Associate Regional Director
What you'd do
EBSA plays a vital role in protecting the retirement, health, and other job-based benefits of America's workers, retirees, and their families. We issue effective regulations, offer comprehensive education and assistance to workers, plan sponsors, fiduciaries, and service providers, and rigorously enforce the law. We serve workers, families, and the broader employee benefits community by protecting the security and integrity of the nation's benefit systems.
Major duties
The advertised salary reflects the minimum and maximum pay for the locations listed. Upon selection, the salary will be set in accordance with the selectee's assigned duty location. The Associate Regional Director, provides expertise, advice, and recommendations to the Regional Director to assess the fiduciary conduct of plan officials and service providers; determine the appropriateness of plan administration, plan financial activities and investments; evaluate compliance with ERISA and related Federal laws. Duties include but are not limited to the following: Plan and assign work based on employees' skills and workload, evaluate employee performance, set performance standards, and identify training and development needs. Analyze technical issues and review enforcement work products to assess legal sufficiency, ensure consistent interpretation, and verify technical quality and compliance with policy, legal precedent, and the impact of decisions. Oversee the regional Benefits Advisors unit to ensure inquiries are handled timely and according to SOPs and regional procedures. Analyze new, complex, or precedential issues involving plan administration, financial activities, investments, and fiduciary conduct while providing expert guidance to investigators and staff on applying ERISA and related laws, regulations, and court or policy developments.
What you need to qualify
You must meet the Specialized Experience to qualify for the Associate Regional Director as described below. For GS-14: Applicants must have 52 weeks of specialized experience equivalent to at least the next lower grade level GS-13 in the Federal Service. Specialized Experience is the experience that equipped the applicant with the particular knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA's) to perform the duties of the position successfully, and that is typically in or related to the position to be filled. To be creditable, specialized experience must have been equivalent to at least the next lower grade level. Applicants must meet 3 out of the 4 examples of specialized experience below. Examples of qualifying specialized experience are: 1) Experience planning, directing, or leading technical civil and/or criminal employee benefits investigations as well as compliance and participant assistance activities involving ERISA-covered plans, including analysis of fiduciary conduct, plan administration, plan financial activities, and investments, and developing investigative strategies where precedent may be limited. 2) Experience providing technical guidance and review of enforcement, outreach, and participant-focused work products for legal sufficiency and compliance with ERISA, applicable regulations/exemptions, agency policy, and relevant legal precedent, including identifying issues and recommending appropriate courses of action to management. 3) Experience developing, implementing, and evaluating employee benefits program initiatives (e.g., regional enforcement projects, training programs, outreach/education events, voluntary correction, or abandoned plan-related efforts), using performance measures/metrics to assess effectiveness and recommend improvements. 4) Experience coordinating and representing an organization with internal and external stakeholders (e.g., SOL, DOJ/U.S. Attorneys, IRS, SEC, state agencies, plan officials, and their representatives) to communicate policy/legal positions, resolve issues of mutual concern, and support case development, compliance, or litigation activities. NOTE: Specialized experience must be clearly documented in your resume; merely copying this statement into your application does not demonstrate that you possess the required experience.
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