Chief Planning and Evaluation Officer
What you'd do
This position is part of the U.S. International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Office of Performance and Innovation. As the Chief Planning & Evaluation Officer you will be responsible for leading DFC's enterprise strategic planning, corporate performance management secretariat, program assessment, business process review, and evaluation-driven continuous improvement activities.
Major duties
The position serves as the Chief Planning & Evaluation Officer and is responsible for leading DFC's enterprise strategic planning, corporate performance management secretariat, program assessment, business process review, and evaluation-driven continuous improvement activities. The incumbent is the Corporation's senior subject-matter expert on aligning agency strategy, performance management, program evaluation, and business process improvement to support effective mission execution. The incumbent leads the authorship, implementation support, monitoring, and reporting of the agency Strategic Plan; administers corporation-wide performance reviews to ensure alignment between strategy and execution; directs program assessments and business process reviews using ISO 9001 and Lean Six Sigma principles; and coordinates closely with the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Internal Controls team on internal control, risk, audit, and remediation matters. The incumbent provides expert policy advice, analysis, and recommendations to senior leadership and drives cross-organizational action to improve efficiency, effectiveness, compliance, and accountability. The incumbent also helps ensure that strategic planning, execution, review, and improvement activities reflect the full ISO 9001 Plan-Do-Check Act framework by integrating organizational context, stakeholder and customer requirements, measurable objectives, risk-based thinking, documented information, performance evidence, and continual improvement into enterprise management practices. As DFC's Chief Planning & Evaluation Officer, you will: - Lead DFC's enterprise strategic planning function, including authorship, coordination, clearance, implementation support, monitoring, and reporting for the agency Strategic Plan and Annual Performance Plan. - Oversee DFC's corporate performance management secretariat, including designing and administering enterprise performance reviews, governance frameworks, review cycles, briefing materials, decision memoranda, and action-tracking mechanisms. - Lead program assessment, evaluation, and business process improvement initiatives using ISO 9001 Plan-Do-Check-Act principles, Lean Six Sigma methods, performance data, stakeholder feedback, root-cause analysis, and evidence-based methodologies. - Advise senior leadership on strategic execution, performance, risk, internal controls, audit-related issues, corrective actions, and enterprise improvement opportunities by synthesizing complex information into decision-ready analysis and recommendations. - Coordinate across DFC offices and business lines to align strategic goals, KPIs, performance targets, implementation responsibilities, compliance priorities, and improvement actions with agency mission and operational priorities. - Prepare executive-level reports, briefings, issue papers, talking points, and other decision-support materials related to strategic planning, performance management, program evaluation, audit coordination, and continuous improvement. - Supervise, support, and sponsor staff, including setting priorities, assigning and reviewing work, evaluating performance, supporting employee development, approving leave, resolving complaints, and addressing conduct or performance issues; develop followership. Please Note: This is not a Bargaining unit position.
What you need to qualify
Status candidates must meet time-in-grade requirements (52 weeks at the next lower grade level). Applicants must meet all eligibility and qualification requirements no later than the closing date of this announcement. TIME-IN-GRADE: Current career or career-conditional employees of the Federal government, or former career or career-conditional employees, who have a break in service of less than one year, are required to meet the time-in-grade restriction of one year of Federal experience at the next lower grade, with few exceptions outlined in 5 CFR 300.603(b). You may qualify at the GS-15 level, if you fulfill the following qualification requirements: One year of specialized experience equivalent to the GS-14 grade level in the Federal service that demonstrates your ability in all of the following: (1) Lead enterprise-level strategic planning, performance management, and program evaluation initiatives that align organizational strategy, performance measures, risks, and operational priorities; (2) Develop, implement, monitor, and report on agency-level strategic plans, annual performance plans, KPIs, performance reviews, or related governance processes; (3) Conduct three or more of the following - program assessments, evaluations, business process reviews, root-cause analyses, and continuous improvement efforts - using data, performance evidence, stakeholder feedback, and structured improvement methods; (4) Advise senior leaders on strategic execution, performance trends, implementation risks, corrective actions, and organizational improvement recommendations; (5) Build consensus and coordinate across senior-level stakeholders, program offices, and mission-support functions to resolve complex planning, performance, evaluation, and operational improvement issues; and (6) Supervise and lead teams by setting priorities, assigning work, evaluating performance, and supporting employee development. Note: Education is not substitutional at this grade level. Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community, student, social). Volunteer work helps build critical competencies, knowledge, and skills and can provide valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. This position is being advertised concurrently with vacancy announcement 26-OPI-DE-12992222-MB using Delegated Examining (DE) procedures. If interested, refer to that announcement to determine if you meet DE requirements and can apply to that announcement. NOTE: You must apply separately to each announcement in order to be considered under both. This announcement may be used to fill similar positions, if additional vacancies occur.
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