Supervisory Internal Investigator
What you'd do
This position is in Office of the Administrator (OA), Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR), Special Investigations and Operations Division (SIOD). The ideal candidate for this position is detail-oriented, an analytical thinker with strong oral and written communication skills, experience conducting administrative investigations, labor employee relations, strategic planning, managing personnel, and working with high-level staff.
Major duties
What will I do in this position if hired? In this position, you will oversee a team of investigators, assign tasks based on employee capabilities and interests, track progress, resolve work-related issues, and implement strategies to improve productivity and quality. You will work investigating violations of standards of conduct, other administrative regulations, and/or laws and statues governing employee responsibilities or behavior. Typical assignments include: Serving as branch chief of the Special Investigations Unit (SIU), you will oversee the work product of a team of investigators. You will supervise the full range of investigative duties, ensure investigations are complete, detailed and address allegations of misconduct and harassment. The SIU branch chief is responsible for oversight of the FEMA Anti-Harassment Program (AHP) investigations in accordance with agency policy. Providing continuing education to internal and external employees, ensuring staff are properly trained to conduct misconduct and harassment investigations. Managing technical and administrative supervisory controls that are in keeping with a first level supervisory position; and Developing partnerships and information networks with internal and external stakeholders, including federal, state, and local enforcement agencies, the intelligence community, and the private sector. Providing expert advice on investigative, security and law enforcement needs and problems, interprets agency guidelines. At FEMA, our mission is to help people before, during and after disasters, and every employee at FEMA has a role in emergency management. Every FEMA employee has regular and recurring emergency management responsibilities, though not every position requires routine deployment to disaster sites. All positions are subject to recall around the clock for emergency management operations, which may require irregular work hours, work at locations other than the official duty station, and may include duties other than those specified in the employee's official position description. Travel requirements in support of emergency operations may be extensive in nature (weeks to months), with little advance notice, and may require employees to relocate to emergency sites with physically austere and operationally challenging conditions.
What you need to qualify
Current Federal employees must have served 52 weeks at the next lower grade or equivalent grade band in the Federal service. The qualification requirements listed below must be met by the closing date of this announcement. To qualify for this position at the GS-14 level, you must possess one full year of specialized experience equivalent to at least the GS-13 level in the Federal government, which has equipped you with the skills needed to successfully perform the duties of the position. Experience may be obtained in the federal government, a state or local government, or private sector, and must demonstrate the following: Planning, managing, coordinating and/or conducting administrative investigations into allegations of misconduct and harassment involving agency personnel, contractors, property, facilities and information; and Supervising and directing a team of investigators ensuring compliance, quality, completeness, professionalism, fairness and impartiality in the conducting of investigations by subordinate staff; and Preparing and editing comprehensive reports, documenting allegations and findings within established timeframes and briefs results to senior leadership and appropriate external officials. Please read the following important information to ensure we have everything we need to consider your application: Do not copy and paste the duties, specialized experience, or occupational assessment questionnaire from this announcement into your resume as that will not be considered a demonstration of your qualifications for this position. Please limit your resume to two pages. The USAJOBS database will not allow an applicant to submit an application that includes a resume over two pages. Your resume serves as the basis for experience related qualification determinations, and you must highlight your most relevant and significant work experience and education (if applicable), as it relates to this job opportunity. Please use your own words, be clear, and specific when describing your work history. We cannot make assumptions regarding your experience. Are you qualifying based on your work experience? Qualifications are based on your ability to demonstrate in your resume that you possess one year of the specialized experience for this announcement at a comparable scope and responsibility. To ensure all of the essential information is in your resume, we encourage you to use the USAJOBS online Resume Builder. If you choose to use your own resume, it must contain the following information organized by experience/position: (1) job title, (2) name of employer, (3) start and end dates of each period of employment (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY), (4) detailed description of duties performed, accomplishments, and related skills, and (5) hours worked per week (part-time employment will be prorated in crediting experience). Federal experience/positions must also include the grade level, occupational series and dates in which you held each grade level. Are you a current or former FEMA Reservist/Disaster Assistance Employee (DAE)? To accurately credit your experience from intermittent positions and Reservist Deployments, you must list the dates (from MM/DD/YY to MM/DD/YY) of deployments that are relevant to your qualifying experience, along with the job title and specific duties you were responsible for during each deployment. Determining length of General or Specialized Experience is dependent on the above information. Failure to provide the above information in your resume may result in your application being found "not qualified." 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 provides valuable training and experience that translates directly to paid employment. You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience. For additional information on crediting experience and/or education, please reference the OPM General Schedule Qualification Standards.
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