in setting the work force's
expected performance levels commensurate with the
organization's strategic objectives; inspiring, motivating,
and guiding others toward goal accomplishment; empowering
people by sharing power and authority.
- Promoting quality through effective use of the
organization's performance management system (e.g.,
establishing performance standards, appraising staff
accomplishments using the developed standards, and taking
action to reward, counsel, and remove employees, as
appropriate).
- Valuing cultural diversity and other differences;
fostering an environment in which people who are culturally
diverse can work together cooperatively and effectively in
achieving organizational goals.
- Assessing employees' unique developmental needs and
providing developmental opportunities that maximize
employees' capabilities and contribute to the achievement of
organizational goals; developing leadership in others
through coaching and mentoring.
- Fostering commitment, team spirit, pride, trust, and
group identity; taking steps to prevent situations that
could result in unpleasant confrontations.
- Resolving conflicts in a positive and constructive
manner. This includes promoting labor/management
partnerships and dealing effectively with employee relations
matters, attending to morale and organizational climate
issues, handling administrative, labor management, and EEO
issues, and taking disciplinary actions when other means
have not been successful.
3. Results Driven: This core qualification stresses
accountability and continuous improvement. It includes the
ability to make timely and effective decisions and produce
results through strategic planning and the implementation and
evaluation of programs and policies.
Key Characteristics:
- Understanding and appropriately applying procedures,
requirements, regulations, and policies related to
specialized expertise; understanding linkage between
administrative competencies and mission needs; keeping
current on issues, practices, and procedures in technical
areas.
- Stressing results by formulating strategic program plans
that assess policy/program feasibility and include realistic
short and long-term goals and objectives.
- Exercising good judgment in structuring and organizing
work and setting priorities; balancing the interests of
clients and readily readjusting priorities to respond to
customer demands.
- Anticipating and identifying, diagnosing, and consulting
on potential or actual problem areas relating to program
implementation and goal achievement; selecting from
alternative courses of corrective action; taking action from
developed contingency plans.
- Setting program standards; holding self and others
accountable for achieving these standards; acting decisively
to modify standards to promote customer service and/or the
quality of programs and policies.
- Identifying opportunities to develop and market new
products and services within or outside of the organization;
taking risks to pursue a recognized benefit or
advantage.
4. Business Acumen: This core qualification involves the
ability to acquire and administer human, financial, material,
and information resources in a manner that instills public
trust and accomplishes the organization's mission, and the
ability to use new technology to enhance decision making.
Key Characteristics:
- Assessing current and future staffing needs based on
organizational goals and budget realities; applying merit
principles to develop, select, and manage a diverse work
force.
- Overseeing the allocation of financial resources;
identifying cost-effective approaches; establishing and
assuring the use of internal controls for financial systems.
- Managing the budgetary process, including preparing and
justifying a budget and operating the budget under
organizational and congressional procedures; understanding
the marketing expertise necessary to ensure appropriate
funding levels.
- Overseeing procurement and contracting procedures and
processes.
- Integrating and coordinating logistical operations.
- Ensuring the efficient and cost-effective development
and utilization of management information systems and other
technological resources that meet the organization's needs;
understanding the impact of technological changes on the
organization.
5. Building Coalitions/Communication: This core
qualification involves the ability to explain, advocate, and
express facts and ideas in a convincing manner and to
negotiate with individuals and groups internally and
externally. It also involves the ability to develop an
expansive professional network with other organizations and to
identify the internal and external politics that impact the
work of the organization.
Key Characteristics:
- Representing and speaking for the organizational unit
and its work (e.g., presenting, explaining, selling,
defining, and negotiating) to those within and outside the
office (e.g., agency heads and other government executives,
corporate executives, Office of Management and Budget
officials, congressional members and staff, the media, and
clientele and professional groups); making clear and
convincing oral presentations to individuals and groups;
listening effectively and clarifying information;
facilitating an open exchange of ideas.
- Establishing and maintaining working relationships with
internal organizational units (e.g., other program areas and
staff support functions); approaching each problem situation
with a clear perception of organizational and political
reality; using contacts to build and strengthen internal
support bases; getting understanding and support from higher
level management.
- Developing and enhancing alliances with external groups
(e.g., other agencies or firms, state and local governments,
Congress, and clientele groups); engaging in
cross-functional activities; finding common ground with a
widening range of stakeholders.
- Working in groups and teams; conducting briefings and
other meetings; gaining cooperation from others to obtain
information and accomplish goals; facilitating win-win
situations.
- Considering and responding appropriately to the needs,
feelings, and capabilities of different people in different
situations; being tactful and treating others with respect.
- Seeing that reports, memoranda, and other documents
reflect the position and work of the organization in a
clear, convincing, and organized manner.
Federal agencies must provide reasonable accommodation to
applicants with disabilities where appropriate. Applicants
requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the
application and hiring process should contact the hiring
agency directly. Determinations on requests for reasonable
accommodation will be made on a case-by-case basis.
Social Security Number - Your Social Security Number
is requested under the authority of Executive Order 9397 to
uniquely identify your records from those of other applicants
who may have the same name. As allowed by law or Presidential
directive, your Social Security Number is used to seek
information about you from employers, schools, banks, and
others who may know you. Failure to provide your Social
Security Number on your application materials, will result in
your application not being processed
Privacy Act - Privacy Act Notice (PL 93-579): The
information requested here is used to determine qualifications
for employment and is authorized under Title 5 U.S.C. 3302 and
3361.
Signature - Before you are hired, you will be
required to sign and certify the accuracy of the information
in your application.
False Statements - If you make a false statement in
any part of your application, you may not be hired; you may be
fired after you begin work; or you may be subject to fine,
imprisonment, or other disciplinary action.
Selective Service - If you are a male applicant born
after December 31, 1959, you must certify that you have
registered with the Selective Service System, or are exempt
from having to do so under the Selective Service Law.
The United States Government does not discriminate in
employment on the basis of race, color, religion, sex,
national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation,
marital status, disability, age, membership in an employee
organization, or other non-merit factor.
Send Mail to:
U.S. Agency for International
Development
1300 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington,
D.C. 20523-8700
Fax: 202 216-3392
For questions about this job:
Joyce Douglas
Phone:
202 712-4189
Fax: 202 216-3392
Internet:
usaid@recruitmentoig.gov
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